Vega Class Surveyor

=VEGA CLASS Surveyor=
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The Vega class Surveyor is a type of starship utilized by DFIG Affiliates. In service during the 25th century. They are operated by private captains under license from either the Merchant Marine Service or the Earth Cargo Authority. They are often marked with an additional civilian organization flag and transponder code.
== Background information ==
The Vega Class is a civilian design performing functions similar to the Starfleet Nova class design of the late 24th Century. Designers working out of the Titan DFIG facility produced the design to fill a need in the civilian market to carry out the work of finding new homes for the refugees of disaster. This is produced exclusively at the Titan Ship Yards facility under contract to DFIG for private contracted construction.
===Ships of the class:===
*SS Grásta Brigid
*SS Rita Hayworth
*SS Wanderlust
*SS Gale Song
*SS Audens
===SPECIFICATIONS===
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====Cargo Capabilities:====
Gross Weight: 95,200 Metric Tonnes Standard Mission Load Weight / 150,000 Metric Tonnes Maximum Ascent Load. Completely Stripped, before supply and passengers 75,600 Metric Tonnes.
===Physical Arrangement:===
A single hull design, intended for space operations and planetfall. The bridge is near the front and at the top side of the main body. A large hangar faces forward at the front, just above the main sensor palettes and navigational deflector.
The forward section of the main body is distinctive with an aerodynamic box nose, wing spars lift surfaces, anti-gravity emitters, additional sensor palettes, and redundant communications arrays. 
To the rear of the main fuselage sprout over-sized combined impulse engines and chemical boost thrusters. Twin cantilever sloped wing-shaped nacelles are tipped with control surfaces, heavily shielded against damage from atmospheric entry. The Bussard collectors are recessed to avoid damage during entry but placed to be efficient in space flight.
The lower body is structurally reinforced and shielded both with physical and energy shielding for atmospheric entry. The superstructure contains extending landing struts capable of withstanding hard landing.
The upper fuselage is cowled with physical shielding over the warp reactor, and mounts 6 variable shield generators which can be tied directly into the warp reactor to generate a force dome to protect ground operations while stationary on the surface.
===Deck Layout:===
The main fuselage, contains 100% of the crew space, as the hangars, spars, and nacelles are engineering spaces only.
The forward 15% of the craft houses the hangar, cargo holds, the navigational deflector, and primary sensor palettes. This section is divided into 3 main decks with the largest being the Main Hangar (20x24x10) which opens forward but does have the capability to be modified to open to either or both sides as well. Access to the interior is obtained through a personnel airlock to deck 3, the forward lift, and a 6x4 blast door to the 2nd deck.
Below the hangar is the primary cargo hold (15x24x10 3,600m3) reached by both hatchways to the rear, and a 9x6 Cargo Lift plate. The Cargo Lift plate passes through to the Sub-Hold (15x20x3 900m3 -162m3 for the Cargo Lift) which is reserved for mission consumables. Consumables are standard for 100 Persons 18 months, assuming recycling and replicators are functioning, 30 days Emergency Rations. Accessed from the Sub-hold to port and starboard are the forward retractable landing struts. When on the ground, the Cargo Lift may be extended to the ground level for loading.
The Bridge (4.5x3x3 13.5m2 floor space, 40m3 air/37mhr) rests above the hangar, with an emergency access hatchway directly from the bridge to the hangar. There is an air-locked hatchway with direct access to crew deck 1. There is access to a standard lift that transverses the 5 crew decks, hangar, both holds, and both the ventral and dorsal airlocks.
Deck one is the top of the ship, connected to a corridor behind the bridge. The 'Watch Quarters' (3x3.5x3) are found to the starboard with bunks and a desk, and to the port are emergency equipment lockers and access to the lift. The next section contains the 'day room' (10x20x4), a hall combining a gathering place, mess hall, and social area. There are direct view ports lining the walls of the hall and access to 10 standard escape pods (6 man capacity Fed - Intrepid specs). Replicators are usually mounted on the rear port wall, with freshers (4 - 2x2x2.5) to be found in the next section. The kitchens (7x5x3) are starboard sharing a utility wall with the freshers. Passages run along the outside walls down both sides to access the facilities and the next section to the rear.
