Solar statistics Mark I

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BASIC STATISTICS
Class Name       : SOLAR
Classification   : Command Ship
Type             : CBC (Command Battle Cruiser)
Model Number     : I (GALAXY IV-c)

PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Length           : 711 m
Beam             : 500 m
Draft            : 189 m
Displacement     : 7,123,948 mt

COMPLEMENT
Total Standard   : 1,490
Officers         :   116
Crew             : 1,044
Marines          :   330
Passengers       :    50 (Nonmilitary passengers)

PROPULSION SYSTEMS
Warp Propulsion System
Drive Type       : ILN-441 Mk X
     Number      : 3

Main Reactor     : FRAM-1202

D-Warp Drive     : Dim-III-G4i 

Impulse System
Drive Type       : KRLT
     Number      : 3
Secondary Reactor: FRIF-700 Network
 
Velocity
(Dual Flight Mode)
     Standard Cruise Speed   : 7.0
     Maximum Cruise Speed    : 9.4
     Sustainable for 12 hours: 9.7
     Maximum Emergency Speed : 9.85
     Core Failure Imminent   : 9.95

(Separated Flight Mode -- Saucer)
     Standard Cruise Speed   : 5.0
     Maximum Cruise Speed    : 7.0
     Sustainable for 12 hours: 7.2
     Maximum Emergency Speed : 7.3
     Core Failure Imminent   : 7.5

(Separated Flight Mode -- Stardrive)
     Standard Cruise Speed   : 7.0
     Maximum Cruise Speed    : 9.5
     Sustainable for 12 hours: 9.8
     Maximum Emergency Speed : 9.95
     Core Failure Imminent   : 9.97

ARMAMENT
     Phaser, Type X
          Number : 13 banks
          Range  : 300,000 km
          Arcs   : saucer module dorsal array
                   saucer module ventral array
                   saucer module dorsal aft (P/S)
                   battle section dorsal array (separated flight
                        only)
                   battle section aft dorsal array (P/S)
                   battle section aft ventral array (P/S)
                   nacelle pylon array (P/S)
                   battle section ventral array (P/S)
  
     Phaser, Type Xa, Pulse Phaser Turrets
          Number : 2 turrets of 2 banks each
          Range  : 200,000 km
          Arcs   : nacelle pylon (P/S)

     Flux Torpedo, Mk III Seeking/Direct
          Number : 7 tubes
          Range  : 3,500,000 km (flux) 3,000,000 (photon)
          Arcs   : 3 forward, 2 aft (Stardrive)
                   1 aft saucer (separated flight only)
                   1 forward saucer

Deflector System : FD-12e "Carapace" cocoon-multiphasic deflector 
                      system
                   Enhanced Navigational Deflectors
                   Enhanced Metaphasic Shields

OTHER SYSTEMS
Transporters
     Standard, 6-person  :  8
     Emergency, 16-person:  8
     Combat, 12-person   :  4
     Cargo               : 10

Shuttle Bays     : 4

Embarked Craft (Standard, specific ships may vary)
     Shuttlepod              : 16
     Personnel Shuttle, Small: 10
     Personnel Shuttle, Large:  7
     Shuttle, D-Warp         :  4
     Cargo Shuttle           : 10
     Runabout                :  4
     Marine Dropship         :  4

Notes:

The SOLAR-class Command Cruiser is the latest cruiser design to come from Starfleet Engineering, and was a personal project of Admiral Hathaway. Based on the OLYMPIC-class Cruisers, the SOLAR-class is designed to be to be a multi-mission ship, much like its predecessor. Unlike the OLYMPIC-class, however, the SOLAR-class is quite capable of leading major combat operations. The weapons and shielding systems have been upgraded, and a third warp nacelle has been added to provided enhanced warp field power and improved geometry to allow faster warp travel.

The SOLAR-class carries enhanced computer cores that allow the ship to coordinate major fleet movements including starships, shuttlecraft flight groups, and other craft. Further, the new ORACLE sensor array has been incorporated into the design. This system, based on the DELPHI array of the FENRIS, makes the best compromise between advanced DELPHI sensors and the special equipment needed to ustilize the DELPHI array to its fullest. This give the ship some of the advanced sensor technology in Star Fleet while giving the arary robust performance under combat conditions.

The Primary-hull incorporates the many changes, inclusding 5 new decks. The most striking addition, however, is of a third warp nacelle, mounted directly on the saucer. Whereas the saucer-section of an OLYMPIC-class cruiser was incapable of warp flight, the SOLAR-class saucer is capable of warp speed. This makes it a much more valuable evacuation vehicle. In the event of evacuation to the Primary hull, an OLYMPIC, often working many hundreds of lightyears from Federation space, could be stranded for months before a rescue ship arrived. In contrast, the SOLAR-class saucer can easily return to Federation space on its own power. The single warpdrive can propel the Saucer at speeds of up to Warp 7, and slightly higher speeds if absolutely necessary. Further, the SOLAR-class vessel's saucer section mounts two torpedo launchers -- the traditional aft launcher which is concealed while the ship is in dual-flight mode and a new second launcher which is a forward mounted tube that can fire photon or flux torpedoes when operating in dual or seperate flight mode.

The secondary-hull maintains most aspects of the OLYMPIC-class, with the exception that a "dummy" warp-nacelle is added in an elongated aft section to stabilize the warp-field geometry. This fourth nacelle acts to ballance the warp geometry of the three nacelle system.

Turrets are mounted below each of the secondary hull warp nacelles. Each mount contains two of the new pulse phaser banks. These weapons operate by firing repeated "pulses" of phased energy at a target. These high-powered packets impact sequentially on the same part of a target's shield. With each impact comes a "dimpling" of the shield; before the shield can regenerate, it is struck by another pulse and then another. This attack functions to penetrate the shield bubble and strike the hull before conventional weapons can.

The SOLAR-class has four landing bays, two each in the primary and secondary hull, that carry many smaller craft including runabouts, shuttlepods, and two marine dropships which assist in the deployment of the 300 marines that are carried on the SOLAR-class cruiser.

The other major enhancements are the addition of flux torpedoes and the the new FD-12e "Carapace" deflector shields. These enhanced screens are some 20% more powerful than the shields on the OLYMPIC-class vessel. The upgrade fire-control computers of the Solar-class cruisers allow more accurate delivery of these weapons than achievable by any other ship in the fleet. Although approxiamately the same size as photon torpedoes, flux torpedoes employ an advanced warhead design with dramatically higher energy flux rates, thereby increasing the explosive power.