Normandy class

The Normandy-class stealth/tactical interceptor was a specialised starship developed by the United Federation of Planets in the early 26th century.

Designed to turn the tide of a battle in the Federation's favor, Normandy-class vessels were equipped with an Internal Emission Sink (IES) stealth system and an experimental faster-than-light drive that did not rely on matter/anti-matter reaction, but rather a linear accelerator and magnetic fields that channeled dark energy and created a mass-free corridor, allowing the ship to acheive FTL with no time dialation effects, granting the class a significant advantage over other starfleet vessels. The Normandy-class also used high-intensity plasma beams in place of phasers and a high-yield magnetic accelerator weapon capable of firing a stream of liquefied iron/uranium/tungsten at velocities close to the speed of light.

The class leader, USS Normandy, was launched on June 6th 2509 and was deployed to Romulus to oversee the construction of the Federation's permanant embassy, Archemedies Station, and prevented an attempted bombing of the senate by an extremist group opposed to peaceful relations between the Empire and the Federation.