StarBase 118 Specifications

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General Specifications

• Name: StarBase 118
• Class: Trojan-class II Spacedock
• Motto: "The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to

sacrifice what we are for what we could become." ~ Charles DuBois

Crew

• Officers: 18,400
• Enlisted: 100,600
• Total: 119,000
• Civilians: 62,500
• Maximum Capacity: 440,000
• Number of Decks: 935

Dimensions

• Height: 29.29 kilometers
• Width: (widest point - Ship Bay) 8.449 kilometers

Energy Production Systems

• Primary: 200 fusion generators
• Secondary: Solar collectors

Defensive Systems

• StarBase 118 is equipped with a shield generators located throughout the StarBase, capable of generating a total combined output of 86,000,000,000 terawatts.

Armament

• StarBase 118 is equipped with 800 Type XII phaser arrays strategically placed to cover all angles and areas of the base. In addition it boasts 48 torpedo launchers capable of firing quantum or photon torpedoes, or launching probes. Below is a comparison of the Starbase's firepower versus a Galaxy class ship: (GALAXY CLASS=1,000)
  • STRENGTH INDICES:
    • Beam Firepower: 97,100
    • Torpedo Firepower: 24,000
    • Weapon Range and Accuracy: 1,100
    • Shield Strength: 30,000
    • Hull Armour: 550
    • Speed: 0
    • Combat Maneuverability: 0
    • Overall Strength Index = 36,100

Impulse Engines

• Consistant with Trojan Class StarBases, StarBase 118 is equipped with 92 individually operated IPS Stabilising Engines placed at key locations across the StarBase's main hull. Whilst these are incapable of creating any significant movement, these help to maintain the StarBase's stellar position against natural phenomena and gravemetric shifts in the local vicinity.

Computer Systems

• StarBase 118 is equipped with nine seperate LCARS computer cores. Each one spans over thirty decks and contains more than 30,000,000 teraquads of information.

Transporters

• There are hundreds of small transporter stations around the base, which makes moving people between certain areas quicker and easier. These transporter stations are usually manned by just one officer, and are for use by anyone. Each person who lives on the base has a limited number of transports per week, which helps keep the energy consumption by these transportation devices down to a manageable level. Site-to-site transports are only allowed by command staff of high enough clearance. All other personnel must utilize station-to-station transporting.

Turbolifts

• Because of the sheer size of the StarBase a vast network of turbolift shafts span the starbase, both vertically and horizontally, to enable officers and civilians alike quick access to all parts of the station. Several classes of turbolift are available depending on the occupant's security clearance.

Location

• StarBase 118 is located in Sector 118, where Federation space meets on two sides with the Romulan Neutral Zone and the former Klingon Neutral Zone.

Additional Notes

• The horizontal layout of each deck can be described as "rings within rings". This is best explained by imagining one deck from the top view: the largest "ring" would be the rooms which border the external hull of the base. All of these rooms have windows. The next ring inside would be a corridor, allowing access to these rooms. The next ring in would likely be another set of rooms, with another corridor on the inside of that.
• Room widths (the size from the outer wall to the inner wall, will likely vary within a deck, or even within a ring. Because each ring is connected by corridors (so that you could walk from the outermost point on a deck to the innermost point) the rings are not necessarily unbroken. For example, if you were standing at the 12 o'clock position of the outermost corridor of a deck, you most likely could not walk clockwise around the hallway to reach the 11 o'clock position, at least without being diverted around some rooms.

Command Center

The Command Section, also known as the "Towers" are the highest module of the base, and serve a wide range of purposes. One of the most recognizable and well known towers is the "Black Tower" which is restricted to Starfleet Intelligence personnel only. Most other towers are leased to less conspicuous Starfleet divisions or even civilian organizations. The Operations Command Center, known to many simply as Ops, can be seen in the Command Section as well, and is where the section gets its name. This six deck area is shaped like a round tablet, and functions as the main nerve center of the starbase.

