Final Specifications PLEIADES-class spaceframe, variant 1 Class Name: PLEIADES Classification: FG (Frigate) Numbering: 96000 series Physical Specifications: Length: 154 m Beam: 123 m Draft: 58 m Displacement: 1,330,000 mt Crew Complement: Total: 175 Officers: 28 Crew: 127 Passengers: 20 Propulsion Systems: Warp Drive Type: SFW-1400-2N Reactor Model: MAMR-375 Impulse Drive Type: Ple-1A-2, operating within RIMS Field Reactor Model: HFR-107 D-Warp Drive Type: DW-Ple-1A Velocity: Maximum Sublight Velocity: .72 c Standard Cruise Speed: 7.00 Maximum Cruise Speed: 9.30 12-hour Emergency Speed: 9.45 1-hour Emergency Speed: 9.60 Core Failure: 9.70 Sensor System SFSRS-12 Omnidirectional Short Range System SFLRS-15 Omnidirectional Long Range System SFULR-2 Omnidirectional Ultra Long Range Protocol Computer Resources BioDRIPS Network Model Pleiades 1850 Armaments Hull Mounted Phaser Type VII 3 Banks Range 300,000 km Locations: weapons module dorsal; dorsal forward; ventral forward Quantum Torpedo Launcher Type IV 3 Launchers Range 3,000,000 km Locations: weapons module port; weapons module starboard; weapons module aft Pulse Phaser Cannon Type II 2 Turrets Range 100,000 km Locations: weapons module port; weapons module starboard Beta Tachyon Ray Emitter Type I 1 Emitter Range 15,000 km Location: weapons module forward Shield and Deflector Systems SFEMS-9 "Sweater" multiphasic shield system SFDDS-12 Snowplow-type deflector dish system SFPD-2-Ple-1A Model 2 Pegasus Device, customized for use aboard the PLEIADES class Tractor System Tractor Beam Type XXIV 1 Emitter, secondary aft ventral Shuttlebays 1 Shuttlebay, primary aft dorsal Small Craft (standard) 4 Shuttlepods 2 Small Shuttles 1 Cargo Shuttle 1 D-Warp Shuttle Captain's Yacht Top Speed: Warp 3.5 Armaments: Phaser Type III, 2 Banks, forward dorsal, forward ventral Crew Capacity: 6 Notes: The MIRANDA class spaceframe is the longest running design in Starfleet. Designed in the late 23rd century the MIRANDA class spaceframe survived a dozen major shifts in StarFleet design strategy, revealing the strength and useability of the design. This class keeps the same designs that remained consistent throughout the MIRANDA line. A large saucer section stretched to accommodate a shuttle bay in the rear, two warp drive nacelles off to the sides, as well as a weapons module with phasers and torpedo tubes mounted above the saucer. The PLEIADES spaceframe is essentially a fully redesigned and modernized MIRANDA class spaceframe, designed for use long into the new century as the workhorse of the smaller StarFleet vessels. The experimental aspects of the recent frigate and fast frigate classes, as well as new systems, have been incorporated into the state-of-the-art PLEIADES class. Among these are the BioDRIPS Network computer system, the RIMS field, and the Pegasus Device. The PLEIADES class is also equipped with an experimental Beta Tachyon Ray emitter; this combressed beam of beta tachyons (a specific type of subatomic particles which both travel at low warp speeds and dissolve normal matter by pulling it apart at the sub-sub-atomic level). Technical data on the BioDRIPS Network Computer System: Bioneural Decentralized Redundant Isolinear Processor System (BioDRIPS): a controversial design for a starship's main computer system, this system combines the DRIPS Network, which replaces the massive FTL supercomputer cores used on older StarFleet ships, with the bioneural technology first pioneered in the INTREPID class in the late 2360s. The BioDRIPS Network does the same job with a network of dozens of smaller units, constructed with bioneural technology, throughout the ship which do not require powerhungry 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 nineteen percent of the total system. Technical Data on the RIMS Field: Reduced Inertial Mass Subspace Field (Rims 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 as small as that of a shuttlecraft or runabout at comparable speed. Technical Data on the Pegasus Device: Pegasus Device: First tested aboard the experimental USS PEGASUS (NX-53847) in 2357, this device is a Federation-developed phasing cloak. It functions similarly to a cloaking device, but uses a different theory; by shifting the matter of the ship and its contents out of phase with normal matter, it renders the vessel both transparent and apparently immaterial. Phased ships are able to travel through any gaseous, liquid, or solid objects, except those made up of anion particles (which counteract the phasing effect) and those which contain beta tachyon particles, which disintegrate complex molecules (thus destroying the ship and all aboard). Onboard Locations: 1 Bridge, Captain's Office, Wardroom 2 Senior Officers' Offices and Quarters, Science Labs, Dorsal Weapons 3 Transporters, Science Department, Weapons Module Pylons 4 Junior Officers' Quarters, Sensor Controls, Holodecks 5 Deuterium Tanks, BioDRIPS Control Room, Life Support, Five-Forward 6 Weapons Storage, Security Department, Brig, Shield Generators 7 Crew Quarters, Battle Bridge, Docking Ports, Pegasus Device 8 Crew Quarters, Impulse Drive, RIMS Field Generator, Medical Labs 9 Crew Quarters, Deflector Grid Control, Medical Offices, Sickbay 10 Main Engineering, Stellar Cartography, Cargo Bays, Warp Nacelle Pylons 11 Ventral Weapons, Maintenance, Power Distribution, Antimatter Pods 12 Captain's Yacht Docking Port