USS Braveheart (NCC-85507)

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USS

USS Braveheart


Registry:	NCC-85507
Class:	Sovereign (Vanguard)
Type:	Command Cruiser
Affiliation:	Federation, Starfleet
Status:	Active
Career
Yard:	Coronalis Frontier Fleet Yards
Launched:	2384
Commissioned:	2385
Dimensions
Length:	685.3 meters
Beam:	250.6 meters
Draft:	88.2 meters
Mass:	3,500,000 metric tons
Specifications
Decks:	24
Complement:	865 total: - 155 officers - 700 enlisted - 10 commando
Speed:	Via enhanced warp drive: - Warp 8.5 (normal cruising) - Warp 9.5 (top sustained) - Warp 9.99 (max, 12 hrs.) Slipstream velocities (10 hr. bursts per 6 hrs.)
Armament:	Phasers: - 16 collimated Type-XII phaser arrays - 4 Type-XII forward pulse phaser cannons Torpedoes launchers: - 10 variable-use torpedo launchers Torpedo payload: - 25 Transphasic torpedoes - 100 Quantum torpedoes - 275 High-yield photon torpedoes
Defenses:	- Enhanced, regenerative, redundant, reinforced, multiphasic, multispectrum, unimatrix defensive shields - Ablative hull armor - Ablative armor plating - Sensor stealth system
Docking:	Frontier 3
Shuttlecraft:	- 3 combat-modified Yellowstone-class runabouts - 1 combat-modified Venture-class scout ship - 2 combat-modified Flyer-class heavy shuttlecrafts - 1 combat-modified Captain's Yacht - 4 combat-modified Type-11 medium shuttlecrafts - 2 combat-modified Type-9 light shuttlecrafts - 6 Work bees

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The USS Braveheart was a Sovereign-class Deep Space Heavy Explorer in active service to Starfleet during the late 24th century.

Vanguard Command[]

The USS Braveheart was launched in late 2384 from Coronalis Frontier Fleet Yards and was commissioned on 2385. The ship was assigned to the Vanguard Fleet, the mobile arm of Vanguard Command.

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

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.

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.
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.

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.

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)

Despite these impressive capabilities, the USS Braveheart would only utilize them as a last resort.

The USS Braveheart was placed under the command of Rear Admiral Tryla Scott as the flagship of Task Force Braveheart and the exploration flagship of Vanguard Command, under the overall command of Fleet Admiral Maximus Hunter. The ship has Station Frontier as its headquarters and home port.