Starbase Aristria

**Starbase Aristria** was a Federation Starbase operated by Starfleet. Located on the planet of Aristria, the base served as one of the main Federation strongholds following the end of the Iconian War.

## History

The concept of a planetary outpost was not at all new to Starfleet with the potential Farpoint Station being one of many examples of this. However, none of these outposts had the same standing as one of Starfleet's many space faring bases such as Starbase 39-Seirra, Jupiter Station, or Earth Spacedock.

Following the end of the Borg Invasion of 2381, Starfleet sought to re-examine it's ethos behind bases and their potential vulnerabilities. As a result a panel of engineers and command staff create a report which outlined potential solutions to this issue. One such solution was planetary bases, quite different to the outposts and colonies of previous eras, these bases would practically function as cities.

Starfleet Command commissioned the prototype base to be built on the recent Federation member planet of Aristria. Starfleet engineers then began to create a concept of the base finalizing on the current design of the base. And construction of the base began in 2394, but was classified as top secret due to the instability of the galaxy with the collapse and subsequent anarchy of the Romulan Empire.

Completion of the base was originally planned for 2407, but geopolitical conflicts would delay the completion until September of 2411.

## Specifications

### Layout

Structurally the design of Aristria is quite unique compared to other bases constructed by the Federation. The main features of which has one central spire which was surrounded by six spires, named the outer spires, which were located in a ring 1,000 feet from the center of the. A cylinder was located at the bottom, the cylinder was 10 stories tall and had a diameter of 1,750 meters.

#### Central Spire

The central spire is the most noticeable part of the base, standing at a significant 120 stories or 1,800 meters tall. The base of the central spire is 450 feet in diameter and reaches a total of 30 meters on the 120th floor.

#### Outer Spires

The six outer spires were all identical. Each outer spire was a total of 90 stories, or 1,350 feet meters. The base of the outer spires are 337 feet in diameter at the base and reaches a total of 30 feet on the 90th floor.

### Technical Specifications

* Expected duration: 150 years
* Time between resupply: N/A
* Time between minor refit: 5 years
* Time between major refit: 20 years

#### Personnel

See: Starbase Aristria/Personnel

* Aerospace Forces
#### Physical Specifications

* Diameter: 1,750 meters
* Height (main): 1,800
* Height (total): 1,920
	+ Main: 10
	+ Outer spires: 90
	+ Central spire: 120

#### Tactical Systems

##### Phasers

* Type: XV
* Number of arrays: 120
* Strength and power output: 720,000 terawatts
* Effective range: 1.5 million kilometers

##### Anti-spacecraft cannons

* Type: VII
* Number: 50
* Strength and power output: 2.8 million terawatts
* Effective range: 6 million kilometers

##### Torpedos

* Type: XIV
* Number of launchers: 36
* Effective range: 8 million kilometers
* Compliment:
	+ Photon: 500
	+ Quantum: 300
	+ Transphasic: 120

##### Shields

* Type: Symmetrical Subspace Gravitation Field
* Number of grids: 50
* Power output: 112 million terawatts
* Shield range: 10 meters from hull & 1,750 meters from core.
* Frequency range: 45% of EM Spectrum

#### Utilities

##### Sensor Arrays

* Number: 200
* Type: Multi-modal
* Effective Range: 32 light years.

##### Tactical Sensors

* Number: 200
* Type: Multi-modal
* Effective Range: 32 light years.

##### Tractors

* Power: 20× 15 gigawatt multi-phase graviton polarity sources
* Field strength: 3.2 cochranes
* Minimum range: 230 million tons at 2 Kilometers
* Maximum range: 1 ton at 30,000 kilometers

##### Transporter

###### Personnel

* Number: 12
* Payload: 900 kilograms
* Range: 40,000 kilometers
* Operations per hour: 100 cycles per hour per room (6 people per cycle)

###### Cargo

* Number: 8
* Payload: 800 tons
* Range: 40,000 kilometers
* Operations per hour: 100 cycles per hour per room

###### Emergency

* Number: 12
* Payload: 900 kilograms
* Range: 15,000 kilometers
* Operations per hour: 100 cycles per hour per room

##### Computer

* Type: AC-16 Bio-Neural Super-System
* Version: LCARS v6.7
* Storage capacity: 7.2 trillion terraquads
* Processing speed: 12 quettaFLOPS (12 nonillion operations per second)

##### Communications Array

* Short range: 3,200,000 kilometers
* Long-range: 28 light-years for real-time transmissions
* Transmission capacity: 14 gigaquads per second
* Transmission speed: Warp 9.9997

#### Auxiliary Craft

* 1× *Defiant*-class
* Shuttlebays: 8
* Shuttles: 160
	+ Type-7 Shuttles: 56
	+ Type-8 Shuttles: 48
	+ Type-10 Shuttles: 32
	+ Type-11 Shuttles: 24
* Runabouts: 16
* Attack fighters: 162
* Argo-shuttles: 6