Chapter 78 - Ych'a VDC-33000

On their journey from the Embassy to the ship that would take them to Vulcan, Mimi's excitement was tangible, although she was trying to reign it in for the benefit of her Vulcan family. She had travelled to space before, primarily school trips to Luna and Mars; however, she had never travelled out of the Sol system, and she had NEVER set foot on a Vulcan spaceship, very few humans had. Vulcan ships were renowned for their cutting-edge technology, and the diplomatic ship, Ych'a - VDC-33000, was no different.

Mimi looked out the cruiser window as they slowly approached the spaceship. At 400m in length, just under 4 football fields, the Ych'a was far from being the biggest Vulcan ship, but it was impressive nonetheless. It shared a similar design lineage with the D'kyra-class, and the elegance that came with it. It had a flattened, conical shaped hull that flared out and around the singular 'hoop' warp nacelles and came back together again at the aft section of the ship, where the impulse engines were placed. Currently the warp nacelle was dropped into the horizontal position as the warp drive was not in use. In Mimi's eyes it was a beautiful looking ship. (To make a ship that was aesthetically pleasing was not at the forefront of the designers' thinking, logic dictated the placement of every angle on the ship, indeed every rivet! The ships' design showed that beauty was undeniably linked to simplicity, symmetry, and order, all of which came about as a result of the designers' said logical choices.)

Due to the volume of shuttlecraft that were currently coming and going from the Ych'a, the shuttlebay doors were already open on their arrival. Sordd completed final security protocols before carefully manoeuvring the dark grey cruiser through the invisible forcefield, which was preventing decompression of the shuttlebay, and he smoothly landed his cruiser in the designated area. Immediately on landing the main doors of his cruiser opened and the ramp extended until it was touching the deck. They collected their luggage, only small cases as they would just be on the ship for ten days, before Sordd led the family down the ramp into the shuttlebay. Only a Vulcan, or a very observant watcher, would have noticed the ever so slight changes in the Vulcan parties' postures as they adjusted to the more agreeable environmental conditions on the ship. Being a Vulcan ship, the environmental parameters were set to meet the needs of Vulcan physiology. In direct contrast to the reactions of her Vulcan family, Mimi tensed as the heat and extra gravitational pull hit her with full force.

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Notes

Ych'a Specifications

Design Lineage: D'kyra-class

Registry: VDC-33000

Length: 400m

Beam: 191m

Height: 148m

Decks: 8

Crew complement: 122

Armament: Phasers, Photon torpedoes (Mark IV torpedoes with terminium casings)

Defence Systems: Deflector shields

Propulsion: Impulse Drive. Warp Drive; Normal Cruise 7, Maximum Cruise 7.5, Maximum rated 8 for 12 hours.

Size comparison: Football (soccer for American readers) field construction minimum dimensions are 105.16m by 64.01m

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