The Ranger Class starship is a ship designed and built by Solas Tempus designed with input from Starfleet, the Vulcan Science Academy, as well as other noted starship designers. The vessel is designed as a long range temporal scout ship, the design is currently in testing for further deployment.
- Dimensions
- 87 x 60 x 29 m
- Crew Capacity
- Standard 6, Minimum 1, Maximum 15
- Cruising Speed
- Warp 6.3 / Fold 5.1
- Maximum Speed
- Warp 9.2 / Fold 8
- Burst Speed
- Warp 9.94 for 3 minutes / Fold 9 for 97 seconds
- Power Source
- Fusion Reactors / Matter-Antimatter Reactor / Temporal Energy Core / Oscillating Mercury Core
- Propulsion
- Impulse Drive / Warp Drive / Dimensional Fold Drive / Gravitational Displacement Drive / Gravitational Displacement Drive / Time Displacement Equipment
Offensive Systems
- 2 fore / dorsal mounted standard phase emitters
- 1 fore / dorsal mounted phaser bank (dual emitters)
- 2 aft / dorsal mounted phaser emitters
- 2 fore / ventral mounted standard phaser emitters
- 1 fore / dorsal mounted high powered tachyon beam emitter
- 2 fore / ventral mounted high powered tachyon beam emitters
- 2 photon torpedo launchers, fore and aft
Defensive Systems
- Phasing Cloak
- Deflector Shields
- Temporal Shields
- Stealth & Ablative Armor Generation
- Holographic Hull Camouflage
- Energy Signature Modification System
Bridge Design
The main bridge is combat design based on the Defiant Class bridge used by Starfleet. The vessel offers state-of-the-art holographic interfaces on all of its consoles to expand control surfaces, making it an ideal design. The bridge has room for multiple crew members but can be safely reduced to a single operator when needed without having to move between consoles.
Main Computer
The ships main computer acts as a HAL 9000 primary hub. HAL is capable of operating all ships systems without human interaction, especially when combined with Automated Service Robot's which allow HAL to direct physical actions. The vessel comes with a full compliment of these drones.
Time Travel Capabilities
This vessel was designed as a powerfully adaptive vessel to combat temporal incursions. Since temporal incursions are uniquely dangerous when more people are involved it was decided that the vessel should be able to be run by as few as a single command occupant with the help of computer automation using the HAL 9000 system or a QUINN AI as the systems core programming. The vessel has been designed with the latest methods of concealment and detection avoidance available.
Expanded Shuttle Bay
Even though the ship is designed to operate with as little human interaction as possible it still may be needed, at any time, to be used with a larger compliment of people. The two shuttle bays in the original design were not deemed enough for such missions and the two bays still operate on the port and starboard sides of the impulse drive. However, the launch bays back up to the main cargo and shuttle bay area, which extends the length of the saucer. Space form the center is taken up by control rooms surrounding the central computer core. At either side, docking collars open up directly into the large bay.
Multiple Engine Cores
In addition to an auxiliary bank of fusion power cores and the primary Matter / Antimatter reactor powering the Warp Drive, the vessel is equipped with two additional energy cores.
- Oscillating Mercury Core which powers the experimental Gravitational Displacement Drive
- Temporal energy core powering Time Displacement Equipment which operates on a microscopic time/anti-time fissure.
Communications Array
Rather than a standard subspace communications system, the vessel is quipped with a special secondary transceiver array which maintains a lock on the Pandoric Rift. The HAL computer system them maintains a link to BlueNet and manages that link and information transfers to mitigate temporal contamination.
Transporter System
While equipped with 2 standard transporter rooms and 4 cargo transporter pads in main cargo/shuttle bay the design also holds for a pair of shuttle-craft sized transporter pads in each launch bay. Each one has its own pattern buffer, fusion power core, and transceiver. Designed to beam shuttles at extreme distances on and off the ship. The system is designed so that all the ships pattern buffers can be networked together. The ships increased power output also allows for the transporter system's range to extended out by a great deal, though the power requirement at a distance increases exponentially depending on the mass carried in the transporter beam and the distance it must go.
Holographic System
The entire ship is equipped with redundant holographic emitters. In particular the main cargo/shuttle bay can be used as an expansive holodeck if equipment is cleared away.