Valkyrie-class Aerospace Fighter

I wanted to call this the Na'Ctka Moquka after the inspiration for the design, but FASA might not be too happy about that. Fighters might not be very Trekie, but I like them.

VALKYRIE CLASS
Class and Type: Valkyrie-class Aerospace Fighter
Commissioning Date: 2377

HULL SYSTEMS
Size: 2
Length: 24.8 metres
Beam: 16.3 metres
Height: 5.0 metres
Decks: 1
Mass: 29.7 metric tonnes
SUs Available: 625
SUs Used: 624

Hull
Outer <8>
Inner <8>

Resistance
Outer: 10 <12>
Inner: 10 <12>

Structural Integrity Field
Main: Class 3 (Protection 60/90) <20>
[1 Power / 10 Protection / round]
Backup 1: Class 2 (Protection 30) <9>
[1 Power / 10 Protection / round]
Backup 2: Class 2 (Protection 30) <9>
[1 Power / 10 Protection / round]

Specialised Hull
Atmospheric Capable <2>
Planetfall Capable <2>

PERSONNEL SYSTEMS
Crew/Passengers/Evac: 3/1/0

Environmental Systems
Basic Life Support [2 Power / round] <8>
Reserve Life Support [1 Power / round] <4>
Gravity [1 Power / round] <2>
Consumables: 1 week's worth <0>

Replication Systems
Personnel Transport: Jefferies tubes <2>
Fire Suppression System [1 Power / round when active] <2>
Escape Pods <1>
Number: 1
Capacity: 4 persons

PROPULSION SYSTEMS
Warp Drive
Embedded Nacelles: Type 4C6 <58>
Upgrade Packages (already factored in to speed ratings)
Sustained Upgrade: Package 1 <2>
Standard Upgrade: Package 1 <2>
Speed: 4.0/8.0/9.5 [1 Power / .2 warp speed]
PIS: Type C (6 hours of Maximum warp) <6>

Impulse Engine
Type: Class 6 (.75c/.9c) <38>
[7/9 Power / round]
Acceleration Uprating: Class Gamma (100% acceleration)
[4 Power / round when active]
Location: Aft
Reaction Control System (.025c) [2 Power / round when in use] <2>

POWER SYSTEMS
Warp Engine
Type: Class 5/H (generates 299 Power / round) <65>
Location: Aft
Impulse Engine: 1 Class 6 (generates 48 Power / round)
Auxiliary Power: 1 reactor (generates 5 Power / round) <3>
Emergency Power: Type A (generates 25 Power / round) <25>
Isomagnetic EPS: Standard Power flow, +200 Power transfer / round <22>

Standard Usable Power: 347

OPERATIONS SYSTEMS
Bridge: Forward <10>

Computers
Core: Amidships [5 Power / round] <4>
ODN <6>

Navigational Deflector [5 Power / round] <8>
Range: 10/20000/50000/150000
Accuracy: 5/6/8/11
Location: Forward

Sensor Systems
Long-range Sensors [5 Power / round] <30>
Range Rackage: Type 3 (Accuracy 3/4/7/10)
High Resolution: 5 LY (.5/.6-1.0/1.1-3.5/3.6-5.0)
Low Resolution: 13 LY (1/1.1-3.5/3.6-9.0/9.1-13)
Strength Package: Class 6 (Strength 6)
Gain Package: Class Beta (+2)
Coverage: Standard
Lateral Sensors [5 Power / round] <18>
Strength Package: Class 6 (Strength 6)
Gain Package: Class Beta (+2)
Coverage: Standard
Navigational Sensors [5 Power / round] <12>
Strength Package: Class 5 (Strength 5)
Gain Package: Class Alpha (+1)

Sensor Skills: 3

Flight Control Systems
Autopilot: Shipboard Systems (Flight Control) 3,
Coordination 2 [1 Power / round in use] <11>

Navigation Computer
Main: Class 1 (+0) [0 Power / round] <0>
Backup: 1 <0>

Inertial Damping Fields
Main <8>
Strength: 9 [3 Power / round]
Number: 2
Backup <2>
Strength: 6 [2 Power / round]
Number: 2
Attitude Control [1 Power / round] <1>

Specialised Flight Control
Manual Steering Column [1 Power / round in use] <1>

Communication Systems
Type: Class 5 [2 Power / round] <10>
Strength: 5
Security: -2
Emergency Communicatons: Yes [2 Power / round] <1>

Tractor Beams
Emitter: Class Alpha [3 Power / Strength used / round] <3>
Accuracy: 5/6/8/11
Location: Aft dorsal

Transporters
Type: Personnel [3 Power / use] <11>
Pads: 4
Emitter/Receiver Array: Personnel Type 2 (15000 km range)
Energizing/Transition Coils: Class G (Strength 7)
Number and Location: (1) Forward

TACTICAL SYSTEMS
Chin Pulse Phaser Array <25>
Type: X Pulse
Damage: 250 [25 Power]
Number of Emitters: 80 (up to 2 shots per round)
Auto-Phaser Interlock: Gamma (Accuracy 3/4/6/9)
Range: 10/30000/100000/300000
Location: Forward chin mount
Firing Arc: 360 degrees forward
Firing Modes: Standard, Wide-Beam

Wing Pulse Phaser Array <23>
Type: X Pulse
Damage: 250 [25 Power]
Number of Emitters: 80 (up to 2 shots per round)
Auto-Phaser Interlock: Gamma (Accuracy 3/4/6/9)
Range: 10/30000/100000/300000
Location: Wingtips
Firing Arc: 180 degrees forward cone
Firing Modes: Standard, Wide-Beam

