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I am very excited to see the results of the prototype rolls
2371: Project Sovereign (Prototyping)
[X] 1: Science Labs
[X] 2: Crew Recreation
[X] 3: Antimatter and Fabrication
With the final internals decided, you only have to wait a few months for the ship to be spaceworthy so it can undergo testing of its many prototype systems. The date approaches sooner than expected, and before long the Sovereign is easing out of drydock on her RCS thrusters. Then you carefully feed power to the main impulse reactor and the primary drive comes online.
The impulse engines are a dream. The increased thruster velocity has been markedly enhanced by the Type-10 reactor and another set of accelerator coils along the main ejection assembly. While the ship will never dance with a midline engine, even with the nacelle thrusters assisting, it moves much more gracefully than it has any right to. Anything larger than a light cruiser is going to struggle trying to stay out of its torpedo alleys.
The Type-9B engine performs better than expected.
Testing the main deflector, you are dismayed to find that variances are causing parts of the field to cancel each other out and the overall range has decreased by over half. The ship cannot safely go to warp, and warp drive trials are delayed as a result. While careful testing and alterations resolve the field imbalances, the weak output is only solved when the dish is directly linked into the warp core with a transfer conduit. If the dish takes a major hit, it could ripple back straight to the main reaction chamber and knock out the power to the rest of the ship.
The deflector performs below expectations and must be fed by the warp core, introducing a vulnerability to cascading damage.
The nacelles are a bit of a nail-biter since the deflector meant the tests had to be delayed. The warp power scales up and a group of observers murmur in dismay as the Sovereign fails to track with the predicted speed curve. According to the specifications the ship should be travelling at Warp 8.6, but instead it's only just managing Warp 8. After some consultation it is determined that unexpected subspace field variations produced by the differently sized coils are causing parts of the warp field to overlap their harmonics. You're effectively doing more work than you should for the same performance.
With that unpleasant discovery, it is nonetheless decided to push the engines up to maximum warp. As the ship accelerates the field irregularities smooth out as the minor coil size misalignments are overpowered by their cousins. The ship eventually tops out at Warp 9.985 and seventeen thousand times the speed of light, a full 30% faster than the Endeavour's predicted 9.975.
The nacelles are capable of much higher warp-throughput, but field turbulence reduces efficient cruising speed.
Unfortunately the shields are about as cooperative. While they do regenerate as promised, the varying power draw from the emitters and gravimetric waveform variances plays havoc with the EPS conduits. After a delay in which a new computer control algorithm is tested they start behaving, but it's not quite the straight upgrade that had been hoped for. You'll need to integrate new control units into the emitter assembly.
The regenerating shields are temperamental and require additional manufacturing overhead.
Next is the weapon tests. This time the new torpedoes show no sign of detonation problems, each firing successfully and initiating the quantum field inversion on impact with the target. While still very much a difficult piece of technology to manufacture, you are able to requisition enough to give each of the Sovereign's launchers a small stockpile.
The quantum torpedoes perform according to specifications.
The Type-12 phasers are certainly a challenge to implement. The sheer power draw of the emitters is an immense task to regulate and balance through the electro-plasma system. For such a massive phaser array accomplishing this proves more difficult than anticipated, and the solution is not as simple as adding more EPS junctions to manage the load. The resulting snarl of conduits and secondary control systems is more complicated than you would like and certainly a bespoke solution, but it works.
The Type-12 phasers cause power issues and require a purpose-built set of plasma conduits and management systems for use in the Sovereign.
With all those systems at least functional, the last thing left is to give her a name.
[ ] USS Sovereign. Meant to be the queen of the fleet and reign over its competition.
[ ] USS Century. In many ways a return to the generalist tactical focus of the Excelsior 100 years ago.
[ ] USS Majestic. She's certainly the most impressive ship to leave the yards yet, and will define this generation of starships.
[X] 2: Crew Recreation
[X] 3: Antimatter and Fabrication
With the final internals decided, you only have to wait a few months for the ship to be spaceworthy so it can undergo testing of its many prototype systems. The date approaches sooner than expected, and before long the Sovereign is easing out of drydock on her RCS thrusters. Then you carefully feed power to the main impulse reactor and the primary drive comes online.
The impulse engines are a dream. The increased thruster velocity has been markedly enhanced by the Type-10 reactor and another set of accelerator coils along the main ejection assembly. While the ship will never dance with a midline engine, even with the nacelle thrusters assisting, it moves much more gracefully than it has any right to. Anything larger than a light cruiser is going to struggle trying to stay out of its torpedo alleys.
The Type-9B engine performs better than expected.
