Class: Nebula, generation-four upgrade
Construction: Completed 2373
Where built: Utopia Planitia Yards, Mars (spaceframe), McKinley Station (internal components, final assembly), Chaki Naval Yards (warp engine components)
Dedication: Stardate 50013.3
Expected Lifetime: Fifty years
Ship Motto: "...the only thing more unbounded than the universe itself is the knowledge that can be gained from that universe..." (quote attributed to Edward Boötes before the first mission of the S.S. Valiant in 2065)
Overall length: 433 m
Overall height: 162 m
Overall width: 441 m (width of saucer section)
Overall displacement: 4,300,000 tonnes
LANDER
Length: 145 m
Height: 29 m
Width: 248 m
Decks: 5
SAUCER SECTION
Length: 363 m
Height: 74.5 m
Width: 441 m
Decks: 19
ENGINEERING SECTION
Length: 268 m
Height: 52 m
Width: 134.5 m
Decks: 13
Standard Crew Complement: 620
Standard Mission Specialist Complement: 20 to 100
Emergency capcity: 12,000 (for two weeks)
Life Support Optimized for: humans
Departments: Command, engineering, medical services, science, support, security
Ship Mission: Long-range exploration, defense, emergency relief and evacuation missions, intelligence
Engine Type: Odonan Generaton-12 twin-nacelle horizontal dual-core configuration
Other ships with this engine type: none
Subspace factorization: 98.2% of ship mass
Maximum warpfield strength: 108 cochranes (approx.)
Standard cruising speed: 100,000 c (approx. warp 9.9945)
Top safe speed: 800,000 c
Top theoretical speed: approx. 1.32 million c (H-factor eight)
Acceleration (in low gravity field): 1000 c/s (<100,000 c) to 500 c/s (>800,000 c)
Acceleration (in high gravity field): 400 c/s (<100,000 c) to 75 c/s (>800,000 c)
Warp Converter Crystal: tam-ulk-yr (mix of hyperboron and hyperoxygen) core with a dilithium (hyperlithium) sheath
Fuel Type: matter and antimatter at 1:1 ratio
Injector Speed: 0.25 c (low acceleration) to 0.45 c (high acceleration)
Injector Frequency per Second: 106 at low acceleration to 5 x 106 at high acceleration
Positive Energy Output: 4.5 x 107 gigajoules per second (max.)
Negative Energy Output: -4.5 x 107 gigajoules per second (max.)
Maintenance Mode Output: -2 x 103 gigajoules per second
Fuel Type: hydrogen nuclei (protons)
Fuel Storage Method: liquid hydrogen
Fuel Range (without remote resupply): 50,000 light years (at average operating speed of 100,000 c) to 20,000 light years (at average operating speed of 800,000 c)
Fuel Range (with remote resupply): infinite
Impulse Engine Type: Mark-four fusion reactor with warp assist
Number of Engine Systems: 2 (one on the saucer, one on the docking pylon)
Top Speed: 90 psol (approx.)
Acceleration-Full impulse: 1 psol/5 seconds
Acceleration-Half impulse: 1 psol/10 seconds
Acceleration-Quarter impulse: 1 psol/20 seconds
Acceleration-Eighth impulse: 1 psol/ 40 seconds
Subspace Field Generator Strength: 940 millicochranes (max., when fields set for equal time flow inside and out)
Acceleration Without Subspace Component: 1 psol/275 seconds (max.)
