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Revision as of 14:53, 20 August 2005
Authored by: (Marc Poulin).
Adaptations (with Marc's permission) by: ("Doc" Rob Johnson).
THE NEBULA CLASS CRUISER
The Prototype Starship, U.S.S. Nebula NX-61800, was commissioned in 2357. It was a great achievement for Starship technology. This prototype utilized many innovations of 24th Century technology. Probably, the most notable was Subspace Transporter technology.
Subspace Transporters could be operated at a range of 2.115 trillion
kilometers. It would take a ship traveling at Warp 9.0, 1.29 hours to
travel such a great distance. It cannot be emphasized enough how
promising this technology was. A normal Starfleet transporter has an
operational distance of only 40,000 kilometers. Subspace transporter
technology offered an increase in transporter range by a factor of
52,875,000 times. This represented an immense advantage over the
standard technology. Sadly, this technology was plagued by an enormous
thirst for energy. A normal transporter cycle for a 60-kg payload at
Quantum Resolution, was on average around 12.78 Megawatts. While a subspace transporter consumed upwards of 710.05 Megawatts, an increase in power consumption of 55 times. Not to mention all pattern buffers had to be rerouted through the Warp coils, to assist in the necessary transfer of electromagnetic energy into subspace energy.
At the end of these experimental trials, Subspace Transporter technology
was dropped in favor of the Standard transporters. The only comparable
technology was that of the Iconians; the aliens who abducted Captain
Picard, Esoqq, and Kova Tholl in "Allegiance" TNG; and the Sekirians
in the Delta Quadrant. The technology of the Iconians was not fully
studied before Captain Picard destroyed the probe base on the Iconian
Homeworld. Neither was the second technology studied by the crew of the Enterprise. The technology of the Sekirians was witnessed by the
crew of the Voyager. Their technology utilized the tetrahedral quartz
mantle of their Homeworld and a Folding Space concept. Which transported
people and objects an outstanding 40,000 light years. This technology
was proven incompatible with Federation technology. When a group of Voyager crew members, headed by Chief Engineer B'Elanna Torres and Lt. Commander Tuvok, attempted to transport the entire Voyager back to the Alpha Quadrant.
The Nebula Class also contained many other new technologies. These
technologies included quadritronic computer technology, Isolinear Optical
chips, and a Warp engine capable of Warp 9.2 compared with Warp 7.0 for
the Ambassador Class. The Nebula class also has a much improved vehicle frame than that of the Ambassador Class.
Quadritronic cybernetics represented a geometric increase in processing speed
over duotronic technology present in the previous Ambassador and New Orleans
Classes. Along with the Isolinear Optical Chips made possible by this
technology. One standard Optical chip formatted for 2.15 kiloquads could hold
the equivalent of 42 billion 21st Century Library of Congresses.
The state-of-the-art Warp core and nacelles in the Nebula Class made
possible the first Starship to break the Warp 9.0 barrier. The realization
of this goal, was also due to the refined space-frame of the Nebula Class.
This hull design was, in part, designed with a better understanding of Warp
geometry.
The Nebula Class illustrates a long line of Federation achievement, so many advances were utilized by this class, that it seems that the differences
between the Nebula and Ambassador Classes are separated by a century of innovation instead of only twenty years.
Some ships of the Nebula Class include
MFS Nebula NCC-61800 (formerly USS Nebula) | USS Bellerephon NCC-????? |
USS Farragut NCC-????? (Generations) | USS Endeavor NCC-71805 |
USS Honshu NCC-??? (DS9) | USS Lexington NCC-61832 |
USS Merrimac NCC-61827 | USS Monitor NCC-61826 |
U.S.S. Phoenix NCC-65420 | USS Prometheus NCC-71201 |
USS Proxima NCC-????? (DS9) | USS T'Kumbra NCC-????? (DS9) |
MFS Sutherland NCC-72015 (Formerly USS Sutherland)
--Rob, IC 21:03, 9 Aug 2005 (EDT)