U.S.S. Empyrean
Power Generation
Type 1 Dual-Core Class 7 M/ARA drive and power system
Propulsion
Warp: Class 9 M/ARA drive and power system.
Impulse: Standard TeraTech-12 Impulse Drives.
Reaction Control: Standard Version 6 magnetohydrodynamic gas-fusion thrusters
Impulse: Standard TeraTech-12 Impulse Drives.
Reaction Control: Standard Version 6 magnetohydrodynamic gas-fusion thrusters
Weapons & Armament
12 Type-XIII PHASER arrays (6 Ventral, 6 Dorsal)
2 Torpedo Launchers (1 fore, 1 aft)
2 Torpedo Launchers (1 fore, 1 aft)
- Generally maintains a compliment of 400 Type-6 Mark-29 Photon Torpedoes
Armor and defense
Deflector Shields. A symmetrical subspace graviton field incorporating the now mandatory nutation shift in frequency.
Communication Tools & Systems
Standard Communications, Hyper-Subspace communications system
Sensors
Long range and navigation sensors and lateral sensor pallets provide coverage in all standard scientific fields, but with emphasis in the following areas:
- Astronomical phenomena
- Planetary Analysis
- Remote Life-Form Analysis
- EM Scanning
- Passive Neutrino Scanning
- Parametric subspace field stress (a scan to search for cloaked ships)
- Thermal variances
- Quasi-stellar material
Additional & auxiliary systems
Holographically-Augmented Environmental System
(Also referred to officially with the acronym H.A.E.S, and informally as "the Haze" or "The Haze System.")The H.A.E.S is a cutting edge system to provide flexibility of purpose and focus to the Empyrean-Class ship, which is operating as a testbed for the technology. The H.A.E.S allows for most of the Interior of the ship to be re-ordered, organized and altered with authorized commands from ranking officers. Anything from adjusting accommodations on fly to be accessible and comfortable to passengers or dignitaries, to quickly restructuring and modifying existing spaces to perform other functions, to reorganizing the layout and compliment of the bridge console arrangement to specific circumstances.
The H.A.E.S may even create and activate holographic ship personnel to assist in emergency situations, making it the largest leap forward in holographic service since the Emergency Medical Hologram project.
The H.A.E.S is limited in function by several layers of safeguards to prevent abuse aboard the ship, these safeguards prevent the ship from being used as a true holodeck outside of assigned areas and only high-ranking officers can access even the most minimal of commands, while low-ranking personnel or civilians may be granted allowance to limited and specific adjustments if deemed necessary.
Cetacean Navigation Labs
The Cetacean Navigation Labs or Cetacean Ops is a department responsible for guidance and navigation research and is conducted by a cetacean crew of twelve Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus gilli), who are supervised by two Takaya’s Whales (Orcinus orca takayai). The Labs are large salt-water filled tanks and communication consoles allow written communication between the aquatic and terrestrial crew members, as well as standard onboard communication systems, which the cetacean ops crew can use as any crewmember. Communication is facilitated by the Universal Translator.Bio-Neural Gel Packs
Referred to typically as BNGs, Bio-Neural Gel Packs are mounted at strategic locations along the ODN pathways, each BNG consists of an artificial bio-fluid that allows transmission of neural signals. The heart of the BNG is a packet of neural clusters, grown copies of strands similar to those found in the brains of sentient beings. These clusters give the ship’s computer ‘instinctive’ data processing and routing ability as well as allowing the ship’s computer to utilize ‘fuzzy logic’ to speed up probability calculations much as a living, breathing entity would.Hangars & docked vessels
The Empyrean-Class Shuttlebay is equipped with:
- Four Type-9 Medium Short-range Shuttlecraft
- Two Type-7 medium Short-ranger Shuttlecraft
- One type-9A Cargo Shuttle
- Four Type-18 Shuttlepods
- Two Sphinx WorkPods
- Ordinance and Fuel
- Flight Operations
Class
Nickname
Empyrean
Designation
NX-79505
Manufacturer
Crew
Owning Organization
Rarity
Prototype
Width
237.9 m
Length
364 m
Height
121.33 m
Weight
3,309,000 metric tons
Speed
Cruising: Warp 6; Maximum: Warp 9.3.
Complement / Crew
500
Cargo & Passenger Capacity
4,500 maximum passenger capacity