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| USS Ark Royal | |
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NCC-85508 |
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Command Cruiser |
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Active |
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Length: |
685.3 meters |
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Beam: |
250.6 meters |
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Draft: |
88.2 meters |
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Mass: |
3,500,000 metric tons |
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Decks: |
24 |
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Complement: |
865 total: |
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Phasers: |
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Defenses: |
- Enhanced, regenerative, redundant, reinforced, multiphasic, multispectrum, unimatrix defensive shields |
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Shuttlecraft: |
- 3 combat-modified Yellowstone-class runabouts |
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The USS Ark Royal was a Sovereign-class Federation Command Cruiser in active service to Starfleet during the late 24th century.
The Sovereign class Command Cruiser USS Ark Royal.
First Fleet[]
The USS Ark Royal was placed under the flag and line command of then Vice Admiral Maximus Hunter and was designated as the flagship of the First Fleet, which had a permanent starship complement of 114 starships in .
Vanguard Command[]
In 2385, at the request of its former flag officer, the USS Ark Royal was assigned as the second Sovereign-class starship in Task Force Invincible, the primary task force of the Vanguard Fleet.
As part of Vanguard Command, the USS Ark Royal was extensively refitted to possess capabilities that include:
Offensive capabilities[]
- Type-XII phaser arrays.
- 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.
- 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.
Defensive capabilities[]
- 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 and ablative armor plating, 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.
- 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 the void.
Propulsion capabilities[]
- 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 went 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 speeds of Warp 9.5.
- A quantum slipstream drive that allows the ship to travel 300 light years in an hour, though in 10 hour bursts every 6 hours only due to the ship's configuration.
Other capabilities[]
- Bio-neural circuitry, which could process information more efficiently, and therefore speed up computer response time.
- Advanced holodecks.
- 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)
- 3 Mark-III Long-term Security and Tactical Holograms (LSTH); 1 Hirogen, 1 Gorn, 1 Pahkwa-thanh
- 3 Mark-III Long-term Engineering Holograms (LEH)
- 2 Mark-IX Long-term Medical Holograms (LMH)
- 2 Mark-III Long-term Health Care Holograms (LHCH)
- 2 Mark-III Long-term Science Holograms (LSH)
Task Force Invincible[]
The USS Ark Royal was placed under the capable command of Captain Idun Asmund, Picard's former navigator onboard the USS Stargazer. The ship has Station Frontier as its headquarters and home port.
Condition Green[]
During Condition Green, the USS Ark Royal would travel with one Saber-class Fast Frigate and one Merian-class Fast Frigate
The USS Ark Royal and its escort ships.
Condition Yellow[]
During Condition Yellow, the USS Ark Royal would serve as the flagship of Mission Group Charlie and was accompanied by one Akira-class Heavy Cruiser, one Prometheus-class Assault Cruiser, one Norway-class Heavy Frigate, one Intrepid-class Light Cruiser, two Merian-class Fast Frigates, two Saber-class Fast Frigates, two Diligent-class Tactical Frigates and two Defiant-class Tactical Frigates.
The USS Ark Royal leading Mission Group Charlie of Task Force Invincible.
Condition Red[]
During Condition Red-1, the USS Ark Royal was part of Strike Group One led by the Invincible-class Fleet Carrier-Command Battleship USS Invincible, together with two Luna-class Heavy Cruisers, two Akira-class Heavy Cruisers, two Prometheus-class Assault Cruiser, three Norway-class Heavy Frigates, four Intrepid-class Light Cruisers, six Saber-class Fast Frigates, four Merian-class Fast Frigates, four Diligent-class Tactical Frigates, and five Defiant-class Tactical Frigates.
Strike Group Two of Task Force Invincible.
Related links[]
- List of Vanguard Fleet lead ships
- List of Vanguard Fleet Sovereign class starships
- List of Vanguard Fleet Command Cruisers