Starbase Serenity Statistics

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Starbase Serenity Specifications Version 1.0 (Created SD 320719)

BASIC STATISTICS

Class Name        : STAR CORE
Classification    : Modular station
Type              : DS (Deep Space Station)
Number in service : 47
Primary Profile   : Forward Operations
Secondary Profile : Observation Platform
Designations      : DEEP SPACE 'N' (where N is number designation like
                    DEEP SPACE 13)


PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS
	
Length            : 1,356 m
Beam              :   225 m
Draft             :   225 m
Displacement      : 61,020,000 mt


COMPLEMENT

Total Standard    : 3,550
Officers          :   350
Crew              : 2,780
Marines           :   140 per module
Passengers        : Variable (depending on number and type of modules)
Max. Life Support : Variable


ATTITUDE CONTROL

    Station-Keeping 
          Thrusters : SKT-200 Series 
          Number    : 4 sets of 4 per module 

ENERGY SYSTEMS

	Main Reactor		: M/AM-2000s 
	Secondary reactors 	: FRIF-1010 (1 per section, except Beta)
	Backup reactor		: FRIF-600 (section Beta)

ARMAMENT

     Phaser, Type X
          Number : 24 strips (4 per section, section Beta 4 additional)
          Range  : 310,000 km
          Arcs   : north, east, south and west sides

     Pulse Phaser, Type Xa
          Number : 4 turrets (2 cannons each)
          Range  : 180,000 km
          Arcs   : 2 section Alpha
                   2 section Omega

     Quantum Photon Torpedo, Type XXII Seeking/Direct
          Number : 12
          Range  : 3,500,000 km
          Arcs   : 2 per section
		   2 additional in section Beta

     Point Defense system
	  Number : 70 laser canons
	  Range  : 80,000 km
	  Arcs   : 12 per section
                   10 additional in section Beta
     
Deflector System : FS-3 Starbase Deflector System


OTHER SYSTEMS

Transporters
     Standard, 6-person   : 150
     Emergency, 16-person : 240
     Cargo                : 280

Docking Ports: 12 small docking ports for cargo vessels


Embarked Craft (Standard, specific bases may vary)
     Shuttlepod               :  30
     Combat Shuttle, Fighter  :  16
     Personnel Shuttle, Small :  20
     Personnel Shuttle, Large :  10
     Shuttle, D-Warp          :   6
     Courier, D-Warp          :   3
     Cargo Shuttle            :  50
     Runabout                 :   2
     Runabout (E-12)          :   1
     Marine Dropship          :   2

Sensors
	 ORACLE IIs Sensor Phalanx

Tractor beams
	 Number: 4 main, 52 docking or cargo
	 Arcs  : 4 main section Beta
	 Docking ports and shuttle or cargo bays

Drydock Facilities
    Individual Bays      : 2 (Outside Station's Perimeter)
    FS-1 Deflector System 
    No Tactical Capability



NOTES

DEEP SPACE 451, aka Starbase "Serenity", is a medium size modular station designed to be easily deployed, assembled and disassembled in its place of residence. It consists of 5 greatly independent modules, named Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Omega. All but Beta are cylinder-like shaped, of 225 meters length and 150 meters of diameter. Section Alpha is a command Type III section, while sections Gamma, Delta and Omega are different civilian Type VI sections.
Section Beta is an orthohedron of 225 meters of side and 300 meters height engineering Type II section modified to hold main Shuttlebay. All sections are connected through umbilicals and special gel-connected free rotating heads. Energy conduits and computer wiring is designed to allow free rotation between the modules, but standard operation should minimize the rotation of sections to facilitate cargo and embark operations.  All modules can be isolated from the rest in case of emergency.

Propulsion systems provide the station with the ability to move itself around once deployed and assembled for small distances (tipically to change orbits or similar maneuvres), provided by the networks of specially designed thrusters (anyway, due to the displacement of the station, thrusters have a poor performance).

All sections but Beta has 12 decks, Beta having just 11 high ceiling decks. This makes a total of 59 decks, which are localted by section-number up-down (eg. Alpha-3 is deck #3 and Gamma-9 is deck #32). All sections have a 36 meters diameter cylindrical core that contains the main wirings and energy conduits shared with the other sections. Section Beta has, besides the M/AM reactor core, a backup reactor, main engineering and main shuttlebay. Sections Alpha and Beta are considered security critical and are separated from the civilian sections by several security layers.

Decks B-1 and -2 on section Beta and deck 7 in the rest of the sections are exclusively dedicated and designed to host a modified version of the ORACLE Sensor Phalanx, designated ORACLE IIs. Modifications to the basic ORACLE design, due to the lack of a distorting warp field while in operation and greater space availability has allowed to install a sensor network with broader multi-scan capabilities and range in all frequencies than any starship class. Equipped whith this and other enhancements taken from the successful AUGUR sensor networks, SERENITY perfectly fulfills its primary role as a Deep Space surveyor, controlling the extreme reaches of the core of Federation territory. Adding to this, SERENITY is surrounded by a shell of 174 class 1 and 2 Sensor Probes, deployed at a distance of 7 light-seconds from the station. They serve multiple purposes, as amplifying the station sensoring capabilities as well as augmenting the resolution by a 31%.

Decks B-8, -9 and -10, where the main M/AM reactor is hosted, are specially prepared to allow de emergency shutdown and expulsion of the core in case of inminent breach, via several protocols. It has been calculated that the station would only suffer a drop to 12% of the shields if the ejection of the core would happen 30 seconds before detonation.

Decks Gamma-6, -7 and -8 hold a promenade. Despite the fact that the primary roles of the station are Starfleet oriented, it will also hold merchant ships and civilians.

The station is defended by an array of phasers fed by each module reactor core. This phaser strips have been modified so the power output is greater per unit length. This allows for smaller strips, which provide safer conditions for the ,ain station weapon, as it makes them harder to be disabled. Additionally, several quantum torpedoes launchers and 4 pulse phaser cannons provide stronger defensive capabilities. These are attached to sections Alpha (A) and Omega (W) attachment ports as independent modules, fed by their own engines and helped by the station reactors. A Point Defense laser system is being installed to provide better defense against small crafts and torpedoes or missiles. A DILIGENT-class Destroyer has been assigned to SERENITY, the USS VIGILANT, which makes it even more heavily defended. Standard multiphasic deflector systems provide a suitable shield for the station. For intra-station defense and in her role as the task force headquarters, SERENITY accounts a full brigade of Starfleet Marines.

SERENITY has suitable accommodation for diplomatic delegations, providing big areas for native biospheres for liasons of Gorn, Tholian and Rihannsu potencies. It has also extensive medical facilities, being able to attend emergencies from damaged ships or evacuation of colonies (although there are no known colonies near the station). If any off-station diplomatic mission arise, the Task Force's larger ships (USS CIRCE and USS LEVIATHAN) are well suited with specialized areas for native biospheres and appropriate PRO support. This provides the USS VIGILANT greater freedom to act as an escort vessel.

Operation Center (Ops), sited on decks Alpha-2 and -3, is equipped with dedicated areas for Flight Control and Fleet Command operations, accordingly with the station secondary mission profile.

The station can be assembled and get completely functional within a week.  Disassembling can be accomplished in 1.9 days. Emergency disassembling, however, can be achieved in 1.3 hours. Thruster systems give the station the ability to move from one place to another, although they are not designed to move the station like a starship would. The station does not possess any rotation around its axis to avoid problems with docked ships and to facilitate ships operations. Transport to goal locus can be easily acomplished by towing the different sections with a flotilla of ATs escorted by some FLs.