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| Starbase Sierra-Foxtrot 5 | |
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Type: |
Asteroid Starbase |
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Affiliation: |
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Status: |
Active |
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Yard: |
In site |
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Laid Down: |
2381 |
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Launched: |
2385 |
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Commissioned: |
2385 |
| Dimensions | |
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Length: |
20 kilometers (whole asteroid) |
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Beam: |
15 kilometers (whole asteroid) |
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Draft: |
10 kilometers (internal space) |
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Decks: |
180 decks (habitable): |
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Complement: |
1,000 Station Command: |
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Speed: |
Warp 5 |
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Armament: |
Phasers: |
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Defenses: |
- Regenerative, redundant and multi-phasic shielding |
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Shuttlecraft: |
Defense: |
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Starbase Sierra-Foxtrot 5, or Starbase SF5 was the largest covert installation ever constructed by Starfleet in the late 24th century.
It functions as a scientific research, engineering research, special operations, and special starship construction and upgrade site for Vanguard Command. It was the actual home port of Task Force Rogue and the starships attached to the Rapid Reaction Force. A battalion of Starfleet Special Operations and Starfleet Commando Force personnel are also based here.
Location[]
Starbase SF5 was hidden inside a large hollowed-out asteroid located in an undisclosed star system near the AOR of Coronalis Command and was only known to people with a particular type and level of security clearance in Starfleet.
Starbase SF5 employed both Starfleet personnel and Federation civilians who were scientific and research specialists in their fields of study.
Functions[]
Starbase SF5 fulfilled the following important functions:
Research and Development – The task of studying, adapting and testing experimental advanced scientific and engineering technology discovered, acquired or developed within the AOR of Vanguard Command that were classified as top secret were conducted here, in coordination with the Daystrom Institute.
Rapid Reaction Force Headquarters – Starbase SF5 serves as the clandestine headquarters and home port of the starships and personnel of the Rapid Reaction Force, or RRF, of Vanguard Command led by Task Force Rogue.
Starbase layout[]
Ships could enter the starbase through two opposing doorways that was large enough to fit two Invincible-class flagships, one on top of the other. Both doorways were located at opposite ends of the asteroid. Both entrances were hidden from sensors by camouflage holographic emitters. Beyond the camouflage, were two triple-tiered docking caverns: the Primary Docking Cavern and the Secondary Docking Cavern. While enclosed from open space the docking caverns are in hard vacuum. Many levels of docking bays, facilities for repair and starship construction are present. These decks are flanked by massive warehouses and the adjoining offices used by Vanguard Command.
Within the Primary Docking Cavern, each docking tier could comfortably berth thirty Sovereign-class Command Cruisers . The Secondary Docking Cavern were docking berths for the covert Q-ships, the starships of the RRF and Task Force Rogue, and the other special operations starships of Vanguard Command. The rough interior was studded with directional grids of docking lights. Pulsing lights guide docking starships to their respective bays.
Dividing the two caverns and deep into the walls of these caverns were five habitable main sections that branch out in two directions:
- The Upper West Concourse, composed of 40 decks for station command personnel
- The Lower West Concourse, composed of 40 decks for habitat facilities, crew quarters, the barracks, and others
- The Upper East Concourse, composed of 40 decks for engineering research and development
- The Lower East Concourse, composed of 40 decks for science research and development
- The South Concourse, composed of 20 decks for station engineering and propulsion
The Upper West Concourse was where the command center, conference lounges, starbase related engineering and science facilities, starbase security facilities, station work stations, and the like were located.
The Lower West Concourse was where the station crew quarters, holodecks, the medical center, station sensors control, astrometrics, common areas and lounges, entertainment centers, barracks, training centers were located.
The Upper East Concourse was where the engineering engineering research laboratories and industrial replicators were located.
The Lower East Concourse was where the science research laboratories and facilities were located.
The South Concourse was where the station's main engineering, warp cores, impulse controls, computer cores, fusion reactors and thruster controls were clustered.
Nearer to the docking caverns were temporary residential areas (residency for no more than two weeks), commercial areas, even a fair amount of recreational facilities, cargo and storage areas, usually dedicated to the modular nature of starships and shuttle operations, storage for starship modules, and one expansive hangar bay that can house three times as many as the auxiliary craft complement of the starbase and that can be landed by vessels as large as the Valiant-class Tactical Corvette.
Automated starship construction and repair[]
A key facility within Starbase SF5 was the automated construction and repairs section. It was located in between the docking caverns, separating the two at the center, and was directly connected to the South Concourse. The facility possessed advanced technology copied from various sources, including the Ware repair stations encountered by current Federation worlds during the 22nd century, which was capable of automatically repairing vessels at remarkable speeds. The four docking berths of the facility each consisted of docking arms, umbilical connect ports and a docking port for boarding. The berths could expand and contract to fit a wide range of vessels and could be entered from either side of the docking caverns.
