Category:Explorer-class

The Explorer-class is the first ship class designed and first Battle Cruiser to ever fielded by the Interstellar Coalition.

Technical Data
Starships of the Explorer-class were some of the most durable vessels within the Coalition Fleet. Being the first Battle Cruiser among the Coalition Fleet design for multi purpose missions. The Battle Cruiser was designed with the base originally on the special requirements place on it by the Coalition Fleet Command as a pursuit vessel. Base on the design of Earth's latest generation of Starfleet vessels such as the NX-class. Design as The Explorer-class was well known for it's adaptability to any given situation it face throughout it's short time of service. Following the completion of the ICS Explorer in 2157 before war end, Coalition Command was impress that they authorize construction of a additional 5 hulls that would also be quickly built and finish before the end of the war.

The first Explorer was built during the war armed with a impressive array of weaponry for it's time. Armed with with point defense phaser turrets, High Focus Phaser banks with special dial sown to allow precision orbital strikes and picket shots to easily knock out vital systems of a enemy ship, torpedo launchers with probe launching capability, and a pair of prototype plasma torpedo launchers as special project that the Romulans had been working on before the war, but consist set backs and delays plus huge power requirements at the time, delayed it's deployment on any other vessel till now. The Explorer was a overpowered vessel. The Explorer powered by a large warp core system that span more than half of the secondary hull in the primary engine room. The Explorer-class also feature a secondary engine room located at the back of the saucer section that held a pair of large impulse reactors. Being built for speed as one of the major requirements place on the development team. The Explorer was rumored that during it's test run was having reach warp 8 before it burn out it's injectors.

The Explorer also feature a extremely good fuel consumption ratio even when at consist high warp speeds, and FTL use. Allowing the ship to stay out in the field for long periods of time before refuel.

The Explorer also featured thick armor plating. The ship warp nacelles were almost fully armored up to prevent an enemy from easily knocking her out of warp in a chase with a well place shot to the ship's nacelles.

The ship was made up of over 23 decks mark 1 or Bridge through 23.

Most of the crew quarters where most of the crew quarters were located among the saucer section place through decks 6 throu 10. The ship also had a dedicated bay to house and maintain over one hundred Cylon Centurions for rapid boarding actions. The Cylons can be assigned to assist in starship repairs that have to wait for life support to be restore in order to get too.

The Explorer-class also feature several transporter rooms allowing them to run multiple beaming in and out at once and to beam in a entire strike force at once or mass evacuations from a ship, station, or planetary surface. The ship also feature, matter fabrication units based on Hiigaran and biological bio-slurry from the Cylons, allowed the vessel to achieve a level of self-sufficiency in the field. Given adequate resources present and enough time, a single Explorer could provide for almost all of her material needs. This allowed the class to make long-range excursions never before achievable with a ship of its size.

Life support systems were some of the most advance ever made allowing the ship to carry in extreme emergencies over 5,000 max for a limited amount of time in emergency evacuations.

Physical Arrangement
The Explorer-class starships were one of the first to feature the saucer-engineering hull design, which would later become recognizable for most other Starfleet vessels.

Crew quarters
The 400 crew quarters aboard the NX-class starships were mostly located on decks 6 through 10 with some located in the drive section, while the Captain quarters located on deck 2 under the bridge, flag officer quarters were located around the CIC, special guest quarters were located on deck 6. Very few quarters had a view of space like those on the NX-class. The design of the ship did not allow large transparent surfaces exposed to space, due to a mostly armored up hull, there were only a few small windows throughout the entire ship.

Armory
The armory was used to launch photonic torpedoes and could be used to operate the phaser backs. Although weapons were primarily kept in the armory, the ship possessed a total of over forty individual weapons lockers. Plus a few place in or around key areas of the ship in the event of a hostile boarding action.

Sickbay
Sickbay was located on deck 5 of the Explorer-class. The sick bay was a large round room connected to neighboring rooms with multiple surgical bays place along the wall, and bio beds place in a side room, a research bay, isolation room, morgue, a medical quarters, and medical storage.

Multiple aid stations place throughout the ship in the event of a medical emergency and unable to make it to sick bay in time can keep the wounded person or person alive till medical personnel alive. Most of these aid stations are manned by a nurse near critical parts of the ship.

Docking Bay
Located at the end of the drive section. Made up of decks 17 through 19, and pressurized hanger located under the main when open for launch and recovery operations, houses four Archangel-class Assault Shuttles, and has spare room for a total of eight or ten craft if have time for really cramp the deck full of incoming ships. The shuttle bay connected to a garage which will house a number of Vehicles that can be quickly loaded into the open back of a shuttle. A tractor beam usually can be used to pull a craft into the bay. shuttles can be moved into the garage or lowered down into the hanger to free up additional room for incoming ships But thanks to Colonial recovery systems to allow quick auto landings among incoming ships.

Ships of the Line
Due to the lack of Battle Cruisers among the Coalition Fleet. Plus Coalition Fleet Command after seeing the ICS Explorer itself in action began a rapid construction program to quickly assemble a fleet of Battle Cruisers to full the fleets ranks before the end of the war.Currently six vessels in operation among the Coalition Fleet. It was decided to name vessels of the Explorer line after those lost in the Xindi First Strike.

Complete


 * ICS Explorer
 * ICS Merlion
 * ICS Corregidor
 * ICS Romulus
 * ICS Remus
 * ICS San Francisco

Planned


 * ICS Lor'Vela
 * ICS Shi'Kahr
 * ICS Hurutam
 * ICS Paris
 * ICS Krios