USS Apex (NCC-85010)

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USS

Ronin-class

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Registry:	NCC-85010
Class:	Ronin (Vanguard)
Type:	Battle Cruiser
Affiliation:	Federation, Starfleet
Status:	Active
Career
Yard:	Coronalis Frontier Fleet Yards
Launched:	2384
Commissioned:	2385
Dimensions
Length:	600 meters
Beam:	211 meters
Draft:	107 meters (incl. mission pod)
Mass:	3,400,000 metric tons
Specifications
Decks:	21
Complement:	660 total: - 125 officers - 525 enlisted - 10 commando
Speed:	Via enhanced warp drive: - Warp 8.5 (normal cruising) - Warp 9.9 (top sustained) - Warp 9.995 (max; 12 hrs.) Slipstream velocities
Armament:	Phasers: - 12 Type-XII collimated phaser arrays (main hull) - 4 Type-XII collimated phaser arrays (mission pod) - 4 Type-XII pulse phaser cannons Torpedoes: - 4 variable-payload torpedo launchers (main hull) - 4 variable-payload torpedo launchers (mission pod) - 20 transphasic torpedoes - 80 quantum torpedoes - 240 high-yield photon torpedoes
Defenses:	- Enhanced, regenerative, redundant, reinforced, multiphasic, multispectrum unimatrix defensive shields - Ablative hull armor - Ablative armor plating - Microdiffracted carbon hull coating - Sensor stealth system
Docking:	Station DSG1
Shuttlecraft:	- 1 Venture-class scout ship - 3 Yellowstone-class runabouts - 4 Flyer-class heavy shuttlecrafts - 4 Type-11 medium shuttlecrafts - 4 Type-9 light shuttlecrafts - 6 Work bees

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The USS Apex was a Ronin-class Battle Cruiser in active service to Starfleet during the late 24th century.

Vanguard Command[]

The USS Apex was launched on 2384 from the Coronalis Frontier Fleet Yards and was commissioned on 2385. It was one of twelve Ronin-class Battle Cruisers assigned to the Vanguard Fleet, the mobile arm of Vanguard Command.

As part of Vanguard Command, the USS Apex's capabilities included:

16 collimated Type-XII phaser arrays (12 main hull, 4 mission pod).
8 Mark-XII pulse phaser cannons.
A full payload of Khronnian enhanced high-yield photon torpedoes, which were almost powerful as standard quantum torpedoes.
The capacity to launch quantum torpedoes and transphasic torpedoes, the latter only as a last resort.
An Aquarius-class light escort as companion ship.
A diverse and combat-modified complement of auxiliary crafts.
A 10-man Starfleet Commando Force for special away team missions and even black ops mission.

Enhanced and redundant structural integrity fields, which exponentially increased the ship's ability to maintain the integrity and shape of hulls and bulkheads against the extreme stresses caused by warp fields, weapons, and other motion.
Ablative hull armor, which rapidly dissipates the energy impacts from directed energy weapon fire and makes the ship endure massive weapons fire even after its shield have been overpowered.
Ablative generators, which generated a nearly-impenetrable layer of armor around the hull of the ship.
Enhanced, regenerative, redundant, reinforced, multiphasic, multispectrum, unimatrix defensive shields, which protects the ship from energy weapons and torpedoes for an exponentially longer duration and makes the ship's hull capable of withstanding extremes of temperature and pressure.
Microdiffracted carbon hull coating that absorbs all visible radiation that fell upon it, making it as black as the space it moved through.
A sensor stealth system which masked the ship's warp signature and helped avoid detection during covert operations. Custom-designed warp coil insulators reduced its energy signature almost to nil. As long as radio silence was maintained, the ship could cruise unnoticed through interstellar space.

Enhanced impulse engines that can attain sub-light velocities of 0.95c and faster-than-light velocities of Warp 1.2, allowing the ship to escape supernovas if the warp drive unexpectedly goes offline.
An enhanced maneuvering thruster array with retro-thrusters, which exponentially increased the ship's sub-light agility despite its size.
A Khronnian enhanced warp drive that allows it to travel at a normal cruise speed of Warp 8.5 and a top sustained speed of Warp 9.5.
A quantum slipstream drive that allows the ship to travel 300 light years in an hour.

Bio-neural circuitry, which could process information more efficiently, and therefore speed up computer response time.
Advanced holodecks for scientific and engineering research and for crew recreation.
An Industrial replicator that could produce starship parts for repair and standard torpedo components for construction.
A full Long-term Holographic Program Package composed of:
- 2 Mark-III Long-term Command and Navigation Holograms (LCNH)
- 2 Mark-III Long-term Security and Tactical Holograms (LSTH)
- 2 Mark-III Long-term Engineering Holograms (LEH)
- 2 Mark-IX Long-term Medical Holograms (LMH)
- 2 Mark-III Long-term Health Care Holograms (LHCH)
- 1 Mark-III Long-term Science Hologram (LSH)

The USS Apex has an embarked primary auxiliary craft complement composed of:

The USS Apex was the Ronin-class Battle Cruiser assigned to Task Force Dauntless, the mobile arm of Abraxis Command. Task Force Dauntless operated from Station Deep Space Gamma-01, which was located beyond the Chamra Vortex from the far end of the terminus of the Bajoran wormhole in the Gamma Quadrant. Task Force Dauntless was under the flag command of Vice Admiral Razal Gibran.

The USS Apex was one of two capital ships functioning as a solitary rapid response force or mission specialist of Task Force Dauntless and Abraxis Command, although about half of the time it would perform exploratory and scientific missions as well. The other ship was the Odyssey-class Command Battleship USS Implacable.

The USS Apex's tasks also included:

Performing diplomatic missions for the Federation.
Performing scientific missions for the Federation.
Deploying to locations where there is a need to show the flag more strongly.
Intimidating hostile ships and discourage them from attacking the smaller squadrons.
Providing stronger defense to Deep Space Gamma-01, its home port, during hostile situations.