U.S.S. Frieman [NCC-70510-A]
USS Frieman | |
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Class: Registry: Owner: Operator: Status: |
Nobel Class NCC-70510-A United Federation of Planets Starfleet Active |
THe U.S.S. Frieman is a Federation Nobel-class starship operated by Starfleet. This vessel would be one of many of its class to perform scientific and deep-space research assignment, these duties secondary to its primary purpose as a hospital ship.
History
Constructed with the intentions of replacing the rapid phasing out of the Olympic class, the U.S.S. Frieman and others of its class would be tasked with filling out identical if not similar mission profiles as the Olympic class. Now, working as Starfleet’s 25th century, premier medical vessel.
Shortly prior to its shakedown cruise, in a symbolic gesture of legacy, the Frieman would receive the sphere module of the Olympic-class vessel, U.S.S. Samaritan, NCC-70510. Upon the sphere’s refit, the U.S.S. Frieman received its NCC-70510-A registry, honoring the Samaritan’s service and ultimate sacrifice during the Iconian war.
Technical Data
Physical Arrangement & Crew Support
Specifications | |
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Length: Beam: Draft: Mass: |
269 m 93 m 97.2 m 690,000 mt |
Decks: Crew: Staff: Passengers: Evac. Limit: |
27 150 600 2,500 4,750 |
Avg. Cruise: Max Cruise: Maximum Speed: |
Warp 6 Warp 8.8 Warp 9.6 (for 12 hours) |
Armaments: |
4x Type-XIV Phaser Arrays 2x Quantum Torpedo Tubes |
Defenses: |
Neutronium Alloy w/ Duranium Nanomesh Coating Micro-Ablative Generators 3 Yoyodyne 960-A Unified Field Emitter Deflector Shield Array |
Auxiliary Craft: |
4x Type-14 shuttlecraft 5x Type-6A shuttlecraft 2x Type-18 Shuttlepods 7x CMU Workbees |
The Nobel-class came featured with a primary section, engineering section, and warp nacelle layout standard to all Starfleet vessels. However, unique to its and the Olympic-class would be the spherical primary hull, similar to the Daedalus-class of the 22nd century. The deflector dish would be incorporated into the lower, forward quarter of the sphere, and was presented as more of a deflector strip, than a dish. The impulse engines were located on the upper third of the aft hull and a sensor palette made up the ventral surface of the hull. With a large shuttlebay was situated on the middle upper dorsal section of the secondary hull. Airlocks and escape pods were positioned either side of the secondary hull beneath the nacelle pylons.
Outfit with up to six transporter rooms, and an additional cargo transporter pads if necessary, with each transporter’s paneling allowing for up to 6 people per cycle. The Nobel-class being wired for large scale transporter personnel, also having been configured for site-to-site transportation. In the designated quarantine areas, the Nobel-class is equipped with enhanced safety and bio-filter measures as to deter the spread of any infectious illnesses. The outer hull mounted twelve emitter arrays for the vessel’s transporter system. These were connected to three personnel transporters, two cargo transporters, and a dozen emergency transporters.
The Nobel-class would expand on the already large shuttlebay of the Olympic-class, though still with a single launch door. Auxiliary craft primarily are used as ambulances when not explicitly transporting personnel. Onboard transportation has been optimized and streamlined to allow for constant flow of patients and medical personnel. Secure transit including double-sized as well as twin-track turbolifts respectively.
Upon sphere separation, unlike the saucer separation of the Galaxy-class, the sphere of both Olympic and Nobel classes require starbase assistance in order to be properly reattached to its secondary hull.
Command & Control Systems
The Nobel-class’s bridge module is located on deck 1, atop the spherical primary hull. The class, like its contemporaries within Starfleet, makes use of a dual isolinear-bioneural computer system, with intentions to ensure redundancy and reliability, while optimizing the processing speeds needed for critical tasks. Operational control of the vessel can be accessed through the main bridge’s configurable LCARS consoles. Alternatively, command and control operations can be transferred to the secondary hull, if warranted.
Medical & Research Facilities
There are five major lab facilities aboard the U.S.S. Frieman, with each deck housing a dedicated operating theatre. These operating theatres being capable of configuration for more specialized situations. This vessel would also include several isolation areas, typically quarantine zones, which could be completely cut off from the rest of the starship and even jettisoned if absolutely necessary. In fact, the entire primary hull can be separated to allow for the secondary hull to be used as a lifecraft should a lethal contamination or outbreak occur, in where medical teams are allowed up to the last possible second to provide a cure.
Accompanying the major lab facilities and operating theatres would be the much smaller science labs and sickbays configured throughout the ship.
Propulsion & Power Generation
The class employed a D’Shalla Industries taFar-8 Matter/Anti-Matter Reaction Assembly. This core powered two Yoyodyne VGN-5 Linear Warp Drive Nacelles with Multi-Phasic Bussard Ramscoop Collectors and a single HeliosCorp Mod32b Hyper Subatomic Unified Energy Impulse Engine. Equipped with a Rigel Labs X06 Quantum Slipstream Propulsion System, this drive allowed the vessels to travel at slipstream speeds exceeding 300 light years per hour. Due to power limitations at the time, the drive could only be operated for 15 seconds before needing a two hour recovery downtime.
An Ithra IT-4 Transwarp Coil was equipped on Nobel-class starships, allowing each to connect to the Federation Transwarp Network and jump to gateways within the network at speeds of 360,000 light years per hour. The system had massive power needs, even more than the quantum slipstream drive. To power the coil, starships had to divert energy from weapon and shield systems. Due to strains on the IT-5 coil, it could only be used once every 20 hours.
Sensors & Defensive Systems
To accomplish its secondary duties of deep-space scientific research, Nobel-class vessels carried ultra high-fidelity DYN-90 Multi-Band Linear Sensor Suites and Omniwave Passive Sensor Matrices. Along with that, the U.S.S. Frieman would consist of an additional 4 RPTR-D passive targeting scanners, and 6 AKU active sensor arrays within its secondary hull.
The hulls of Nobel-class starships were a neutronium alloy with a duranium nanomesh coating reinforced with micro-ablative generators. these generators helped to dissipate energy across the hull and to regenerate damaged portions of the ablative hull coating.
Equipped with 3 Yoyodyne 960-A unified field emitter deflector shield arrays. These projected unimatrix shields with regenerative, multi-spectrum, covariant, and metaphasic properties around the vessel.
Tactical Systems
The Nobel design included 4 type-XIV Annular Confinement Beam-jacketed phaser arrays. The base hull mounted no more than two launch tubes, for torpedo as well as probe deployment. Each launch tube located on the fore-dorsal section of the primary hull, and the aft-ventral of the secondary hull. Quantum torpedoes were carried as standard ordnance.
Auxiliary Spacecraft
The Nobel-class possesses a single large shuttle bay structure. With a single flight deck, the ship’s maintenance hangar and additional storage would lie underneath. The Frieman’s auxiliary craft composition consisting of four Type-14 shuttles, five Type-6A shuttles, two Type-18 pods, seven CMU workbees, and 65 evacuation pods primed in their ejection berths along the secondary hull.
Personnel
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Gallery
References
- “Starfleet’s Four-Quadrant Strategy,” TTC Jayce’s Navy Interstellar
- Pathfinder-class
- Reliant-class
- Georgiou-class
- Roddenberrys Vision: The Olympic Class
- The Olympic Class - TriAngulum Audio Studios
- Olympic-class @ Memory Beta