USS Fenris Escort (Pocket Cruiser)

[Capt. K. Vaughn]

Here is the Fenris design mentioned in the Voden-Class Heavy Cruiser, originally designed under our somewhat homebrewed FASA rules. It is essentially a toned-down version of the Defiant-class though it is still a fairly powerful little ship.

I tried to stay true to the campaign moreso then anything else. One thing we found though, in unrestrained combat it still tended to die quite quickly.

Enjoy.

Regards,
CKV.

[Capt. K. Vaughn]

FENRIS CLASS POCKET CRUISER
Class and Type: Fenris-class Pocket Cruiser (Escort)
Commissioning Date: 2372

HULL SYSTEMS
Size: 3
Length: 55.9 meters
Beam: 41.51 meters
Height: 12.1 meters
Decks: 3
Mass: 59,419 metric tonnes
SU’s Available: 890
SU’s Used: 883
Resistance
Outer Hull: 6 [18]
Inner Hull: 6 [18]
Structural Integrity Field
Main: Class 3 (Protection 60/90) [1 Pwr/10 Protection/rnd] [21]
Backup1: Class 3 (Protection 30) [1 Pwr/10 Protection/rnd] [11]
Backup2: Class 3 (Protection 30) [1 Pwr/10 Protection/rnd] [11]
Special Hulls
Atmospheric Capability [3]
Planet fall Capability [3]

PERSONNEL SYSTEMS
Crew/Passengers/Evac: 32/2/20
Crew Quarters
Spartan: 20 [1]
Basic: None
Expanded: None
Luxury: None
Unusual: None
Environmental Systems
Basic Life Support [4 Power/round] [12]
Reserve Life Support [5 Power/round] [6]
Emergency Life Support [18 emergency shelters] [6]
Gravity [2 Power/round] [3]
Consumables: 4 months worth [1]
Replicator Systems
Food Replicators [3 Power/round] [3]
Industrial Replicators
Type: Network of small replicators [2 Power/round] [3]
Medical Facilities: 1 (+0) [1 Power/round] [5]
Recreation Facilities: 1 [2 Power/round] [8]
Personnel Transport: Jeffries tubes [3]
Fire Suppression System [1 Power/round when active] [3]
Cargo Holds: 4,000 cubic meters [1]
Locations: 2 cargo holds, forward and aft on deck 3.
Escape Pods
Number: 20 [1]
Capacity: 4 persons per pod

PROPULSION SYSTEMS
Warp Drive
Nacelles: Type 6C5 [124]
Speed: 6.0/9.0/9.9 [1 Power/.2 warp speed]
Uprating: Package 4 [+0.4 Max Warp]
PIS: Type G (10 hours of Maximum warp)
Impulse Engine
Type: Class 4 (.6c/.9c) [6/9 Power/round] [20]
Location: Aft Section
Reaction Control System (.025c) [2 Power/round when in use] [3]
Impulse Thrusters: [+1 die] [2 Power/round when in use] [6]

POWER SYSTEMS
Warp Engine
Type: Class 8/N (generates 420 Power/round) [90]
Location: Engineering section
Impulse Engine[s]: Class 4 (generates 32 Power/engine/round)
Auxiliary Power: 1 reactors (generates 5 Power/reactor/round) [3]
Emergency Power: Type A (generates 25 Power/round) [25]
EPS: Standard Power flow, +150 Power transfer/rnd [30]
Standard Usable Power: 452

[Capt. K. Vaughn]

OPERATIONS SYSTEMS

Bridge: Forward section dorsal [9]
Separation System: None

Computers:
Core 1: Centerline section [5 Power/round] [6]
ODN Network [9]

Navigational Deflector [5 Power/round] [12]
Range: 10/20,000/50,000/150,000
Accuracy: 5/6/8/11
Location: Forward Ventral

Sensor Systems
Long-range Sensors [5 Power/round] [30]
Range Package: Type 5 (Accuracy 3/4/7/10)
High Resolution: 5 light years (.5/.6-1.0/1.1-3.7/3.8-5.0)
Low Resolution: 15 light years (1/1.1-4.0/4.1-12.0/12.1-15)
Strength Package: Class 5 (Strength 5)
Gain Package: Standard
Coverage: Standard
Lateral Sensors [5 Power/round] [10]
Strength Package: Class 5 (Strength 5)
Gain Package: Standard
Navigational Sensors [5 Power/round] [10]
Strength Package: Class 5 (Strength 5)
Gain Package: Standard
Probes: 10 probes of varying types [1]
Sensors Skill: 4

Flight Control Systems
Autopilot: Shipboard Systems (Flight Control)3, Coordination2 [11]
Navigational Computer [3]
Main: Class 2 (+1) [1 Power/round]
Backups: 1 [1]
Inertial Dampening Field
Main [6]
Strength: 9 [3 Power/round]
Number: 1
Backup [2]
Strength: 6 [2 Power/round]
Number: 1
Attitude Control [1 Power/round] [1]

Communications Systems
Type: Class 6 [2 Power/round] [20]
Strength: 6
Security: -3 (Class Gamma Uprating)
Basic Uprating: Class Beta (+2)
Emergency Communications: Yes [2 Power/round] [1]

Tractor Beams
Emitter: Class Beta [3 Power/Strength used/round] [6]
Accuracy: 5/6/8/11
Location: Aft Ventral

