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Access date: July 1st, 2183, 02:15:49 Earth Standard Time
File: Intelligence on alternate universe,
Contents: USS Ra-Cailum, USS Raging Tempest, USS Enterprise
Entry one: USS Ra-Cailum
Classification: assault cruiser, Sovereign-Class
Registry: NCC-94517
Length: 685 meters
Beam : 240 meters
Height : 87 meters
Mass: Approx. 3000,000 metric tons
Power source: Matter/antimatter reaction chamber
Crew count: approx. 1400
The Ra-Cailum was one of the first ships to come through from the 'other side', as everyone puts it, alongside the Raging Tempest. According to information shared from the Asari, the Ra-Cailum was commissioned on Stardate 72418.4 from the San Francisco Shipyards in orbit of Earth. from what we understand, that was in 2395, making the Ra-Cailum 15 years old. The Sovereign-Class is a 40 year old design, originating from Starfleet's first encounters with the Borg in 2365, when the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D encountered a cube and was nearly destroyed by it.
After that and the Battle of Wolf 359, the Sovereign and Defiant Programs (the latter of which spawned the Sao Paulo-Class in 2405, which the Raging Tempest belongs to) were shelved until 2370, when the Dominion became a greater threat and both programs were reactivated, with the Defiant taking precedence and the Sovereign being secondary until 2371, when the Enterprise-D was lost. In the following conflict with the Borg in 2373, the Sovereign-Class cut its' teeth when the Enterprise-E destroyed a Borg cube attempting to invade Earth. During the Dominion war, the Sovereign-Class proved itself beautifully, and was cleared for mass production.
The Ra-Cailum has proven itself to be the deadlier of the two starships, as it destroyed Sovereign with no difficulty.
(Spectre Wola's personal note: the fact that the Ra-Cailum's class pathfinder shares the name as the reaper dreadnought is morbidly amusing)
Armaments: The Ra-Cailum and Raging Tempest share several weapons, including a M/AM missile called a 'photon torpedo'. this torpedo is their most common weapons system, as all Starfleet ships carry torpedo launchers. The Ra-Cailum has 4 confirmed torpedo launchers that fire photon torpedoes, with a fifth firing 'quantum torpedoes', which are far more destructive. Our kinetic barriers may be able to withstand an impact, but the detonation is another story, as the explosive force would be equal to at least that of the main gun of the Destiny Ascension. The maximum yield has been stated to be 30 'isotons'.
The Ra-Cailum's main weapons, however, are its' direct energy weapons, called 'phasers'. The phaser beams operate differently than our GARDIAN lasers, and are far more accurate.
Defenses: The Ra-Cailum's shields, which are not kinetic barriers, are capable of deflecting both kinetic and energy-based weapons.
Auxiliary craft: The Ra-Cailum carries a large number of shuttlecraft, including several craft known as Peregrine-Class fighters. These are, from reports, not true fighter craft, but small and agile enough to be pressed into that role, and are heavily armed with smaller versions of the same weapons mounted to both ships.
Regardless of what shuttle they use, all of them are armed with at least two phaser emitters, making them a match for any fighter to cruiser-class ship.
USS Raging Tempest
Entry two: USS Raging Tempest
Classification: tactical escort, Sao Paulo-Class
Registry: NCC-108597
Length: 150 meters
Beam : 90 meters
Height : 37 meters
Mass: Approx. 400,000 metric tons
Power source: Matter/antimatter reaction chamber
Crew count: approx. 50
The Sao Paulo Program began its' roots in the Defiant Project, which was to create a ship that could fight the Borg. The Battle of Wolf 359 brought it to a halt until 2371, when the prototype was brought back into service at Deep Space Nine.
The prototype vessel was initially used in a mission to make contact with the Dominion, but eventually it was permanently assigned to the station. It was destroyed in one of the later battles of the Dominion War, but was replaced by another Defiant-Class, the Sao Paulo (which the Sao Paulo-Class would eventually be named after), though its name was changed to Defiant.
