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MISSION: The Sovereign-class starship marks Starfleet's newest and most advanced vessel in a lineage stretching back to the original Constitution-class vessels of the twenty-third century. Designed to serve in a variety of capacities, from combat to long-range exploration, the Sovereign-class id better suited for tactical and support missions. With a tough, no-nonsense design heavily geared toward long-term survivability, the Sovereign-class is intended to be the leading instrument of Starfleet's missions well into the twenty-fifth century.
FEATURES: The Sovereign-class was one of several major new vessel designs influenced by a strengthening of Starfleet's defensive capabilities. The most significant new design element was the elimination of a large dorsal between the primary (saucer) and secondary (engineering) hulls, augmenting the structural integrity, thus making it less vulnerable. Another advance was the modified warp drive. In 2368, Starfleet had discovered that existing warp drives were having deleterious effects on certain areas of space. The Sovereign-class was among the first starships to feature a modified warp drive which would not harm the fabric of space. This modified warp drive is now standard throughout Starfleet. The Sovereign-class starship has been hailed as one of the best balances of exploratory and tactical capability since the Constitution-class of the last century.
BACKGROUND: Work on the prototype USS Sovereign was begun in 2365. But after the initial encounter with the Borg later that year, by the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D, Starfleet began to augment and modify the design of the Sovereign to defend against a Borg attack. In 2266, after becoming aware of the magnitude of the thread posed by the Borg with the defeat at Wolf 359, Starfleet shifted its focus to defense. The Advanced Starship Design Bureau (ASDB) made a number of recommendations for strategic and tactical capability upgrades throughout the fleet, among them several of the concepts which would be applied to the new Sovereign-class. The USS Sovereign was commisioned in 2369, and the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E was launched 2 years later, and 7 years after that the USS Oberon NCC-900015 completed construction. The Enterprise saw a number of significant design modifications, the result of what was learned during the Sovereign's shakedown cruise. Based on the results from both ship' initial service, production of additional Sovereign-class starships is currently underway.
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CATEGORY: Explorer/Battleship
DIMENSIONS:
Overall Draft: 88.6 meters
Overall Beam: 250.6 meters
Overall Length: 685.3 meters
Decks: 24
PROPULSION SYSTEMS:
Cruising: Warp Factor 6
Maximum: Warp Factor 9.7
Emergency: Warp Factor 9.9 ( 12 hours )
Acceleration:
Rest-Onset Critical Momentum: 6.62 Seconds
Onset Critical Momentum-Warp Engage: 0.72 Seconds
Warp 1-Warp 4: 0.62 Second
Warp 4-Warp 6: 0.54 Second
Warp 6-Warp 9.7: 3.96 Seconds
Warp: LF-44 Linear Warp Drive Units
Impulse: FIG-5 Subatomic Unified Energy Impulse Units
Primary Computer Systems: M-16 Bio-Neural Gelpack Isolinear III Processor
Primary Navigation Systems: RAV/ISHAK Mod 3 Warp Celestial Guidance
Deflector Systems: FSS-3 Primary Force Field and Deflector Control System
PERSONNAL:
Officers: 175
Enlisted Crew: 525
Capacity: 1000
AUXILIARY CRAFT:
Shuttle Bays: 3
Shuttles: 14
2 type-8 personal shuttles
2 type-9 personal shuttles
4 type-10 cargo shuttles
4 type-11 personal shuttles
2 type-18 shuttle pods
Fighters: 8
6 Razor Class
2 Redemption Class
Runabouts: 4
1 Blackhawk Class
1 Delta Flyer
1 Repulse Class
1 Warhammer
WEAPONRY:
Phasers:
12 type-XII phaser arrays
Torpedoes:
Launchers: 5 ( 1 turret forward, 2 launchers forward lower Engineering hull, 2 launchers aft )
Hellfire: 40
Quantum: 300
Photon: 400
Transphaisic: 6
Tri Cobalt: 20
Shields:
Ablative Armor
MLSS
Klingon cloaking device: hull conformal
Holo-Projectors on the outar hull
Shields Which Changes The Size, Shape And Appearous Of The Outer Hull.