Post by Wicked Zombie on Nov 27, 2005 14:11:46 GMT -5
The Missouri never got finished, and the Mars is just plain ugly, so hopefully the third time is the charm as far as TMP Fed Battleships go:
The Carolina class first began construction as a yet unnamed Missouri class battleship. Not long after construction began, Starfleet decided to retool the project into the newly proposed "Battleship NX-4438" design. The Missouri, along with the Yamato and the over-budget Mars refits, had fell short of Starfleet's expectations (either economically, tactically, or technologically) and the Federation council decided to take one last gamble on a warship that could truly counter those of the Klingon and Romulan empires.
In less than three years the new starship, christened the U.S.S. Carolina, was launched from the naval yards at Utopia Planetia for an immediate shakedown cruise and field trials. Not long after the shakedown began, the ship engaged and destroyed a group of Klingon convoy raiders much to the surprise of the Klingon Empire who's intelligence department had been mislead into believing the new battleship being constructed was just another Missouri. After this unplanned, yet successful test of the starship's capabilities, Starfleet ordered three additional Carolina class vessels to be constructed while the Carolina herself continued field trials.
The Carolina is equipped with three shuttle bays capable of launching and servicing over a dozen fighter craft with an additional dozen shuttles, two dozen phaser emitters, eight photon torpedo launchers, a pair of Anti-Drone-Defense auto-turrets, heavy blast-armor, reinforced hull, four warp engines (two per nacelle), four fusion reactors, and battleship-grade shields. In addition, the ship has a dedicated Command-Intelligence-Center above the aft shuttlebays providing a wide field of view of the surrounding area for the command staff. A further distinction is the inclusion of an internal defense mainframe with containment force fields, hidden corridor phaser auto-cannons, and heavy-blast bulkheads to help deter/defend against enemy boarding actions. This mainframe proved instrumental during the Andromedan conflict, where assault droids beamed over from the Andromedan ships were a constant menace to the Alpha-Quadrant crews.
However, despite these advancements and capabilities, the Carolina and other battleships of her time were beginning to lose their value since they were primarily war-oriented ships. Not long after the end of the Andromedan invasion, many of these battlewagons were decommissioned or scrapped in favor of more exploration based vessels. The U.S.S. Arizona, named in honor of a slain American sea-ship, fittingly remains as one of the last of these massive vessels and is moored in low Earth orbit above Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, directly parallel to her ancestor's memorial.
Hi-res and Low-res versions are available along with a set of blank textures for custom registries.
The Carolina class first began construction as a yet unnamed Missouri class battleship. Not long after construction began, Starfleet decided to retool the project into the newly proposed "Battleship NX-4438" design. The Missouri, along with the Yamato and the over-budget Mars refits, had fell short of Starfleet's expectations (either economically, tactically, or technologically) and the Federation council decided to take one last gamble on a warship that could truly counter those of the Klingon and Romulan empires.
In less than three years the new starship, christened the U.S.S. Carolina, was launched from the naval yards at Utopia Planetia for an immediate shakedown cruise and field trials. Not long after the shakedown began, the ship engaged and destroyed a group of Klingon convoy raiders much to the surprise of the Klingon Empire who's intelligence department had been mislead into believing the new battleship being constructed was just another Missouri. After this unplanned, yet successful test of the starship's capabilities, Starfleet ordered three additional Carolina class vessels to be constructed while the Carolina herself continued field trials.
The Carolina is equipped with three shuttle bays capable of launching and servicing over a dozen fighter craft with an additional dozen shuttles, two dozen phaser emitters, eight photon torpedo launchers, a pair of Anti-Drone-Defense auto-turrets, heavy blast-armor, reinforced hull, four warp engines (two per nacelle), four fusion reactors, and battleship-grade shields. In addition, the ship has a dedicated Command-Intelligence-Center above the aft shuttlebays providing a wide field of view of the surrounding area for the command staff. A further distinction is the inclusion of an internal defense mainframe with containment force fields, hidden corridor phaser auto-cannons, and heavy-blast bulkheads to help deter/defend against enemy boarding actions. This mainframe proved instrumental during the Andromedan conflict, where assault droids beamed over from the Andromedan ships were a constant menace to the Alpha-Quadrant crews.
However, despite these advancements and capabilities, the Carolina and other battleships of her time were beginning to lose their value since they were primarily war-oriented ships. Not long after the end of the Andromedan invasion, many of these battlewagons were decommissioned or scrapped in favor of more exploration based vessels. The U.S.S. Arizona, named in honor of a slain American sea-ship, fittingly remains as one of the last of these massive vessels and is moored in low Earth orbit above Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, directly parallel to her ancestor's memorial.
Hi-res and Low-res versions are available along with a set of blank textures for custom registries.
