Class 5 Type-14D "Firehawk" Subspace Early Warning & Control
Description: The T-14 Firehawk is Starfleet's starship-based tactical battle management subspace early warning, command and control vessel. Additional missions include surveillance coordination, strike and interceptor control, search and rescue guidance and communications relay. An intergral component of the expeditionary strike wing, the T-14 uses FTL long range surveillance sensors to provide early warning, threat analysis against potentially hostile targets.
Background: The T-14 became operational in 2354 directing fighters during the Cardassian war. During the Dominion war T-14 squadrons were deployed in all major battle engagements. The extended range sensor module doubles the distance of a starship's long range sensors and provides a communications and control relay from the flight deck to the cockpit during combat operations.
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General Characteristics Length: 14.7 meters Height: 6.4 meters Wingspan: 8.2 meters Weight: 30,248 kilograms Maximum Speed (Subspace): Warp 5.3 Range: 20 light years at maximum warp Power plants: (2) Yoyodyne TF-56A-425 warp nacelles (2) Cochrane Systems MR-688 impulse reactors (2) Cochrane Systems RC-452 thrusters Sensors: SF/SAS-66 Active subspace sensor SF/AQR-42 Electronic Sensor Jammer SF/SRX-62D FTL Tactical Imagery system SF/ANR-98 navigation sensor SF/APX-100(V) IFF Mk-40 VII transponder Armament: (4) Type 5 MK-24 Mod III segmented phaser array Crew: Five (pilot, co-pilot, sensor operator, tactical information coordinator, communications officer) Contractor: Dyson Scott Aerospace Corporation Date Deployed: 2354FEB13 31123.5
Think of this as Starfleet's version of the Navy's E-2 Hawkeye. Say a ship's long range sensor scans out to a 5 light year bubble around the ship, deploying this craft at that 5 light year distance increases the range to 10 light years.
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I really don't see starfleet using such an overtly offensive platform like this. I would imagine in the event of an armed conflict that it's fleet of surveyors, scouts and science vessels would fulfil this kind of role. Hell, a Danube with a specialised sensor/comms module could do the job. Nice rendering though.
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It's not a fighter, so no, there's not a combat version. It's a combat support vessel.
I know in the canon Trekverse there's no need for a craft like this. But I aint John Eaves creating stuff for the canonverse, I'm doing my own vision of Trek.
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I'd say 5 LY is kind of a short range, what does a GCS have for it's sensor range. I thought in the area of 20 LY. Could be wrong though.
For it's 'peace' time role it could easily be a scout type ship.
Clergyman is right, it is a nice rendering.
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5LY for high-powered SR scan, 20 for low-power LR scan.
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Thanks, my TNG:TM seems to be filed other than where it should be.
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I was just making an example of how the craft extends the long range sensor area. I don't know what the actual distance is. I also suppose it varies for ship to ship.
And I didn't mean to sound like an ass in my last post. I know that what I make doesn't fit in with the canon Trekverse, I like to put a military style to it.
The pod on the top is like the dish you see on Navy E-2 Hawkeyes or AWACS which is used by the Air Force I think.
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If you're doing a more militant Starfleet, why not do it up in Mirror Universe livery? Either as an alternate-alternate reality where the Empire never fell or the same one where the Rebels got their act together and rebuilt the empire using Defiant based technology...again.
Nyet! Asshat, mayhaps (and you can borrow mine, if you want...)...
AWACS in SF? hmmm... nope. Unless the ship is stand alone in deployment, it'll need a mother ship to be based out of. and that pig doesn't look like it'll fit in any hangerbay...
NOW, however, since any Alt/Mirror Universe MIGHT, since the idea of dropping ships mounted outside a ship hull is more dangerous (and since life is cheap in the empire anyway...), i could imagine such a vessel used in such a way to be a VERY sucky job...
'Lt Bob. You get AWACS Duty for a month. Hope your Rad count is up todate, hehehehe...'
So ki?
A quick edit, thought: Why not add ECM to this ship's role. Active Jamming is something i can't recall being used as the techy plot-device-of-the-week...
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It probably would have an excellent place in the mirror universe. I am reading an online fanfic about the romulan war, foucusing on Trip and Tpol who command the UES ENDEAVOUR, a modifyed NX class. The authour definately militaried-up starfleet for the stories, and it seems to make perfect sense given as it is war time and all. Maybe this craft would be like a war-time only design. Kind of like PT boats, after a war, they are relegated to light or no duty, but during a war see extensive use. Pulled out during the Cardassian and Dominion wars, and put back on the shelf afterwards.
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Regardless, universes be danged, I like it.
Now, going out on a usual Flarite tangent.
Does a thread like this make us really geeky? I mean, Hobbes designs a ship and we try to make a place for it in any/every possible Trekverse?
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