Nova Class

[Blackcat]

This Class will be posted for comments for at least 1 week, and will remain up for comment for no longer than 2 weeks. During this time you are free to comment on the specs and deck listings and we'll work to come to agreeable specifications.

New Tech:
WaveRider Shuttle
Submersion Suit
Hunley Shuttle

Nova Class Starship
Category: Surveyor

Nova

Expected Duration: 60 years
Time Between Resupply: 1 years
Time Between Refit: 3 years

Personnel
Officers: 21
Enlisted Crew: 65
Marines: 0
Passengers: 15
Maximum (Evacuation) Capacity: 300

Speed
Cruising Velocity: Warp 5
Maximum Velocity: Warp 8
Emergency Velocity: Warp 8.55 (for 12 hours)

Dimensions
Length: 150 metres
Width: 60 metres
Height: 34 metres
Decks: 8

Auxiliary Craft
Shuttlebays: 2
Shuttles
Hunley Shuttle: 1
Type 9 Shuttle: 1
Waverider Shuttle: 1
Transports
Argo Transport: 1

Armament
Defensive Systems
Structural Integrity Field
Phasers
Type VIII Array: 11
Shielding Systems
Metaphasic Shielding
Standard Shielding System
Torpedoes
Burst-Fire Torpedo Launcher: 2
Photon Torpedoes: 19
Quantum Torpedoes: 10

This class has planetary landing capability.
On the Nova Class the Waverider Shuttle docking port is referred to as Shuttlebay 1, despite the fact that the Waverider is the only craft capable of using the port.

Deck Listing:

Deck Description
1 Bridge, Captain's Ready Room, Conference Room
2 VIP Quarters, Executive Officer's Office, Senior Officers' Quarters, Observation Lounge, Mess Hall, Transporter Room 1, Holodecks 1&2, Storage, Main Computer Core, Primary Impulse Engine, Saucer Impulse Engine
3 Counselor's Office, Security Office/Brig, Armory, Junior Officers Quarters, Cargo Bay Transporter, Aft Cargo Bay, Escape Pods, Auxiliary Deflector Control, Aft Torpedo Launching Systems
4 Sickbay, Chief Medical Officer's Office, Arboretum, Botany Lab, Geology Labs, Planetary Development Lab, Chief Science Officer's Office, Crew Quarters, SIF Systems, Dorsal Main Phaser Emitters, Aft Saucer Phaser Emitters, Aft Ship Phaser Emitters, Ventral Main Phaser Emitters, Ventral Sensor Dome, Transporter Room 2, Main Shuttlebay, Flight Control, Torpedo Magazine, Torpedo Loading Mechanism
5 Storage, Crew Quarters, Astrophysics Lab, Stellar Cartography, Torpedo Launching System (forward), Deuterium Surge Tanks, Fusion Generators
6 Main Deflector Control, Operations Office, Repair Bay, Deuterium Fuel Storage, and Multi-Purpose Labs, Cargo Bays 1-3, Dueterium Injection System
7 Main Engineering, Dilithium Reaction Chamber, Engineering Lab, Chief Engineer's Office, Cargo Transporters, Warp Core
8 Anti-Matter Storage Pods, Warp Core Ejection Systems, and Anti-Matter Pod Ejection Systems, Phaser Emitter, Tractor Beam Systems, Landing Struts

[Varela]

Looking good!

[Enmui Darkheart]

It's a surveyor not a high-class frontline ship.

They rarely move fast and rarely have torpedoes. Are you being too generous?

[Blackcat]

I hardly think 5/8/8.55 is fast by today's standards

In light of Wolf 359 and the Dominion War, and the possibilities of residual forces left behind, the small compliment of torpedoes allotted them isn't very much.

[Terris]

looks good

[Blackcat]

As there have been no new discussions on this for the past 3 days and a week of discussions has passed, the review on this class is now considered complete, and the specs have been entered in the Ship Database.

Again, if anyone who chipped in on the review wishes to join the tech team on a more permanent basis, simply send me an email at randd@pegasusfleet.net telling me why you think you would make a good addition to the tech team and we'll see about getting you involved.