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|name=''Excalibur''-Class
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|life= 120 years
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|resupply= 10 years
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|refit= 15 years
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|category= Explorer
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|length=819 meters
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|width=338 meters
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|height=112 meters
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|decks= 32
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|reactor= M/ARA Dilithium-mediated
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|nacelles= 2
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|cruise= Warp 8.2
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|max=Warp 9.75
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|emergency=Warp 9.985 (36 hours)
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|impulse= 2
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|ports=3
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|phasers=
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*10 Type-XII Arrays
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*4 Type XV Phaser Arrays
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|launchers=
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*4 Fixed Torpedo Launchers
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**2 Forward
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**2 Aft
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*1 Rapid Fire Torpedo Turret (Foward, bottom of saucer)
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|photons=350
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|quantum=350
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|shields= Multi Layered Shielding System (MLSS)
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|systems=
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*Hybrid bioneural/isolinear circuitry
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*Primary fusion reactors: output 9.5 EJ/hr
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*Secondary fusion reactors: output 6.9 EJ/hr
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|hull=
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*Ablative Armor Type I
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|tractor= Type-XII ( Range 3.25 km )
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|officers= 245
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|enlisted= 800
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|sabre= 50
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|civilians= 150
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|bays= 2
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|shuttles=
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*12 [[Type 19]] personnel shuttles
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*2 [[Type 11]] personnel shuttles
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*4 [[Type 18]] shuttle pods
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|runabouts=
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*3 [[Arrow Class]] Runabouts
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|built= 3
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|decommissioned=
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|mothballed=
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|mia=1
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==History==
 
==History==
  
When Starfleet decided to create a next generation vessel two designs fought for supremacy – The Sovereign design and the Excalibur Design. After months of deliberation Starfleet decided to go ahead and build the Sovereign class Starship, this left the Excalibur design unused.
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When Starfleet decided to create a next generation vessel two designs fought for supremacy – The Sovereign design and the Excalibur Design. After months of deliberation Starfleet decided to go ahead and build the Sovereign class Starship, this left the Excalibur design unused. Although Starfleet went ahead with the Sovereign design the Excalibur’s design was not without merit. They instructed Utopia Planitia to set up a small design team tasked with keeping the design up to date and ready for implementation if necessary.
  
Although Starfleet went ahead with the Sovereign design the Excalibur’s design was not without merit. They instructed Utopia Planitia to set up a small design team tasked with keeping the design up to date and ready for implementation if necessary.
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In 2383 the order came down to begin production of the Excalibur prototype, Starfleet’s instruction indicated that the first Excalibur Class needed to be space worthy within 5 years. The engineers at Utopia Planitia had to cram 8 to 10 years work in to 4 years just to have a hope of meeting the deadline. From the start the entire project should have been scrapped, Excalibur became a mishmash of systems both old and new as its development team changed. As casualties rose within the fleet engineers were re-tasked to higher priority roles, some were sent to other tasks others to take on engineering roles aboard ships within the fleet. After 3 short years the first hull was completed with a second well under way. The original plans called for Excalibur to have a saucer separation system. This was dropped early on in the development process, as estimates showed that creating a saucer separation system for the Excalibur would add 2 years to the development time. As work began on the internals the first real faults began to show with the design, in an effort to get the ship in to space with in the time limit set the engineers had systems developed independently. Some systems used bio neural gel packs as a conductor others relied on older iso-linier chips to function.
  
In 2383 the order came down to begin production of the Excalibur prototype, Starfleet’s instruction indicated that the first Excalibur Class needed to be space worthy within 5 years. The engineers at Utopia Planitia had to cram 8 to 10 years work in to 4 years just to have a hope of meeting the deadline.
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Nine months later the ship launched from Utopia Planitia’s Dock 8, the ship moved a few hundred thousand meters from its birthplace before suffering massive systems failure. Within moments every light on the ship blinked out of existence and the ship ground to a halt. Tests on the ship suggested that the warp core didn’t generate enough power for the ships myriad of systems. The Excalibur seemed doomed, Starfleet’s best core could not hope to provide enough power to run the ship and installing a second core was unfeasible given the space available on the ship. [[Doctor Jacob Thatcher]] provided an answer; he gave Starfleet a working model for a [[quantum slipstream drive]]. The drive its self would allow a Starship to open an a slipstream conduit and travel along it, while providing roughly one and a half times the power a standard warp core provides. At first Starfleet was sceptical about the drive working; however Doctor Thatcher’s theoretical model seemed to prove that the investment would be worth it.
  
