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This is my latest WIP, and I must say this ship just doesn't want to get completed. I started this ship Yesterday and I've had nothing but trouble with Windows and MS3D, crashing on me more times that I can count, not operating right, at one point it deleted the entire model and I had to go back to my latest back-up. To be honest I can't wait till this ship is done and finished.
I still have a lot of work on the bottom hull and deflector dish area, I need to model in a bridge and the top torpedo launchers and pod. Plus some rear warp pylons and impulse engines.
This class is inspired by another ship I found on SFM's, it's a great place for inspiration and one of my main sources of inspiration when I've got none.
Basically she's around the size of the Nova class, built during the Dominion war as an alternative to the Sabre and Defiant classes when the war was starting to look real bad. They were simpler and quicker to build, a 4 month start to launch production time really made these a favourite by Starfleet.
I still have a lot of work on the bottom hull and deflector dish area, I need to model in a bridge and the top torpedo launchers and pod. Plus some rear warp pylons and impulse engines.
This class is inspired by another ship I found on SFM's, it's a great place for inspiration and one of my main sources of inspiration when I've got none.
Basically she's around the size of the Nova class, built during the Dominion war as an alternative to the Sabre and Defiant classes when the war was starting to look real bad. They were simpler and quicker to build, a 4 month start to launch production time really made these a favourite by Starfleet.
Athos Class
Classification: Frigate/Destroyer
Design and Production Facility: Utopia Planita, Mars
Commissioned: 2375
Crew: 65
Decks: 9
Mass: 325,000 metric tonnes
Dimensions: 173m(L) x 68m(W) x 34m(H)
Armament: 8 Type XI Phaser Arrays, 2 Pulse Phaser Emitters and 4 Photon/Quantum Torpedo Launchers
Defence Systems: Auto-Modulating Metaphasic Shielding system with a Duranium/Tritanium Double hull with 40mm of Ablative armour and a high level structural integrity field
Propulsion: 2 Impulse Engines and one matter-antimatter warp core feeding 2 warp nacelles.
Support Capacity: 2 Shuttles
Unit Run:
NX/NCC – 75723 USS Athos
NCC – 75921 USS Phorthos
NCC – 75922 USS Aramis
NCC – 75923 USS Louis
NCC – 75924 USS Dalton
NCC – 75925 USS Sutherland
NCC – 75926 USS Mornay
NCC – 75927 USS Delby
NCC – 75928 USS Sheen
NCC – 75929 USS Caprice
NCC – 75930 USS Genex
NCC – 76017 USS Gander
NCC – 76018 USS Miranda
NCC – 76019 USS Keyes
NCC – 76020 USS Juvat
NCC – 76021 USS Gibbs
NCC – 76022 USS Falcon
NCC – 76023 USS Pluto
NCC – 76024 USS Phobos
NCC – 76025 USS Hurricane
NCC – 76025 USS Oklahoma
Class Overview:
In the mid 2370's the Dominion war was raging, a quadrant engulfed conflict that for a time looked to be the ultimate demise for the Federation. The Federation shipyards were in full production, old mothballed designs were being reactivated but still it wasn't enough to keep up with the Dominion's fast paced construction of ships and growth of Jem'Hadar warriors.
Smaller ships were being favoured, Sabre and Defiant classes among the most popular, however Starfleet found both ships look more time to construct than the Dominion could construct a Attack ship. It was decided upon, in a risky gambit to produce a new small ship, one that was simple to construct but powerful enough to be worth the resources. Taking design elements from the Nova, Akira and Steamrunner classes the Athos was born out of necessity.
A mere 173 meters in length, the Athos was designed as a torpedo destroyer that could be a comparable combatant with the Sabre and Defiant classes but quick and easier to produce. The ship make the record books as not only a new design developed in a state of emergency but also the faster vessel ever constructed, with a total planning and construction phase of only 9 months. Providing to be a capable and successful design, they were massed produced (capable of one being built every 4 months) during the war and shortly afterwards, increasing starfleet's combat fleet considerably.
Classification: Frigate/Destroyer
Design and Production Facility: Utopia Planita, Mars
Commissioned: 2375
Crew: 65
Decks: 9
Mass: 325,000 metric tonnes
Dimensions: 173m(L) x 68m(W) x 34m(H)
Armament: 8 Type XI Phaser Arrays, 2 Pulse Phaser Emitters and 4 Photon/Quantum Torpedo Launchers
Defence Systems: Auto-Modulating Metaphasic Shielding system with a Duranium/Tritanium Double hull with 40mm of Ablative armour and a high level structural integrity field
Propulsion: 2 Impulse Engines and one matter-antimatter warp core feeding 2 warp nacelles.
Support Capacity: 2 Shuttles
Unit Run:
NX/NCC – 75723 USS Athos
NCC – 75921 USS Phorthos
NCC – 75922 USS Aramis
NCC – 75923 USS Louis
NCC – 75924 USS Dalton
NCC – 75925 USS Sutherland
NCC – 75926 USS Mornay
NCC – 75927 USS Delby
NCC – 75928 USS Sheen
NCC – 75929 USS Caprice
NCC – 75930 USS Genex
NCC – 76017 USS Gander
NCC – 76018 USS Miranda
NCC – 76019 USS Keyes
NCC – 76020 USS Juvat
NCC – 76021 USS Gibbs
NCC – 76022 USS Falcon
NCC – 76023 USS Pluto
NCC – 76024 USS Phobos
NCC – 76025 USS Hurricane
NCC – 76025 USS Oklahoma
Class Overview:
In the mid 2370's the Dominion war was raging, a quadrant engulfed conflict that for a time looked to be the ultimate demise for the Federation. The Federation shipyards were in full production, old mothballed designs were being reactivated but still it wasn't enough to keep up with the Dominion's fast paced construction of ships and growth of Jem'Hadar warriors.
Smaller ships were being favoured, Sabre and Defiant classes among the most popular, however Starfleet found both ships look more time to construct than the Dominion could construct a Attack ship. It was decided upon, in a risky gambit to produce a new small ship, one that was simple to construct but powerful enough to be worth the resources. Taking design elements from the Nova, Akira and Steamrunner classes the Athos was born out of necessity.
A mere 173 meters in length, the Athos was designed as a torpedo destroyer that could be a comparable combatant with the Sabre and Defiant classes but quick and easier to produce. The ship make the record books as not only a new design developed in a state of emergency but also the faster vessel ever constructed, with a total planning and construction phase of only 9 months. Providing to be a capable and successful design, they were massed produced (capable of one being built every 4 months) during the war and shortly afterwards, increasing starfleet's combat fleet considerably.