Solar statistics Mark III
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BASIC STATISTICS
Class Name : SOLAR
Classification : Command Ship
Type : CBC (Command Battle Cruiser)
Model Number : III (GALAXY VI-c3)
PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Length : 757 m
Beam : 391 m
Draft : 188 m
Displacement : 7,796,209 mt
COMPLEMENT
Total Standard : 1,599
Officers : 127
Crew : 1,142
Marines : 330
Passengers : 42 (Nonmilitary passengers)
PROPULSION SYSTEMS
Warp Propulsion System
Drive Type : ILN-521 Mk X
Number : 3
Main Reactor : FRAM-1205
D-Warp Drive : Dim-IV-G5i
Impulse System
Drive Type : KRLT
Number : 3
Secondary Reactor: FRIF-710 Network
Velocity
(Dual Flight Mode)
Standard Cruise Speed : 7.00
Maximum Cruise Speed : 9.40
Sustainable for 12 hours: 9.70
Maximum Emergency Speed : 9.89
Core Failure Imminent : 9.96
(Separated Flight Mode -- Saucer)
Standard Cruise Speed : 6.0
Maximum Cruise Speed : 7.2
Sustainable for 12 hours: 7.4
Maximum Emergency Speed : 7.5
Core Failure Imminent : 7.7
(Separated Flight Mode -- Stardrive)
Standard Cruise Speed : 7.00
Maximum Cruise Speed : 9.60
Sustainable for 12 hours: 9.85
Maximum Emergency Speed : 9.96
Core Failure Imminent : 9.98
ARMAMENT
Phaser, Type XI (Extended range parallel phaser strip)
Number : 9 banks
Range : 345,000 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)
battle section ventral array
Phaser, Type XIc (Phaser Cannon)
Number : 1
Range : 300,000 km
Arc : forward ventral battle bridge command section
Phaser, Type XIa (Rapid Repeating Pulse Phaser)
Number : 4, 2 turrets of 2 banks each
Range : 300,000 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
POINT DEFENSE SYSTEM:
Point Defense Lasers, type III
Number : 24 (8 turrets of 3 lasers each)
Range : 300,000 km
Arcs : fwd dorsal saucer (p/s)
: fwd ventral battle section saucer (p/s)
: midship ventral/lateral nacelle pylon (p/s)
: aft dorsal secondary hull (p/s)
Point Defense Drones, type III
Number : 4 launchers
Arcs : saucer section dorsal (p/s)
battle section lateral launcher (p/s)
Complement : 60 drones (30 per side)
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.
This latest incarnation of the GALAXY-class spaceframe adds point defense systems and a phaser cannon to the formidable arsenal of the SOLAR-class command battle cruiser. In so doing, it replaces a number of the conventional Type X phaser emitters and reroutes their EPS power conduits and capacitor banks to feed the cannon and point defense network.
The net effect is an increase in mass which hurts the already large ship in close combat. However, this is offset to a large degree by the new point defense systems. The point defense systems also more than make up for the lower maximum acceleration of the ship in long range engagements.
New to the Mark III:
The latest version of the SOLAR is equipped with Starfleet's newest phaser systems. The Xg is a modification of the Xf extended range phaser. The Xg uses a variable, multiple gravitic lense system to further increase the precision of beam focus and reduce the loss of the crystaline lenses of the Xf. These beams are much more tightly focused than the standard type X phaser allowing for much greater range, thus providing the option to engage most enemies beyond their energy weapon range. However, the Xg's are not without drawbacks. An advanced targeting or sensor system is required for long range attacks, recharge time is over two times that of the type X, and the power output of the phaser is greatly reduced with range:
| 100,000 km - 150% type X at similar range |
| 200,000 km - 109% type X at similar range |
| 300,000 km - 91% type X at similar range |
| 350,000 km - 85% peak output of type X at 300,000 km |
| 400,000 km - 80% peak output of type X at 300,000 km |
| 450,000 km - 75% peak output of type X at 300,000 km |
The Xg phasers are mounted in ball-shaped turrets that restrict the fields of fire. To handle the Xg phasers power demands, improved high- density phaser capacitors have been incorporated, bestowing greater endurance upon a SOLAR in a sustained engagement. To complement the type Xg phasers, the SOLAR incorporates nine enhanced type XI emitters which improve range over the basic type X for improved standard attack distances. Four XIa enhanced pulse phasers and seven torpedo launchers help to round out the ship's offensive capabilities.
The XIa enhanced pulse phasers were first deployed in hull pods on the NEW ORLEANS Model III (CAVALLA class) light cruisers. The larger size of the command cruiser allowed a turretted arrangement for the weapon, similar to conventional Xa pulse phaser cannons, but allowing for the enhanced range capabilities of the XIa.
