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NDak

RES Alliance

Class: Alliance

Type: Battleship

Unit Run: 800

Commissioned: 2395-Current

 

Dimensions:

Length : 875

Beam : 345 m

Height : 140 m

Decks : 24

 

Mass: 4,205,000 metric tons

Crew: 650 officers/enlisted + Flight Crews

 

Armament:

3 x Class Y-II Disruptor Canon, total output 170,000 terawatts

2 x Class X-II Disruptor Canons, total output 60,000 terawatts

2 x Twin Class J-IV Multi-Vector Pulse-fire Disruptor Canon, total output 60,000 terawatts

12 x Class A Phaser Array, total output 60,000 terawatts

2 x Class C Rapid Fire Quantum Torpedo Launcher + 200 torpedoes

2 x Type S5-II Multi-Vector Plasma Torpedo Launcher +300 torpedoes

3 x Type S5 Burst Fire Plasma Torpedo Launcher + 100 torpedoes

 

 

Defense Systems:

Regenerative shield system, total capacity 3,800,000 TeraJoules

Standard Duranium/Tritanium Double hull plus 5.5 cm Ablative Armor.

High level Structural Integrity Field

Class D-IV Cloaking Device

 

Propulsion / Power Systems:

Warp Propulsion and main power provided by a Class E-III Artificial Quantum Singularity core

 

Impulse power provided by three impulse engines powered by four gravimetric turbines

 

Maneuverability provided by a series of twelve surface mounted retro-thrusters pods

[six retro-thrusters per pod] and a series of fourteen embedded RCS thruster quads

 

Warp Speeds (TNG scale)

Normal Cruise : 7.5

Maximum Cruise : 9.91 for 12 hours

Maximum Rated : 9.99 for 8 hours.

 

Diplomatic Capability: Grade IV

Expected Hull Life 120 years

 

Refit Cycle:

Minor : 5 year

Standard : 10 years

Major : 20 years

 

Design History:

The Dominion War held many lessons for the Romulan Galae (Star Navy) as it was the first major conflict it had participated in since the Earth-Romulan War. Once the pride of the Galae, the aging D’Deridex had not faired well as front-line battleship (though it did prove an excellent platform as ground and fighter carrier.) Two classes were born out of that conflict – the N’mitirr and the N’Orexen. Both demonstrated lessons of the Dominion War, being smaller, sleeker and faster. However, their cost, along with a desire for a less military posture following the end of the Civil War kept their production numbers down. While a number (nearly 300) N’Orexens were completed, it was much smaller than the target of nearly 1000 that the Galae had set at the outset of her design. Likewise, only 100 of the N’mitirr class were built, far lower than its projected 500.

 

If the Dominion War was a lesson in modern warfare, the proceeding Romulan Civil War was a trial by fire. The bloody conflict consumed massive resources on both sides and devastated an already undermanned force. The conflict saw nearly 65% of the Galae’s prewar fleet destroyed and by the end of the conflict had resulted in a nearly 42% loss of manpower. Faced with the prospect of having to depend on their new found allies (whom they did not trust) for defense, the newly reformed Senate commissioned the reconstruction of the Romulan Galae as a modern fighting force.

 

The original design called for three new vessels to be developed and begin production within a ten year timeframe. To meet such an ambitious goal, the Galae began working with the Federation engineers to use common parts, design lineage, and new technologies that would have taken the Romulans much longer to develop on their own. The largest of three was to be called the Alliance-class and would fill the role of main-line battleship, taking the place of the D’Deridex, which were being retrofitted as heavy strike carriers; the second of the three would be the so-called “Grey Falcon,” filling the much needed role of frigates performing patrol/escort missions in tandem with the N’Orexen-class cruisers; the final of the three would exist in three separate variants and be known as the Nightingale-class, the first variant would be a scout and interceptor, while a second variant would serve as the primary platform for the Galae’s science operations, and the third and final variant would serve as a medical ship to replace the aging T’Kless-class that had been in service for over 100 years.

 

While the original design had called for all three classes to use almost entirely common parts including a new M/AM warpcore to be built initially by the Federation until the Romulan manufacturing sector could be rebuilt, practical and political concerns resulted in the Alliance-class being more Romulan in origin than the other three. Combined with the desire of the Galae to bolster its frontline capability and the recent attacks on Federation manufacturing, the construction of the Alliance-class has overtaken the other two.

 

The Alliance-class itself is an evolution of 70 years of Romulan shipbuilding. While smaller and more compact than a D’Deridex, it carries more offensive firepower, better warp geometry, and a host of features largely absent from even the newer N’Orexen design. Featuring numerous systems sourced from the Federation, such as their superior sensor arrays, transporter support systems, life support systems, holographic units, phaser and quantum torpedo launchers, and replicators; the Alliance-class also features a number of cutting edge Romulan technologies including more energy efficient disruptors, more energy efficient cloaking technology, upgrades to computer systems, energy transfer systems, and the first ship-board implementation of gravimetric turbines for impulse and secondary power.

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