Hawkins class Advanced Tactical Explorer
This is a draft version of an Experimental class I am slowly in the process of developing using the Spacedock Rules for a game of thinking of running in the future. It is designed using a combination of Icon and Spacedock rules. I am posting it here in response to one of my posts in the http://forum.lotrrpg.net/showthread....&threadid=3353 Thread.
Any comments very welcome, although I admit it does seem a bit overgunned, but read the Fleet Data information to understand the theory behind it's design. So here it is:
Hawkins class Advanced Tactical Explorer
Class and Type: Hawkins class Advanced Tactical Explorer
Commissioning Date: 2375
Hull Characteristics
Size: 7 (425meters long, 18 decks)
Resistance: 5
Structural Points: 140
Atmospheric and Landing Capability
Operations Characteristics
Crew/Passengers: 480/85/3,550
Life Support [10 pwr/round]
Computers: 4 [7 pwr/round]
Transporters: 6 personnel, 4 cargo,
16 emergency [6 pwr/round]
Tractor Beams: 1 av, 1 fv [2/rating used]
Cargo Holds: 166,000 m3
Consumables: 3 years
Propulsion and Power Characteristics
Warp System: Class 12/R 8.0/9.6/9.995 (36 hours)
[5/warp factor]
Impulse system: 3 class 7: .75 c/ .92 c
[8/9 pwr/round]
Power: 798
Sensor Systems
Long-range Sensors: +2/17 light-years
[5 pwr/round]
Lateral Sensors: +2/1 light-years
[5 pwr/round]
Navigational Sensors: +2 [5 pwr/round]
Probes: 60
Sensor Skill: 5
Weapons Systems
Type XII Pulse Phaser: Cannons
Range: 10/30,000/100,000/300,000
Arc: 360 degrees fwd
Accuracy: 3/4/6/9
Damage: 30
Power: [24]
Type XII Phaser:
Range: 10/30,000/100,000/300,000
Arc: All (720 degrees)
Accuracy: 3/4/6/9
Damage: 24
Power: [24]
High Yield Torpedo Launcher:
Number: 260 Type IX, 30 Type VI, 10 Tri-Cobalt Devices
Launchers: 4 fv, 2 ad
Accuracy: 3/4/6/9
Spread: 8/1/1
Arc: Forward or aft, but are self-guided
Range: 15/350,000/1,500,000/4,050,000
Damage: Type IX-25, Type VI-50, TD -75
Power: [5]
Weapons Skill: 5
Type IX Photon Torpedoes:
Number: 120
Launchers: 2 fd, 1 port, 1 Starboard
Spread: 8
Arc: Forward or aft, but are self-guided
Range: 15/300000/1000000/3500000
Accuracy: 4/5/7/10
Damage: 20
Power: [ 5 ]
Weapons Skill: 5
Defensive Systems
Starfleet Deflector Shields Type 6
Protection: 120x4 (180)
Power: [100x4]
Auxiliary Spacecraft: Max: 40
Description and Notes
Fleet data: The design of the Hawkins-class Explorer began shortly after the initial Borg Attack on Earth, it was developed using technology developed for the Sovereign and Intrepid class Ships. The original idea behind the design was that would supplement and/or replace the Andromeda class Explorer and the Nebula and Excelsior class Exploratory Cruisers. As the design was developed over the next couple of years and as the threat of war grew more and more, first with the Klingons and then with the Dominion, so the Tactical Capabilities of the Ship were increasingly upgraded, not only were the Phasers and Photon Torpedo Armament was continuously upgraded, but the decision was taken to carry at least ten to twenty Attack Fighters as well as up to twenty Shuttlecraft. The Ship’s basic design is both similar and a combination of the Sovereign and Intrepid designs with elements taken from the Galaxy, Nova and Defiant classes. The Saucer is basically similar to a Sovereign class, but a has notch in the forward section similar to the Nova, while the Engineering Hull looks like an extended Intrepid Engineering Hull, but blunter at the stern, two of the Impulse Engines are mounted along the hull in Defiant style engine pods, while the third is mounted ala Galaxy class, while the Warp Engines are mounted on Galaxy style pylons.
The Tactical Systems consist of Pulse Phaser Cannons mounted forward of the Impulse Engine Pods, there are three major Phaser Arrays, one each on the Saucer Dorsal and Ventral Surfaces, with the third is mounted is mounted on the Engineering Hull and Warp Pylons, and two minor arrays, one at the rear of the saucer (dorsal) and at the stern of the engineering hull. The High Yield Photon Torpedoes Tubes are mounted in the Engineering Hull, 4 forward (mounted ala Intrepid) and two aft (ala Galaxy) and four Standard Tubes in the Main Hull, two forward, one port and one starboard, each tube having a maximum spread of eight torpedoes.
In order to try to reduce the number of crew required to man the ship, the class also carries two experimental systems, the first is the Ship carries a number of different types of drones, these include 36 maintenance and repair drones, 12 Labour Drones and 15 Remote Drones as well as 12 Combat Drones, and an experimental Holographic AI System, which usually operates as the Ship’s Mission and Environmental Operations Officer and is know as SADIE, She can also function in every other Command Position. This AI system was designed by some of the best Andorian, Human, Tellarite, Vulcan and Zackdornian Cybernetic and Holographic Scientists and Engineers in the Federation, including Doctor Lewis Zimmerman. SADIE can interact with everyone all over the Ship, as Holo-emitters have been installed all over ship and due to her Multi-Tasking Programming can have as many as twelve Images operating simultaneously. She can also operate as many as 5 different Spacecraft simultaneously. Her normal appearance is of a young Caucasian Human/Centaurian women of about thirty with brunette hair and blue eyes, about 5’8”. Although She can change her appearance to any form she wishes.
The Auxiliary Craft are carried in two Shuttle Bays, the one in the Engineering Hull is used to house the Runabouts, Talon’s, Shuttlecraft and Shuttle Pods, while the Attack Fighters are carried in the Main Hull, with fighters being launched through Doors in the Bow Notch and recovered through two doors at the rear of the main hull, either side of an Intrepid style ridge. The number and types of Auxiliary Craft carried include the following combination of craft:
2 Talon class Light Scoutship;
2 Danube class Runabouts; plus up 8 different mission Pods.
20 Starfleet Attack Fighters;
8 Type 10 Shuttlecraft;
4 Type 16 Shuttle Pods;
4 Work Bees Repair Pods;
The ship has also been fitted with the new Holo-Communication Systems as well as a Stellar Cartography, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Laboratories.
