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Type: Adder cruiser
Length:
Height:
Decks: 22
Crew complement: 700
Warp speed: Warp 9.8 (max. cruise), Warp 9.998 (max.)
Propulsion: 2 impulse engines, 2 warp nacelles, E-Z-Eject warp core design
Armament: 4 dorsal snake head phaser arrays, 3 ventral snake head phaser arrays, 4 forward firing photon/quantum torpedo launcher, 1 aft quantum/photon torpedo launcher.
GENERAL OVERVIEW
A Adder-class starship is a heavily armored Starfleet vessel developed at the Antares Fleet Yards. The project was officially begun in 2375 by Starfleet's Advanced Starship Design Bureau (ASDB).
Adder-class vessels are constructed of standard tritanium and duranium alloys and composites. The bridge has been submerged within Deck 2 than was envisioned for the pathfinder vehicle. The warp nacelles have been brought inboard on rounded to a minimum safe distance for field EM
All protected internal systems that require access to the vessel exterior are equipped with articulated or jettisonable hull plates, so that most of the familiar structures are hidden from view, including docking ports, impulse vents, and consumables resupply connectors.
An integral set of ventral docking clamps and landing pads had been designed into Adder for possible ditching operations as well as for recoverable planetary landings. No practical demonstration has been attempted, though simulations indicate that if the impulse and reaction control thrusters are fully operational, a successful liftoff to orbital velocity is likely.
CONSTRUCTION HISTORY
The U.S.S. Adder NX-240198 was the prototype vessel for Starfleet's Adder-class starships. It was Starfleet's first true warship and had limited provision for families or diplomatic missions, 1 science labs, small holopads, or any of the other comforts of home. It was a heavily armored vessel that was created as a first strike vehicle for use in war, and incorporated the latest in Starfleet weaponry and defensive technology.
As befitted its role, the U.S.S. Adder was considerably bigger than most Federation warship. It had a normal operational crew, but could accommodate up to 1000 in emergencies. Work on the Adder project began in 2375 after Starfleet was alerted to the threat of a Borg invasion. The ship was developed by Starfleet's Advanced Starship Design Bureau (ASDB) at the Antares Fleet Yards and at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards on Mars.
It was still in the design stages when the Borg arrived in 2377. Even though the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D defeated the Borg, Starfleet was sufficiently concerned about the danger of a second invasion attempt to continue work on the project.
It was decided to compact the platform with warp nacelles and other structures, which were pulled in closer to the engineering hull, minimizing the sensor cross-sectional area and vulnerable appendages. It was also deemed necessary to surround the hull with multilayer ablative armor, long considered unworkable for production starships. In its initial Borg-suppression role, the Adder class would have produced as few as six custom-built copies. The mission of the Adder did not change radically until it was out of the systems integration stage late in 2380 and into final hull reinforcing.
Intelligence-gathering efforts had come upon the Jem'Hadar problem, and in the final year of spaceworthiness testing (2381).
Early on in its development the Adder was regarded as a fast torpedo warship. Its designers planned to equip it with 8 torpedo launchers and a large complement of both photon and quantum torpedoes. However, as the Adder project evolved, the ship was given more ambitious mission objectives. The Adder's design was something of a departure for Starfleet; the development team took the decision to abandon the traditional Starfleet layout which placed the warp nacelles at the end of twin pylons and moved them in much closer to the main body. This reduced the size of the Adder's profile, making the ship a much harder target to hit.
In another important innovation, the designers gave their new ship multilayer ablative hull armor, which could resist repeated weapons fire. Under the ablative armor, the original hull of the Adder prototype was constructed of a castrodium/neutromium composite. Due to difficulties inherent to the manufacturing of the exotic alloy neutromium, production-line vessels were chosen to be constructed with a modified duranium/tritanium composite augmented by synthetic castrodium alloy structural members, which makes the hull slightly more dense and less susceptible to impact damage then most other Federation starships.
Considerable effort went into making the Adder faster and more heavily armed than standard Starfleet vessels. It was equipped with both warp and impulse engines; by running a plasma conduit through the primary phaser coupling, the designers doubled the snake head phaser power, and boosted the efficiency of the warp drive by 40 percent. Standard cruise speed was warp 7, and safe maximum warp speed was warp 9, though the Adder was capable of exceeding that limit for short periods of time in an emergency. Indeed, Adder's warp core rarely functioned at full capacity, because it was discovered that doing so endangered structural integrity.
It wasn?t until extensive field analysis and on-site development that was conducted that the ship's propulsion and power systems could be run at design specifications.
Once the Adder prototype had proven itself, Starfleet took the decision to put the Adder-class into production. By the end of 2386, there were a significant number of Adder-class ships in operation, and over the next two years they played a vital role in the Dominion war.
TACTICAL SYSTEMS
Snake Head Phaser
Snake head phaser hold a small charge with in it ends so rapid-discharge rates can be used, Computer simulations also indicated an unacceptable loss in phaser power cover performance due to increased strains on the power systems so from this Snake Head phaser were add.
The new Snake Head phaser, combined with rapid-discharge capacitance banks and high-speed beam-focusing coils, allowed the phaser discharge to be stored temporarily (up to 2.1 nanoseconds) within the coils ends and then released as a layered pulse structured something like an onion and is able to land a target contact that is more difficult to disperse than a standard phaser beam.