Station Defense[]
The Starbase SF5 was one of the most defensible facilities that Starfleet has ever constructed. It has an arsenal of 24 Type-XII rotary-mounted pulse phaser cannons, 48 Type-XII stationary-mounted phaser emitters, 48 Type-XII slide-mounted phaser emitters, and 30 variable-use torpedo launchers. The station also has a payload of 100 transphasic torpedoes, 2,000 quantum torpedoes and 6,000 high-yield photon torpedoes.
The placement of these armaments provided a full 360 degree sphere for defense. With this firepower, Starbase SF5 was a virtual floating fortress.
It was further protected by regenerative, redundant, reinforced and multiphasic defensive shields, and regenerative ablative hull armor. In addition to the natural metallic properties that prevent sensors from penetrating the starbase, SF5's entry and exit bays were hidden from the outside by redundant holographic camouflage projectors.
Starbase SF5 was also installed with thoron shield generators that provided a seamless energy casing around the station. The thoron-based screen interfered with Starbase SF5’s long-range communications and sensors, but functioned as a protective envelope far stronger than typical shields, defending against not only energy weapons and transporter beams, but also actual material objects. While it would not render SF5 impregnable, it could allow the station to withstand some attacks better and longer than traditional shields.
Computer systems[]
Starbase SF5 was equipped with some of the most advanced computer systems of the time. The computer system installed was bioneural-based. Computer systems were concentrated in a computer core, which was accessible through a maintenance room. The starbase had six independent computer cores; one for the science concourse, one for the engineering concourse, one for the station command concourse, one for the automated starship repair facility, one for the holographic crew complement, and one back up computer core. Each computer processor was capable of simultaneous access to 47 million data channels, of transluminal processing at 575 trillion calculations per nanosecond, and having operational temperature margins from 10° to 1790° Kelvin. The bio-neural circuitry sped up the computers' data functions and improved overall performance.
Emergency holographic complement[]
Holo-emitters were installed on every single area of Starbase SF5 to allow emergency holographic programs a higher level of access and free movement around the station. The ship’s computer systems could simultaneously bring online the following:
- 20 Long-term Security and Tactical Holograms (LSTH) that can access all locations on the starbase
- 20 Long-term Engineering Holograms (LEH) for the Upper East Concourse
- 10 Long-term Engineering Holograms (LEH) for the South Concourse facilities
- 30 Long-term Engineering Holograms (LEH) for the spacedock areas and main hangar bay
- 20 Long-term Science Holograms (LSH) for the Lower East Concourse facilities
- 10 Long-term Medical Holograms (LMH) that can access all locations on the starbase
Propulsion systems[]
Starbase SF5 was outfitted with a sub-light propulsion system that allowed it to move from one location within an asteroid belt to another, or from one asteroid belt to another within a star system, as well as a faster-than-light propulsion system that allows it to travel from one asteroid belt in a star system to another another asteroid belt in a nearby system. The station never jumped to a star system that was beyond 30 light years away from the Coronalis System and Vanguard Command headquarters.
Main Engineering was located in the South Concourse and was an open-plan facility, directly accessible from the main corridor. Consisting of four levels, it provided direct access to the vessel's warp core and primary engineering support systems. The corridor bulkhead housed the Master Situation Monitor. Inside the main section, the master systems display was the operational focus of the room. Beyond this, heading towards the warp core to the left and the solar-jump core to the right, the chief engineer's office and several support consoles were located on the left, and the assistant chief engineer's console on the right but nearer to the section's entrance. These formed part of the bulkhead protecting the main part of engineering from the warp core. Access to the upper level, a circular area surrounding the warp core, was provided by a ladder to the left of the warp core or an elevator on the right. The upper level had access to other warp core maintenance systems.
Impulse drive[]
The impulse drive system of Starbase SF5 was among the largest ever produced. Its oversized impulse engines were equipped with impulse thrusters that provide sub-light speed. With this design, along with the new retro-thrusters, and uprated structural integrity fields give the starbase enough maneuverability to ease itself in the middle of any asteroid field.
Warp drive[]
The starbase’s matter-antimatter reaction assembly warp core was among the most powerful in Starfleet. The warp core spanned 20 decks of the Engineering Section. Its warp drive featured a tri-cyclic input manifold. The reaction chamber was equipped with a compositor, which allowed recrystallization of dilithium. The deuterium tanks were above the core, while antimatter storage pods surrounded the base of the core. This allows the station to travel at Warp 5 when it needs to transfer location to a neighboring star system.
A secondary class 9 warp core was located aft of the primary warp core and spans 4 decks and brought online when the primary warp core was offline. This allows the ship to travel at a speed of Warp 2 while the primary warp core was offline.