The next section to the rear has an emergency equipment locker, the port and starboard rear lifts to all crew decks. Through a secure air locked passage is the Engineering section. Occupying space of deck one, four meters above, and below (32x21x12) Main Engineering contains the warp core (vertical 4x4x10) and deuterium reactors. To either side are the main shield generators. Above is a retractable blast shield that allows for access to or ejection of the warp core.
Sections below Main Engineering, decks 3,4,5, contain secondary cargo holds, life support, auxiliary power, batteries, anti-grav generators, temporary brig, inertial dampening systems, work bee hangars port and starboard, and the main computer. Connected to deck 5 crew section is the boarding ramp which lowers rear-facing to the ground. There are only anti-grav emitters on this deck of the engineering section.
Twin cantilever spars extend from the engineering section. These each contains an independent Atmospheric Flight Control Surface, Atmospheric Gaseous Discriminator, Atmospheric Intercooler Intake, Batteries, Bussard Collector, Chemical Thrusters, Damage Control Subsystem, Deuterium Reactor-Auxiliary, Deuterium Storage, Drive Plasma Storage, EPS Modules, EPS Overflow Capacitors, EPS Regulator-Secondary, Gas Holding Tanks, Gravity Nullifiers, Heat Exchange Torzoid, Intercooler Matrix, Internal Sensors Control Node, Ion Drive, Jeffries Tubes, Landing Strut, Physical Shielding, Plasma Injector System, Shield Emitters, Thermal Dissipator, Thruster Fuel Storage, Warp Field Coils, and a Warp Nacelle Control Override Computer.
The heart of the crew section. This is designed for configurability with long missions and family in mind. The crew standard complement is 35, including bridge crew, science specialists, and engineers. The quarters are by that standard but with families in mind, allowing for 4 person occupancy for each crew member. Available crew space on decks two through five is 925m2 per deck, with standard configuration allowing for 3600m2 floor space within crew and passenger areas. The passenger capacity is assigned based on the consumables storage for an 18-month mission. In the case of emergency, the Maximum Evacuation Capacity of the Vega class is 1,200 not including crew. Consumables would be expended in 30-45 days at MEC.
Deck two has direct access to the Engineering section through a 6x4 wide blast door and a personnel airlock. Lift access is at port and starboard ends of the hall. All lifts have emergency equipment lockers adjacent to them, and a Jeffries tube parallel with the lift tube in case of lift failure. On the port and starboard ends of the hall there is access to another 5 evacuation pods on each side. These are limited though, as the deck one pods must launch before these can, they share launch tubes. On this level, the central corridor is 6x4, traveling the entire length to a matching blast door to the hangar area. 
The remaining deck two space is divided into 8 family quarters with an internal footprint of 7x7x3, each with storage and a private fresher (2x3x2.5). Each is able to be configured as needed and has standard shuttered view ports.
The standard configuration of the Vega Class, places the Medical Bay on deck 3, just forward of the Engineering section, with entrances to Medical on both passages and at the center forward. Medical (16x12x3) is the second-largest crew section and is equipped as well as a mobile facility can be. This was inspired by a Vega survivor. The 2x3 meter passages travel the port and starboard of Medical, then turns and expands to 5x3 to meet in the deck's center where it travels the 27 meters to the forward lift and direct airlock to the hangar as a 4x3 passage. The entrance to 5 escape pods can be found in both the port and starboard passages near Medical. The additional space outside of Medical is usually set up as a lounge-style area (5x20x3), with two freshers, one either end on the forward side of the passage. The 4 transporter system receiving pads are located in an alcove directly across from medical.
The remaining deck-three space is divided into 6 family quarters with an internal footprint of 6x8x3, each with storage and a private fresher (2x3x2.5). Each is able to be configured as needed and has standard shuttered view ports.
The standard deck-four configuration is like deck two, in which the two lifts at the rear open onto a 2x3 passage which is met by a like 3x3 passage to the forward lift. All lifts have emergency equipment lockers adjacent to them, and a Jeffries tube parallel with the lift tube in case of lift failure. Near the lifts is access to another five escape pods both port and starboard. These are limited though, as the deck three pods must launch before these can, they share launch tubes.
The walls of deck 4 have additional systems embedded, causing the hatchways to be half a meter deeper. The remaining deck-four space is divided into 10 family quarters with an internal footprint of 6x8x3, each with storage and a private fresher (2x3x2.5). Each is able to be configured as needed and has standard shuttered view ports.
