USS Blackbeard (NCC-74104)

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USS

USS Blackbeard
Side view
Registry:	NCC-74104
Class:	Steamrunner (Vanguard)
Type:	Heavy Frigate
Affiliation:	Federation, Starfleet
Status:	Active
Career
Yard:	Coronalis Frontier Fleet Yards
Launched:	2384
Commissioned:	2385
Dimensions
Length:	356 meters
Beam:	262 meters
Draft:	59 meters
Mass:	889,000 metric tons
Specifications
Decks:	13
Complement:	200 total: - 40 officers - 160 enlisted
Speed:	Via enhanced warp drive: - Warp 8.5 (normal cruising) - Warp 9.5 (top sustained) - Warp 9.98 (max; 12 hrs.) Slipstream velocities
Armament:	Phasers: - 6 Type-XII collimated phaser arrays - 4 Type-X collimated phaser arrays - 2 Mark-X pulse phaser cannons Torpedo launchers: - 4 variable-payload torpedo launchers Torpedo payload: - 40 quantum torpedoes - 80 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 Flyer-class heavy shuttlecrafts - 2 Type-11 medium shuttlecrafts - 4 Type-9 light shuttlecrafts
Top view

The USS Blackbeard was a Steamrunner-class Heavy Frigate in active service to Stafleet in the late 24th century.

The Steamrunner class Heavy Frigate USS Blackbeard.

Vanguard Command

The USS Blackbeard was launched from Coronalis Frontier Fleet Yards in 2384 and was commissioned in 2385 as part of the Vanguard Fleet, the mobile arm of Vanguard Command.

As part of Vanguard Command, the USS Blackbeard's capabilities includedd:

Offensive capabilities

• Type-XII phaser arrays.
• Mark-X pulse phaser cannons.
• The capacity to launch quantum torpedoes and transphasic torpedoes, the latter only as a last resort.
• A full payload of Khronnian enhanced high-yield photon torpedoes, which were almost powerful as quantum torpedoes.

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, 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.

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 goes offline.
• An enhanced maneuvering thruster array with retro-thrusters which exponentially increased the ship's agility.
• A Khronnian enhanced warp drive that allows it to travel at normal cruise speeds of Warp 8.5, and cruise at top sustained speeds of Warp 9.5.
• A quantum slipstream drive that allows the ship to travel 300 light years in an hour, in 10 hour bursts every 6 hours.

Other capabilities

• 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.
• A compact Industrial replicator that could produce starship parts for repair and standard torpedo components for construction.
• A full Emergency Holographic Program Package composed of:
  • 1 Mark-III Long-term Command and Navigation Hologram (LCNH)
  • 1 Mark-III Long-term Security and Tactical Hologram (LSTH)
  • 1 Mark-III Long-term Engineering Hologram (LEH)
  • 1 Mark-IX Long-term Medical Hologram (LMH)
  • 1 Mark-III Long-term Science Hologram (LSH)

Task Force Dauntless

As of 2385, the USS Blackbeard was one of four Steamrunner-class Heavy Frigates assigned to Task Force Dauntless. Task Force Dauntless was the mobile arm of Abraxis Command, operating in the Gamma Quadrant from its sector headquarters at Deep Space Gamma-01. Both task force and sector command were under the flag command of Vice Admiral Razal Gibran. The other ships were the USS Corsair, the USS Buccaneer, and the USS Hornigold.

Condition green

Under Condition Green, the USS Blackbeard escorted the Vesta-class Command Cruiser USS Actium, together with the Saber-class Fast Frigate USS Phalanx.

The USS Actium escorted by the USS Blackbeard and the USS Phalanx.

Condition yellow

Under Condition Yellow, the USS Blackbeard was part of Mission Group Charlie led by the Vesta-class Command Cruiser USS Actium, together with the Steamrunner-class Heavy Frigate USS Blackbeard, and USS Hornigold, the Intrepid-class Light Cruiser USS Illion, the Saber-class Tactical Frigates USS Phalanx, and USS Guardian, the Merian-class Fast Frigates USS Errant and USS Searcher, and the Defiant-class Tactical Frigates USS Sitting Bull and USS Logan.

The USS Blackbeard with Mission Group Charlie of Task Force Dauntless.

Condition red

Under Condition Red-1, the USS Blackbeard was part of Strike Group Two, led also by the USS Actium, together with the Luna-class Heavy Cruiser USS Europa, the Akira-class Heavy Cruiser USS Glaive, the Prometheus-class Assault Cruiser USS Valor, the Steamrunner-class Heavy Frigate USS Hornigold, the Norway-class Heavy Frigates USS Mercia and USS Flanders, the Intrepid-class Light Cruisers USS Illion and USS Pioneer, the Saber-class Fast Frigates USS Phalanx, USS Guardian, USS Cavalier, and USS Advocate, the Merian-class Fast Frigates USS Errant, USS Searcher, USS Pilgrim, and USS Sojourner, and the Defiant-class Tactical Frigates USS Sitting Bull, USS Logan, USS Tecumseh, and USS Lone Horn.

The USS Blackbeard with Strike Group Two of Task Force Dauntless.

Related links

• Vanguard Command Steamrunner class starships