From the start the entire project should have been scrapped, Excalibur became a mishmash of systems both old and new as its development team changed. As casualties rose within the fleet engineers were re-tasked to higher priority roles, some were sent to other tasks others to take on engineering roles aboard ships within the fleet.
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When the Excalibur returned to space dock its standard warp drive was removed and over the course of the next year it was replaced with a [[quantum slip stream drive]]/standard warp drive hybrid that would both be compatible, separately and together, with the [[Starfleet]] standard warp core. As work on the internals of the second hull had not started Starfleet decided to re-design its internal systems to use bio neural gel packs and to install a [[quantum slip stream drive]] in it from the start.
  
After 3 short years the first hull was completed with a second well under way. The original plans called for Excalibur to have a saucer separation system. This was dropped early on in the development process, as estimates showed that creating a saucer separation system for the Excalibur would add 2 years to the development time. As work began on the internals the first real faults began to show with the design, in an effort to get the ship in to space with in the time limit set the engineers had systems developed independently. Some systems used bio neural gel packs as a conductor others relied on older iso-linier chips to function.
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In 2388 the Excalibur left dock 8 for a second time, this time without any system failures. At this point hull 2 sat roughly 3 years behind hull one with work on installing its internal systems only just beginning. Initial tests of the [[quantum slipstream drive]] proved successful with the ship being able to maintain slipstream for an hour without any issues. One problem the ship did seem to have was with power management, under combat or slipstream modes the ship failed to deliver the power to the systems that required it. This often led to the ship shaking violently as it fought to dispose of its excess energy. Disaster struck on the Excalibur’s maiden voyage, 10 hours in to its first major slipstream test the ship vanished from Starfleet’s sensors. The first fear was that the Borg had found the ship and assimilated it; however tests undertaken on the debris found later that year confirmed a core breach had caused the ship to fail.
  
9 Months later the ship launched from Utopia Planitia’s Dock 8, the ship moved a few hundred thousand meters from its birthplace before suffering massive systems failure. Within moments every light on the ship blinked out of existence and the ship ground to a halt. Tests on the ship suggested that the warp core didn’t generate enough power for the ships myriad of systems.
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Work on hull 2 slowed to a crawl as Starfleet tried to decide whether or not to continue with the slipstream experiment. While they deliberated Utopia Planitia continued work on the second hull slowly bringing it towards operational status. For the next 10 years the ship was to sit in dock 8, almost untouched beyond a skeleton crew tasked with maintaining the ships systems. In 2400 with the formation of the EDF Starfleet again gave the order to bring the ship to full operational status. Work began in earnest to finish the job started over 15 years ago. Although Starfleet gave orders for the ship to be readied for commissioning it took the destruction of USS Voyager for a second time to prompt the admiralty to commission the ship. On the 14th of June 2403 the second hull was commissioned as USS Excalibur NX 100001 in honor of the first Excalibur.
  
The Excalibur seemed doomed, Starfleet’s best core could not hope to provide enough power to run the ship and installing a second core was unfeasible given the space available on the ship. [[Doctor Jacob Thatcher]] provided an answer; he gave Starfleet a working model for a [[quantum slipstream drive]]. The drive its self would allow a Starship to open an a slipstream conduit and travel along it, while providing roughly one and a half times the power a standard warp core provides. At first Starfleet was sceptical about the drive working; however Doctor Thatcher’s theoretical model seemed to prove that the investment would be worth it.
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== Ships of the Class ==
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Currently there are 2 in service with 1 building every three years until 5 are in service. Production of the class will then end.
  
When the Excalibur returned to space dock its standard warp drive was removed and over the course of the next year it was replaced with a [[quantum slipstream drive]]. As work on the internals of the second hull had not started Starfleet decided to re-design its internal systems to use bio neural gel packs and to install a [[quantum slip stream drive]] in it from the start.
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* USS Excalibur NCC-100001
 
