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USS Pontus
Prometheus Vanguard

Registry:

NCC-86563

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 DS9 II

Shuttlecraft:

- 2 Type-11 medium shuttlecraft
- 2 Type-9 light shuttlecraft

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Top view
 

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

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The Prometheus class Assault Cruiser USS Pontus.




Vanguard Command[]

The USS Pontus was launched from Coronalis Frontier Fleet Yards in 2384 and commissioned in 2385 as part of Vanguard Command.

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

Offensive capabilities[]

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, 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.

Other capabilities[]

Starbase Sierra-Foxtrot 5[]

In 2385, the USS Pontus was designated as the flagship of the Station Defense Task Force attached to Starbase Sierra-Foxtrot 5, which is the home port headquarters of the Rapid Reaction Force and Task Force Rogue of Vanguard Command, which was under the flag command of Fleet Admiral Maximus Hunter.

As flagship of the Starbase SF5's Station Defense Task Force, the USS Pontus led two Diligent-class Tactical Frigates, two Defiant-class Tactical Frigates, four Valiant-class Tactical Corvettes and one tactical wing, or 72 Valkyrie-class advanced tactical flyers.

SF5 Station Defense Task Force

The USS Pontus leading the Station Defense Task Force of Starbase SF5.

On its own, the USS Pontus served as the personal flagship of the Base Commander of Starbase SF5, Rear Admiral Bogram and alternately by Commodore Nassur 215, the Deputy Base Commander. But it was directly commanded by Captain Muro Grenn, Starbase SF5's Second Officer and Fleet Captain of all ships that were part of the Station Defense Task Force.

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