Steamrunner Class

Steamrunner-class
Class Information
Role: Light Cruiser
Status:

Active

Date Entered Service:

2341

Basic Stats
Decks:

15

Cruising Speed:

Warp 6

Total Compliment:

220

Tactical Systems
Energy Weapons:

9x Type-X phaser arrays

Torpedo Launchers:

4 Launchers

Shields:

Multi-Layered Shielding System


Class Description

By the time the 2330s began Starfleet Command was well aware of the aging designs of it's fleet. Without wanting to wait until the last moment, Starfleet decided that it would be prudent to issue an order to the Starfleet Corps of Engineers to begin drafting designs for a replacement design for the popular Miranda Class which was already numbering in the hundreds. While the Miranda Class was a popular, efficient and sound design, Starfleet knew that no design would last forever. The ability to refit vessels would only last so long until technological age or incompatibilities would make it more economically efficient to design a new ship. With no certain rush to design a new ship as a small, multi-role, deep space light cruiser while the Miranda remained in service, the Corp of Engineers began it's daunting task of replacing a legend in the fleet.

Over the next five years a couple teams of engineers began to draft blue print designs. As the competition heated up several different fleet yards across the Federation submitted their design to Starfleet Command. Some of the projects were kept as vessels in other roles or other similar-sized vessels, however one design, Project: Steamrunner, caught the eye of several Starfleet admiral's and was given the green light. The project was moved to Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards and construction began in 2338.

As construction progressed there were some more design problems that became more apparent as the prototype grew closer to completion. The in-hull nacelle design was designed to connect the nacelles to the main hull of the starship to allow for easy engineering of the nacelles, but it was also causing some problems with over heating and it's relative range to the ships warp core. The ship's launch was put on hold for almost a year as the Corp of Engineers overlooked the ship bulkhead by bulkhead to try and solve the instability problems. The overheating problem was easily solved by channeling the extra energy and heat through an advanced system which ejected the extra materials through an aft compartment in the nacelles. The proximity problem to the nacelles was a much harder problem to track down. It was, in fact, not a problem with proximity but a problem with the new warp core design; the core was completely redesigned and by 2341 the USS Steamrunner was launched from Utopia Planitia.

The Steamrunner's shakedown cruise took it along the shipping lanes of the core Federation worlds as a precaution to keep it from becoming known by the Federation's more traditional enemies. However, when the war with the Cardassian Union began to come to a climax the Steamrunner prototype was ordered to the front to test her combat capabilities. The Steamrunner performed above expectations and proved to be quite a multi-role vessel and before the war even ended Starfleet had ordered several more of the ships to be produced. By 2353, fifteen years after the initial construction of the prototype, the Steamrunner Class was in full production as an added asset to the fleet while the older Miranda's were retired slowly.

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Ship Specifications

Specifications
Basic Information
  • Role: Light Cruiser
  • Dimensions: 243.8 meters (L) x 160.2 meters (W) x 40.2 meters (H)
  • Decks: 15
  • Expected Duration: 80 years
  • Time Between Resupply: 1 year
  • Expected Refit Cycle: 5 years
Crew Complement
  • Total Crew: 220
    • 45 Officers
    • 145 Enlisted
    • 20 Marines
  • Number of Civilians: 10
  • Emergency Capacity: 600
Propulsion
  • Thrusters: RCS Thrusters
  • Sublight Speed: 0.25c
  • Warp Speed
    • Cruising Speed: Warp 6
    • Maximum Warp: Warp 8.5
    • Emergency Warp: Warp 9.7 (for 12 hours)
Offensive Systems

ENERGY WEAPONS 8x Type-X Phaser Arrays TORPEDO LAUNCHERS

  • 2 Forward
  • 2 Aft

PAYLOAD

Defensive Systems Primary Systems
  • Computer Systems:

Isolinear Computer Systems

  • Transporters:

3 six-person transporters

    • Transporter Range: 45,000 Kilometers
  • Sensor Range: 15 Light years
  • Communications Range: 15 Lightyears
Auxiliary Craft

SHUTTLEBAYS: 1

SUPPORT CRAFT:

  • Shuttles: 6
  • Runabouts: 1
  • Workbees: 4
Other

STARSHIP FEATURES:

Notes


Deck Listing

Main Ship

Deck Details Deck Details
Deck 1
  • Bridge
  • Captains Ready room
  • Main conference lounge
Deck 2
  • XO’s office,
  • Senior officer’s quarters
Deck 3
  • Transporter rooms 1 and 2
  • Deuterium storage high bay
  • Officers’ quarters
  • Officers
  • Mess
  • Forward dorsal phaser array
  • Phaser maintenance
  • Impulse engine high bay (Port and Starboard)
Deck 4
  • Transporter machine rooms 1 and 2
  • Deuterium storage
  • Enlisted officers’ quarters
  • Port and Starboard phaser arrays
  • Phaser maintenance
  • Aft shuttle bay control
  • Aft shuttle bay upper level
  • Impulse engine mid-level (Port and Starboard)
Deck 5
  • Chief science officer’s office
  • Science labs
  • Enlisted officers’ quarters
  • Enlisted mess
  • Holodecks 1 through 4
  • Aft shuttle bay main level
  • Impulse engine lower level (Port and Starboard)
Deck 6
  • Main engineering
  • Chief Engineers office
  • Main computer core upper level
  • Sick bay
  • Chief medical officer’s office
  • Medical labs
  • Guest quarters
  • Aft shuttle storage and maintenance.
Deck 7
  • Main computer core mid-level 1
  • Engineering support labs
  • Stellar Cartography high bay
Deck 8
  • Main computer core mid-level 2
  • Antimatter pods
  • Antimatter generator
  • Forward shuttle bay
  • Forward shuttle bay control
  • Replicators consumables storage
  • Stellar cartography main level
Deck 9
  • Main computer core lower level
  • Environmental systems
  • Waist recycling
  • Cargo bays 1 and 2
  • Forward shuttle maintenance
Deck 10
  • Antimatter injectors
  • Antimatter ejection hatch
  • Warp core ejection hatch
  • Forward and Aft ventral phaser arrays
  • Phaser maintenance

Pod Section

Deck Details Deck Details
Deck 11
  • Deflector pod environmental systems
  • Deflector dish waste management
Deck 12
  • Aft torpedo launcher
  • Aft torpedo storage
  • Deflector dish bay upper level
Deck 13
  • Cargo bay 2
  • Secondary computer core upper level
  • Deflector control
  • Deflector dish bay mid-level
Deck 14
  • Transporter room 3
  • Cargo bay 3
  • Secondary computer core lower level
  • Deflector dish lower level
Deck 15
  • Forward torpedo launchers
  • Forward torpedo storage
  • Main tractor emitter
  • Transporter machinery room 3


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Support Craft ShuttlesType 8 ShuttleType 9 ShuttleType 11 ShuttleType 15 Shuttlepod
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