Fuel Type: deuterium and hydrogen
Range: appoximately 2,500,000,000 km under normal operations
Component lifetime: 50 years (emitters), 20 years (subspace generator core), 15 years (reactor core)
Reaction Control Thrusters: 4
Gravitonic Induction Drive: 1
Maximum Acceleration under GID: 1000 m/s2
Maximum Speed under GID: 2500 km/h
Internal Power Units: 14 (4 in lander)
Internal Power Unit Types: 10 fusion reactors (1 in lander), 3 fuel cells, 1 storage battery
Power Distribution: electroplasma (high-energy systems), electrical (low-energy systems)
Main Phasers: 8 phaser arrays (upper and lower saucer, front and rear of lander, port, starboard and ventral on the engineering hull, rear of lander pylon)
Range: 55,000 km
Targeting Accuracy: 100% to 25,000 km, 85-90% to 55,000 km
Phaser Types: Conventional phase-vaporization format, pulse cannon format
Firing Duration (Ave. to system failure): 150 s
Cycling Frequency: 1.5 s
Simultaneous Firing: all eight arrays can be fired simultaneously
Secondary Phasers: 15
Range: 1000 km
Power: 15% of main phasers
Photon Torpedoes: 200
Number of launchers: 6 (two rear, two front, two on the lander)
Torpedo Dimensions: 2.7 m long, 2.2 m circumference (middle)
Explosive Format: 20 kg matter and antimatter
Explosive Yield: 250 megajoules
Range: 250,000 km (non-propulsion)
Tracking Speed: upto 1500 km/s
Range (With Propulsion): upto 1,000,000,000 km
Tracking Speed (With Propulsion): upto 20 psol
Remote Controlled Torpedoes: 4
Quantum Torpedoes: 500
Number of launchers: 6 (two rear, two front, two on the lander)
Torpedo Dimensions: 1.6 m long, 1.7 m circumference (middle)
Range: 150,000 km
Tracking Speed: upto 3500 km/s (magnetically accelerated)
Explosive Format: 5 kg matter and antimatter catalyzed by 150 g dilithium crystal
Explosive Yield: 1.5 gigajoules
Other Weapons: forward disruptors, chronton beam generator (in deflector), tricobalt explosives (six) delivered by transporter
Shield Type: Multiphase random frequency modulation fixed-energy barrier, dispersed-emissions format
Maximum Shield Strength: 440 megajoules per square metre per second
Maximum Momentum Transfer: 1200 kilograms-metres per second per square metre per second
Duration of Maximum Shield Strength: indefinite
Shield Regeneration Time: 10-15 s (without deterioration of generators)
Shield Durability: 25 s (under maximum load)
Shield Generators: 15
Emitters: 1012
Metaphasic Capabilites: capable of stopping all frequencies at maximum load
Type: Odonan Generation-Six Shield-Linked Cloaking system
Number of Generators: 15 (one per shield generator)
Operating frequency: 45 terahertz
Phasing: 2 (second phase blocks selected emitted signals)
Mass Cancellation: 95.5% effective
Volume Cancellation: not supported
Power Demands: 42% of output (in space), 80% of output (in an atmosphere)
Operating Durability: est. 1700 hours continuous
Component Lifetimes: 10 years (under average use)
System Basis: replicator technology
Number of Systems Total: 7
Minimum Number for Full Life Support: 3
Cycling Time: 20 minutes
Tolerance Time: 3 hours (how long conditions remain livable on the ship with all life support systems shut down and a full crew on board)
Gravity Generators: conventional graviton generator system
Generator Range: 2 m (on average)
System Durability: ship lifetime
Quantum Shift Inhibitors in Gravity System: not supported
Gravity Field Range: 0, or 0.5 g to 2.2 g, 8 g under special command settings
Emergency Life Support Duration: 128 hours (on average)
Replicator Nodes (Life Support): 5
Mass in replicator system: 5500 tonnes
Replicator Terminals: 1200
Materials Replicators: 3
Dedicated Medical Replicators: 2
Atomic Replicator: 1
Lifetime of Replicator System: 20
The Athena has the following support craft:
Runabout: 1 (Danube-class, U.S.S. Styx, NCC-72349)
Type-10 Warp Capable Shuttles: 4
Type-8 Landing Shuttles: 8
Type-15 Shuttlepods: 6 (2 in the lander)
Type-12 Long Range Warp Shuttle (15-passenger): 2
Type-22 Cargo Shuttle (Warp capable): 1
Type-19 Amphibious Shuttle: 1
Note the Styx and the type-12 shuttles have Odonan warp systems; all shuttlecraft and the Styx are equipped with cloaking devices.
