#STAR TREK POLARIS CLASS MOVIE#
#STAR TREK POLARIS CLASS MANUAL#

The loss of two torpedo tubes is my own invention - I'm not sure just where the Constitutions other two tubes are, but I'd bet it's in the engineering hull somewhere and as it seemed silly to have a ship like this with armament equal to a heavy cruiser I vanished those two tubes.

The reduction in phaser armament is inherent in losing the saucer section and the six phaser ball turrets located on it. For the sake of variety, I've put this ship as having been a 'normal' class which has been in service for a long time, rather than an improvisation prompted by the Dominion war. At least, it does to me!ДЄs with all the kit bashed ships, the text is designed to explain why such an abomination of a ship came to exist. I named it 'Polaris' after the pole star, because of that stars (apparent) proximity to the big dipper - the ship looks something like an upside-down ladle, you see.

#STAR TREK POLARIS CLASS MOVIE#

Scaled so that the primary hull is equal to that of the Constitution Class in size.ДЄnother of the ships from the DS9 technical manual, this ship is a kit bash of the standard movie era Constitution.

#STAR TREK POLARIS CLASS MANUAL#

Star Trek Deep Space Nine Technical Manual Four Polaris class ships have been lost in action thus far.

The final thirty five were retained in service when the Dominion situation arose, and they have served in several combat areas during the war. The class began to be phased out in 2363 as they reached the end of their service lives, with most of them scrapped or used as targets in live fire exercises. Of the original one hundred and fifty nine built, six have been lost in various incidents over the last century. The Polaris class proved remarkable successful in service, and as new builds rather than conversions they have far outlasted their Constitution cousins. In addition, the Polaris class had approximately 40% of the sensor capacity of the Constitution. Much of the storage capacity of the Constitutions was lost in order to give space to the fuel tanks, which where re-located to the neck section. The armament was reduced from the Constitution standard by the elimination of the engineering hull and it's six phasers and two torpedo tubes. Warp speed was identical to the Constitution, while the lower mass made the Polaris class somewhat more manoeuvrable. Construction of the class over the next seventeen years proved to be remarkable smooth and trouble free. The first ship of the class rolled out of the shipyards in 2273, only fourteen months after initial approval of the concept. The total design process took only nine months construction of the required nacelles and hull sections actually began only a few weeks into the design process, and much of the work proceeded in tandem. The major design work involved moving systems such as the warp core into the saucer section this required considerable re-working of the internal structure of the saucer, but the original constitutions had their own warp cores within the saucers so in fact the designers already had a ready-made model to follow. A pair of Constitution nacelles attached to the torpedo bays via a simple bar attached to the base. The Polaris emerged with a standard Constitution saucer section, neck and torpedo module but without the engineering hull. By using the existing design elements there was virtually no requirement to rework the production plants or retrain personnel, which saved considerable resources. The Constitutions had just completed their refits, leaving the shipyard facilities which had done the work available for new projects. In order to minimize the design and build time, the designers decided to stick with a simple reconfiguration of the existing Constitution class design. When the design was requested, Starfleet made it clear that project was not to impact on the production of larger ships in any way. It was designed to act as a general purpose short duration starship whose multiple roles included limited diplomatic and scientific missions, colony patrol and support and escort duties for merchant vessels operating in medium threat areas.

The Polaris class was built as a Frigate counterpart to the Constitution class Heavy Cruisers and Miranda class Destroyers. Standard level Structural Integrity Field Standard shield system, total capacity 297,000 TeraJoules 52 have been lost in all.Дў273 - 2283, remained in service until 2373ДЎ2 x Type VII phaser bank, total output 8,500 TeraWattsДў x 2nd class photon torpedo tube with 30 rounds

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