In 2370, the first Sovereign-class starship the USS Sovereign was launched from the drydock at the Utopia Planitia Starfleet Yards in orbit of the planet Mars. The next in a continuing of the line ships to be produced by the United Federation of Planets to carry on the work of famous vessels such as the Enterprise ,Voyager and the Demeter her launch is attended by the cream of Starfleet she is set sail with the legend...

A history of both her construction and duty can be found on the history page

The Sovereign class was built to be a true combat vessel. It is far better armed than the Galaxy class and uses many new cutting edge systems.

Production of the Galaxy class starship was discontinued and Sovereign class Battlecruisers began construction in their place at both the Utopia Planitia Shipyards in orbit of Mars and in the San Francisco Yards in Earth Orbit.. (Both yards are equip with similar facilities to provide for the construction of the most advance class of the line).

The Sovereign class is longer than the Galaxy class but is both narrower and the height is less than that of the Galaxy class. Except for the Prometheus class starship, the Sovereign class is the most advanced starship design in starfleet.

As a result, many admirals are using the Sovereign class as their starship. They are also drawing the best captains and crew members in the Fleet. The Sovereign class Battlecruiser, USS Enterprise fought well against the Borg cube and the ship class has been declared a success.

The Sovereign class starship uses special bio-organic computer components. These systems were first tested on the Intrepid starship class and can now be found integrated in the Sovereign class systems. This type of computer system is more advanced than those used on starship classes earlier than the Intrepid and responds faster to any input. This increases the starships combat performance.

The deflector shields are more powerful than shields on previous classes and the shield energy frequencies can be varied so the shields will take less damage from many types attacks. This technology was achieved through studying the Borg's ability to adapt to incoming attacks. The ship has a less bulky and more streamlined design than the Galaxy class yet because of new advanced alloys, the ship is capable of absorbing more punishment than the Galaxy class starship.

The design is well armed and has a total of six heavy phaser arrays. Two arrays can be found on top of the primary hull, two arrays on the bottom of the primary hull, and a further two on the secondary hull.

These arrays are similar to those on the Galaxy class starship but have a longer effective range and have a higher output than the phasers on the previous classes. The phasers can also be adjusted so they are more effective against other ships shields. This allows the phasers to adjust to a Borg cubes ability to adapt to energy weapon fire. The ship also has two torpedo launchers below the saucer and two below the navigation deflector that fire forward as well as two torpedo launchers that fire aft giving the ship twice the torpedo launchers of a Galaxy class starship.

Because the ship was designed from the frame outwards up as a warship, the ship has no facilities for families. The ship does have the ability to carry small number of marines if required. The crew and troop quarters are still spacious but have far less room than the quarters in the Galaxy class starship. An extra added on this class of ship is the Mark VII Captains chair which includes integrated seat belts.

Length: 2231 feet (680 meters)
Width: 787.4 feet (240 meters)
Height: 285.4 feet (87 meters)

Decks: 27
Crew Complement: 1650 (plus flight crew)
Expected Hull life: 120 years
Refit Cycle
Minor: 5 years
Standard: 15 years
Major: 30 years
Mass: 5,290,500 metric tons (Daystrom Institute Technical Library)
Power System: Anti Matter with 20 year life span. Ship normally only goes 5 years between refueling's.
Cargo: Cargo holds are scattered about the ship that allows for carrying up to 100,000 tons of Cargo in addition to standard compliment of supplies and ammunition.

Phaser Arrays (6):

Four phaser arrays are mounted on the top and bottom side of the primary hull and two
arrays are mounted on the secondary hull. Each phaser array can fire four individual beams at the same time and can be aimed at different or the same targets. Each one can fire in any direction including directly up for top phasers and directly down for bottom phasers.

These phaser are both longer ranged and more powerful than the ones mounted on Galaxy class starship. They also have a special feature that the weapon officer can adapt the weapons to enemy shields allowing the weapon to inflict full damage on enemies than can adapt to incoming fire.

Range: 249 miles (400 km) through atmosphere and 24,900 miles (40,000 km) in space.


2. Photon/Quantum Torpedo Launchers (6):

The Sovereign has a total of six launchers. She has two launchers above the dish that fire forward, two launchers below the navigational dish that fire forward, and two launchers that fire aft.
Starfleet has concentrated on launchers that can launch more than one torpedo at the same time. Once spread of torpedoes has been launched, the launchers must reload and rearm before launching another spread of torpedoes. In the early service of this ship, it carried photon torpedoes which are anti-matter/matter warheads but in later service they
have been replaced by quantum torpedoes.