The Raging Tempest apparently started out life as the Tempest, a Defiant-Class vessel commissioned on Stardate 76489 (mid-2399). It was assigned to the command of Then-Lieutenant Commander Takeshi Yamato in 2405, his commission having been given just a day earlier after having taken charge of another warship in one of the early battles of their most recent war.
The ship served with distinction for many battles, though it was damaged Beyond Economical Repair in 2408, and its salvage was used to help build the Sao Paulo-Class Raging Tempest.
Armaments: While the Ra-Cailum is a more general vessel, the Raging Tempest appears BORN for war with forward-facing phaser pulse cannons and two torpedo launchers. The lack of an aft launcher may be built into the design, or it might have been removed from the ship. We do not know. However, the ship has a lack of arc weapons, compared to the Ra-Cailum's seemingly insane 360 degrees of fire.
Defenses: The Raging Tempest's shields are of the same type as the Ra-Cailum's: deflector or 'true' shields, which can take several impacts from a Sovereign-type craft and keep going.
Features: The Raging Tempest is equipped with a 'cloaking device', more powerful then the simple invisibility cloaks used by some infiltrator personnel, as it can hide the ship, and it is enough to fool our sensor technology into thinking nothing is there.
Auxiliary craft: The Raging Tempest's small size limits the number of shuttlecraft it can carry, it only carries one shuttlecraft: one type-10 shuttle, classified as a Chaffee-class shuttle. This craft is named Cyclone, in keeping with a meteorological theme.
Entry 3: Other ships
While the Ra-Cailum and Raging Tempest made the largest impact, at least 7 more vessels made their way over prior to the Battle for the Citadel.
USS Voyager: Voyager is an Intrepid-Class starship, and was commissioned on Stardate 48038.5. While we consider the Ra-Cailum and Raging Tempest famous, (Asari toymakers are making scale models of the two ships, for Spirits' sake!) Voyager spent seven years in the Delta Quadrant, which is as far from the Federation as, say, the closest galaxy is to us, as they don't have mass relays. The ship was the official leader of the counterattack on the Geth fleet, although all knew the Ra-Cailum led those ships to war.
USS Mary: The Mary is a Monarch-Class starship, based off the more famous (for them) Galaxy-Class. This ship was responsible for saving several Turian cruisers during the battle.
USS Kyushu: The Kyushu is a Nebula-Class starship, with abilities that shocked our universe when it created a gravity well that drew several Geth ships into one shot, allowing the Kyushu to destroy them.
USS Crusher: The Crusher is a Devron-Class starship, and one of the closest ships Starfleet has to a true warship. The Devron is also nicknamed the 'Galaxy-X'. The Crusher, named to a degree after Wesley Crusher, destroyed two dreadnoughts that would have destroyed the Destiny Ascension.
USS Escalvantine: The Escalvantine is an Armitage-Class escort carrier, a subtype of the more popular Akira-Class. The Escalvantine was used for heavy fighter support, destroying every fighter that was fighting against the Council fleet.
IGS Tolkalon: The Tolkalon is a Kumari-Class starship, built as an overpowered, if fragile, attack ship. Based off of an older Andorian design, the ship is VERY lethal.
USS Avenger: The Avenger is the first ship of her class, and is a purebred warship, despite using the seemingly unwieldy design of saucer section, engineering section and outboard nacelles.
USS Enterprise
Class: Odyssey; (current) NX, Constitution, Excelsior, Ambassador, Galaxy, Sovereign (historical)
Registry: NX-01, NCC-1701 (plus suffix; currently NCC-1701-F)
The Enterprise is not just a single ship; rather, it is a legacy of ships.
The first was the prototype NX-Class, normally called the Enterprise NX-01, commanded by future Federation President Jonathan Archer. Commissioned in 2151, the NX-01 served as the flagship for Earth's Starfleet, using a prototype Warp 5 engine. The NX-01 served until 2161, shortly before the founding of the Federation, replaced by the Daedalus-Class as the 'pride of the fleet'.
