Star Trek civilopedia entries

[Flamand]

Post your pedia entries here for review. Thorgrimm will be the one in charge for redacting these entries according to canon.

[phish724]

Yay more to the civlopidia then "text"

[Thorgrimm]

The first new civilopedia entry. Information is courtesy of Masao Okazaki and his excellent Starfleet Museum.


#PRTO_Daedalus
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^The Daedalus-class starship was an early $LINK<Cruiser=GCON_Spaceships> UESN class explorer.
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^As optimism grew in late 2158 that the United Earth (UE) Alliance would ultimately prevail in its war with the Romulan Star Empire, the UE Space Probe Agency (UESPA), which had become part of the UE Stellar Navy (UESN) in 2151, hoped it could soon resume its scientific and exploratory duties, which had been severely curtailed since the start of the war. The only ships the UESPA had at its disposal were a few old fusion-powered REPUBLIC-class cruisers, which had been obsolete even before the start of the war in 2156. Furthermore, as could be expected during wartime, most operating funds and crews were allocated to the military arm of the UESN. However, even before the war, the UESPA felt that it had become no more than a appendage of the largely military UESN. With the coming peace the UESPA held out the hope that it could again become an independent organization on an equal footing with the UESN.

To rebuild itself into a viable exploratory force rather than remaining a poor relation of the military, the UESPA needed ships that could undertake long, independent exploratory voyages. Although more advanced than any of the UESPA's present vessels, the UESN's first generation of matter/antimatter (M/AM) ships were unlikely to suit the needs of the UESPA. Most of these warships were immense, with crews of 1000 or more, and required long hours of maintenance to remain in operation. Furthermore, the necessary conversion from warship to explorer would likely be lengthy, expensive, and ultimately unsatisfactory. Rather than a small number of large, expensive ships (which the military seemed to favor), the UESPA wanted a larger number of smaller ships that were more flexible, less expensive to operate, and capable of long missions of scientific exploration.

The UESPA watched with envy as the UESN began to take delivery of the new COMET-class cruisers in October 2158. Although derided as "lollipops" or "dumbbells" by some older captains because of their nearly spherical command hulls extended on thin necks, COMETS represented a second, much-improved generation of M/AM-powered ships. With a length of 124 m, these ships were smaller and much less expensive to build and operate than were first-generation M/AM-powered ships. The UESPA believed that a demilitarized version of COMET would easily meet its needs. In July 2159, Admiral Laurencia Chong, Commander of the UESPA, approached Monarch Industries, the prime contractors for COMET, with a proposal. Since the war would soon be over and the number of COMETS constructued was likely to be cut from 50 units to 25, couldn't Monarch offer to build 25 exploratory versions of COMET for the UESPA? Seeing how the plan would benefit both Monarch Industries and UESPA, Monarch agreed. As Admiral Chong had predicted, the last 25 of the 50 COMET cruisers originally ordered and were canceled in January 2160. However, the Admiralty Board also agreed with Admiral Chong's recommendation, and an order was placed for a class of 25 exploratory versions of COMET which was given the name "DAEDALUS."

Transforming the COMET light cruiser into the DAEDALUS exploratory cruiser involved many changes to its structure, equipment, and drive system. Changes included simplifying the underlying spaceframe for lower (nonmilitary) stress levels, reducing offensive and defensive weaponry, moving the shuttle craft bay to the rear of the engineering hull, installing a higher-capacity life support system, adding scientific facilities, enhancing the sensor suite and moving it to the engineering hull, increasing the size of the deuterium fuel tanks, reducing the strength and size of the impulse drive, installing additional matter/antimatter (M/AM) containment bottles, and mounting longer-duration nacelles. In addition, the bridge was placed for the first time in its now customary position atop the command hull. Although these changes were extensive, since UESPA and Monarch had started design work on DAEDALUS 6 months before the official decision to proceed with construction, the first unit was delivered for precommissioning trials in a surprisingly rapid 6 months.