Solar-jump drive[]
The starbase was also installed with a new propulsion technology called the solar-jump. Based on the Renao propulsion technology, Starfleet Research and Development was able to successfully pilot-test a Federation-modified prototype solar-jump drive on Starbase SF5. The solar-jump allowed the starbase to jump from one sun to another within a certain radius without notable time loss. The solar-jump drives were capable of folding space and creating a rift, which the station can use to jump to its destination. The gravitational fields of both the starting and the destination sun were being used as anchors to contract space between them. The distance the station could cover depended largely on the station's individual level ofperformance. Also after a jump, it required a 24-hour regeneration period before the solar-jump could be used again. Particularly for Starbase SF5 its solar-jump drive's capacity would allow jumps of no more than 30 light years.
Rapid Reaction Force[]
Starbase SF5 was the designated headquarters of the Rapid Reaction Force of Vanguard Command. Though a large portion of the starships assigned to the RRF are attached to different sector commands, a good number of them have the starbase as its home base. These included:
- The Odyssey-class Command Battleship USS Repulse
- The Vesta-class Command Cruiser USS Man-o-War
- The Ronin-class Battle Cruiser USS Bold
- The Ronin-class Battle Cruiser USS Fierce
- The Ambassador III-class Heavy Cruiser USS Douglas MacArthur
- The Ambassador III-class Heavy Cruiser USS Ibn Ziyad
- The Ambassador III-class Heavy Cruiser USS Clovis
- The Ambassador III-class Heavy Cruiser USS Brian Boru
- The Apollo-class Heavy Cruiser USS Philippe Pétain
- The Apollo-class Heavy Cruiser USS Hannibal Barca
- The Apollo-class Heavy Cruiser USS Qin Shi Huang
- The Apollo-class Heavy Cruiser USS Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar
- The Argonaut-class Medium Cruiser USS Sleipnir
- The Argonaut-class Medium Cruiser USS Minokawa
- The Wakizashi-class Destroyer USS Moro
- The Nova-class Tactical Frigate USS Eclipse
- The Diligent-class Tactical Frigate USS Jebe
- The Diligent-class Tactical Frigate USS Noyan
- The Diligent-class Tactical Frigate USS Oruc Reis
- The Diligent-class Tactical Frigate USS Artuk Bey
- The Q-ship USS Kermadec
- The Q-ship USS Aleutia
- The Q-ship USS Mariana
- The Oberth-class Tactical Frigate USS Mow'ga
- The Oberth-class Tactical Frigate USS Kuvak
- The Oberth-class Tactical Frigate USS Soval
- The Oberth-class Tactical Frigate USS M'rek
- The Oberth-class Tactical Frigate USS Truman
- The Oberth-class Tactical Frigate USS Kissinger
- The Oberth-class Tactical Frigate USS Roosevelt
- The Oberth-class Tactical Frigate USS Franklin
The starships of the Rapid Reaction Force based at Starbase SF5.
Personnel complement[]
Starbase SF5 has a full Starfleet complement of 8,200 personnel, excluding the crews of starships that have the station as its home port. The Starfleet complement was divided into:
- 1,000 station command personnel
- 2,000 engineering and construction personnel
- 1,000 research and development personnel
- 1,200 special operations and commando personnel.
- 3,000 Federation personnel
Starship support and auxiliary craft complement[]
Starbase SF5 was protected by a station defense task force of:
- One Prometheus-class Assault Cruiser, the USS Pontus
- Two Diligent-class Tactical Frigates
- Two Defiant-class Tactical Frigates
- Four Valiant-class Tactical Corvettes
- 72 Valkyrie-class advanced tactical flyers
The Station Defense Task Force of Starbase SF5 led by the USS Pontus.
In addition, it has an auxiliary craft complement of:
- 10 combat-modified Venture-class scout ships
- 20 combat-modified Yellowstone-class runabouts
- 20 combat-modified Flyer-class heavy shuttlecrafts
- 20 combat-modified Type-11 medium shuttlecrafts
- 20 combat-modified Type-9 light shuttlecrafts
If needed, the auxiliary craft complement, with their respective weapons systems, which were formidable on their own right, could provide additional defense to the station.
Station command officers[]
Starbase SF5 has the following station command officers:
- Rear Admiral Bogram, a male Xindi-Reptilian
- Commodore Nassur 215, a Hermat
- Captain Muro Grenn, a male Denobulan
- Fleet Captain, Starbase SF5 Station Defense Task Force and Station Support Task Force
- Commander Na Gwell, a Thallonian
- Alternate Commanding Officer, Starfleet Commando Force
- Commander Thomas Ryback
- Alternate Commanding Officer, Starfleet Commando Force
Though Rear Admiral James Kirk had Starbase SF5 as the port of call of his task task force, thus making him the only other high ranking admiral frequently residing on the station. He does not report to Admiral Bogram. And neither does Admiral Bogram report to him. Both, however, have a strong working relationship and both go out of their way to complement the other's work.