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In 2388 the Excalibur left dock 8 for a second time, this time without any system failures. At this point hull 2 sat roughly 3 years behind hull one with work on installing its internal systems only just beginning. Initial tests of the [[quantum slipstream drive]] proved successful with the ship being able to maintain slipstream for an hour without any issues.
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One problem the ship did seem to have was with power management, under combat or slipstream modes the ship failed to deliver the power to the systems that required it. This often led to the ship shaking violently as it fought to dispose of its excess energy.
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Disaster struck on the Excalibur’s maiden voyage, 10 hours in to its first major slipstream test the ship vanished from Starfleet’s sensors. The first fear was that the Borg had found the ship and assimilated it; however tests undertaken on the debris found later that year confirmed a core breach had caused the ship to fail.
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Work on hull 2 slowed to a crawl as Starfleet tried to decide whether or not to continue with the slipstream experiment. While they deliberated Utopia Planitia continued work on the second hull slowly bringing it towards operational status. For the next 10 years the ship was to sit in dock 8, almost untouched beyond a skeleton crew tasked with maintaining the ships systems.
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In 2400 with the formation of the EDF Starfleet again gave the order to bring the ship to full operational status. Work began in earnest to finish the job started over 15 years ago. Although Starfleet gave orders for the ship to be readied for commissioning it took the destruction of USS Voyager for a second time to prompt the admiralty to commission the ship.
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On the 14th of June 2403 the second hull was commissioned as USS Excalibur NX 100001 in honour of the first Excalibur.
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==Specifications==
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Designation: Explorer/Battleship
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Hull Life Expectancy:
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Expected Duration: 120 Years
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Time Between Re-Supply: 10 Years
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Time Between Refit: 15 Years
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Personnel:
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230 Officers
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705 Enlisted
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160 Marines
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30-100 Civilians and Non-Starfleet Personnel
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Maximum Rescue Capacity: 4500
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Armament:
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10 Type XII Phaser Arrays
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4 Type XV Phaser Arrays
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4 Fixed Fire Tubes (2 Forward, 2 Aft) and 1 Rapid Fire Torpedo Turret
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350 Quantum Torpedoes
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380 Photon Torpedoes
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Defensive Systems:
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Ablative Armour Type I
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Ablative Armour Type II
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High Intensity Structural Integrity Field
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Multi-Layer Shielding System
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Warp Speeds:
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Normal Cruise: Warp 8.2
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Maximum Cruise: Warp 9.6
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Maximum Rated: Warp 9.89 for 24 hours
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Dimensions:
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Length 819 Meters
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Width 349 meters
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Height 134 Meters
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Decks 36
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Auxiliary-Craft Compliment:
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Shuttle Bays: 2
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6 Type-9 Personal Shuttles
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4 Type-11 Personal Shuttles
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2 Type-10 Cargo Shuttles
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2 Danube Class Runabouts;
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1 Delta Flyer Class Runabout;
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Ships of the Class:
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Currently there is 1 in service with 1 building per year.
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* USS Excalibur NX-100001
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Assigned to 4th Fleets Starfleet Re-Exploration Initiative Task Force
 
Assigned to 4th Fleets Starfleet Re-Exploration Initiative Task Force
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* USS Saratoga NCC-100398
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Assigned to Earth Defense Force
  
* USS Saratoga NCC-100398
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[[Category:Starship Specifications]]
Under Construction
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[[Category:Battleships]]
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Latest revision as of 00:50, 15 August 2011

Excalibur-Class
Excalibur2.JPG
Class Information
Expected Hull Life

120 years

Resupply Time

10 years

Refit

15 years

Category

Explorer

Affiliation

Starfleet

Dimensions
Length

819 meters

Width

338 meters

Height:

112 meters

Decks

32

Engines
Warp reactor

M/ARA Dilithium-mediated

Warp nacelles

2

Cruising speed Warp 8.2
Maximum speed

Warp 9.75

Emergency speed

Warp 9.985 (36 hours)

Impulse generators

2

Defensive Systems
Phasers
  • 10 Type-XII Arrays
  • 4 Type XV Phaser Arrays
Torpedo launchers
  • 4 Fixed Torpedo Launchers
    • 2 Forward
    • 2 Aft
  • 1 Rapid Fire Torpedo Turret (Foward, bottom of saucer)
Photons

350

Quantum

350

Shields

Multi Layered Shielding System (MLSS)

Hull
  • Ablative Armor Type I
Tractor beams

Type-XII ( Range 3.25 km )

Personnel
Officers

245

Enlisted

800

FMI/Sabre

50

Passengers

150

Auxiliary Craft
Shuttle Bays

2

Shuttles
Runabouts
Additional Information
Systems
  • Hybrid bioneural/isolinear circuitry
  • Primary fusion reactors: output 9.5 EJ/hr
  • Secondary fusion reactors: output 6.9 EJ/hr
Built

3

MIA/Destroyed

1

[Source]


History

When Starfleet decided to create a next generation vessel two designs fought for supremacy – The Sovereign design and the Excalibur Design. After months of deliberation Starfleet decided to go ahead and build the Sovereign class Starship, this left the Excalibur design unused. Although Starfleet went ahead with the Sovereign design the Excalibur’s design was not without merit. They instructed Utopia Planitia to set up a small design team tasked with keeping the design up to date and ready for implementation if necessary.

