USS Aarza Kand

The Zaria Class ships look like the Love Child of a Galaxy Class and a Sovereign class. The original idea was to upgrade a Sovereign class to do everything a Galaxy class can do, which sort of misses the point of both original ships. The result was the Endeavour class, which functioned as designed, an updated Galaxy class. 
When the Disodium revolution happened, the Endeavour class could be refit more easily than the Galaxy class. 
The Balmorans grabbed the Endeavor design and then updated and refined the design. They also grabbed a lot of 2370s Starfleet designs. 
The result is the Zaria Class, which to modern Earth eyes looks "retro" but is as capable as any ship in her weight class. The Zaria class are the Flagships of the Balmoran region. Only the most experienced and upstanding captains get to drive them. 
=== Description ===
Ship Name:  USS Aarza Kand
Brief description of ship: 
The Love Child of a Galaxy and a Sovereign class. 
Campaign role for the ship
Big Problem solver
Fleet role
Heavy Cruiser
Age:
About 4 years old
Length:
About 700 meters
Equipment Quirks and Problems:
None noted at this time
Equipment Advantages
The Zaria class has front line equipment and Disodium drives
Shuttles, number, any odd ones?
Lots, including a captured orion shuttle craft and a hand-me-down Vargr scout.
Primary Power: 
A DiSodium core, extremely powerful
Secondary Power: 
Robust Impulse power. 
Primary Weapons: 
Class 14 phaser beams
Ion Cannon Turrets
Secondary Weapons: 
Cluster Warhead Quantum Torpedoe
Service History 
The Aarza Kand has been kept around the Balmoran core doing security and enforcement patrols, and dealing with wierdness close to home. 
This has bothered the Captain, crew and designers.  These ships were meant to be explorers.  
Balmoran high command has put older light cruisers out on the edge of known space and kept the expensive flagships closer to home. 
=== Crew: ===
Up to 1000 crew and specialists depending on need
Command staff
CO: Bella Zo-Rilke
- XO
- OPS
- SEC
- CENG
- CMO
- CSc
- Other
=== Eterprise-D Scale ===
Zaria Class
Science capacity 1300 -- 
Crew Comfort 1300 --
Duration 1300 --  More capable of self repair and maintenance.
Medical facilities 1300 
Tactical maneuvering 1000 -- no better or any worse than the E-D
Strategic Speed 17,950 -- cruise. Wf Ds9 Max wf Ds9.9 cruse speed is 18 light years a day. Slightly less efficient than Ane HE drives
Defense 2000 -- Class 14 shields. 
Offense 2000 -- Class 14 phaser banks,  torpedoes and ion cannons.
Versatility 1000 -- Performs the same mission much the same way.
Internal Security 1400 -- Lessons learnerd from previous encounters.
=== Notes ===
Essentially the love child of a Soverign class and a Galaxy Class
I am just noodling here so we know something about the ship and the commander if it ever comes up. This is not intended to see the captain or the ship into front line play
The USS Aarza Kand is one of a batch of six ships built by the Balmorans, of the Zaria Class, a variant of the Endeavour Class.  
She looks like a Sovereign Class fattened up to Galaxy Proportions because that's what she is. The Vicharrians originally built the Endeavour class, but quit when Earth put forward the Odessey Class and her Stablemates. 
The Balmorans adopted the design and put it through some upgrade and refinement passes before starting construction.  These ships are DiSodium and can drag race an  Amari class, for a while.  
The Balmorans have made a conscious decision to borrow from the Federation Core for Designs. Nothing against the Ane-designs - they like them fine and will use them, but they wanted to have their own ship-building capacity, and to add some variability to the flavors of starships in the region. 
The Aarza Kand is named for one of their planets, a Prestige name for the Balmorans. 
She is commanded by Bella Zo-Rilke.  This is an unusual move for the Balmorrans and controversial. 
She grew up the daughter of an Important Personage in the old Balmoran Federation (Think a Major Lockheed CEO)  She went to all the right schools and the Balmoran academy and was High and Tight. An exceptional and competent young officer.
When recontact was made, She and a small crew of fellow junior officers went AWOL.  They came and went from SBT-600 several times, pitching in as temp replacement crews and going and seeing everything.  
Then they traveled into the Federation Core and spent their time being floating reserve officers, and tourists in the old Federation. 
They dutifully wrote reports on all their travels and their discoveries and ignored demands that they return home. Somehow repeated attempts to mark them as AWOL and Deseerters never stuck and their records indicated "Detached duty" 
After 8 years they returned to the Balmoran Federation and were instantly Court Martialled.  There was a big scene and scandal. 
Bella's main defense was that the Balmoran Federation NEEDED people to go see what was going on and to learn how a better, more successful Federation did its thing. 
Bella asserted she'd give up her career in Starfleet, and call it a good exchange if she was able to educate the Balmorans about the world outside. 
In the end, Bella wound up with a severe black mark on her record and an assignment to Balmora's Starfleet Academy as a teacher. 
(Something happens in here will detail later. )
Bella Zo-Rilke became an XO of a light cruiser running about doing random whackjob light cruiser things.  Then she was promoted to command a Light cruiser.
This caused waves and controversy. Many old heads never forgot her desertion.
After two successful tours,  Bella Zo-Rilke was promoted to command the USS Aarza Kand.  A Move that surprised and disgusted the few remaining old heads. 
But Kaylin Les pushed her through because she likes Zo-Rilke's "Lets go find out"  attitude.