Deck-five is differently configured. The lifts and Jeffries tubes access is on the rear wall of the section, with emergency equipment lockers just like higher levels. There is, however, a 6x4 blast door airlock which extends to the loading ramp which lowers from the engineering section. From this wall, there is a 3x20x4 chamber created, as a staging area. Across from the airlock is a 'public' fresher with multiple stalls and sonic showers (8x3x4). Two passages 2x3 travel toward the front on either side of the freshers to the forward passage, which crosses to meet. There are lifts and emergency equipment locker as well as a personnel airlock to the Sub-hold.
The center of deck-four is made up of the fresher, and then 22 multi-use chambers. Each is 4x3x4 with folding bunks on the walls, 6 on opposite walls, 3 high. Each chamber has 48m3 storage space which can be used with bunks as shelving as well. In the case of an evacuation or short term transfer, each chamber can house 16 evacuees. The outer sides of the passages have 12 like chambers each for a total of 46. With this standard set up, there are 736 sleeping spaces available or 2208m3 of storage space.
=== Propulsion Systems:===
*Warp Propulsion Systems designed by YPS
==== Warp Drive:==== 
*Matter/Antimatter Warp Reactor capable of producing speeds of: 
**Warp 8.1 Maximum
**Warp 7.0 Cruising
===Tactical Systems:===
====Phasers:====
*2 Forward Dorsal Type VII Phaser Arrays. 160* fire arcs, little crossover.
====Deflector Shields: ====
*Standard Metaphasic Shielding
*Atmospheric Capable 'Bastion' Dome Shield.
====Armor/Hull:====
*Tritanium and Duranium, with additional dorsal plating and ventral heat shields.
===INTERIOR DESIGN===
Interior bulkheads are modular and configurable to the customer.
====Bridge: ====
Floor plan: 3x4.5 with 3m Clearance
5 Bridge Stations
*Helm/Conn
*Operations
* Navigation/Sensors
*Sensor Analysis/Sciences
*Command/Tactical
====Medical Facilities:====
*Advanced Civilian Medical Center with an isolation operation theater, four-bed bay, 6-bed recovery suite, office, and secure stores.
====Main Engineering:====
*Matter/Antimatter Warp Reactor
*Deuterium Reactors for Main and Auxiliary Power
*Chemical Fuel Generator
*Chemical Fuel Boost Thrusters
==== Crew Quarters:====
*24 Family Sized Quarters, configured for 5 per unit
*46 Variable Occupancy Transport Up to 8 per unit
==== Mess Hall/Lounge:====
*The Deck One Day Room/Mess Hall has a maximum capacity of 50 seated personnel for meals or 100 seated for assembly.
Transporter Rooms:
* Four Person Capacity Receiving Pad on deck 3
*Cargo Transporter System, capable of moving 27 Cubic meters of material, the mass of 27000 kilos per transporter cycle. Controlled from Ops.
====Hangar:==== 
*The Main Hangar measures internally 15x24x10 meters, with an access door facing front.
*Hangar Access via the forward hatch measuring 20x8.5 meters.
*Cargo Lift: There is a 9x6 cargo lift capable of raising the lift plate to be level with Deck-Two, or lowering completely to the ground through the cargo holds when landed.
====Secondary Craft: ====
*4 Workbee - 2 each in Engineering Maintenance hangar Deck 5, Port and Starboard
*4 Atmospheric Scout Pods - 2 each in Engineering Maintenance hangar Deck 5, Port and Starboard (Only slightly larger than a Workbee, 2 seats.)
* 1-2 Landing Craft, Mining Operations Lander, Survey Craft or Federation Shuttle types 6,8,9,10,11
*10 DV-8 Repair Drone
===Working Options===
*Capable of docking within a Slip Courier
*Capable of docking atop a DFIG Harvester mobile facility.
*Holographic Systems Upgrade - Ship wide
*Fully Package of Holographic Aids
===GALLERY ===
====Vega-Class Images:====
File:VEGA CLASS TOPDOWN.png|Vega Class Top Down
File:Vega Class.png|Vega Class Surveyor
File:????.jpg|Class picture3
Category:Civilian Starship Classes