Range: Powered torpedo range is 8000 miles (12,875 km) in an atmosphere and 4,000,000 miles (6,437,376 km/ 21.5 light seconds) in space

1 multi-directional phaser turret (Class I cannons)
2 twin-class II rapid-fire pulse phaser cannons
Torpedo Armament
2 rapid-fire quantum torpedo launchers
8 burst fire torpedo launchers
300 quantum torpedoes
400 standard high-yield photon torpedoes
Additional Armament
3 multi-vector rapid-fire plasma pulse cannons
10 AFG turrets (total output: 500 terra watts)
2 dual-tube anti-torpedo counter measure launchers
80 anti-torpedo counter measures

Shields:
Regenerative Metaphasic
5,000,300 terra joule capacity
High-level structural integrity field
Titanium/Duranium double hull plus 20 cm ablative armor

Power & Propulsion
Type X-B M/AM reactor
Main reactor supplemented by four high output fusion reactors, can also supplement auxiliary power

Impulse Propulsion
4 engines powered by 4 fusion reactors encased in engine housing
Maneuverability provided by a series of 12 surface-mounted retro-thruster pods (6 retro-thrusters per pod) and a series of 14 embedded RCS thruster quads

Warp Speeds
Normal Cruise: 8
Maximum Cruise: 9.94 for 12 hours
Maximum Rated: 9.96 for 8 hours

Deck 1
Main Bridge, Commodore's Ready Room, Observation Lounge

Deck 2
Captain's Quarters, Senior Officer Quarters, Captain's Mess
Deck 3
Officer Quarters, Holodecks, Springball and Volleyball courts
Deck 4
Officer Quarters and Crew Quarters, Crew Lounges, Ship's Library
Deck 5
Forward lounge, Living Quarters, Tactical Office, Holodecks, Science Labs, Phaser Control
Deck 6
Main Shuttlebay, Phaser systems, Stellar Cartography, Science Labs , Chiefs Office, Maintenance, Crew Quarters, Crew Lounges

Deck 7
Main Shuttlebay, Crew Quarters, Science Labs, Counseling Offices, Transporter Rooms, Conference Rooms
Deck 8
Main Shuttlebay, Crew Quarters, Holodecks, Operations Center, Gymnasium
Deck 9
Shuttlecraft Storage & Maintenance, Main Computer Core, Crew Quarters, VIP/Guest Quarters.
Deck 10
Main Lounge, Shuttlecraft Storage & Maintenance, Living quarters, Transporter room, Arboretum
Deck 11
Shuttlecraft Storage & Maintenance, Cargo bay, Hydroponics, Astrometrics, Crew Quarters, Cargo Bays
Deck 12
Torpedo storage, Main Torpedo Room, Cargo bay, Escape pods Waste Processing, Crew Quarters, Cargo Bays

Deck 13
Crew quarters, Separation Plane, Docking Clamps, Holodecks 4-6, Recreational Facilities, Environmental Control and Life Support, Captain's Yacht Dock Port, Crew Quarters, Captain's Yacht Cargo Bay, Observation decks

Deck 14
(Forward) Torpedo Launcher, Deuterium storage, Fuel pumps, Phaser Control, Crew Quarters, Cargo Bays
Deck 15
Captain's Yacht Deuterium storage, Deuterium injection, Crew Quarters, Cargo Bays
Deck 16
Main engineering, Nacelle Control, Sickbay, Medical Laboratories, Cloaking Device, Crew Quarters, Cargo Bays
Deck 17
Antimatter storage pods, Antimatter injection, Antimatter generator, Crew Quarters, Cargo Bays
Deck 18
Engineering support, Docking port, Crew Quarters, Science labs
Deck 19
Security, Brig, Armory, Crew Quarters, Observation decks
Deck 20
Deflector control, Engineering Support Labs, Crew Quarters, Cargo Bays, Cloaking Field Coils
Deck 21
Ship's Quartermaster's Office, Crew Quarters, Cargo Bays, Observation decks
Deck 22
Parts Storage, Secondary Computer Core, Crew Quarters, Cargo Bays
Deck 23
Emergency Batteries, Secondary Antimatter & Deuterium storage, Crew Quarters, Cargo Bays
Deck 24
Shuttlebay 2, Cargo Transporters, Cargo Bays, Phaser Systems
Deck 25
Antimatter storage pods, Industrial Replicators, Waste Management
Deck 26
Parts Storage, Phaser Control, Tractor Beam Control, Observation decks
Deck 27
Phaser systems, Crew Quarters, Cargo Bays, 4 torpedo/probe launchers, Torpedo Storage

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