The lead unit of the new class, UES DAEDALUS (UES-127), joined the UESPA in September 2160, just 1 month before the end of the war. Because they were lightly armed exploratory cruisers, the first DAEDALUS cruisers were sent on scientific and survey missions far from the front lines of the war. Their primary areas of operation were the many regions within UE space which were poorly known or completely unexplored. On these internal missions, DAEDALUS cruisers served admirably without major malfunctions or system failures.

The UESPA had hoped that the success of this new class of ships along with the new climate of pacifist optimism brought about by the end of four and a half years of war would help secure independence from the UESN. However, these hopes were dashed when delegates at the First Babel Conference, which convened in early 2161 to lay the groundwork for the United Federation of Planets (UFP), objected to creating a purely military unified fleet. In particular, the Vulcan representatives insisted that to reassure the Romulans and other neighboring nonmember nations that the future alliance's intentions were peaceful, any UFP fleet must have co-equal defensive and scientific roles. Therefore, rather than becoming independent, the UESPA would form the core of the exploratory arm of what was to become the UFP's Starfleet.

In ceremonies held on October 14, 2161 at Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco and above the city in geosynchronous orbit, UES DAEDALUS (UES-127) was struck from the UESN list and immediately recommissioned as Starfleet's first cruiser, USS DAEDALUS (NCC-150). It can be said without exaggeration that as a class DAEDALUS cruisers were the greatest exploratory ships in Federation history. Although they were not the fastest, largest, or most powerful explorers, they did make first contact with more civilizations and mapped more star systems at the greatest risk to their crews. We must remember that DAEDALUS cruisers usually were often sent out alone on missions lasting 6 years or more to distances 100 light years past the furthest Federation outposts at a time when subspace radio transmitters were not carried. If a ship was damaged or otherwise disabled at that distance, the fastest it might expect to receive help was 4 to 5 years, assuming that the ship could send an automated warp message torpedo, which was then received by a command base. As happened in several cases, most notably with USS HORIZON, ships were lost 1000 million million kilometers from home and news of their loss reached Starfleet by old-style radio only after a century.

Standard displacement: 25,184 mt

           Overall     1 Hull    2 Hull     Nacelles 
Length [m]  104.49      28.98     47.54       71.71 
Beam [m]    48.22       28.98     15.33       7.31 
Draft [m]   31.34       27.82     15.33       7.31

Crew complement: 101 (16 officers + 85 crew), could carry up to 100 additional science staff for short-duration missions
Weapons: 16 area-defense missiles and 24 long-range antiship missiles
Embarked craft: 4 transatmospheric sublight shuttlecraft
Warp drive: SSWR-IV-2 M/AM reactor with two NPO Energomash Tempest A warp nacelles
Velocity: Warp 3.3, standard; Warp 4.2, maximum
Units commissioned: 50



Cheers, Thorgrimm

[Logitech]

Um, Thorgrimm, I am not a fanatic of over-extended civilopedia entries. Could you trim that down a bit?

[Thorgrimm]

Originally Posted by Logitech

Um, Thorgrimm, I am not a fanatic of over-extended civilopedia entries. Could you trim that down a bit?

Nope. You wanted pedia entries, so you are gonna get 'em.



Cheers, Thorgrimm

[Flamand]

Originally Posted by Logitech

Um, Thorgrimm, I am not a fanatic of over-extended civilopedia entries. Could you trim that down a bit?

Um, Thor can make his entries as long as he wants... As long as it fits within the boxes provided by the Civilopedia...

[Tank_Guy#3]

Originally Posted by Flamand

Um, Thor can make his entries as long as he wants... As long as it fits within the boxes provided by the Civilopedia...

That said, I've seen some entries a bit shorter than this in Age of Imperialism, and I've constantly harassed El Justo about shortening them to fit in the boxes.

Don't get me wrong, I love all that information, but I don't think it'll fit.