Testing the main deflector, you are dismayed to find that variances are causing parts of the field to cancel each other out and the overall range has decreased by over half. The ship cannot safely go to warp, and warp drive trials are delayed as a result. While careful testing and alterations resolve the field imbalances, the weak output is only solved when the dish is directly linked into the warp core with a transfer conduit. If the dish takes a major hit, it could ripple back straight to the main reaction chamber and knock out the power to the rest of the ship.
The deflector performs below expectations and must be fed by the warp core, introducing a vulnerability to cascading damage.
The nacelles are a bit of a nail-biter since the deflector meant the tests had to be delayed. The warp power scales up and a group of observers murmur in dismay as the Sovereign fails to track with the predicted speed curve. According to the specifications the ship should be travelling at Warp 8.6, but instead it's only just managing Warp 8. After some consultation it is determined that unexpected subspace field variations produced by the differently sized coils are causing parts of the warp field to overlap their harmonics. You're effectively doing more work than you should for the same performance.
With that unpleasant discovery, it is nonetheless decided to push the engines up to maximum warp. As the ship accelerates the field irregularities smooth out as the minor coil size misalignments are overpowered by their cousins. The ship eventually tops out at Warp 9.985 and seventeen thousand times the speed of light, a full 30% faster than the Endeavour's predicted 9.975.
The nacelles are capable of much higher warp-throughput, but field turbulence reduces efficient cruising speed.
Unfortunately the shields are about as cooperative. While they do regenerate as promised, the varying power draw from the emitters and gravimetric waveform variances plays havoc with the EPS conduits. After a delay in which a new computer control algorithm is tested they start behaving, but it's not quite the straight upgrade that had been hoped for. You'll need to integrate new control units into the emitter assembly.
The regenerating shields are temperamental and require additional manufacturing overhead.
Next is the weapon tests. This time the new torpedoes show no sign of detonation problems, each firing successfully and initiating the quantum field inversion on impact with the target. While still very much a difficult piece of technology to manufacture, you are able to requisition enough to give each of the Sovereign's launchers a small stockpile.
The quantum torpedoes perform according to specifications.
The Type-12 phasers are certainly a challenge to implement. The sheer power draw of the emitters is an immense task to regulate and balance through the electro-plasma system. For such a massive phaser array accomplishing this proves more difficult than anticipated, and the solution is not as simple as adding more EPS junctions to manage the load. The resulting snarl of conduits and secondary control systems is more complicated than you would like and certainly a bespoke solution, but it works.
The Type-12 phasers cause power issues and require a purpose-built set of plasma conduits and management systems for use in the Sovereign.
With all those systems at least functional, the last thing left is to give her a name.
[ ] USS Sovereign. Meant to be the queen of the fleet and reign over its competition.
[ ] USS Century. In many ways a return to the generalist tactical focus of the Excelsior 100 years ago.
[ ] USS Majestic. She's certainly the most impressive ship to leave the yards yet, and will define this generation of starships.
Well, shit that didn't go at all according to plan. We really rolled badly on the implementation of stuff.
0t4n1z3r019
Member of the HAFPTG
- Location
- Philippines
Well, there goes a C or D on Manufacturing and Maintenance.
Edit: Here's my vote.
[X] USS Sovereign. Meant to be the queen of the fleet and reign over its competition.
Edit: Here's my vote.
[X] USS Sovereign. Meant to be the queen of the fleet and reign over its competition.
- Location
- England
Well, we'll have to spend the next few years dodging Utopia Planatia hit squads, but ignoring that everything worked broadly to specification. I'll take it, I suppose.
[X] USS Majestic. She's certainly the most impressive ship to leave the yards yet, and will define this generation of starships.
She's worthy of the name.
[X] USS Majestic. She's certainly the most impressive ship to leave the yards yet, and will define this generation of starships.
She's worthy of the name.
CrabMonarchy
Allegedly Dutch
- Location
- the Netherlands, apparently
On the bright side, I think this is the first time that the prototype nacelles didn't explode during testing! Sure, they don't work as well as they should have, but compared with, uh:
This time, we didn't even have to replace the nacelles before commissioning, so I will take it! Hopefully next time the nacelles will work correctly too
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[X] USS Century. In many ways a return to the generalist tactical focus of the Excelsior 100 years ago.
If we'd rolled better on prototypes I'd have been comfortable slapping the name 'Majestic' on it but ehh
If we'd rolled better on prototypes I'd have been comfortable slapping the name 'Majestic' on it but ehh
[X] USS Century. In many ways a return to the generalist tactical focus of the Excelsior 100 years ago.
0t4n1z3r019
Member of the HAFPTG
- Location
- Philippines
While the nacelles worked, the previous propensity of it to explode are replaced by a couple new ones (Deflectors needed to be tapped to the Warp Core, the Phaser's coils needs a more robust one and cruising speed is not to optimal expectations).
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