USS Challenger (NCC-84857)

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USS Challenger (NCC-84857)

USS Challenger

Side view
Registry:	NCC-84857
Class:	Intrepid (Vanguard)
Type:	Light Cruiser
Affiliation:	Federation, Starfleet
Status:	Active
Career
Yard:	Coronalis Frontier Fleet Yards
Launched:	2384
Commissioned:	2385
Dimensions
Length:	344.5 meters
Beam:	132 meters
Draft:	64.4 meters
Mass:	700,000 metric tons
Specifications
Decks:	15
Complement:	150 total: - 30 officers - 120 enlisted
Speed:	Via enhanced warp drive: - Warp 8.5 (normal cruising) - Warp 9.5 (top sustained) - Warp 9.99 (max; 12 hrs.) Slipstream velocities
Armament:	Phasers: - 6 Type-XII phaser arrays - 8 Type-X phaser arrays - 2 Type-X pulse phaser cannons Torpedoes launchers: - 5 variable-use torpedo launchers (2 fore, 2 aft, 1 ventral) Torpedoes: - 30 quantum torpedoes - 60 high-yield photon torpedoes
Defenses:	- Enhanced, regenerative, redundant, reinforced, multiphasic, multispectrum, unimatrix defensive shields - Ablative hull armor Microdiffracted carbon hull coating - Sensor stealth system
Docking:	Station Frontier
Shuttlecraft:	1 Flyer-class heavy shuttlecraft 2 Type-11 medium shuttlecrafts 2 Type-9 light shuttlecrafts

Top view of USS Challenger

For additional meanings of "Challenger", please see Challenger (disambiguation).

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."

— George S. Patton

The USS Challenger was a Intrepid-class Light Cruiser in active service in the late 24th century.

Vanguard Command[]

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

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

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.

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 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.

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 Health Care Hologram (LHCH)
- 1 Mark-III Long-term Science Hologram (LSH)

The USS Challenger was immediately assigned to the 71-starship strong Task Force Invincible, the lead task force of the Vanguard Fleet, which was commanded by Admiral Jean-Luc Picard.