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| [[Image:Achilles.jpg|410px|left|Achilles Class NX Nemesis]] | | {{Cruisers}} |
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| | [[File:Achilles patch.png|200px|center|Achilles Class Development Project]] |
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| ''Information taken from [http://www.starbase118.net/nemesis/specs.html NX Nemesis] Specs'' | | {{Dimensions |
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| One of the critical strategic problems faced by Starfleet Command, if the Federation was going to win the [http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/Dominion_War Dominion War], was that the Federation forces were being spread too thin. Between defending the Federation territory from and trying to go on the offensive against the [http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/Dominion Dominion], in addition to keeping a wary eye on the [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Romulan Romulans], Starfleet found it had too many obligations and too few resources. This problem became even more acute when Starfleet strategists had determined that the 'Achilles Heel' of the Dominion was the dependency of the [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Jem%27Hadar Jem'Hadar] on [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Ketracel-white Ketracel-White]. If the [[Federation-Klingon Alliance]] could destroy, or even severely threaten, the Ketracel-White facilities
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| the Dominion's [[Alpha Quadrant Offensive]] would grind to a halt. Unfortunately the only ships the either Starfleet or the IKDF had that could do the job were the [http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/Galaxy_class Galaxy] and [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Negh%27Var_class Negh'Var] class ships. Unescorted long-range strikes against heavily defended multiple targets currently could not be performed by any existing vessel. The [http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/Defiant_class Defiant Class], with sufficient firepower, had too limited an operating range. The Galaxy and Negh'Var classes, while having the range, were too expensive to risk. Neither the Federation nor the [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Klingon Klingons] were willing to commit the large fleets required to hit these targets; to do so would have entailed compromising defense of key Federation and Klingon systems.
| | |PRODUCTION BASE=ASDB Integration Facility, Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, Mars |
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| | |BEAM=372 meters |
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| | *'''Mass:''' 1,295,410 metric tons |
| | *'''Accommodation:''' 400 officers and crew; 900 personnel evacuation limit |
| | *'''Power Plant:''' One 1,500+ Cochrane warp core feeding two nacelles; one impulse system |
| | *'''Performance:''' Warp 9.75 for 12 hours |
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| | ** Eight type-12 phaser emitters; two pulse phaser cannons |
| | ** Two torpedo launchers; phalanx torpedo array |
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| A new ship of revolutionary design would be required. Ship designers of [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Utopia_Planitia Utopia Planitia] were up to the challenge. They not only designed a totally new class of ship, the '''Achilles'''; they designed and built it in less than two years. By adapting current anti-[http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Borg Borg] designs to the new threat, they developed a ship with revolutionary features that would enable the '''Achilles''' to fulfill the role as long-range cruiser with firepower nearly equal to a [http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/Sovereign_class Sovereign Class] cruiser. This was accomplished with the new micro-torpedoes arranged in a 'phalanx' array allows an astoundingly high rate of fire that could cripple any Dominion ship. With the arrangement of the phalanx system, the '''Achilles''' can protect itself against the strike fighters defending Ketracel-White facilities, while still maintaining its focus on destroying the target.
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| Redundant warp and impulse nacelles were designed so the '''Achilles''' can sustain heavy damage and still maneuver. Dual rapid-fire [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Quantum_torpedo Quantum Torpedo] turrets, based on the turret from the Sovereign-class, and a pair of enhanced pulse-phaser cannons, based on Defiant-class cannons, enables the '''Achilles''' sufficient firepower to destroy most large fixed targets in one pass. Finally, the '''Achilles''' has an unsupported, self-serviceable range equal to the [http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/Galaxy_class Galaxy Class] exploration vessels that is required to operate effectively behind the Dominion defensive perimeter.
| | [[File:Achilles side.jpg|Achilles class]] |
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| [[Image:Achilles side.jpg|right|Achilles Class NX Nemesis]]
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| The prototype, deployed for field testing in the closing weeks of the war, performed admirably, destroying two key facilities on its single mission behind enemy lines. It also accounted for two full [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Cardassian Cardassian] fighter wings, as well as nearly a score of Jem'Hadar strike cruisers in its mission, the best record of any single ship in the war. However successful, a number of problems were identified and the '''Achilles''' was returned to Utopia Planitia at the end of the war for refitting. The remainder of her hull was filled out with the non-warfare facilities that were called for in her original design, including a basic science department, multipurpose holodecks and upgraded ship-wide holo-emitters, and she was retasked for system patrol and deep-space exploration, then moved out for further field testing.
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| ==Notable Ships of This Class==
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| *'''USS ''Achilles'' NX-82376'''
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| *'''USS ''Indefatigable'''''
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| ==Specifications==
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| *'''Type:''' ''Heavy Cruiser''
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| *'''Accommodation:''' ''1,275 Personnel''
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| *'''Length:''' ''612 Meters''
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| *'''Height:''' ''67 Meters''
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| *'''Beam:''' ''372 Meters''
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| *'''Mass:''' ''1,295,410 Tonnes''
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| *'''Maximum Warp factor:''' ''9.99+''
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| *'''Weapons:''' ''8 x Type XII Phaser arrays,<br> 2 x Class I rapid fire phaser pulse cannons,<br> 2 x Burst-fire Torpedo Turrets (Photon/Quantum) + 300 torpedoes,<br> Phalanx Torpedo Array + 300 mini-quantumtorpedoes
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| ==Examples within our fleet==
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| * [[NX Nemesis]]
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| ==See Also==
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| * [http://www.starbase118.net/nemesis/mainmenu.html NX Nemesis Website]
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| * [http://starships.home.att.net/starfleet/achilles.html Achilles Class Battlecruisers]
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