USS Kheshig (NCC-86560)

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USS

USS Kheshig
Side view
Registry:	NCC-86560
Class:	Prometheus (Vanguard)
Type:	Assault Cruiser
Affiliation:	Federation, Starfleet
Status:	Active
Career
Yard:	Coronalis Frontier Fleet Yards
Launched:	2384
Commissioned:	2385
Dimensions
Length:	415 meters
Beam:	170 meters
Draft:	113 meters
Mass:	2,100,000 metric tons
Specifications
Decks:	17
Complement:	200 total: - 40 officers - 160 enlisted
Speed:	Via enhanced warp drive: - Warp 9 (normal cruising) - Warp 9.5 (top sustained) - Warp 9.99 (max; 12 hrs.) Slipstream velocities
Armament:	Phasers: - 18 Type-XII phaser arrays - 6 Type-XII pulse phaser cannons Torpedoe launchers: - 5 variable-use torpedo launchers Torpedoes: - 10 transphasic torpedoes - 60 quantum torpedoes - 130 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:	- 2 Type-11 medium shuttlecraft - 2 Type-9 light shuttlecraft
Top view

The USS Kheshig was a Prometheus-class Assault Cruiser in active service to Starfleet during the late 24th century.

The Prometheus class Assault Cruiser USS Kheshig.

Vanguard Command

The USS Kheshig was launched from the 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 Kheshig's capabilities included:

Offensive capabilities

• Type-XII phaser arrays.
• Mark-XII 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 standard quantum torpedoes.

Defensive capabilities

• A transporter-welded duranium-tritanium-tetraburnium alloy space frame that can withstand extreme combat and propulsion stresses.
• 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, which can attain sub-light velocities of 0.95c and faster-than-light velocities of Warp 1.2, at "super impulse" bursts, 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 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 speed of Warp 9.5.
• A quantum slipstream drive that allows the ship to travel 300 light years in an hour.

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 Long-term Holographic Program Package composed of:
  • 3 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)
  • 3 Mark-IX Long-term Medical Holograms (LMH)

Task Force Perseverance

As of 2385 the USS Kheshig was the Prometheus-class Assault Cruiser assigned to Task Force Perseverance, the special expeditionary force of Task Force Dauntless, 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.

Condition green

Under Condition Green, the USS Kheshig would travel with the Norway-class Heavy Frigate USS Lotharingia.

The USS Kheshig and the USS Lotharingia.

Condition yellow

Under Condition Yellow, the USS Kheshig was part of Mission Group Bravo, which was led by the Luna-class Heavy Cruiser USS Kratos, together with the Hephaestus-class Support Carrier USS Hephaestus, the Steamrunner-class Heavy Frigate USS Hatamoto, and the Merian-class Fast Frigate USS Bohr.

Mission Group Two, Task Force Perseverance.

Condition red

Under Condition Red-1, the USS Kheshig was part of Strike Group One, which was led by the flagship of the task force, the Vesta-class Command Cruiser USS Perseverance, together with the Akira-class Heavy Cruiser USS Tsurugi, the Luna-class Heavy Cruiser USS Kratos, and the Steamrunner-class Heavy Frigate USS Hatamoto.

Strike Group One, Task Force Perseverance.

Related links

• List of Vanguard Fleet Prometheus class starships