GENERAL NOTES

With the success of the Legend Class progect, Starfleet ordered design and prototype of the Excalibur, A larger, beefier version of the Legend class Space Frame. The purpose of this ship was to be extended Exploration missions, with the option of a multi-generational starship. Many in spacial research have the opinion that true exploration is not grabbing a quick scan of a star system while warping by on your way to somewhere more exciting, but a slow progression throuhg unknown space, looking under every rock so to speak.

With this goal in mind, Starfleet Engineering took a true and tried design that had just launched the final vessel of her first production run, and convert the design for this use, much like what was done for the Akira to Century classes. This ship would include almost every scientific scanner currently known, with multiple sensor arrays, as well as enough crew space to allow for families to form, grow, and change while on extended missions.

With the massive amounts of research equipment incorporated into the design, Excalibur also incorporates an impressive weapons array to defend itself in hostile sectors. The experiences of the USS Discovery while exploring the Beta Quadrant reinforced this idea, as the small Discovery was under-armed to deal with the peoples it encountered. Most of the weapons ports are retractable into the hull so that the ship doesnt come across as a Battle Cruiser, which at over 900 meters long, is a logical impression to hold.

Even with a few setbacks in design, most notably the failure of the USS Merlin's Shakedown cruise, as more was learned, problems were redesigned, and it is expected that Excalibur and her sister-ships will be the front runners of Starfleet Exploration for the next century.

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DECK LISTINGS (STANDARD)

1: Bridge, Observation Lounge, Captain's Ready Room, XO's Office, Mission Operations Center
2: Senior Officers' Quarters
3: Cargo Bays 1 & 2
4: Secondary Shuttle Bay, Personal Holodecks 1 & 2
5: Junior Officers' Quarters, Shuttlecraft Maintenance
6: Secondary Phaser Array Upper Saucer, Promenade Level C: Gymnasium & Facilities, Airponics, Arboretum
7: Promenade Level B: Meeting Halls, Main Holodecks 1-4, Arboretum
8: Promenade Level A: VIP Quarters, Personal Holodecks 3 & 4, Hydroponics, Arboretum
9: Phaser Array (Upper Saucer), Weapons Locker, Phaser Range, Operations Surveilance Center
10: Crew Quarters, Personal Holodecks 5 & 6
11: Sickbay, Medical Research Labs, Counseling Department
12: Main Transporter, Computer Core Access (Top), Anthropology Antemology, Marine Biology, Zoology, Astrology, Twinkology Labs
13: Crew Quarters, Personal Holodecks 7 & 8
14: Science Labs, Stellar Cartography (5 Decks Tall in Center), Computer Core Access, Lower Saucer Phaser Array
15: Forward Quantum Torpedo Launchers, Sensor Arrays, Shield Control Room
16: Computer Core Access (Bottom), Main Impulse Engines, Secondary Phaser Arrays (lower saucer)
17: Deuterium Storage (Eng Sub Level 1)
18: Eng Sub Level 2
19: Main Engineering
20: Eng Sub Level 4
21: Antimatter Storage (Eng Sub Level 5)
22: Crew Lounge (Upper Level), Main Shuttlebay
23: Crew Lounge, Main Holodecks 5 & 6
24: Crew Quarters, Family Oriented Crew lounge
25: Security
26: Security, Brig
27: Crew Quarters
28: Crew Quarters
29: Secondary Transporters
30: Waste Management, Environmental Control
31: Navigation Deflector Control, Flight Control Offices, Astrogation Lab
32: Cargo Bays 3 & 4, Cargo Transport
33: Cargo Bay 5, Cargo Transport, Ventral phaser array Primary and Secondary

-Emergency Escape Pods: Decks 2-8, 10-15, 17-22, 25-30

Number in Service: 3

Production Run 1 Under Construction
NX-20100 USS EXCALIBUR
NCC-20101 USS KING ARTHUR
NCC-20102 USS MERLIN
NCC-20103 USS CAMELOT
NCC-20104 USS LANCELOT
NCC-20105 USS GUINEVERE
NCC-20106 USS MORDRED
NCC-20107 USS MORGAN LE FAY
NCC-20108 USS LADY of the LAKE
NCC-20109 USS PENDRAGON

Production Run 2 Proposed
NCC-20110 USS VORTIGERN
NCC-20111 USS ARIMATHEA
NCC-20112 USS CONSTANTINE
NCC-20113 USS KING MARK
NCC-20114 USS GWION

VESSEL COMPLEMENT (STANDARD)

Total: 1200
Officers: 250
Crew: 950
Marines: 0

PROPULSION SYSTEMS

Impulse Propulsion System (IPS):
- Type: Omni-directional Sublight

Warp Propulsion System (WPS):
- Type: High Capacity Static Warp/Transwarp
- Bussard Collectors: Wide Range Collectors Mark III

Warp Speeds:
- Standard Cruise Speed: Warp 9.0
- Maximum Cruise Speed (for 24 hours max) : Warp 9.50
- Maximum Sustainable Speed (for 10 minutes max): Warp 9.75
- Maximum Emergency Speed (core shutdown after 90 seconds): Warp 9.79

Transwarp Speeds:
- Standard Engage Speed: Warp 10
- Maximum Ship Sustainable Speed (all power to engines): Warp 14.5 (Transwarp 5.5)
- Maximum Emergency Speed (core Shut Down after 25 seconds): Warp 14.59 (Transwarp 5.59)

TACTICAL SYSTEMS

Phaser Systems:
- Type: Mark XIII
- Total: 16 banks - 4 Primary, 12 Secondary
- Maximum Effective Range: 625,000 km

Torpedo Systems:
- Type: Mark XIV Seeking/Direct
- Total: 4 (2 forward 2 aft) Tubes
- Maximum Effective Range: 5,000,000 km
- Stock: 300 Quantum, 100 Transphasic

Deflector Shield Systems:
- Type: Mark X Multiphasic (Nested)
Enhancements:
- Mark VIII Metaphasic Shielding Units
- Unimatrix Modulation Unit

Additional Systems:

- Bio-regenerative Hull Matrix Mark IV
- Ablative Armor Mark IV
- Cloaking Device

OTHER SYSTEMS

Transporters:
- Personnel Transporters: 8
- Emergency Transporters: 10
- Cargo Transporters: 4

Holodecks:
- Main: 10
- Personal: 15

Computers:
- Main Processors: 2 Type Mark XV
- Dedicated Sub-Processors: 4 Type Mark IX
* Primary Sickbay
* Sensor Systems
* Tactical
* Main Engineering

Embarked Craft (standard):

- Runabouts: 2
* Danube Class: 0
* Euphrates Class: 3
* Warhammer Class: 0
* Mustang Class: 1
* Farpoint Class: 0

- Shuttlecraft:
* Type 6: 5
* Type 9: 5
* Type 10: 0
* Type 11: 5
* Type 18: 0
* Argo: 5