Akagi statistics
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BASIC STATISTICS
Class Name : AMBASSADOR (ADELPHI/AKAGI varient)
Classification : Explorer/Experimental Testbed
Type : CLX (Light Cruiser, Experimental)
Model Number : IIIx
PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Length : 526 m
Beam : 325 m
Draft : 124 m
Displacement : 3,718,459 mt
COMPLEMENT
Total Standard : 669
Officers : 46
Crew : 413
Passengers : 50 standard
Marines : 160
PROPULSION SYSTEMS
Warp Propulsion System
Drive Type : ILN-600 Mk X
Number : 2
Main Reactor : FRAM-922
Impulse System
Drive Type : KRLT
Number : 1
Secondary Reactor: FRIF-512 Network
Velocity
Standard Cruise Speed : 6.0
Maximum Cruise Speed : 9.3
Sustainable for 12 hours: 9.65
Maximum Emergency Speed : 9.85
Core Failure Imminent : 9.92
ARMAMENT
Phaser, Type IX
Number : 9 banks
Range : 300,000 km
Arcs : saucer module dorsal forward array
saucer module dorsal lateral array (p/s)
saucer module ventral forward array
saucer module ventral lateral array (p/s)
saucer module aft (split p/s, single array)
nacelle pylon array (P/S)
Flux Torpedo, Mk III Seeking/Direct
Number : 3 tubes
Range : 3,000,000 km
Arcs : 2 forward, 1 aft
Deflector System : FD-9c Cocoon multiphasic deflector system
OTHER SYSTEMS
Transporters
Standard, 6-person : 5
Emergency, 16-person: 4
Cargo : 6
Shuttle Bays : 3
Embarked Craft (Standard, specific ships may vary)
Shuttlepod : 8
Personnel Shuttle, Small: 6
Personnel Shuttle, Large: 4
Shuttle, D-Warp : 1
Cargo Shuttle : 8
Notes:
The design for the AMBASSADOR-class starship dates from 2322. While no longer a mainstay of the Star Fleet, a few ships remain in service as couriers or in other non-critical roles. However, as more modern designs offer similar or superious capabilities while requiring fewer crew, most of these cruisers have been retired in favor of modern destroyers.
The recently re-christened AKAGI has had a different path through history than most of her sister ships. For the better part of the last one and a half decades, she has been an experimental ship for Star Fleet Engineering at the Utopia Planetia Fleet Yards at Mars.
AKAGI had previously served on active duty as USS ADELPHI. The current AMBASSADOR-class USS AKAGI is the third ship to bear the name, following the a RIGEL-class cruiser and a SENTINEL-class frigate.
In mid 2402, ADELPHI was badly damaged in an engagement with the Tholian Holdfast in the Gorlan system. Actual damage to the spaceframe was minimal, but damage to the computer and sensors systems was catestrophic. She was stricken from the rolls and designated to be sold for scrap. The purchasing company wend bankrupt, saving the ship from her fate. In 2403, Star Fleet Engineering decided that, rather than scrap a functional spaceframe, they would strip her computer and sensor systems for a new test project that would eventually become the DELPHI sensor suite. This means that the ADELPHI was outfitted with the same low-emissions coating as a FEYNMAN-class destroyer.
The low reflectance surface is reducing sensor ghosts of all kinds, making scans more accurate and providing additional passive protection against being scanned. To compensate for this in non-hostile encounters, the protocols have been modified to allow to provide beacons for own and friendly vessels. However, lacking the variable warp field geometry of the FEYNMAN or FENRIS-class ships which saw final deployment of the DELPHI-class sensor suite, the system in ADELPHI lacked some of the fine resolution of the production system. The system is still a state-of-the-art sensor suite without parallel as a scientific sensor system in ships of similar rate. Some of the first generation ORACLE suite sensor modules were integrated into the system during the first round of those tests. These lessened the effect of a fixed warp geometry and proved the ORACLE concept. With the hybrid system, the ADELPHI actually had slightly better resolution at range than a pure ORACLE system.
The USS ADELPHI gave up the space to carry a runabout in favor of a bay to carry the prototype SESR (System of Enhanced Sensors Resolution) type II, specifically designed to operate with a DELPHI array. This has aditionally provided enhancements to the lateral sensor arrays and to the navigational dish, basically increasing the sensitiveness of their components and adjustments to computer programs to compensate, plus an extra small computer core that ties the SESR with the ship sensors and provides the necessary calculations for the sensors to work enhanced. This tethered sensor module is usable at sublight speeds and greatly increases sensor acuity in a narrow arc by deploying sensor modules far from the interference of the hull and also increasing paralax with hull mounted sensors allowing for interferometer effect calculations.
Since the emphasis of the refits was on testing scientific rather than tactical sensors, AKAGI finds herself with a tactical sensor suit little better than that with which the last serving AMBASSADOR-class vessels served. This puts her in a tactical class more with modern destroyers than cruisers.
In testing the compatability of new warp drive systems with the DELPHI and ORACLE modules, the ADELPHI was fitted with a 600-series nacelle similar to those which would see service in the SOVEREIGN-class refit known as the KIROV class. The power systems were not completely retrofitted for the new nacelle design which means that the drives do not achieve the full warp performance profile of a KIROV, but they share field geometry characteristics which allowed the assessment of the impact on sensor accuity. The nacelles also allow the old cruiser a better performance profile at warp speed than other ships of the class. The nacelles are visually quite distinct from the standard ABASSADOR-class nacelles, making the ship's identitfy clear from simply visual scans.
The ship still posesses the tactical suite from her last refit 20 years ago. While the systems have been reconditioned, they do not match the output of current weapon, shield, or ECM systems. They are still capable systems and the ship is formidable. However, it is not truly a combat match for a modern cruiser.
