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WARNING: I do not own this ship, i didn't draw it, my good friend Jbobroony did it so all credits goes to him, if you want to use this ship, please ask him: jbobroony.deviantart.com/
Tehnical Specifications:
Class: Inquiry
Type: Light Cruiser
Year of Introduction: 2386
Production per year: 10
In service: 142
Total ships built: 142
Mass: 912,000 tons
Length: 385m
Crew: 150
Troops: None usually but case of need up to 120
Support crafts: 4x Type 9 shuttles, 1x Argo class, 1x Delta Flyer class
Propulsion/Warp capabilities:
One Cochrane warp core feeding two warp nacelles, two subatomic unified energy impulse engines
Normal Cruise: Warp factor 8.7
Maximum Cruise: Warp factor 9.7
Maximum Rated: Warp factor 9.997 (for 20 hours)
Expected hull life: 100 years
Armaments & Defense systems:
14x Type XII Phaser arrays, total output 60,000 TerraWatts
3x Rapid fire Photon torpedo tubes + 300 torpedoes, 1x Quantum torpedo launcher + 40 torpedoes,
High Capacity Regenerative Auto-modulating Shield system, total capacity, 6,700,000 TerraJoules
Heavy Duranium-Tritanium double hull + 5cm Ablative armor
High level Structural Integrity Field
History:
After Dominion war Starfleet realized how ill was to deal with Dominion. Many Starfleet Admirals including two which were probably the loudest that Starfleet need to change, Admiral's Murdock and Mitchell. Miranda and Excelsior classes which were backbone of Starfleet for almost century performed bad, while Excelsior's could still be salvaged with some upgrade packages (like expensive Lakota upgrade) Miranda was on her last legs. such high losses of Miranda and decision to retire the class by 2390 would leave a large gap that needed to be fil. Although retirement started many Miranda would remain in service till early of 25th century simply as there was lack of ships.
But Starfleet realized that need for new more combat oriented ships was priority. Akira, Steamrunner, Defiant and others work fine but new generation was needed. Intrepid class was ironically chose as template, since thic class was not designed as to be warship in its primary role but rather mid range explorer and scout. However Intrepid was of perfect size. Ship between 340 to 390 meters could fill the gap. First attempt was Argonaut class which was heavily successful class but again while been well armed it was more built with exploration in mind, but this class was not ready for service till 2381. Earlier class with more traditional look was chosen. Early in 2376 new class was introduced, Curiosity. This class would be the basic for future Inquiry. Curiosity will indeed be superior in combat to Intrepid and even Argonaut as it was less exploration but more combat oriented. By the beginning of 2380, only forty ships would be built. Inquiry project started during late year of production and Curiosity would evloved into Inquiry by 2386 when first ship of the class USS Inquiry was launched. Her design was updated but more importantly her capabilities.
Inquiry class carry fourteen Type XII phaser arrays (despite the fact by early 2390's Starfleet already had new Type XIV phasers but those would be reserved for new larger ships), this latest variant of XII phasers were probably the most strongest in service, three rapid firing photon-quantum torpedo tubes and one quantum torpedo launchers for total of 400 torpedoes. Inquiry carry the same shield system of much larger ships like Relentless, Pathfinder, which gave her incredible defense capabilities and despite been smaller ship hard nut to crack, her hull was heavy duranium-tritanium double hull and also had five cm of Ablative armor.
Starfleet start to mass production of this ships. While in normal peaceful times this ships were used as patrol ships on borders, in times of need members of this class gather into so called attack squadron or battlefleet which would number from twenty to sixty ships depends on need. This battlegroups were designed as fast respnse attack groups in case of Borg invasion or any other hostile species, giving Starfleet time for main fleets more time for assembling.
Usually this ships when called they would simply abandon their patrol routes, which would be covered by other ships and would all converge at one location, once battlegroup is ready it will be launched where it is needed. Starfleet cut production of some classes like Intrepid, Argonaut, Norway and even Steamrunner in order to boost the numbers of this ships as command believed that it need at least four or five of this battlegroups, each consisting from fifty ships. Some other ships like Akira, Saber's would still be in production.
By 2397, Starfleet had one hundred forty two ships of this class in service, less then it was originally supose to be but production was still high at ten ships per year. Miranda class was partiary replaced by Saber and Zodiac classes so Starfleet focused on replacement of mid sized ships or simply supplementing them. While Starfleet projected to have 250 Inquiry class ships by the 2400, this of course didn't happen. While production was to be boosted once again to reach the target number of ships, with new Arbiter class (heavily modified Inquiry) entering service, Starfleet decide to continue 10 ships per year production till 2405 when Inquiry production will stop and will shifted to Arbiters.
While Starfleet didn't received targeted number of Inquiry class ships, the ones that were in service, prove themself quite well. And under admiral Monroe, Inquiry fleet is divided to smaller battlegroups of twenty ships each allowing more Inquiry class ships to be more hot spots if needed.
