USS Ranger (NCC-87801)

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USS

USS Ranger

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Registry:	NCC-87801
Class:	Merian (Vanguard)
Type:	Fast Frigate
Affiliation:	Federation, Starfleet
Status:	Active
Career
Yard:	Coronalis Frontier Fleet Yards
Launched:	2384
Commissioned:	2385
Dimensions
Length:	218 meters
Beam:	115 meters
Draft:	46 meters
Mass:	540,000 metric tons
Specifications
Decks:	10
Complement:	70 total: - 14 officers - 56 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: - 4 Type-X phaser arrays - 2 Type-X pulse phaser cannons Torpedo launchers: - 3 variable-use torpedo launchers Payload: - 2 transphasic torpedoes - 20 quantum torpedoes - 38 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-9 light shuttlecraft

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The USS Ranger was a Merian-class Fast Frigate in active service to Starfleet during the late 24th century.

Vanguard Command[]

The USS Ranger 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 Ranger's capabilities included:

Type-XII phaser arrays.
Mark-X pulse phaser cannons.
The capacity to launch quantum torpedoes.
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 increases 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.
Ablative generators, which generated a nearly-impenetrable layer of armor around the hull of the ship.
A tritanium and tetraburnium composite alloy hull.
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, which 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 zero. 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.
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 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.

Bio-neural circuitry, which could process information more efficiently, and therefore speed up computer response time.
An advanced holosuite for scientific and engineering uses and for crew recreation.
A full Emergency Holographic Program Package composed of:
- 1 Mark-III Emergency Command and Conn Hologram (ECH)
- 1 Mark-III Emergency Security and Tactical Hologram (ESTH)
- 1 Mark-III Emergency Engineering Hologram (EEH)
- 1 Mark-IX Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH)
- 1 Mark-III Emergency Science Hologram (ESH)

In 2385, the USS Ranger was one of six Merian-class Fast Frigates assigned to Task Force Dauntless, the mobile arm of Abraxis Command, operating in the Gamma Quadrant from its sector headquarters at Deep Space Gamma-01. Task Force Dauntless and Abraxis Command were under the overall command of Vice Admiral Razal Gibran. The other ships were the USS Sleuth, the USS Errant, the USS Searcher, the USS Pilgrim, and the USS Sojourner.

During Condition Green, the USS Ranger forms a 3-ship squadron with the Prometheus-class Assault Cruiser USS Gallant and the Saber-class Fast Frigate USS Sentinel.

Under Condition Yellow, the USS Ranger was part of Mission Group Bravo led by the Luna-class Heavy Cruiser USS Triton, together with the Akira-class Heavy Cruiser USS Iroquois, 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 Frigate USS Sleuth.