USS Ticonderoga (NCC-86552)

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USS Ticonderoga (NCC-86552)

USS Ticonderoga

Side view
Registry:	NCC-86552
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 Torpedo 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:	Frontier 2
Shuttlecraft:	- 2 Type-11 medium shuttlecraft - 2 Type-9 light shuttlecraft

Top view

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

Prometheus ortho — *The Prometheus class Assault Cruiser USS Ticonderoga.*

Vanguard Command[]

The USS Ticonderoga was launched from the Coronalis Frontier Fleet Yards in 2384 and commissioned in 2385 for attachment to Vanguard Command.

As part of Vanguard Command, the USS Ticonderoga'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 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:
- 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 Resilient[]

The USS Ticonderoga was the personal flagship of Admiral John Blackbull in his capacity as Deputy Flag Officer-in-Command of Vanguard Command and the Vanguard Fleet. It was also the alternate flagship of Task Force Resilient, the personal task force of Fleet Admiral Maximus Hunter, when Admiral Blackbull utilized it for his travels while Admiral Hunter was on base.

The USS Ticonderoga was alternately commanded by Admiral Blackbull and Captain Rawkk, a male Caitian. Like the rest of the ships of Task Force Resilient, the USS Ticonderoga has Frontier 2 as its home port.

*The USS Ticonderoga with Task Force Resilient.*

Whenever Admiral Blackbull was required to travel, with Admiral Hunter remaining on Station Frontier, or when both he and Admiral Hunter needed to travel, the task force would be split into half, with Blackbull travelling onboard the USS Ticonderoga, and with the Steamrunner-class Heavy Frigate USS Tachi, the Wakizashi-class Destroyer USS Sipahi and the Defiant-class Tactical Frigate USS Osceola escorting. This was the minimum ship formation permitted for Admiral Blackbull to travel with, either onboard the Ticonderoga or other starships.