The next Enterprise was the first to carry the now-famous registry of NCC-1701, and was the second 'true' Constitution-Class starship (others, like the USS Constellation, were simply heavy refits of an earlier class that was developed into the Constitution) in Starfleet's service, and the first to carry the title 'Federation starship'. This Enterprise was commissioned in 2245, under the command of Robert April, who commanded the ship for 5 years before sending her in for a refit and reassigning her to Christopher Pike in 2253, who commanded the ship for 10 years until a minor retrofit in 2264, during which time command was assigned to James Tiberius Kirk, then the youngest captain ever in Starfleet.
The following five years cemented the name Enterprise in the minds of all, and was coined by later historians as 'Kirk's Five Year Mission'. in 2270, the Enterprise was refit into her 'modern' configuration, and was sent out early in 2272 to intercept the V'ger probe. Records of this incident are unclear, as Starfleet refuses to release them. Kirk took the ship out for another five year mission until his promotion to Admiral in 2278, and the Enterprise served as an academy training ship until 2286, when she was badly damaged by the hijacked USS Reliant and destroyed over the Genesis planet. Records, again, are sketchy as to the reason for the name of the planet.
After another incident that Starfleet refuses to comment on, the USS Yorktown NCC-1717 was renamed USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A, assigned to a now demoted Captain Kirk, which served for 6 years until the Khitomer peace treaty was signed, in which the Enterprise-A played a key role in defending, and was retired to the Starfleet Museum of History in 2293.
The next Enterprise to bear the name was the most important to our universe: the Excelsior-Class Enterprise NCC-1701-B. Carrying many improvements over the USS Excelsior NX-2000/NCC-2000, the Enterprise-B's first mission was a round trip from Earth to Pluto, but later became a rescue mission to save El-Aurian refugees from an unstable energy ribbon. Under-equipped, with no weapons to breach the ribbon and no medical staff, the Enterprise-B heroically saved 47 refugees at the cost being the life of guest of honor James Tiberius Kirk. The Enterprise-B served through the early 24th Century, going through the Tomed Incident and the Cardassian conquest of Bajor until the ship went missing in 2329. Likely suffering from a viral infection and caught in battle, the Enterprise-B ended up in our universe, and was discovered by Cerberus as late as 2169, with no surviving crew on board. After analyzing the ship and reverse engineering what little of the technology they could, the Illusive Man ordered the ship scrapped. In 2183, upon the discovery of this fact, Ronald Pinkerton of the Ra-Cailum vowed vengeance for this, showing that the fact that the Enterprise-B, like the other members of her 'family', was well-loved.
The Ambassador-Class, after its' activation in 2331, had three ships built at Earth Station McKinley. One of the these eventually became the fourth Enterprise, NCC-1701-C, under Rachel Garrett.
in 2344, the Enterprise-C was the only ship in range to respond to a distress call from the Klingon world Narendra III, and was caught off-guard by four Vmirak-Class Romulan warbirds. The Enterprise-C fought hard, destroying two of them and crippling a third, but was lost in action. This bought at least three decades of peace with the Klingons, who saw it as honorable, showing the Federation to be an honorable ally.
The next two decades saw no Enterprise until the third Galaxy-Class spaceframe was launched with the hull number NCC-1701-D, under the command of Jean-Luc Picard. This ship's history is well documented, despite only serving 8 years as the Federation's flagship until her destruction at Veridian III.
The Enterprise-E, older sister to the Sovereign-Class Ra-Cailum, launched in 2372 under Picard's command, spending a year in space until returning to face the Borg in combat at the Battle of Sector 001 and fighting against the Reman warbird Scimitar in the famed Battle of the Great Bloom in 2379. Picard retired in 2385, when the android Data took command of the ship, who commanded it until the ship's destruction in 2408 at the hands of the Undine.
The latest Enterprise, the NCC-1701-F, was launched in 2409, under Va'kel Shon, whose first mission was a dramatic rescue of forces at Deep Space Nine, using the Odyssey-Class ship's superior firepower to obliterate the enemy fleet. The Enterprise-F has since become the symbol of the Federation Starfleet, like all of her predecessors.
LOGGING OUT: Prime Minister Amul Shastri
Log out date: July 1st, 2183, 02:59:56 Earth Standard Time
