Starbase Omega statistics
From StarFleet Bureau of Information
BASIC STATISTICS
Name : Starbase OMEGA
Class Name : DS-23x Series Deep Space Outpost
Classification : Fleet Command Starbase (formerly Deep Space Station)
Type : Starbase
Model Number : III
PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Section Length Radius
------- ------ ------
Command and control 481.8m 481.8m
Star Fleet (1686.5m 722.8m)
481.8m visible in front of docks
Docks 1830.8m 1470m
(1108m SF, 722.8m Civ)
Business (1927.4m 722.8m)
1301m visible after docks
Ambassadorial 240.9m 722.8m
Hydroponics/Gardens 3537.8m 722.8m
Alternate Atmosphere 240.9m 722.8m
Engineering 481.8m 481.8m
Decks*: 16 (481.8m sections)
24 (722.8m sections)
4 (hydroponics)
*Note: Decks are ring-shapped because of the station's rotation. "Down"
is towards the outside of the station. Deck 1 is near the central core.
Overall length : 8597.1m
Rotational Speed: 7.31 degrees/sec
Displacement : 2.87 Gmt
COMPLEMENT
Total Standard : 280,000 (including visitors, traders, etc.)
Total Permanent : 250,000
Star Fleet Crew:
Total : 16,405
Officers : 1,130
Crew : 11,300
Flight Officers : 210
Flight Crew : 1,890
Marines : 1,875
POWER SYSTEMS
Main Reactors : M/ARC-23x9 x2 (Matter/Antimatter Reactor Core;
original)
M/ARC-23x9 x2 (Supplemental Cores added in
construction)
Secondary Reactor: FRC-23x9 x6 (Fusion Reactor Core; original)
FRC-23x9 x8 (Supplemental Cores added in construction)
Battery Power : 5 days life support. (Post construction battery stacks
adjusted so that the station will still have 5 days
life support)
ARMAMENT
Phaser, Type X
Number : 10 banks (4 pre-construction)
Range : 300,000 km
Arcs : 360 deg. rings
Comand Ring : 1
Star Fleet Ring : 1
Docking Bay Ring : 3 (2 rings)
Business Ring : 1
Hydorponics Ring : 3 (2 rings)
Engineering Ring : 1
Phaser, Type Xa (pulse)
Number : 96 turrets with 4 banks each (24 pre-construction)
Range : 200,000 km
Arcs : equally spaced around station
Command Ring : 8
Star Fleet Ring : 8
Docking Bay Ring : 32 (2/mount, 2 mount rings)
Business Ring : 16
Hydorponics Ring : 24 (3 mount rings)
Engineering Ring : 8
Flux Torpedo, MkIII (multiple shot) Seeking/Direct
Number : 96 tubes (24 pre-construction)
Range : 3,500,000 km
Arcs : equally spaced around station
Command Ring : 8
Star Fleet Ring : 8
Docking Bay Ring : 32 (2/mount, 2 mount rings)
Business Ring : 16
Hydorponics Ring : 24 (3 mount rings)
Engineering Ring : 8
Deflector System : FS-4 Starbase deflector system*
*Note: FS-1 = Civilian Station
FS-2 = Federation Research Station
FS-3 = Deep Space Station
FS-4 = Fleet Command Starbase
Relative power output: FS-1/FD-12 = 0.8; FS-2/FD-12 = 10;
FS-3/FD-12 = 25; FS-4/FD-12 = 50
Regeneration rates on station shields are also correspondingly larger.
FD-12 are the shielding systems used on Federation Battleships of the
ZEUS class
Station shields are usually divided into semi-independant and overlapping
sectors. Starbase OMEGA has 24 sectors approximately 1200m long,
divided into quadrants around the station. It is possible for shields
to fail in a single quadrant and to cover quadrants with weakened
extended shields from neighboring quadrants.
OTHER SYSTEMS
Transporters
Standard, 6-person : 240 (pre-construction 180)
Emergency, 16-person: 800 (pre-construction 280)
Cargo : 520 (pre-construction 320)
Shuttle Bays :
Embarked Craft (Standard, specific bases may vary)
Shuttlepod : 60
Combat Shuttle, Fighter : 48
Combat Shuttle, Attack : 48
Personnel Shuttle, Small : 60
Personnel Shuttle, Large : 120
Shuttle, D-Warp : 20
Courier, D-Warp : 6
Cargo Shuttle : 400
Runabout : 20
Runabout (E-12) : 6
Marine Dropship : 25
Marine Dropship (Command): 4
Notes:
With the need to build a power core on site, the modules were originally
not equipped with artificial gravity generators, gravity being provided by
spinning the station as in very early space station constructions efforts
in the Sol System and many other systems throughout the Federation
centuries ago. This gives the station the distinctive look not generally
seen in modern station construction, that of a number of rings of modules
arranged around a hollow core.