Transporters
Type: Personnel [5 Power/use] [34]
Pads: 6
Emitter/Receiver Array: Personnel Type 6 (40,000-km range)
Energizing/Transition Coils: Class H (Strength 8)
Location: 2 transporters
Type: Emergency [6 Power/use] [16]
Pads: 20
Emitter/Receiver Array: Emergency Type 3 (15,000-km range)
Energizing/Transition Coils: Class H (Strength 8)
Location: 6 transporters (4 in Saucer section, 2 in Engineering)
Type: Cargo [3 Power/use] [20]
Pads: 400 kg
Emitter/Receiver Array: Cargo Type 3 (20,000-km range)
Energizing/Transition Coils: Class F (Strength 6)
Location: 2 transporters

Security Systems
Rating: 1 [4]
Anti-Intruder System: Yes [1 Power/round] [3]
Internal Force Fields: [1 Power/3 Strength/Force Field] [3]

Science Systems: Rating 1 (+0) [1 Power/round] [8]
Specialized Systems: None
Laboratories: None

[Capt. K. Vaughn]

TACTICAL SYSTEMS

Port Pulse Phaser Array [39]
Type: VIII
Damage: 210 [21 Power]
Number of Emitters: 200 (up to 5 shots per round)
Auto-Phaser Interlock: Accuracy 3/4/6/9
Range: 10/30,000/100,000/300,000
Location: Port sponson
Firing Arc: Forward
Firing Mode: Standard and Wide-Beam
Starboard Pulse Phaser Array [39]
Type: VIII
Damage: 210 [21 Power]
Number of Emitters: 200 (up to 5 shots per round)
Auto-Phaser Interlock: Accuracy 3/4/6/9
Range: 10/30,000/100,000/300,000
Location: Starboard sponson
Firing Arc: Forward
Firing Mode: Standard and Wide-Beam

Aft Torpedo Launcher (High-Yield) [15]
Standard Load: Type IX photon torpedo (250 damage)
Spread: 5
Range: 15/350,000/1,500,000/4,050,000
Targeting System: Accuracy 3/4/6/9
Power: [20 + 5 Power/torpedo fired]
Location: Primary Hull aft
Firing Arc: Aft, but are self-guided
Forward Ventral Torpedo Launcher (High-Yield) [15]
Standard Load: Type IX photon torpedo (250 damage)
Spread: 5
Range: 15/350,000/1,500,000/4,050,000
Targeting System: Accuracy 3/4/6/9
Power: [20 + 5 Power/torpedo fired]
Location: Primary Hull forward
Firing Arc: Forward, but are self-guided
Torpedoes Carried: 90 Type IX photon torpedoes [9]

TA/T/TS: Class Gamma [2 Power/round] [12]
Strength: 9
Bonus: +2
Weapons Skill: 4

Shields (Forward, Aft, Port, Starboard) [93]
Shield Generator: Type 3 (Protection 600) [60 Power/round]
Shield Grid: Type B (33% increase to 800 Protection)
Subspace Field Distortion Amplifiers: Class Delta (Threshold200)
Shield Recharging System: Class 2 (recharge time of 40 seconds)
Backup Shield Generators: 4 (1 per shield) (400 Protection/shield)
Auto-Destruct System: Yes [3]

AUXILIARY SPACECRAFT SYSTEMS
Shuttle bay(s): None
Captain’s Yacht: No


Description and Notes
Fleet Data: After the events of Wolf 359 and the continually increasing threats and violence within the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, Starfleet Command began considering various directives to upgrade their fleets and develop new starships to counteract these threats. Some of the more renowned classes came out of the Perimeter Defense Directive, others like the Galaxy-Class Mark III upgrade were the pet projects of various Admirals with the pull to push it through. The Fenris-Class Escort affectionately nicknamed a pocket cruiser was designed during the Voden Project.

Lieutenant Jared Pol, the chief design engineer pitched the idea of the Vodens being able to carry their own support craft including Starfleet’s new attack fighter.
The design team agreed but went one step farther, taking a page from the German Naval Policies of Earth during the Second World War and developed the Fenris Pocket-Cruiser, something of a cross between a runabout, an attack fighter and the scrapped Defiant project. Furthermore, they designed within the Voden-Class a dedicated launch bay to house a Fenris-Class Escort.

Though the design is truly more accurately an escort then a cruiser, the term Pocket Cruiser stuck even past the development stage. Lieutenant Pol having had access to the results from the Defiant project applied many of the ideas to the Fenris but significantly reduced several of those aspects.

One problem with the design is that it is a dedicated craft and cannot operate independently for great lengths of time. Furthermore, with the difficulty of upgrading the design, the use of this class was found to be quite narrow. When the decision to limit the production run of the Voden-Class came down, it was initially decided to limit these ships as well, with the commissioned USS Surtr being assigned to Starbase 39-Sierra as a patrol ship until the USS Heimdall was completed.

However, given the success of the Surtr in the latter stages of the war, Starfleet is now considering a limited production run of the Fenris-Class to be assigned permanently to the defense of various starbases as a cheaper alternative to the Defiant-Class.


USS Fenris’s Plaque: “Those that wish to destroy our way of life, to bring ruin to that which we love and strive to create will find Hell’s Own Hound standing between them and their desires.”- Lieutenant Jared Pol


Noteworthy vessels / service records / encounters:
USS Fenris NCC-51975, Prototype performed and fought exceptionally well during the Dominion War; USS Surtr NCC-52113 assigned to Starbase 39-Sierra to patrol the Arteline Sector.

Crew Demographics by Branch: 32

Command
Command Staff: 5

Operations
Engineering/Technical: 9
Operations, General: 6
Security/Tactical: 9

Sciences
Medical/Support: 3
Science/Research: 0

Rapid Response Forces: 0

Civilians: 0