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Task Force Horizon is the larger organizing formation of which Starbase Magellan is the headquarters. Given its place on the edges of the Federation's rimward frontiers, several starships have been assigned to support exploratory, first contact, and military operations in the area of operation.
SB MAGELLAN
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Starbase Magellan, or Outpost 572, is the command post for the recently formed Task Force Horizon, located on the rimward edge of Federation space, close to the Cardassian Union, the Kzinti Republic, and the outer limits of the Romulan Empire. A mere outpost for deep space surveillance and a military post for a small garrison protecting the Akata III colony, recent findings of an incredible amount of Iconian artifacts have force Starfleet to deploy a whole Task Force, to which this orbital station serves as an operations base.
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USS DESTINY NCC-62044
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DESTINY is a EUROPA-class, a light cruiser designed with an eye towards exploration while providing multi-mission capabilities. Essentially, it will replace the obsolete HIRYU-class in Star Fleet's inventory. EUROPA incorporates Star Fleet's latest gravity planing sublight drive systems, making her extremely maneuverable in comparison to her light cruiser brethren. Additionally, EUROPA is heavily armed for a ship of her class; her upgraded Type XI phaser emitters give her a punch that few ships of her size can match. For defensive purposes, she has the latest point defense systems, something the HIRYU did not incorporate. Despite be a light cruiser, EUROPA makes limited use of ablative armor around the bridge, engineering, and auxiliary control. The coverage is much more limited in this light cruiser than in a compatible-generation heavy cruiser like FEARLESS.
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USS RANGER NCC-82765
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RANGER is a Sentinel-class Frigate.
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USS TOVARISH NCC-4621
TOVARISH is a Wellington-class heavy cruiser, one of the last of this aging class still in active service. Wellington-class light cruisers, have been retired and are generally comparable to modern vessels of similar class, but were retired in favor of commissioning newer vessels rather than refitting the older designs. Many Wellington-class cruisers still see limited service as local patrol ships,
USS SENTRY NCC-87660
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SENTRY is a Diligent-class warship. The DILIGENT-class escort was built with the intention of replacing the aging THUNDERBOLT/DEFIANT spaceframe with a newer, more modern design. Although she is still one of the smallest destroyers in service, the extra volume allows relative to THUNDERBOLT allows her to carry a full platoon of Marines. The somewhat larger spaceframe also allows the design to carry more supplies, thereby addressing the key flaw in the THUNDERBOLT -- lack of cruising range. However, the design incorporates everything that made the DEFIANT spaceframe a success: relatively small, highly maneuverable, and, above all, a potent offensive punch for a ship of her size. DILIGENT's main assets are her weapons array and tactical sensor systems. Unlike the THUNDERBOLT which was built around a set of narrow-angle forward-firing pulse phasers, she mounts more conventional parallel arrays which give her a far broader field of fire than her cousin. This allows DILIGENT to engage multiple targets from various attack angles. This allows the escort to place herself squarely between multiple hostile targets and her charges at all times. A large portion of her hull volume is dedicated to 7 capacitor banks to power 11 arrays. While sacrificing the hard-hitting concentrated punch of the pulse phasers hurts her maximum damage potential against a single opponent, she has nearly the flexibility of a light cruiser in her firing patterns. Her torpedoes are the longer-range, harder-hitting Mark II flux torpedoes. While the design is still too small to handle the multi-fire Mk III tube, she has the advantage of an aft firing tube over the THUNDERBOLT. Her shields are also reinforced relative to those of THUNDERBOLT and her hull is coated with advanced ceramic ablative armor. She also carries a limited point-defense laser system to further aid her ability to protect her charges. The DILIGENT possesses 6 decks; though no science labs of any value are to be found on this warship, there is plenty of space for its officers and crew to maintain normal -- if spartan -- quarters for extended missions, alleviating the overcrowded feeling of THUNDERBOLT during long patrols.
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USS TULSA NCC-74121
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TULSA is a KRONSHTADT-class CVE.
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USS MAXWELL NCC-66201
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MAXWELL is a Tesla-class Surveyor. After successfully testing and improving the DELPHI array deep space sensor system on the USS FENRIS, it was decided to implement it in a smaller class of vessel with a strong emphasis on scientific use. It quickly became evident that a medium-sized ship of 300 to 450 crew would be the platform suited best, filling the gap between the WOLFE-class frigates and the DIOGENES-class cruisers both in size and crew. To avoid the mass and energy consumption that comes along with a third nacelle to shape the subspace field for scanning purposes, the TESLA class uses a variable warp nacelle geometry, based on a two nacelle design. It also uses the minimum reflectance surface for minimal background noise, making the ship appear black from most view angles, as well as the thruster control system used on its bigger cousin. The ship's saucer section is somewhat elongated with a more streamlined arrowhead appearance to facilitate a more efficient warp bubble at higher warp speeds, while the engineering section is resembling the shape of an elongated AMBASSADOR-class design with variable position warp nacelles. The hull allows an emergency separation but cannot reassemble in space. There is no Captain's yacht to allow the bottom of the saucer section to be shaped for optimum deflector use. The auxiliary shuttle bay doors open forward.
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USS IKAR NCC-53027-A
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IKAR is a TSYKLON-class Destroyer. The tactical configuration of the TSYKLON was developed to allow adequate defense while providing maximum energy distribution to the engines and AUGUR sensor suite. This philosophy directly resulted in the addition of ablative armor to give a static boost to the FD-7e shielding, as well as linking the multiple dorsal phaser arrays to a common bank for power conservation. An outgrowth of the technology used in the DELPHI and ORACLE suites, the AUGUR sensor suite uses a system similar to the subspace field balancing coil of three nacelle ships like SOLAR, CAESAR, and FENRIS to focus a subspace scanning beam which allows faster-than-light (long-range) sensor reading at far higher resolutions than any conventional sensor system with a fraction of the computer processing overhead of the DELPHI and ORACLE systems, both of which require dedicated computer cores. In addition, the AUGUR is designed to tie into the ship's communication systems to act as a high-power signal relay station or a jamming station. When the sensor system is operating in high power mode, the warp field is distorted to such an extent that it actually impacts the performance of the starship's propulsion system. This is in part due to the configuration of the TSYKLON class which allows the AUGUR system to directly interact with the warp nacelles. With the AUGUR system, the TSYKLON class vessels are quite capable for reconnaissance, exploration, and patrol missions. |
