Illuminar Class

Many thanks to The Advanced Starship Design Bureau for the foundation.

The Illuminar Class was developed on Mars and is a further upgrade on the Belleraphon which is based on the Intrepid Class.

The first of the class is the USS Illuminar NCC 61620.

SHIP OVERVIEW

Vessel Class: Illuminar

Bellerophon Upgrade/Variant

Production Date: 2445.08.01

Utopia Planitia Yards, Mars

Designation: Light Explorer

Dimensions:

Length : 343 m

Beam : 133 m

Height : 66 m

Decks : 15

Accommodation: 168 (42 officers, 126 enlisted)

Total Accommodation: 200 (32 VIP)

Mass: 709,000 metric tons

Armament : 13 x phaser arrays Type: XII Total Output 12,000 TeraWatts

4 x Standard quantum torpedo tubes with 55 rounds. Type: XXV

Propulsion: Warp

Maximum Rated: 9.985

Transwarp Capability via subspace tunnel due to the Anelurian Crystal interaction with subspace.

No modification to the drive needed to achieve transwarp speed, the resultant tunnel opens as warp 10 is approached.

Maximum Speed: 9.975 - 12 hours

Normal Cruising Speed: Warp 7.5

Propulsion: Impulse

Full Impulse: Just under .25c

Maximum rating: .80c or ¾ Light Speed

DECK PLANS

Saucer Section

Deck 1: Main Bridge, Captain’s Ready Room, Officer’s Briefing Room, Multi-use offices, Escape Pod Access, Aft Bridge Airlock and Upper Sensor Platform

Deck 2: Officer's Mess, Senior Officers and VIP Quarters, Executive Officer’s Office, Labs and Storage, Upper Sensor Platform Subsystems, Escape Pod Access, Planetary Development, Geology, Languages/Archaeology and Biology lab

Deck 3: Captain's Quarters, Officers' Quarters and VIP Quarters, Equipment Storage, Torpedo Loading Maintenance, Testing Isolation Chamber and Turbolift Maintenance.

Deck 4: Crew quarters, Transporters Rooms 1 & 2, Aft Quantum Torpedo Launchers, Phaser Maintenance, Forward Sensor Pallet Subsystems, Escape Pod Access and Officer’s Lounge (The Explorer's Lounge)

Deck 5: Sickbay, Primary Sickbay Support Systems (ICU, Biohazard Support, Radiation Treatment Wards, Surgical Ward, Critical Care, Null-Gravity Treatment, Isolation Suites, etc, Chief Medical Officer's Office, Counselor's Office, Crew Quarters, Library, Transporter Pattern Buffers 1 & 2, Holodecks 1 & 2, Sensor Gear, Escape Pod Access, Primary computer core access and gymnasiums

Deck 6: Crew Quarters, Non-Specific Science Laboratories 1-5 (multi-use), Aux Deflector Control, Escape Pod Access, Deuterium (Matter) Processing, Consumables Resupply Connectors, Biochemistry Lab, Physics lab, CSO's Office and Arboretum

Deck 7: Aux. Computer Core, Upper Cargo Bays 1 & 2, Labs, Escape Pod Access, RCS Thruster Access, Deuterium Tankage, Warp Engine Core Injector Access, Atmospheric Physics lab, High Energy Particle Physics lab and Chief Science Officer R&D office

Deck 8: Astrometrics,Deuterium Processing, Port/Starboard/Forward Docking Ports, ODN/EPS Main Trunks, Lower Cargo Bays 1&2, Deuterium Tankage, Upper Premix Chamber and Aft Work Pod Storage

Deck 9: Cargo Loading Doors (Saucer and Engineering,) Aerowing Shuttle Dock and Labs, Upper Aerowing Shuttle Dock and labs

Deck 10: Main Shuttlebay, Shuttlebay Storage (2 storage bays), Flight Control Center, Aft EV Access Airlock, Auxiliary Computer Core access, Forward Photon Torpedo Launchers, Reserve Warp Engine Core and Main Navigational Deflector

Deck 11: Main Engineering, Engineer's Office, Aft Lounge, Warp Core, Auxiliary Warp Engine, Main Computer Core, Main Navigational Deflector and emergency transporters 1&2

Deck 12: Environmental Control, Antimatter Tankage and Main Deflector Control Systems