Rapid fire of multiple phaser bursts is accomplished through a direct EPS shunt from the warp reactor. If situations warrant, power can be routed from the impulse engines through a secondary plasma tap. For maximum effectiveness, all phaser fire several bursts at the same time, resulting in a large amount of energy impacting a relatively small location. This tactic has been proven to pierce the shields of threat vessels without having to collapse the entire grid.
TORPEDO LAUNCHERS
Earlier production line Adder-class vessels have a total of 5 torpedo launchers, 4 forward and 1 aft.
On Adder variants, the aft launchers can be found just above the Shuttlebay and the forward are placed under the hull either side of the ship space between the warp and main hull.
Along with the Venture-class vessels are the only starships in the fleet normally outfitted with the Quantum Torpedoes. But like all Starfleet ships, the launchers onboard a Adder are capable of firing standard photon torpedoes as well.
Payload: The uprated design is capable of carrying a maximum of 300 torpedoes
DEFLECTOR SHIELDS
Being of a relatively new and unique design compared to other ships in Starfleet?s inventory, it is somewhat surprising that the Adder-class line of ships makes use of standard graviton polarity source generators, the design of which has not changed much in the past 70 years.
Off the shelf generators used in Galaxy-class starships were heavily modified by the original yard engineers at Utopia Planitia to closer pack the twelve 32 MW sources found in each generator, allowing for an additional four sources to be added.
Designed in response to the oncoming Borg threat in the 2270?s, all ships of this class make use of automatically rotating shield nutations.
A Adder makes use of a total of 6 shield generators located throughout the vehicle space frame.
Standard flight operations require that at least two generators be operational at any given moment. To simplify field manipulation, it is desired for two corresponding units to be online, meaning that the forward and aft units should be used in sync, or the port and starboard units.
During high-impulse and warp flight, the generators are kept at their minimum output to deflect stray particles in the interstellar medium from impacting the ship and degrading the hull. Should conditions warrant, one generator is capable of protecting the entire space frame. At high levels of alert, all generators are brought online and create a multilayered graviton field around the ship.
In combat situations, the field is typically within several meters of the hull, creating an oval shape. If required, the field can be extended outward to protect another vessel or object at the sacrifice of some protection.
PROPULSION SYSTEMS
WARP PROPULSION SYSTEM
The warp core is located in the aft engineering section and spans the top 5 decks vertically. The core is constructed from a central translucent aluminum and duranium reactor with dilithium articulation frame, four-lobed magnetic constriction segment columns, and matter and antimatter injectors. Plasma transfer conduits exit the core on Deck 3 and extend laterally to the nacelles and the warp plasma injectors.
The nacelles incorporate an experimental in-line impulse system, which accepts matter intake and heating within the nacelles and exhausts the heated gases through a space-time driver assembly in the rounded nacelle. Antideuterium is stored in a series of standard Starfleet antimatter pods, forward of the warp core.
The warp field coils, unlike most Federation ships, are located within the main hull as opposed to outboard nacelles. The basic structure of the nacelles is similar to that of the remainder of the starship, however, the entire length of the nacelle housing is augmented with longitudinal stiffeners composed of cobalt cortenide to protect against high levels of warp-induced stress.
Throughout the nacelle housing are triply redundant conduits for Structural Integrity Field (SIF) and Internal Dampening Field (IDF) systems. Each nacelle contains a pair of four warp field coils, making Adder-class vessels have a total of 16.
The Class-9 warp reactor is extremely powerful for a warship , Advances in variable warp field geometry ensures that all ships of this class will not cause harmful subspace damage. The standard maximum warp speed of the a Adder is Warp 9.5, however, a speed of Warp 9.982 can be reached if power from the Snake Head phaser capacitors is used, thus taking that system offline for at least six hours as it recharges.
All regulation warp engine controls and procedures apply to Adder-class vessels.
In the event of a possible warp core breach, the main M/ARA is not designed to be ejected like on larger starships. Instead, a series of 2 circular plasma exhaust vents on both the port and starboard sides of the ship are used to vent out the highly volatile warp plasma before it has a chance to breach the containment vessel. Deuterium and antideuterium reactants are cut off up stream from the reaction chamber and the core is brought to a cold shutdown.
The only portion of the M/ARA that is capable of being ejected is the antimatter storage pods. In the event of containment loss, twin hull loading plates are ejected from the underside of the ship and the pods follow shortly after. Total replacement of the M/ARA can be accomplished during a major overhaul at a Starfleet Drydock or Fleet Yard facility and requires the removal of various hull segments not normally accessible during normal operation modes.
Type: Class-9 Matter-Antimatter Reaction Assembly (M/ARA).
Normal Cruising Speed: Warp 7
Maximum Speed: Warp 9.982 for 12 hours
UTILITIES AND AUXILIARY SYSTEMS
NAVIGATION DEFLECTOR ARRAYS
Adder-class starships has lots of Navigation deflector arrays situated all over the ship, theres no main deflector that features on ships , the deflector arrays is reinforced with multiple tritanium housing, but its internal design is characteristic is not like most Starfleet deflector systems. Each array is composed of several molybdenum/duranium mesh panels over a tritanium framework. Should one system become severally damaged,
the other deflector arrays can compensate by adjusting the ship's deflector field.
The new Navigation deflector arrays where designed for transwarp ship but due there field geometry cover and less power drain they were fitted to new ships saving on space and power
