Final Specifications
ORCA-class spaceframe, variant 4

Class Name: SWORDSMAN
Classification: FFG (Fast Frigate)
Numbering: 95100 series

Physical Specifications:
 Length: 154 m
 Beam: 74 m
 Draft: 51 m
 Displacement: 1,480,000 mt

Crew Complement
 Total: 120
 Officers: 20
 Crew: 90
 Passengers: 10
 
Propulsion Systems:
 Warp Drive Type: SFW-2150-2N
 Reactor Model: MAMR-486

 Impulse Drive Type: Orc-4A-2, operating within RIMS Field 
 Reactor Model: HFR-99

 D-Warp Drive Type: DW-Orc-4A

Velocity:
 Maximum Sublight Velocity: .60 c
 Standard Cruise Speed: 8.5
 Maximum Cruise Speed: 9.8
 12-hour Emergency Speed: 9.885
 1-hour Emergency Speed: 9.975
 Core Failure: 9.9975

Sensor System
 SFSRS-18 Omnidirectional Short Range System
 SFLRS-21 Omnidirectional Long Range System
 SFULR-2 Omnidirectional Ultra Long Range Protocol

Computer Resources
 DRIPS Network
 Model Swordsman 1250

Armaments
 Hull Mounted
  Phaser Type VII
   4 Banks
    Range 300,000 km
    Locations: forward dorsal, forward ventral, secondary forward, 
               secondary ventral

  Quantum Torpedo Launcher Type III
   1 Launcher
    Range 3,000,000 km
    Locations: forward dorsal
 
Shield and Deflector Systems
 SFEMS-9 "Sweater" multiphasic shield system
 SFDDS-12 Snowplow-type deflector dish system

Tractor System
 Tractor Beam Type XXV
  1 Emitter, secondary aft ventral

Shuttlebays 
 1 Shuttlebay, primary aft dorsal

Small Craft (standard)
 2 Shuttlepods
 2 Small Shuttles
 1 Cargo Shuttle
 1 D-Warp Shuttle
 1 Runabout
    Top Speed: Warp 5.6
    Armaments: Phaser Type III, 2 banks, forward ventral, forward dorsal
    Crew Capacity: 10
 Captain's Yacht
  Top Speed: Warp 2.5
  Armaments: Phaser Type IV, 2 Banks, forward dorsal, forward ventral
  Crew Capacity: 8   

Notes:
 The ORCA-class, which marked the renewal of StarFleet's interest in
 new classes of fast frigates after the shelving of the INTREPID 
 project in 2371, was also the first StarFleet fast frigate to be 
 equipped with the new quantum torpedoes. The vaguely sharklike design 
 was the inspiration for its name (they were originally to be called
 the QUASAR-class), and its curvature takes advantage of the curves
 of a warp field, allowing it to establish a smaller, tighter field,
 thus getting more speed with less power expenditures. Capable of 
 planetfall, and newer than the INTREPID-class spaceframe, the 
 ORCA-class spaceframe is expected to join it as the backbone of 
 StarFleet's frigate forces.

 The SWORDSMAN class modification carries over a larger, more powerful
 warp drive from the previous GAZELLE class modification, giving it 
 increased speed, acceleration, and maneuverability, at warp speeds, 
 with sensors and deflectors enhanced to match. However, the overpowered
 impulse drive has been replaced by a subspace bubble around the ship 
 that reduces inertial mass at impulse velocities (thus producing the 
 same effect as overpowered engines: speed, maneuverability, and 
 acceleration), the RIMS field. This class's speed and maneuverability
 is seen as the epitome of the modern fast frigate, and is one of the
 fastest ships ever built by StarFleet.

 The SWORDSMAN class modification also employs a revolutionary new 
 computer system, replacing the traditional mammoth FTL 
 supercomputers, the DRIPS Network.

Technical data on the DRIPS Network Computer System:
 Decentralized Redundant Isolinear Processor System (DRIPS): a 
 controversial design for a starship's main computer system, 
 this system did away with the mammoth supercomputer cores, 
 used on most Federation ships both before and since. Instead
 operating within permanent FTL fields, backed up by hundreds 
 of redundant micro-coprocessors, the DRIPS Network does the same
 job with a network of dozens of smaller units throughout the ship
 which do not require FTL fields. This decentralized design has
 the benefits of multiple redundancy and resiliency, as well as 
 lower power consumption, as well as greater computational speed 
 on less demanding functions, but with these come with the cost 
 of computational speed on more demanding functions; the balance 
 comes at use of about sixteen percent of the total system. Its 
 constant problems with high-demand computational functions drove
 StarFleet to revoke the program and return to the traditional
 FTL supercomputer cores in later ships. 

Technical Data on the RIMS Field:
 Reduced Inertial Mass Subspace Field: A subspace bubble around the
 ship, active except during docking maneuvers and FTL travel, reduces
 the inertial mass of the vessel at sublight velocities by a factor
 of twenty. This allows the ship to achieve relativistic velocities,
 even with its seriously underpowered impulse drive, and also allows
 extreme maneuverability for a ship its size. In fact, it has a 
 turning radius almost as small as that of the newer ENDEAVOUR class
 transport, which is small enough to fit in the SWORDSMAN's
 shuttlebay.

 The SWORDSMAN-class starships are to be named for types of warriors,
 and will be given registry numbers in the 95100 series.

Onboard Locations:
 Primary Hull (aka Saucer Section)
   1 Bridge, Captain's Office, Wardroom
   2 Main Shuttlebay, Navigation and Security Departments, Weapons Storage
   3 Transporters, Science Labs, Science Department, Dorsal Phaser
   4 Senior Officers' Quarters, Holodecks, Arboretum
   5 Junior Officers' Quarters, Torpedo Launcher
   6 Impulse Drive, Six-Starboard, RIMS Field Generators
   7 Medical Offices, Sickbay, Medical Labs, Ventral Phaser
   8 Maintenance, Life Support, Stellar Cartography
   9 Captain's Yacht Docking Port
 Secondary Hull (aka Drive Section)
   4 Crew Quarters
   5 Crew Quarters
   6 Life Support, Holodecks, Sensor Controls
   7 Shield Generators, Battle Bridge, Strategy Room
   8 Crew Quarters
   9 Crew Quarters, Deuterium Tanks
  10 Docking Ports, Power Distribution, Forward Phaser
  11 Upper Main Engineering, DRIPS Control Room
  12 Main Engineering, Engineering Offices, Deflector Dish Control
  13 Life Support, Tractor Emitter, Cargo Bays
  14 Antimatter Pods, Ventral Phaser, Landing Struts