Deck 13: Warp Engine Core, Labs, Escape Pod Access and Secondary ODN/EPS Trunks

Deck 14: Antimatter Processing, Aft Tractor Beam Emitter, Tractor Beam Subsystems, Escape Pod Access and Ground Hover Footpad Systems, Transport room 3,

Tactical department offices containing:

(Chief of Security office, Firing range, Auxiliary control, Armory, Brig entrance checkpoint)

Deck 15: Antimatter Loading Port, Forward Tractor Beam Emitter, Tractor Beam Subsystems, Plasma Relay Control Rooms, and Ground Hover Footpads, Brig (4) 2 Person cells, Torpedo/Probe magazine

OFFENSIVE/DEFENSIVE SYSTEMS

Phaser Arrays: Type: XI

2 Dorsal

2 Ventral

1 Ventral Lower

2 Dorsal Aft,

2 Ventral Aft

2 Port Pylon

2 Starboard Pylon

2 Dorsal Fantail

Torpedo Launchers: Type: XXV

2 Forward

2 Aft

Deflector Shields:

Type: Symmetrical oscillating subspace graviton field. Adaptive This type of shield is similar to those of most other starships. Other than incorporating the now mandatory nutational shift in frequency, the shields alter their graviton polarity to better deal with more powerful weapons and sophisticated weaponry (including Dominion, Breen, and Borg systems).

Output: 14 shield grids generating 165.25 MW, Total shield strength: 2,612.09 MW Typical shield configuration: 8 emitters with an output of 1,425.8 MW. The power for the shields is taken directly from the warp engines and impulse fusion generators. If desired, the shields can be augmented by power from the impulse power plants (AuxiliaryPower). The shields can protect against approximately 42% of the total EM spectrum (whereas a Galaxy class Starship's shields can only protect against about 23%), made possible by the multi-phase graviton polarity flux technology incorporated into the shields.

Range: The shields, when raised, maintain an average range of 30 meters away from the hull.

Primary purpose: Defense from hazardous radiation and space-borne particulates. Secondary purpose: Defense from enemy threat forces

COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Primary access on deck 5, core extending to deck 2

Auxiliary Computer Core access deck 10 extending to deck 12.

AC-17 Series computer by Krayne Systems

Planet of Manufacture: Bynar

Number of computer cores: Two.

 The primary computer core is accessed in the control room on Deck 5 amidships for maximum protection. It covers five decks and extends from Deck 2 to Deck 5. The Auxiliary core is located on Deck 10 and extends down to Deck 12, covering three decks. It is fed by two sets of redundant EPS conduits as well as primary power.

Type: The AC-17 series computer core is built under contract for the Illuminar class vessel by Krayne Systems, an independent contractor based on Bynar. The structure of the computer is similar to that of most other supercomputing systems in use by Federation vessels with stack segments extending through the ship forming trillions of trillions of connections through the processing and storage abilities of modern isolinear chips. Cooling of the isolinear loop is accomplished by a regenerative liquid helium loop, which has been refit to allow a delayed-venting heat storage unit for "Silent Running.” For missions, requirements on the computer core rarely exceed 45-50% of total core processing and storage capacity. The rest of the core is utilized for various scientific, tactical, or intelligence gathering missions - or to backup data in the event of a damaged core.

Bio-Neural Gel Packs: Referred to typically as BNGs, Bio-Neural Gel Packs are an innovation in shipboard data processing and routing. Mounted at strategic locations along the ODN pathways, each BNG consists of an artificial bio-fluid that allows transmission of neural signals. The heart of the BNG is a packet of neural clusters, grown copies of strands similar to those found in the brains of sentient beings. These clusters give the ship’s computer ‘instinctive’ data processing and routing ability as well as allowing the ship’s computer to utilize ‘fuzzy logic’ to speed up probability calculations much as a living, breathing entity would.

Due to the utilization of Luma'Lenai and her abilities it is anticipated that the processing speed of the AC-17 computer will be significantly increased by replacing its fuzzy logic subroutine with sentient insight and experience.

Luma is a singular entity, not an AI and can be moved about by use of one of the crystals. Luma can be moved not only to the USS Mystique but to any computer system desired with a small modification to the primary computer.

Though a breakthrough in shipboard technology, the BNG has shown one liability in that the biological components can contract contagions and make the ship ‘sick’.