In 2383 the order came down to begin production of the Excalibur prototype, Starfleet’s instruction indicated that the first Excalibur Class needed to be space worthy within 5 years. The engineers at Utopia Planitia had to cram 8 to 10 years work in to 4 years just to have a hope of meeting the deadline. From the start the entire project should have been scrapped, Excalibur became a mishmash of systems both old and new as its development team changed. As casualties rose within the fleet engineers were re-tasked to higher priority roles, some were sent to other tasks others to take on engineering roles aboard ships within the fleet. After 3 short years the first hull was completed with a second well under way. The original plans called for Excalibur to have a saucer separation system. This was dropped early on in the development process, as estimates showed that creating a saucer separation system for the Excalibur would add 2 years to the development time. As work began on the internals the first real faults began to show with the design, in an effort to get the ship in to space with in the time limit set the engineers had systems developed independently. Some systems used bio neural gel packs as a conductor others relied on older iso-linier chips to function.

Nine months later the ship launched from Utopia Planitia’s Dock 8, the ship moved a few hundred thousand meters from its birthplace before suffering massive systems failure. Within moments every light on the ship blinked out of existence and the ship ground to a halt. Tests on the ship suggested that the warp core didn’t generate enough power for the ships myriad of systems. The Excalibur seemed doomed, Starfleet’s best core could not hope to provide enough power to run the ship and installing a second core was unfeasible given the space available on the ship. Doctor Jacob Thatcher provided an answer; he gave Starfleet a working model for a quantum slipstream drive. The drive its self would allow a Starship to open an a slipstream conduit and travel along it, while providing roughly one and a half times the power a standard warp core provides. At first Starfleet was sceptical about the drive working; however Doctor Thatcher’s theoretical model seemed to prove that the investment would be worth it.

When the Excalibur returned to space dock its standard warp drive was removed and over the course of the next year it was replaced with a quantum slip stream drive/standard warp drive hybrid that would both be compatible, separately and together, with the Starfleet standard warp core. As work on the internals of the second hull had not started Starfleet decided to re-design its internal systems to use bio neural gel packs and to install a quantum slip stream drive in it from the start.

In 2388 the Excalibur left dock 8 for a second time, this time without any system failures. At this point hull 2 sat roughly 3 years behind hull one with work on installing its internal systems only just beginning. Initial tests of the quantum slipstream drive proved successful with the ship being able to maintain slipstream for an hour without any issues. One problem the ship did seem to have was with power management, under combat or slipstream modes the ship failed to deliver the power to the systems that required it. This often led to the ship shaking violently as it fought to dispose of its excess energy. Disaster struck on the Excalibur’s maiden voyage, 10 hours in to its first major slipstream test the ship vanished from Starfleet’s sensors. The first fear was that the Borg had found the ship and assimilated it; however tests undertaken on the debris found later that year confirmed a core breach had caused the ship to fail.

Work on hull 2 slowed to a crawl as Starfleet tried to decide whether or not to continue with the slipstream experiment. While they deliberated Utopia Planitia continued work on the second hull slowly bringing it towards operational status. For the next 10 years the ship was to sit in dock 8, almost untouched beyond a skeleton crew tasked with maintaining the ships systems. In 2400 with the formation of the EDF Starfleet again gave the order to bring the ship to full operational status. Work began in earnest to finish the job started over 15 years ago. Although Starfleet gave orders for the ship to be readied for commissioning it took the destruction of USS Voyager for a second time to prompt the admiralty to commission the ship. On the 14th of June 2403 the second hull was commissioned as USS Excalibur NX 100001 in honor of the first Excalibur.

Ships of the Class

Currently there are 2 in service with 1 building every three years until 5 are in service. Production of the class will then end.

  • USS Excalibur NCC-100001

Assigned to 4th Fleets Starfleet Re-Exploration Initiative Task Force

  • USS Saratoga NCC-100398

Assigned to Earth Defense Force

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