[Thorgrimm]

Originally Posted by Tank_Guy#3

That said, I've seen some entries a bit shorter than this in Age of Imperialism, and I've constantly harassed El Justo about shortening them to fit in the boxes.

Don't get me wrong, I love all that information, but I don't think it'll fit.

Yup, it fits. Thats the reason for the second page.



Cheers, Thorgrimm

[volbound1700]

I got one for the Cardassians.

Cardassians - lying cheat SOB traitors to the Alpha Quadrant that sold their souls to the Dominion. Dukat was an ahole and his leader Dumar finally restored pride to his people and led a revolution to take out the Dominion. Cardassia was nearly wiped out by the Dominion and now find themselves weak and vulnerable and at the mercy of all their formal enemies.

[jlvfr]

Originally Posted by volbound1700

I got one for the Cardassians.

Cardassians - lying cheat SOB traitors to the Alpha Quadrant that sold their souls to the Dominion. Dukat was an ahole and his leader Dumar finally restored pride to his people and led a revolution to take out the Dominion. Cardassia was nearly wiped out by the Dominion and now find themselves weak and vulnerable and at the mercy of all their formal enemies.

I spy a little dislike of the Cardassians

[Flamand]

Originally Posted by volbound1700

I got one for the Cardassians.

Cardassians - lying cheat SOB traitors to the Alpha Quadrant that sold their souls to the Dominion. Dukat was an ahole and his leader Dumar finally restored pride to his people and led a revolution to take out the Dominion. Cardassia was nearly wiped out by the Dominion and now find themselves weak and vulnerable and at the mercy of all their formal enemies.

That is a nice example of how NOT to make a nice and objective civilopedia entry...
And words like SOB are never needed, for any occasion...

[phish724]

Originally Posted by volbound1700

I got one for the Cardassians.

Cardassians - lying cheat SOB traitors to the Alpha Quadrant that sold their souls to the Dominion. Dukat was an ahole and his leader Dumar finally restored pride to his people and led a revolution to take out the Dominion. Cardassia was nearly wiped out by the Dominion and now find themselves weak and vulnerable and at the mercy of all their formal enemies.

you got to admit there is some truth to this.

[Flamand]

Some truth yes, but it was not very objective...

[phish724]

Originally Posted by Flamand

Some truth yes, but it was not very objective...

true very true

[volbound1700]

It was meant to be a joke. I got another one though

Borg - Race created by Star Trek writers after the Federation began to run out of enemies. Made to be super advanced and super large and on other side of galaxy so federation looked puny compared to the borg. They adapt to lasers somehow, so enemies are recommended to go back to conventional bullets although they don't. There ships lack originality and are simple shapes. You can walk around on their ships without them attacking you. They are basically the zombies of the future. Janeway wiped most of them out in the last episode of Voyager. (or at least their path to the federation). Don't mix borg with 8472, leads to a bad result for borg.

[jlvfr]

Originally Posted by volbound1700

It was meant to be a joke. I got another one though

Borg - Race created by Star Trek writers after the Federation began to run out of enemies.

(cause they were all too stupid to do anything right...)

[Logitech]

*pst, where are the moderators?*
(your post: )
What? Why do the moderators need to be here? We didn't do nothin'.
(me again: )
Huh? I... I didn't say anything...

[Flamand]

Originally Posted by volbound1700

There ships lack originality and are simple shapes.

Then they are easier to stack! Try to stack up a bunch of Enterprise and you won't be as efficient...

[volbound1700]

Originally Posted by Flamand

Then they are easier to stack! Try to stack up a bunch of Enterprise and you won't be as efficient...

lol, Reminds me of kindergarten.

[Tank_Guy#3]

Originally Posted by Flamand

Then they are easier to stack! Try to stack up a bunch of Enterprise and you won't be as efficient...

The Prometheus stacked up pretty well. At least the parts of the ship