New Starship Class Discussion

Patrick Brown · June 30, 2005, 02:08:38 AM

I say we Deserve a New ship that goes along with our new posting as Acting Commanding Officer of the Uss Reliance it is my duty to think of the welfair of my crew if we are to go on missions such as we did when we freeed the crew of the Uss Newyork an Intretped Class Starship in in no match for what we are faceing so I say Sir that we need a newship a Powerful Ship we are Marines and we Fight if we do that we will Need a ship that is to our standered that Stardhip is a Gamma Class
Signed
Lt.Colonel Patrick Brown
Acting Commanding Officer
Uss Reliance

Patrick Brown · June 30, 2005, 06:56:14 PM

I dearre Sir, I feel the Marines need someing to make a huge punch

Andrew Yates · July 01, 2005, 04:17:07 PM

or the Uss Shadow Fox, Silent Knight or, Reliance A

or you can suck up and name it after an honorable admiral

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Alex Newberry · July 01, 2005, 06:25:13 PM

Well, there are plans on a Mark 2 of the class so it may go farther up. Hint...Hint... Command staff meeting tomorrow over there.

btw: which ship class?

Will Karelia · July 01, 2005, 06:51:58 PM

Perhaps a Steamrunner class then? Steamrunners were meant to carry marines.

Alex Newberry · July 01, 2005, 06:56:31 PM

In 2311 the Federation signed the Treaty of Algeron, which reaffirmed the Romulan Neutral Zone and forbade the Federation from developing or deploying any cloaking technology.

Perhaps the most impressive example of cloaking technology was observed in 2364, when the supposedly mythical planet of Aldea was discovered by the Enterprise-D. The planet had been hidden for centuries behind a complicated light refracting mechanism which bent light around it in a similar manner to the Romulan cloaking device.

The Minosians were also known to employ cloaking technology as part of their Echo Papa 607 weapons system. The Enterprise-D was forced to battle a cloaked drone weapon in orbit of the planet; it overcame the cloaking device by luring the drone into the atmosphere where the turbulence made it visible.

Later in the same year the Romulan Warbird was encountered for the first time when the Enterprise-D encountered one at the Neutral Zone. It was initially believed that the Enterprise sensor systems could detect the Warbird through its cloak, but it quickly became apparent that the Romulans had in fact deliberately allowed themselves to be detected in order to determine the Federation's intentions towards them.

Subsequent encounters revealed that the improved cloaking device still suffered from limitations. The Romulan vessels remain unable to fire whilst cloaked, whilst advanced in Federation sensor technology have made its invisibility less than assured. Subspace listening posts and gravitic sensors are both a worry for Romulan commanders, and the Federation has deployed large numbers of these along its borders. Perhaps the most effective development was the Tachyon detection grid; created by Enterprise-D personnel in 2368, the system involves a network of vessels which send tachyon beams towards one another across a large area of space. Even a cloaked vessel will disturb one of these beams when crossing it, hence rendering it detectable.

In 2369 the Federation gained significant intelligence on the Warbird when a Starfleet officer masqueraded as a Romulan for a short time. She confirmed that the ship must keep a careful watch over its own electromagnetic missions whilst cloaked, and that the radiative emissions of the warp engines must be precisely balanced by means of nullifier cores. Even a small misalignment in one of these cores creates a polarized magnetic disturbance whenever the ship is in motion, a disturbance which can be detected by a Federation vessel.

Ironically, perhaps the greatest single advance in cloaking technology was made by the Federation. In 2358 the Starship Pegasus was believed destroyed after a mutiny by the crew. However, in 2370 Starfleet discovered that the Pegasus was still largely intact. Admiral Pressman, Captain of the ship at the time of its loss, attempted to recover some technology from the vessel using the Enterprise-D. It transpired that certain Federation officers had been illegally developing a Phase Cloak, a device which could change the structure of matter in order render it both invisible and able to pass through normal matter. A vessel equipped with such a device could hide within a planet or a star, completely immune from conventional attack. The crew had been so fearful of what they considered to be a dangerous device that they had mutinied rather than continue to operate it.

In 2368 the Enterprise assisted a Romulan vessel in distress, and discovered that this vessel had also been attempting to test a phase cloak. The results had been disastrous, causing an accident that would have completely destroyed the ship if not for the assistance of the Starfleet vessel. There has since been little sign of progress with this technology.

In 2371 the Romulans agreed to allow Starfleet the use of a single cloaking device on board the USS Defiant in order to facilitate that ships missions against the Dominion, in return for all of Starfleet's information about the organization. Although the original agreement was to only use the cloak in the Gamma Quadrant, Captain Sisko subsequently violated this aspect of the agreement on many occasions.

John Norton · July 01, 2005, 07:16:22 PM

Thank you. I currently at the dry docks so I will be working on this while the Delphia A my ship is under going a minor upgrade.

Chris Newberry · July 01, 2005, 08:28:12 PM

The USS Freedom will be a Gamma Class starship from the voting and the new Marine ship.

Chris Newberry · June 29, 2005, 07:24:10 PM

Which of the 3 ships would you prefer for the new ship class of the Reliance.

Also, give a good name for it as well and it will be delivered to the Marines stationed here very soon.

lucasbailey · June 30, 2005, 02:54:27 AM

Defiant name: USS Rebel (an idea...)

Will Karelia · June 30, 2005, 07:18:06 PM

And the Defiant can't? The Defiant may be small, but its very powerful. Besides, I think there's been enough made-up classes.

Andrew Yates · July 01, 2005, 04:14:53 PM

Indeed the Defiant would be a perfact class for the marines, its fast powerful mobil and just perfact for deploying troops and infiltration missions and invading enemy systems, but my vote is for the soveriegn class. She is Fast, powerful, advanced, and is the perfact ship to operate and control missions. She has the equipment to scan the planet clearly and with presist accuracy so the movements of enemy troops. She can also prvide support fom orbit. She can bombard enemy bases above or underground. In my opinion the Soveriegn is the best choice. and for a good marine name...

the Uss Night Hawk

lucasbailey · July 01, 2005, 06:22:42 PM

The Gamma may just be beat by another one i've been looking at...

Alex Newberry · July 01, 2005, 06:54:08 PM

Wait, wasn't this poll for just the crew of the Reliance???

And I don't like Steamrunners.

Alex Newberry · July 01, 2005, 06:59:34 PM

It was. Ft. Adm. Hobson, the tech involved with creating this fast and adding to the ship is mainly located at Katorlian Space Station Denvor since that is the location of most of the systems componets.

The second reason is I know that Nove Engineering Department is beginning the construction of the Interceptor Project and I didn't want to inturrpt that.

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