Ships in class (142 total built, more ships under construction):
USS Inquiry NCC-86500 - active
USS Zheng He NCC-86505 - active
USS Equality NCC-86784 - active
USS Seeker NCC-86789 - active
USS Navidad NCC-86822 - active
USS Searcher NCC-86899 - active
USS Navigator NCC-86912 - active
USS Al-Bakri NCC-86934 - active
USS Nieuhof NCC-87015 - active
USS Battuta NCC-87018 - active
USS Chardin NCC-87095 - active
USS Tiefenthaler NCC-87103 - active
USS Al-Biruni NCC-87104 - active
USS Faxian NCC-87229 - active
USS Bernier NCC-87383 - active
USS Olafsson NCC-87384 - active
USS Tokubei NCC-87404 - active
USS Piri Reis NCC-87422 - active
USS Pinzon NCC-87424 - active
USS Caminha NCC-87445 - active
USS Zarco NCC-87462 - active
USS Corte-Real NCC-87467 - active
USS Lavrador NCC-87478 - active
USS Lemos NCC-87550 - active
USS Dias NCC-87657 - active
USS Cabral NCC-87837 - active
USS Fernandez NCC-87841 - active
USS Corredor NCC-87851 - active
USS Jacques NCC-87857 - active
USS Serrao NCC-87891 - active
USS Patagonia NCC-87897 - active
USS Rosier NCC-87904 - active
USS Bennet NCC-88003 - active
USS Khabarov NCC-88010 - active
USS Chartier NCC-88045 - active
USS Melgueiro NCC-88061 - active
USS Nicolet NCC-88064 - active
USS Pordenone NCC-88147 - active
USS Fotherby NCC-88176 - active
USS Mildenhall NCC-88219 - active
USS Whitbourne NCC-88385 - active
USS Vanbrugh NCC-88387 - active
USS Moucheron NCC-88418 - active
USS Blancard NCC-88426 - active
USS Actaeon NCC-88457 - active
USS Brazier NCC-88461 - active
USS Aldborough NCC-88463 - active
USS Volage NCC-88507 - active
USS Mersey NCC-88976 - active
USS Carysfort NCC-88983 - active
USS Laurel NCC-88995 - active
USS Chatham NCC-89023 - active
USS Narvarez NCC-89037 - active
USS Cassandra NCC-89039 - active
USS Lacerda NCC-89072 - active
USS Winchelsea NCC-89076 - active
USS Iphigenia NCC-89216 - active
USS Phaeton NCC-89224 - active
USS Latona NCC-89281 - active
USS Esperance NCC-89383 - active
USS Trabazon NCC-89475 - active
USS Sonnerat NCC-89477 - active
USS Kermadec NCC-89678 - active
USS Laptev NCC-89713 - active
USS Malaspina NCC-89726 - active
USS Banks NCC-89731 - active
USS Botany Bay NCC-89772 - active
USS Pronchishcheva NCC-89774 - active
USS Moraleda NCC-89786 - active
USS Columbus NCC-89791 - active
USS Fawcett NCC-89793 - active
USS Bell NCC-89797 - active
USS Kangtega NCC-89904 - active
USS Outen NCC-89907 - active
USS McCarron NCC-89913 - active
USS Nazreen NCC-89968 - active
USS Hardgreaves NCC-90001 - active
USS Caamano NCC-90007 - active
USS Arantzazu NCC-90061 - active
USS Waldstein NCC-90068 - active
USS Mourelle NCC-90074 - active
USS Kenai NCC-90078 - active
USS Garnier NCC-90094 - active
USS Yunnan NCC-90112 - active
USS Tonkin NCC-90127 - active
USS Basque NCC-90133 - active
USS Balleny NCC-90145 - active
USS Jacquinot NCC-90685 - active
USS Catherwood NCC-90866 - active
USS Langsdorff NCC-90890 - active
USS Thorel NCC-91007 - active
USS McDougall NCC-91289 - active
USS Watauga NCC-91372 - active
USS Eberhard NCC-91386 - active
USS Rinzo NCC-91507 - active
USS Rezanov NCC-91508 - active
USS Sakhalin NCC-91511 - active
USS Starhorn NCC-91992 - active
USS Payette NCC-92011 - active
USS Mitchell-Hedges NCC-92037 - active
USS Lubaantun NCC-92181 - active
USS Cancuen NCC-92215 - active
USS El Mirador NCC-92224 - active
USS Seibal NCC-92227 - active
USS Uxmal NCC-92285 - active
USS McClure NCC-92442 - active
USS Denham NCC-92456 - active
USS Amin Razi NCC-92571 - active
USS Conti NCC-92554 - active
USS Ma Huan NCC-92567 - active
USS Ephemerides NCC-92578 - active
USS Epoch NCC-92813 - active
USS Meknes NCC-93037 - active
USS Sardinia NCC-93069 - active
USS Jolliet NCC-93127 - active
USS Justicar NCC-93442 - active
USS Salazar NCC-93795 - active
USS Gallardo NCC-93822 - active
USS Chaac NCC-93915 - active
USS Nahua NCC-93925 - active
USS Escobar NCC-94002 - active
USS Bacalao NCC-94021 - active
USS de Sintra NCC-94512 - active
USS Annobon NCC-94823 - active
USS Frontera NCC-94845 - active
USS Hispaniola NCC-96015 - active
USS Gonneville NCC-96073 - active
USS Tamaroa NCC-96152 - active
USS Lamanai NCC-96278 - active
USS Pomona NCC-96481 - active
USS Phinda NCC-97500 - active
USS Arbiter NCC-97501 - active
USS Bellipotent NCC-97508 - active
USS Sam Houston NCC-97552 - active
USS Tensique NCC-97601 - active
USS Sandoval NCC-97603 - active
USS Cardenas NCC-97611 - active
USS Stonewall NCC-97645 - active
USS Manassas NCC-97684 - active
USS Vandalia NCC-97713 - active
USS Bozeman NCC-97722 - active
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