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Defiant Class

Post by Blackcat » Sun May 16, 2010 4:28 pm

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.

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Defiant Class Starship
Category: Escort

Defiant

Expected Duration: 25 years
Time Between Resupply: 1 years
Time Between Refit: 3 years

Personnel
Officers: 15
Enlisted Crew: 35
Marines: 0
Passengers: 5
Maximum (Evacuation) Capacity: 80

Speed
Cruising Velocity: Warp 6
Maximum Velocity: Warp 9.2
Emergency Velocity: Warp 9.982 (for 12 hours)

Dimensions
Length: 150 metres
Width: 120 metres
Height: 25 metres
Decks: 4

Auxiliary Craft
Shuttlebays: 1
Shuttles
Type 10 Shuttle: 2

Armament
Defensive Systems
Ablative Hull Armor
Structural Integrity Field
Phasers
Type U Pulse: 4
Type X Array: 2
Shielding Systems
Auto-Modulating Shielding System
Metaphasic Shielding System
Standard Shielding System
Torpedoes
Pulse-Fire Torpedo Launcher: 3
Quantum Torpedoes: 60
Photon Torpedoes: 30
Tri-Cobalt Device: 2



Description
The Defiant-class starship, officially an escort, began development in 2366 as a small, highly-powered, heavily-armed warship intended to defend the Federation against the Borg.


Specifications from ST-Intelligence
Description from Memory Alpha.
Modifications by Edwards.

Deck Listing:

Deck Description
1 Main Bridge, Captain's Ready Room, Transporter Room 1, Phaser Turrets (2), Upper Main Engineering, Plasma Exhaust Vents, Upper Sensor Array, Officer and Crew Quarters, Antimatter Storage/Injectors, Warp Core Ejection Hatch
2 Lower Main Engineering, Main Impulse Engines, Computer Core (Level 1), Targeting Sensors, Torpedo Magazines, Forward Torpedo Launchers (2), Mess Hall, Warp Coils, Med/Science Lab, Sickbay, Transporter Room 2, Officer and Crew Quarters, Deflector Control Room
3 Main Impulse Engines, Shuttle Maintenance and Shuttlebay Elevator System, Computer Core (Level 2), Deuterium Storage/Injectors, Cargos Bays 1-4, Torpedo Magazine, Warp Coils
4 Landing Struts, Navigational Deflector, Phaser Turrets (2), Aft Torpedo Launcher, Probe Launcher, Lower Sensor Array, Shuttlebay Exterior Doors and Elevator System, Tractor Emitters, Warp Coils
b Nacelle Maintenance Access.
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Re: Defiant Class

Post by Blackcat » Sun May 16, 2010 4:33 pm

Before someone goes and says the warp core in this is upside down from the DS9 Technical Manual, I'll answer this straight off.

The arrangement of the warp core in the technical manual does not make sense. If the warp core was ever to be ejected with that configuration, there is a high possibility of anti-matter leaking into the ship during the ejection process. It makes much more sense to risk leaking deuterium (ionized hydrogen).

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Re: Defiant Class

Post by Mikoto Misaka » Sun May 16, 2010 5:59 pm

About the Warp Core. I'm not 100% sure but this is something for you to research, I don't think the Warp Core on the Defiant Class's can be ejected. I know that the Warp Core Ejection ability was introduced on Voyager, although the Enterprise D did have the ability, but just didn't choose to when it breached. However that was After the Defiant was built. Also from the look of the Defiants core it seems as if it is built into the ship and unlike Voyager it can't be ejected. If you look at the comparison between Voyagers and the Defiants, Voyager doesn't have any red transfer conduits from the core, and the defiant does. Its the same with the Enterpride E, so my guess is that if the red conduits are attached to the core then it can't be ejected unless they have new retracteable ones like on intrepids and sovereigns. But thats only my guessing, and newer defiants may have this feature. Something for yout o research though :)
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Re: Defiant Class

Post by Blackcat » Sun May 16, 2010 6:13 pm

Woodhouse wrote:About the Warp Core. I'm not 100% sure but this is something for you to research, I don't think the Warp Core on the Defiant Class's can be ejected. I know that the Warp Core Ejection ability was introduced on Voyager, although the Enterprise D did have the ability, but just didn't choose to when it breached. However that was After the Defiant was built. Also from the look of the Defiants core it seems as if it is built into the ship and unlike Voyager it can't be ejected. If you look at the comparison between Voyagers and the Defiants, Voyager doesn't have any red transfer conduits from the core, and the defiant does. Its the same with the Enterpride E, so my guess is that if the red conduits are attached to the core then it can't be ejected unless they have new retracteable ones like on intrepids and sovereigns. But thats only my guessing, and newer defiants may have this feature. Something for yout o research though :)
In all, ships in the fleet are always under development. As part of the refits, improvements to the ship are made. It's only common sense that over time, experimental technologies that work on other ships are spread around to the other classes in the fleet. The Defiant we saw on the series (at least until season 6 or 7 when it was replaced) was an NX designation, the first of it's class, and we all know that O'Brien modified it heavily. These modifications would be reported back to Starfleet and be considered for addition. With time there would be improvements to the design, and as part of these, it's only logical that the ability to eject the core would be part of them. There are other designs with top ejection capability, and in these classes, the warp core is always "upside-down". It stands to reason that the "error" in the defiant's design would be corrected, and the warp core would be made to be ejectable.

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Re: Defiant Class

Post by Williams » Sun May 16, 2010 8:30 pm

I recently saw an episode of DS9 ("The Visitor") where Sisko ordered the core be ejected, but it couldn't because the ejection systems were offline. Thus, the canon Defiant has ejection capacity :P

In regards to your comment about the Sovereign and its power transfer conduits, I believe this image will help in the explanation: http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Sover ... p_Core.jpg

As you can see, the reaction chamber is a big sort of bubble on the outside of the core itself, with the transfer conduits connected to that. One would assume that when the Ent-E ejects its core (as it did in Insurrection), the reaction chamber and the conduits remain in place, and the core it ejected from the middle of them.

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The Defiant's core is a bit odder than usual cores. However, I believe that the big yellow 'bubble' is the reaction chamber, and you can see the power transfer conduits coming off from that, along the floor. One could assume, as you could with the Sovereign, that these two features of the system remain in place when the core is ejected.
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