Aft Phaser Array <19>
Type: X
Damage: 200 [20 Power]
Number of Emitters: 40 (up to 1 shot per round)
Auto-Phaser Interlock: Gamma (Accuracy 3/4/6/9)
Range: 10/30000/100000/300000
Location: Aft
Firing Arc: 360 degrees aft
Firing Modes: Standard, Continuous, Pulse, Wide-Beam

Forward Dorsal Torpedo Launcher <16>
Standard Load: Mark I Quantum torpedo (400 Damage)
Spread: 6
Range: 15/350000/1500000/4050000
Targeting System: Gamma (Accuracy 3/4/6/9)
Power: [20 + 5 per torpedo fired]
Location: Forward
Firing Arc: Forward, but are self-guided

Torpedoes Carried: 30 <3>

TA/TTS: Class Gamma [2 Power / round] <12>
Strength: 9
Bonus: +2

Weapons Skill: 5

Shields (Forward,Aft, Port,Starboard) <15 x 4>
Shield Generator: Class 2 (Protection 400+100)
[40 Power / shield / round]
Shield Grid: Type A (25% increase to 500 Protection)
Distortion Amplifiers: Class Gamma (Threshold 130+10)
Recharging System: Class 2 (40 seconds)
Advanced Shield Capabilities: Multi-Spectral
Backup Shield Generators: 4 (1 per shield) <4>

Auto-Destruct System <2>

DESCRIPTION AND NOTES
The Valkyrie-class is a graceful and deadly fighter capable of both deep-space and atmospheric combat. The hull's planview is an acute delta shape with concave edges and it has a sharply drooping nose and wings, with part of the wingtips angling back in towards the hull. Hanging below the snout and at the end of the wingtips are 4 pulse cannons that form the main armament and just above the wing-mounted cannon, where the wingtips angle inwards are thin pods that hold the dispersed navigational array. The aft phaser array is mounted just above the impulse engines at the rear of the hull. The cockpit, which doubles as an escape pod, has a large transparent canopy over the crew who sit in a diamond pattern and just below the cockpit is the firing port for the forward mounted torpedo launcher. Rather than a standard transporter pad, each seat has an emitter built into the base thus enabling rapid 'ejections' if catastrophic combat damage is sustained.
The Valkyrie is designed for short term missions, generally no more than 8 hours, although it is capable of operating for upto a week, however the crew will probably not be at optimum performance at the end of that time. The class relies heavily on it's mothership/home base and lacks or has downgraded a number of standard components, such as science systems, navigational computers and quarters. The class even lacks an emergency life support system since all crewmembers wear an advanced armoured flight suit with built-in life support, control systems and survival gear.

DEVELOPER'S NOTES
The hull design is based on the Fluttering Petal (aka Na'Ctka Moquka) from Renegade Legion, but with a somewhat bulkier body and smaller cockpit canopy. I wish I could have fitted ablative armour to make it as tough as the original was in it's game system, but you can't have everything.

If you get the DS9 technical manual, you will see that the Defiants Pulse Phaser Canons are somewhat bigger than this craft, and as far as I can tell, you added 9 of them? Perhaps a slighty lower level pulse phaser in a larger chassis would be a little more appropriate.

After all its a fighter armed with Capital ship weapons at this point.

Also You state that each of the wings mounts 4 phasers, but you only list it once. Is that a design spec, ie 20 phaser emmiters per 'firing port', possibly to enhance cooling and reduce size? Effecively spreading a single pulse phaser along the entire wing, or was it just a mistake and there really should be 4 seperate weapons per wing?

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Dan.

"A couple of thoughts from a random mind!"

Just a case of me not being clear. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/redface.gif The big problem is that I had the picture of the fighter in my head & so it should be obvious to anybody reading what I meant. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/frown.gif

There are 2 pulse phaser arrays each consisting of a pair of cannon thus there are 4 cannons in total: 1 at each wingtip (together forming the Wing Pulse Phaser Array)& 2 in a chin mount (together forming the Chin Pulse Phaser Array).

Per the pulse phaser construction rules, each pulse array normally consists of 2 cannon purely as an aesthetic touch. For a canon http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/biggrin.gif example, the Defiant has 4 pulse cannons but only 2 pulse arrays.

As for the size problem, personally I'm happy with them being Type X & it's an easy matter to downgrade them if an individual player/narrator considers them OTT. In game terms, I'd cover it by them being models produced 6+ years later (giving a degree of minaturisation) plus of a high-maintenance design with no onboard repair access, they have to be removed at base to be fixed/maintained. Or something.

[This message has been edited by Swampy (edited 01-15-2001).]

And in the carrier systems thread, it's been mentioned that there's already a fighter class called Valkyrie (from ST: Invasion), therefore I've renamed the design as the Tempest-class. And if that's gone the Typhoon-class. Then Mosquito, Whirlwind & finally Hurricane. If push comes to shove, I suppose Mustang will do & that's only because it had a RR Merlin copy.

Damn! You're fast!

Okay, I might accept Tempest or Typhoon or even maybe Tornado for this thing, but not Mustang. Mustang is being reserved, by me http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/wink.gif
for a long range fighter escort (of course).

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"The best diplomat I know is a fully charged phaser bank" -Montgomery Scott

[This message has been edited by Cmdr Powers (edited 01-15-2001).]

Oh go on then, you can have Mustang.

Tornado? Never been that keen on it. Anyway, I'm keeping to WW2 names.