This section is manned by a crew of highly trained officers which manage everything from sector traffic control to deploying the starbase's immense tactical armament. Below is a list of StarBase positions that officers may hold in the command center on StarBase 118. These are most commonly held by NPC's (Non-player characters) and are indicative of the number of personnel required to run such a large installation.

Fleet Operations: (FLT-OPS)

• These officers handle the routing of ships who are assigned to the StarBase, as well as other Starfleet vessels on their way to other locations within Sector 118 and beyond.

External Communications: (EXT-COM)

• These officers deal with almost all of the communications from ships assigned to StarBase 118, as well as communications which pass through the relays to places within and without the Sector 118.

Station Operations: (SB-OPS)

• These officers manage the officers who staff the command center as well as other issues such as computer resources, long range sensors and internal communications, etc.

Flight Control: (FLY-CON)

• These highly trained officers coordinate with all civilian and non-Starfleet ships moving in and out of the immediate area of the base. Through experience and training they have developed a good knowledge of species' cultures and language to ensure tensions are minimized.

Station Tactical: (SB-TAC)

• These officers are responsible for the safety and well-being of the starbase itself through use of neccesary force to counter any external threats.

Station Engineering: (SB-ENG)

• These officers deal with the resourcing of internal power sources, maintaining computer functions, schedules of maintenence to all of the starbase's internal systems, etc.

Station Medical: (SB-MED)

• These officers oversee the health and general well-being of all inhabitants of the base, not generally including those officers housed on ships docked at the base. Coordinates with the head station counselor as well.

Station Security: (SB-SEC)

• These officers are responsible for the provision of security around the base and to ll key areas in times of tactical alert.

Drydock

The drydock is the massive area inside which ships are built, refurbished, and docked. At any given time, the StarBase is usually in the process of assembling or refitting three different ships. The Downwater Fleet Yards, 30 light years away, does most of the starship construction for the surrounding sectors, freeing up StarBase 118 to act as a commercial and tactical vantage point. Due to the high amounts of traffic, most of the ship bay is usually occupied by visiting StarFleet and commercial ships.

Docking Procedures

Docking a StarFleet vessel at a StarBase such as 118 is a well-established, by-the-book procedure. This manuever is overseen by the StarBase's Flight Control (FLY-CON) and can be automated once the captain of the incoming vessel hands control over to the docking commander.

Two areas control the docking procedure. In the main Command Center, the head Flight Control officer oversees all docking operations, and ensures that there is no danger to the StarBase as a whole. Another location, called the Approach Control Center, is devoted specifically to the actual docking procedure is located in the docking bay itself, however. It is staffed by both Starfleet and civilian personnel who are highly trained docking crews that work on a round-the-clock schedule. This location is filled with visual display monitors, which give the most up-to-date status on the spacedock activity. Large windows look out onto the docking bays, making certain that visual contact is maintained at all times; this is especially helpful during the docking procedure.

There are often more than a dozen vessels docked in the bay at any one time, and it is therefore extremely important for the docking crew to make sure that an incoming starship has a wide and clear berth at which to dock. Approach Control must also make sure that the numerous shuttle-pods and workpods in the general vicinity remain at a safe distance; clear channels of communication in the command center have to be maintained during these delicate manuevers.

Flight Control in the main Command Center is responsible for giving all clearances to the spacedoors. In case a starship doesn't follow the correct procedure, either Approach Control or Flight Control can issue a yellow alert to the entire spacedock. Usually, only Flight Control has command over the opening and closing of the space doors, but it has been possible to over-ride this command from aboard a starship.

Docking

Starships begin their approach to spacedock from beneath the level of the space doors using a guideway of lighted beacons. This procedure allows for clearance of any other vessels and ensures that starships are queued in the correct manner. If more than one starships is waiting entry into the spacedock, they remain within the lighted guideway (which extends for a number of kilometers away from the base) following the lead starship with at least 3 kilometers between each ship. Once a starship enters the lighted guideway, Fleet Operations hands jurisdiction of the starship over to Flight Control.

