USS Iroquois (NCC-62505)

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USS

USS Iroquois

Side view
Registry:	NCC-62505
Class:	Akira (Vanguard)
Type:	Heavy Cruiser
Affiliation:	Federation, Starfleet
Status:	Active
Career
Yard:	Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards
Launched:	2367
Commissioned:	2368
Dimensions
Length:	464.43 meters
Beam:	316.67 meters
Draft:	87.43 meters
Mass:	3,055,000 metric tons
Specifications
Decks:	23
Complement:	510 total: - 90 officers, - 410 enlisted - 10 commando
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: - 13 Type-XII collimated phaser arrays (main hull) - 5 Type-XII collimated phaser arrays (mission pod) Torpedo launchers: - 3 variable-use torpedo launchers (main hull) - 4 variable-use torpedo launchers (mission pod) Torpedoes: - 10 transphasic torpedoes - 65 quantum torpedoes - 225 high-yield photon torpedoes
Defenses:	- Enhanced, redundant, regenerative, reinforced, multiphasic, multispectrum, unimatrix deflector shields - Ablative hull armor - Ablative armor plating Microdiffracted carbon hull coating - Sensor stealth system
Docking:	Station DSG1
Shuttlecraft:	Defense: - 36 Valkyrie-class advanced tactical flyers Auxiliary: - 1 Venture-class scout ship - 2 Yellowstone-class runabouts - 4 Flyer-class heavy shuttlecrafts - 6 Type-11 medium shuttlecrafts - 4 Type-9 light shuttlecrafts

Top view

The USS Iroquois is an Akira-class Heavy Cruiser in active service to Starfleet during the late 24th century.

In 2368, the ship was placed under the command of then Captain Razal Gibran. It remained under Gibran's command until 2375.

Akira ortho — *The Akira class Heavy Cruiser USS Iroquois.*

Vanguard Command[]

In 2384, the USS Iroquois was one of several active ships that were extensively refitted and retrofitted in Coronalis Frontier Fleet Yards for reassignment to the Vanguard Fleet, the mobile arm of Vanguard Command.

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

Offensive capabilities[]

Type-XII phaser arrays.
A bigger payload of Khronnian enhanced high-yield photon torpedoes, which were almost powerful as quantum torpedoes.
The capacity to launch quantum torpedoes and transphasic torpedoes, the latter only as a last resort.
A hybrid weapons-sensors mission pod that provides an additional 5 Type-XII collimated phaser arrays and 4 variable-use torpedo launchers to its onboard armament.

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 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, 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.
An Industrial replicator that could produce starship parts and standard torpedo components for construction.
A full Long-term 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 Hirogen
- 2 Mark-III Long-term Engineering Holograms (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)

Auxiliary crafts[]

The USS Iroquois has an auxiliary craft complement composed of the following:

36 Valkyrie-class advanced tactical flyers
One Venture-class scout ship
Two Yellowstone-class runabouts
Four Flyer-class heavy shuttlecrafts
Six Type-11 medium shuttlecrafts
Four Type-9 light shuttlecrafts

Task Force Dauntless[]

In 2385, the USS Iroquois was one of two Akira-class Heavy Cruisers attached to Task Force Dauntless, the mobile arm of Abraxis Command, operating in the Gamma Quadrant from its headquarters at Deep Space Gamma-01, located several light years "behind" the aperture of the Bajoran wormhole from that end. Task Force Dauntless and Abraxis Command were under the overall flag command of Vice Admiral Razal Gibran. The other ship was the USS Glaive.

Condition Green[]

Under Condition Green, the USS Iroquois would travel with the Norway-class Heavy Frigate USS Francia and the Defiant-class Tactical Frigate USS Tecumseh.

Condition Yellow[]

Under Condition Yellow, the USS Iroquois was part of Mission Group Bravo, led by the Luna-class Heavy Cruiser USS Triton, together with the the Steamrunner-class Heavy Frigates USS Buccaneer and USS Corsair, the Norway-class Heavy Frigates USS Francia and USS Bohemia, the Intrepid-class Light Cruisers USS Starchaser and USS Pioneer, and the Merian-class Fast Frigates USS Sleuth and USS Ranger.

Task Group Bravo TFDauntless — *Task Group Bravo, Task Force Dauntless*

Under Condition Red-1, the USS Iroquois was part of Strike Group One, led by the Katana-class Command Battleship USS Dauntless, together with the Luna-class Heavy Cruiser USS Triton, the Prometheus-class Assault Cruiser USS Gallant, the Steamrunner-class Heavy Frigates USS Buccaneer and USS Corsair, the Norway-class Heavy Frigates USS Francia and USS Bohemia, the Intrepid-class Light Cruisers USS Pursuer and USS Starchaser, the Merian-class Fast Frigates USS Sleuth and USS Ranger, the Saber-class Fast Frigates USS Sentinel and USS Protector, the Defiant-class Tactical Frigates USS Raging Bull and USS Geronimo, and the Valiant-class Tactical Corvettes USS Machete and USS Dagger.

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