Embassy of Duronis II Auxiliary Craft
Template:Embassy Federation personnel assigned to the Embassy on Duronis II have a number of transport options available to them. Short trips within the area of Lokesh take advantage of Laudean ground transports. Vehicles resembling Hovercrafts have also been used on occasion to cross small bodies of water. For longer voyages, StarFleet craft assigned to the Embassy are available.
Overview of Craft
Non-Laudean craft are assigned at a number of locations.
Craft in Embassy Hangar
- 1 Runabouts
- 1 Hopper
- 2 Workbees
- 1 Privately-owned Bajoran Marauder
Embassy Craft at the Lokesh Spaceport
- Tactical Wing
- 4 Peregrine Class Heavy Fighters
- 2 Valkyrie Class Light Escort Fighters
- 2 Runabouts
- 1 Hopper
Starships assigned to Embassy
- USS Resolution
Runabouts
There are three Starfleet runabouts stationed on Duronis II:
- USS Martin Luther King Jr. (NCC-71383)
- USS Magnus Hirschfield (NCC-72568)
- USS Emmeline Pankhurst (NCC-72681)
Location & Usage
The USS Martin Luther King Jr. is stored in the bunker located under the main embassy building, able to launch from the bay door located to the south of the embassy. It is used primarily as a transport option for the Ambassador and senior staff when engagements require travel. It can also, however, be used as an emergency escape vehicle for the embassy staff, and can evacuate up to 40 people in one launch. Any remaining crew can utilize the hopper, transporters to access the nearby launch facility, or an orbiting vessel.
The other runabouts and one hopper are stored at a secure launching facility within Lokesh's small makeshift spaceport. Located Approximately 30km from the main embassy building, but accessible by ground transportation or transporter. The facility is run by flight deck supervisor Chief Val Yukkon.
Runabout Stats
- Dimensions
- Length: 23.1m
- Beam: 13.7 m
- Height: 5.4 m
- Decks : 1
- Crew: 13 (40 evacuation limit)
- Armament
- 64 x Type IV phaser arrays5, total output 750 TeraWatts
- 2 x Micro photon torpedo tube5 + 24 torpedoes
- Defense Systems
- Standard shield system, total capacity 56,700 TeraJoules
- Light Duranium/Tritanium Single hull
- Low level Structural Integrity Field
- Warp Speeds
- Normal Cruise: 4
- Maximum Cruise: 5
- Maximum Rated: 5.2 for 12 hours
Hoppers
There are two Hoppers assigned to Duronis II:
Hoppers were designed for a variety of different assignments ranging from zero-g troop deployment to mobile ground ops and heavy ordinance deployment. They were created through necessity in late 2347 as a direct response to the Setlik III massacre and the following outbreak of hostilities with the Cardassian Union.
Location & Usage
One of Starfleet's two Hoppers on Duronis II is always stored next to the Runabout Martin Luther King Jr in the Embassy's subterranean hanger bay. The second hopper is stored with the other runabouts at a secured launching facility approximately 30km from the main embassy building.
Both Hoppers are configured as colonial transport vehicles, rated to move people short-range interstellar. The hopper's were assigned to Duronis II given the planet's unstable post-revolutionary political state. Their purpose is primarily as an emergency escape vehicle for the embassy staff, and can evacuate up to 48 people in one launch. Any remaining crew can utilize the runabout, transporters to access the nearby launch facility, or an orbiting vessel.
Hopper Stats
- Cab
- Length: 15.5m
- Beam: 10.5m
- Height: 5.65m
- Deck count: 2
- Crew count: 2 - 6
- Passenger capacity: 4
- Full transport (basic configuration)
- Length: 22.5m
- Beam: 10.5m
- Height: 5.65m
- Deck count: 2
- Crew count: 2
- Passenger capacity: 36
Tactical Wing
The newest edition to the Federation Embassy on Duronis II is the Tactical Wing. Under the Command of Lt. Keely, with Ensign Hawk serving as second, the Tac Wing and its pilots serve as aerial and orbital defense for the Embassy as well as performing other specific missions such as escort, reconissance, etc.
Assigned Crew
- CO: Lieutenant Keely Lah'rel
- XO: Ensign Charles Hawk
- 4 Full-Time Pilots
- 8 Ground Crew Technicians
- 1 Part-Time Pilot (LtCmdr. Yladro)
Equipment
- There are a large number of single-firing microtorpedo launchers able to be mounted on external hardpoints of fighters and runabouts. Also a large quantity of microtorpedos also are available.
- In the Tac Wing inventory are three (3) ion emitting cannons able to be mounted on any of the Wing's fighters via external hardpoints - these cannons emit a broad-spectrum EMP burst that will disable any electronic and power-based device(s) within a 10m section of any unshielded ship, ground based installation, or as demonstrated in a recent mission, small sections of a Borg Cube. These cannons are extremely power-intensive and firing one drains the power out of phasers, as it dominates the shared EPS tap, and repeated usage drains power out of life-support, maneuvering thrusters and diminishes the output from the impulse drive. Stored inside a heavily-armored room with active transport inhibitors in-place, these top-secret weapons are only issued to the TAC Wing on a temporary basis by the Ambassador only.
Vessels
The USS Resolution
Unlike the Runabouts and Hoppers, this small Nova Class Science vessel is not based on Duronis II. Instead it is on spatial assignment and rarely more than one day's travel from the Duronis system. Under Captain Rocar's command, the CO rarely leads a mission on his ship which, remains at his beck-and-call but is usually on a Federation Science Council mission to extensively survey and catalog pre-warp civilizations and spacial phenomena.
See: USS Resolution