Shuttlebays: 1 main, 2 secondary
Docking Ports: 1 main gangway, 6 secondary ports
Escape Pods: 220
Capacity per Escape Pod: 10
Escape Pod Life Support Duration: 22 days
Escape Pod Engine System: gravitonic induction drive and shuttle-based impulse system
Additional vehicles: Captain's yacht
Personnel Transporters: 8 6-person (main ship), 2 6-person (landing module)
Cargo Transporters: 3 (including one large-mass, high-yield)
Range: 45,000 km (quantum resolution), 1,600,000 km (molecular resolution)
Biofilter: supported
Buffer Separation Matrix: supported
Subspace Operations: not supported
Remote Operations: supported
Relay Operations: supported
Intraship Operations: supported
Sequence Time: 4.6 s (beaming out), 5.1 s (beaming in)
Reset Time: 8 s
Passive Types: electromagnetic, subetheromagnetic, gravitonic, momentum transfer
Active Types: photonic, motonic and gravitonic samplers, tachyon generators, neutrino detector, atomic analyzer, infrared, ultraviolet, particle streams, mass-density profiler, ionic resonator, subspace field analyzer, all operating from multiple ports
Range: varies by type, from mass-density profiler upto 3.2 ly to atomic analyzer at 45,000 km, most are optimal upto 100,000 km
Sensor Ports: forward saucer, upper and lower saucer, forward warp nacelle pylons, underside of warp nacelles, lander front, top, side and rear, rear dorsal
Cores: 4 (two main cores, one backup core, one in the lander)
Archive Cores: 2 (one in the main ship, one in the lander)
Processor Arrays: 8 (two per core)
Core Memory Capacity: 164,000 teraquads
Volatile Memory Type: quantum fluctuaton bubble memory (with internal power source)
Archive Core Capacity: 2.5 million teraquads
Permanent Memory Type: lead-core elemental memory
Processing Speed: 2.2 x 1014 bits per second (per processor, arrays function in parallel)
Read Speed: 1.2 gigaquads per second (main core), 0.7 gigaquads per second (archive core)
Write Speed: 0.9 gigaquads per second (main core)
Write Speed-Transfer to Archive: 2.2 megaquads per second
Typical Archive Fraction Used: 50% (at mission start)
Archive Expandibility: supported
Volatile Backup Buffers: supported
Data Transfer Internal: 4.6 c
Data Transfer on ODN: 1 c
Terminals: 1220
Independent Terminal Operation: supported on 1040 terminals
Portable Device Capacity: 0.4 megaquads
External: subspace, subetheromagnetic, electromagnetic, tachyon all supported
Range-Subspace: 12,000 ly
Range-Subetheromagnetic: unknown
Range-Electromagnetic: approx. 1 ly
Range-Tachyon: approx 10,000 ly
Transmission Speed-Subspace: 146,000 c (without boosting)
Transmission Speed-Subetheromagnetic: 1.3 Mc
Transmission Speed-Electromagnetic: 1 c
Transmission Speed-Tachyon: 900,000 c
Data Transfer Rate (All Methods): 660 megaquads per second
Visual Communications Coding: standard Federation compression algorithms, enhanced encryptic, 512-bit encoding
Other Coding Parameters Supported: all known races, all historical coding systems
Data Communications Coding: enhanced 1024-bit encoding
Remote Communications Devices Supported: standard commbadge, standard portable communicator, known alien communications devices, other Federation and non-Federation ships operating with standard codes, remotely-operated communications platforms
Non-Human Languages in the Universal Translator Database: 4600 extant, 1450 extinct, 3 presumed galaxy-wide
Portable Universal Translator: supported
Interactive Language Enhancement Support in the Universal Translator: supported
Navigational Grid Decoding: access to Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Gorn, Bajoran, Ksassan, Odonan, Dominion, Ferengi, Cardassian, navigational grid systems all supported
Galactic Features Navigational Detection System: supported
Number of emitters: main-2 (underside of forward saucer, lower rear superstructure), secondary-3 (one on the lander, one in each shuttlebay)
Range: 150,000 km
Towing Strength: 35% of ship's mass (combination of deadweight of towed object and its resistive momentum)
Beam Durability: at 35% of ship's mass-2 hr, at 50% of ship's mass-10 min.
Beam Diameter: 15-50 cm
Guide Beam Function: supported
Push-Pull Function: supported
Push-Pull Rate: max 150 m/s per 10,000 tonnes of total target mass and resistive momentum
Number of Shuttlebays: 1 main, 2 secondary
Main Shuttlebay: upper rear of saucer, over two decks
Secondary Shuttlebays: 1 rear superstructure, 1 small shuttlepod bay in the lander
Main Shuttlebay Capacity: one runabout, upto thirty smaller craft
Barrier Field: supported
Depressurization rate: 50 s
Repressurization rate: 25 s
Depressurization method: dedicated transporters, ionization beams and vacuum pumps
Repressurization method: ionization beams, dedicated transporters, vacuum flow regulators
Guidance systems: tractor beams, active sensor patterns, visual
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