Fundamentally, the station is a cyliner of 722.8m radius, with two smaller
sections, one on each end, and a larger section of 1470m radius for
1830.8m located 963.6m in from the front end of the station. Shuttle
docks run down the core of the station from C&C to about half-way through
the business section. The ship docks are divided into Star Fleet
(military) and Civilian sections by bulkheads and the sections have
separate external space doors for access.
The foremost ring houses Star Fleet command and control facilities. At its
centre are a series of docking bays capable of handling very small
starships, but primarily intended to service shuttlecraft. These bays and
the cargo handling areas associated with them extent aft into the second
ring which houses the Star Fleet offices and crew accommodations for both
Navy and Marine personnel aboard the station. This area originally had
accommodations for some 1500 individuals. It has now been expanded by
adding living areas aft of the secondary ring and forward of the tertiary
ring to house an additional 7500 beings at maximum occupancy. Encircling
part of the original docking bays and the cargo bay, is the huge main
docking ring. This linked series of six docking bays will, when completed,
allow the starbase to internally accommodate up to six SOLAR-class
battlecruisers or a large numbers of smaller starships. This has greatly
increase the station's ability to repair and refit starships, tasks that
are almost impossible without these bays.
The tertiary ring is the location of the first public facilities on the
station. This area houses the business sector, often referred to as the
"Promenade." Operations of all sorts have grown up recently in the wake of
the rapid increase in trade. Almost any legally available commodity or
service can be bought in this section. Many civilian living spaces are
located in this sector. The core of this section houses machine ships,
about one third of which have remained zero- or low-gravity work areas be
cause of the benefits of those environments to certain construction
activities.
Aft of the tertiary ring, a new ring is being constructed to house
ambassadorial delegations from various neighbouring races in a special
section separate from the main civilian housing. This should aid the job
of station security considerably.
Beyond the ambassadorial ring is located the largest ring of the station,
and site of heavy construction to expand it to keep up with the expanding
needs of the station, the hydroponics garden ring. This ring not only
provides a necessary reprieve from t he grey walls of the station in a
system with no class-M worlds, but also provides for both the growing of
fresh food and the replenishment of the station's atmosphere for
oxygen/nitrogen breathers.
Aft of the hydroponics bays are the last two sections of the station,
carefully isolated from one another and from the rest of the station.
These are the alternate atmosphere living facilities and the engineering
sections. The former providing housing to the many alien life forms not
indigenous to an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere and the latter providing the
bulk of station power.
With the advent of artificial gravity generators on the station, the
engineering sections were immediately connected via a long, limited access
corridor to the command sections. These corridors house a number of
turbolifts and access both engineering and , though separate lifts, a new
brig section built forward of engineering in an effort to make the brig
more secure by isolating it from most other sections with habitable
environment.
Also, the docking bays are stationary even though the rest of the station
rotates. Gravity generatos are used only to balance the gravity on all
decks to 1 Earth-standard gravity as opposed to the 0.7-1.1 variation due
to rotation. Most quarters are located in the 0.9-1.1 g section so that
minimal disruption is created if the gravity generators go offline.
The Starbase Omega Story:
For the first twenty years of its existence, Starbase Omega had been a
footnote in the log of vessels and stations. Almost no-one had heard of
Deep Space Station 239 and those that did regretted the poor luck of their
assignment to it.
Now, all that had changed. With the discovery of the Dalriada, a race of
humans native to this region of space, and the growing trade coming
through the base from all across the sector, Starbase Deep Space 239 had
taken on new life and new significance. With the coming of Indigo Fleet
command and the massive expansion of the base's meagre facilities to serve
as a fleet command starbase, what had once been a post for exiled
miscreants and troublemakers, was now one of the most desirable postings
in the Federation.
Alien residents were flocking to the new opportunities presented by the
island of neutrality that was Starbase Omega. Already, nearly forty of the
fifty-odd thousand beings on the station were not Federation citizens.
The station's internal volume would more than triple in the next year with
the rapid construction efforts, large docking bays capable of handling
Federation cruisers would also be added. That meant that the population of
a base once manned by less than two thousand would reach almost two
hundred thousand over a period of only eighteen months.