Once a starship is in the correct position, facing the closed space doors, the final approach procedure is initated by the communications officer on the incoming starship. Upon the command of the captain, the com officer will tell Approach Control that the vessel is ready for docking. The starship then receives confirmation that it is cleared to dock, and the captain will request a lock-on command; this will be confirmed by the starship's helm, who will say, "Systems locked."

Once the proper acknowledgements have been made, the space doors open and the starship commences the final automated docking procedure, traveling over a directional array of evenly spaced lights toward its assigned bay. The starship slowly enters the docking bay using its aft thrusters only. Each starship is assigned a docking port which is set back from the docking bay in what could be compared to a "parking space". Each docking port is numbered, e.g. Port 4. (Alternatively, they are sometimes called "Airlocks".) Assuming that there are no other starships waiting to enter the bay, the space doors will be closed again immediately.

As the starship enters its assigned bay, the captain will call for standby umbilical and gravitational support systems. There may be other systems required, depending upon the class of the starship. For instance, Galaxy class ships engage mooring beams and lock them off during docking procedures. All of these systems are critical to the safety of the starship while it is in the bay, and the vessel must be secured properly at all times. The captain's call for these systems is again acknowledged by the starship's helm officer. At this point, the helm officer can complete the rest of the docking procedure with or without the captain's interaction.

The only formality that remains is for the incoming starship's commanding officer to request permission to come aboard. This usually happens at the airlock doors which connect the starship and spacedock through a long enclosed gangway (also called "Airlock"). Once the captain receives permission, the docking procedure is complete, and all necessary repairs and other orders of the day can be carried out. Much pedestrian activity will take place as crew members exit the vessel via gangways. StarFleet protocol requires at least one officer to be posted on the spacedock-end of the gangways at all times, to monitor and log all activity on and off the starship.

The departure of the starship from spacedock is effectively the same procedure in reverse. Depending upon the confining space within the docking bay, a starship can either back out the space doors, or go forward. The starship cannot initate warp drive or impulse engines until safely outside of spacedock.

Administration Section

The administration section functions as the hub for all officers who work on the StarBase. Many posts such as security, shuttle/fighter wings, science/research, and support (medical) have their main offices and research centers based here. All officers in the command divison also have their offices located in this sector.

This area also houses the bulk of the starbase's educational facilities including a distance education campus of Starfleet Academy. As such, Starbase 118 serves as the primary place where officers report to at the beginning of their day to receive their orders and assignments for the coming day.

Habitat

The habitat section is where 70% of those residing on the StarBase live on a permanent basis. The other 30% of the base's population live in the 40 upper decks of the area designated the "engineering module". Both areas have many unique residential settings. One example, for those requesting family housing, is the "community layout", where a number of apartments share a central atrium over a 4 deck span, and share a common lounge/eating area.It should also be noted that several area's of the habitat section have been adapted to suit sentient lifeforms with differing needs to our own.

Commercial Section

This is the massive bulging dome near the middle of the structure. This dome spans about 15% of the length of the base, and supports it's own atmosphere, complete with clouds and a simulated sun. This area is often one of the most popular places to meet, exchange or buy goods, and of course: eat. There are a number of distinct areas on the dome floor, which have grown up around hubs of activity. There is, for example, a small Klingon area, and a very active New Orleans quarter. These regions of the dome usually occupy certain streets, which have been arefully remodelled from the standard architecture to tie in with the general use of the area. Overall, the atmosphere is similar to Earth and generally busy. Streets are lined with small trees, and flora is evident almost everywhere. At certain times of the day, especially around noon, finding a seat at almost any restaurant in the dome can be near impossible, and sometimes even perilous.

Engineering Section

Most of this tightly packed column is consumed by computer and power-plant resources. Although backup cores and power-plants have been scattered throughout the rest of the base, the main activity is done here. Engineering officers have their offices and workspaces in this region, and maintenance teams are also dispatched from this point. There are also numerous large cargo bays in the engineering module.

Subspace Array

This large bulbous section of the base, at the very bottom, is devoted almost entirely to communications processing and hardware for this system. Because the Starbase is a hub for media moving across the quadrant as well, it is an extremely important relay in the communications network.