USS Lotharingia (NCC-83100)

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USS

USS Lotharingia

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Registry:	NCC-83100
Class:	Norway (Vanguard)
Type:	Heavy Frigate
Affiliation:	Federation, Starfleet
Status:	Active
Career
Yard:	Coronalis Frontier Fleet Yards
Launched:	2384
Commissioned:	2385
Dimensions
Length:	364.77 meters
Beam:	225.6 meters
Draft:	52.5 meters
Mass:	622,000 metric tons
Specifications
Decks:	11
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 for 12 hrs.) Slipstream velocities
Armament:	Phasers: - 6 collimated Type-XII phaser arrays - 4 Type-X phaser arrays - 2 Type-X pulse phaser cannons Torpedoes launchers: - 3 variable-use torpedo launchers Torpedoes: - 40 quantum torpedoes - 80 high-yield photon torpedoes
Defenses:	- Enhanced, regenerative, redundant, reinforced, multiphasic and multispectrum deflector 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 Lotharingia was a Norway-class Heavy Frigate in active service with Starfleet in the late 24th century.

Vanguard Command[]

The USS Lotharingia was launched from Coronalis Frontier Fleet Yards at Alpha Centauri 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 Lotharingia'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 standard quantum torpedoes.

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.
Advanced external holographic emitters, which give the ship the ability to alter its appearance by disguising itself as another object, such as an asteroid.

Enhanced impulse engines, which 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 sub-light agility despite its size.
A Khronnian enhanced warp drive, which allows the ship to travel at a normal cruise speed of Warp 8.5 and a top sustained speed of Warp 9.5.
A quantum slipstream drive, which allows the ship to travel 300 light years in an hour.

Bio-neural circuitry , which could process information more efficiently, and therefore speed up computer response time.
An advanced holodecks for scientific and engineeering research and for crew recreation.
A compact Industrial replicator, which could produce starship parts for repair and standard torpedo components for construction.
Tractor rigs, which enhanced tractor beam strength by tethering the tractor beams to probes that could be attached to other objects, such as starships.
A full Long-term Holographic Program Package composed of:
- 1 Mark-III Long-term Command and Navigation Holograms (LCNH)
- 1 Mark-III Long-term Security and Tactical Holograms (LSTH); 1 Gorn
- 1 Mark-III Long-term Engineering Holograms (LEH)
- 1 Mark-IX Long-term Medical Holograms (LMH)
- 1 Mark-III Long-term Science Holograms (LSH)

As of 2385 the USS Lotharingia was the Norway-class Heavy Frigate 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.

Under Condition Green, the USS Lotharingia traveled with the Prometheus-class Assault Cruiser USS Kheshig.

Under Condition Yellow, the USS Lotharingia was part of Mission Group Alpha, composed of five ships and 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 Intrepid-class Light Cruiser USS Moribus, and the Saber-class Fast Frigate USS Tori Tanto.

Under Condition Red-1, the USS Lotharingia was part of Strike Group Two, composed of the five least tactically capable starships in the task force, led by the Intrepid-class Light Cruiser USS Moribus, together with the Hephaestus-class Support Carrier USS Hephaestus, the Merian-class Fast Frigate USS Bohr and the Saber-class Fast Frigate USS Tori Tanto.