Astraeus Specifications

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Galaxy class

Specifications

• Name: USS Astraeus (Greek Titan of the Dusk)
• Registry: NCC-70652
• Class: Galaxy class
• Category: Explorer
• Motto: “Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul. And sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.” - Emily Dickenson
• Length: 648.33 meters
• Width: 461.21 meters
• Height: 195.98 meters
• Mass: 4,705,505 metric tons
• Number of Decks: 42

Crew

• Complement: 1,167
  • Officers: 350
  • Enlisted: 690
  • Civilians: 127
• Evacuation Capacity: Approximately 15,000

Crew Support Systems

• Medical: Primary sickbay located in the saucer section, with multiple wards, surgical suites, intensive-care units (ICU), biohazard support, morgue and several medical laboratories, equipped with specialized equipment for researching pandemic-scale medical events. Secondary sickbay located in the stardrive section with similar, if slightly smaller facilities.
• Holographic Support: Emergency Medical Holographic Emitters installed in all medical facilities, as well as important crew gathering locations, such as Ten Forward, the Bridge, Engineering, and others.
• Education: Nursery, K-12 classrooms, and others. Some facilities for university and Starfleet training for acting Ensigns are available.
• Recreational: 16 holodecks (25 man capacity), mess hall, crew lounge, gymnasium and additional reconfigurable recreational halls.

Engineering

• Warp Engines: One 1,500+ Cochrane warp core feeding two AX-81 advanced linear warp drive units
• Quantum Slipstream Drive: Yes; limited use for emergencies and long range travel only.
• Impulse Engines: Three FIG 6 Subatomic Unified Energy Impulse Units, two located on the saucer section, one on the stardrive section.
• Speed:
  • Cruising: Warp 7
  • Maximum Sustainable Cruise: Warp 9.75
  • Maximum / Emergency: Warp 9.985 for 12 hours
• Computer System: LCARS, Class XIX Bioneural processing units, three independent computer cores

Maintenance

• Expected Duration: 100 years
• Resupply Cycle: 1 year
• Minor Refit Cycle: 5 years
• Standard Refit Cycle: 10 years
• Major Refit Cycle: 20 years

Armament

• Beam Weapons:
  • Fourteen Type XII collimated phaser arrays. One array is located on the stardrive section and can only be used when the ship is separated.
• Torpedo Launchers:

Three Mk 95 pulse-fire torpedo tubes. One rearward-facing launcher is located on the saucer section and can only be fired when the ship is separated.

• Payload: 200 quantum torpedoes fore, 100 aft.

Defensive Systems

10 high capacity, regenerative oscillating subspace graviton field grids with recursive response analysis.

• Armor Type: 16 cm ablative armor

Transporter Systems

• Personnel: 8 transporter rooms with a 6 man capacity per transporter.
• Cargo: 6 cargo transporters with a 5 metric ton capacity per transport.

Cargo Systems

• Total Capacity: Mission dependent. Several sections of the Galaxy class are designed to be highly reconfigurable and can be easily rededicated according to mission requirements.

Auxiliary Spacecraft Systems

• Approximate Auxiliary Craft Complement: 40
  • Shuttlepods: 12
  • Personal Shuttles: 10
    • 5 Type IX short range shuttles

• • • 5 Type XI long range shuttles

• • • Runabouts: 2 Danube class runabouts

• • Cargo Shuttles: 10
  • Specialist Craft: 31
    • 1 Captain's Yacht
    • 10 Sphinx Workpods
    • 20 Workbees

• Emergency Evacuation Systems/Escape Pods: 2700 Type IX Autonomous Survival and Recovery Vehicles (ASRV)