USS Saigo Takamori (NCC-86562)

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USS

USS Saigo Takamori
Registry:	NCC-86562
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:	Starbase 335
Shuttlecraft:	- 2 Type-11 medium shuttlecraft - 2 Type-9 light shuttlecraft
Top view

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

The Prometheus class Assault Cruiser USS Saigo Takamori.

Vanguard Command

The USS Saigo Takamori was launched from Coronalis Frontier Fleet Yards in 2384 and commissioned in 2385 for attachment to Vanguard Command

As part of Vanguard Command, the USS Saigo Takamori'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, 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

• 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)

Beta Circini Command

In 2385, the USS Saigo Takamori was designated as the flagship of the Station Defense Task Force attached to Starbase 335, which was the headquarters of Beta Circini Command operating in the Beta Quadrant near the Typhon Expanse, which is under the flag command of Rear Admiral Ariel Taggert.

As flagship of the Beta Circini Command's Station Defense Task Force, the USS Saigo Takamori led two Defiant-class Tactical Frigates, four Valiant-class Tactical Corvettes and one tactical wing, or 36 Valkyrie-class advanced tactical flyers.

The USS Saigo Takamori leading the Station Defense Task Force of Starbase 335.

On its own, the USS Saigo Takamori served as the personal flagship of Admiral Taggert when she was not commanding Task Force Shogun, and alternately by Commodore Shren Th'zylnath, the Deputy Sector Commander. But it was directly commanded by Captain Arjan Vartho Izen Voo, Starbase 185's Deputy Base Commander and Fleet Captain of all ships that were part of Station Defense Task Force and Station Support Task Force there.

Related links

• List of Vanguard Fleet flagships
• List of Vanguard Fleet Prometheus class starships