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Autonomous Survival and Recovery Vehicle.

Starting in 2337 the ASRV project was designed to create a unified survival pod for all vessels, this replaced the previous situation where various vessels in the fleet had different designs and in some cases completely unique to the vessel in question, or relied on Shuttlecraft and Transporters only for evacuation.

One concept that was central to the ASRV concept was ‘Gaggle Mode’ where pods could interconnect with each other to increase survival rates due to allowing sharing of resources and allowing medical personnel to treat injured crew.

The Type I ASRV was first trialled on the Block II version of the Renaissance class with the USS Hokkaido NCC-45169 and then was adopted fleet wide in all new designs or refitted to existing ships under construction if able to do so.

In 2351 the new Type II ASRV was adopted that changed the shape and introduced a number of upgraded features, these where planned originally for the new Galaxy class however the USS Galaxy NCC-70367 was not completed with these and the first ship equipped with them was the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D.

However in 2370 the concept changed partly due to requirements for ‘Gaggle Mode’ being relaxed and the new Type III ASRV’s being less connectable but where still able to interlink with the older Type II’s and the whole ASRV project was dealt a heavier blow with the reintroduction of the older style single lifeboats on the new Sovereign class.

Displayed here is Lifepod 023, each pod has its own sub-registry number like shuttlecraft onboard ships.

-- Author’s notes --

Personally, I’d rather go with a different name than these just being ASRV due to how much that can cover every Escape pod we’ve seen in Trek so far (written, comic, audio/visual media) however that’s what they where called and I’m still debating a good name for these to fit the era and the idea of these being the first interconnecting ones that Starfleet has ever tried.

I’ve kept the long name “ASRV 023 U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D” on them, so anyone with basic pixel art knowledge can easily adjust them.

As for sizes (and why there’s two) is that when going through this for redesigning I noticed the TNG TM (1991) had them down as 3m cube, but the new “Build the Enterprise” (2010) Sternbach had now listed them as 4m cube, but the TNG Blueprints (1997) had them as 5m.

Honestly the 4m fits more for me, but I did up the 3m for those who might want to go with the smaller height, also for more interior views there is an Imgur album with all the model work and technical drawings from Sternbach but missing the pages from the magazines though those are on Memory Alpha.

Description

Autonomous Survival and Recovery Vehicle.

Starting in 2337 the ASRV project was designed to create a unified survival pod for all vessels, this replaced the previous situation where various vessels in the fleet had different designs and in some cases completely unique to the vessel in question, or relied on Shuttlecraft and Transporters only for evacuation.

One concept that was central to the ASRV concept was ‘Gaggle Mode’ where pods could interconnect with each other to increase survival rates due to allowing sharing of resources and allowing medical personnel to treat injured crew.

The Type I ASRV was first trialled on the Block II version of the Renaissance class with the USS Hokkaido NCC-45169 and then was adopted fleet wide in all new designs or refitted to existing ships under construction if able to do so.

In 2351 the new Type II ASRV was adopted that changed the shape and introduced a number of upgraded features, these where planned originally for the new Galaxy class however the USS Galaxy NCC-70367 was not completed with these and the first ship equipped with them was the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D.

However in 2370 the concept changed partly due to requirements for ‘Gaggle Mode’ being relaxed and the new Type III ASRV’s being less connectable but where still able to interlink with the older Type II’s and the whole ASRV project was dealt a heavier blow with the reintroduction of the older style single lifeboats on the new Sovereign class.

Displayed here is Lifepod 023, each pod has its own sub-registry number like shuttlecraft onboard ships.

-- Author’s notes --

Personally, I’d rather go with a different name than these just being ASRV due to how much that can cover every Escape pod we’ve seen in Trek so far (written, comic, audio/visual media) however that’s what they where called and I’m still debating a good name for these to fit the era and the idea of these being the first interconnecting ones that Starfleet has ever tried.

I’ve kept the long name “ASRV 023 U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D” on them, so anyone with basic pixel art knowledge can easily adjust them.

As for sizes (and why there’s two) is that when going through this for redesigning I noticed the TNG TM (1991) had them down as 3m cube, but the new “Build the Enterprise” (2010) Sternbach had now listed them as 4m cube, but the TNG Blueprints (1997) had them as 5m.

Honestly the 4m fits more for me, but I did up the 3m for those who might want to go with the smaller height, also for more interior views there is an Imgur album with all the model work and technical drawings from Sternbach but missing the pages from the magazines though those are on Memory Alpha.