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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: Pathfinder
Type: Tactical Battlecruiser
Year of introduction: 2379
Production per year: 2
In service: 20

Total ships built: 20
Mass: 5,700,000 tons
Length: 980 meters
Crew: 1600
Troops: 40
Support Crafts: 1x Captain's yacht, 8x Type 9 Personnel Shuttles, 4x Type 11 Personnel Shuttles, 4x Danube class runabouts, 2x Warhammer class runabouts, 24x Rouge class starfighters

Propulsion/Warp capabilities:

Three cochrane warp core feeding two warp nacelles; four subatomic unified energy impulse engines
Cruise : Warp Factor 7.7
Maximum Cruise : Warp Factor 9.150
Maximum Rated : Warp Factor 9.150 for thirty six hours
Transwarp (some ships), Slipstream (USS Atlantis-A which have both Transwarp and Slipstream)

Expected Hull Life: 150 years

Armaments & Defense systems:

12 x Type XII phaser arrays, total output 85,000 TeraWatts,
1x Type XV Phaser cannon, total output 175,000 TerraWatts
1 x Rapid fire quantum torpedo turret + 600 torpedoes,
5 x Type 4 Burst Fire photon torpedo tubes + 500 photon torpedoes total,
It carries 60 Transphasic torpedoes
Antimatter spread emitter

High Capacity-Regenerative-Auto modulated shield system, total capacity 6,590,000 TeraJoules
Heavy Duranium/Tritanium double hull plus 10 cm Ablative armor
High level Structural Integrity Field
Ablative Armor Generators
Multi-Vector Assault Mode

History:

In mid 2350's project Starfleet issued new "Long range or deep space" program. This program was to create starships capable of going far from Federation and still be self sustanable without need of transport ships to re-supply them. Ships that qualify for this project need to be well fitted for exploration, carrying lots of exploration equipment hand having multiple labs on board but they still need to be well armed and protected in case of contact with hostile species. Excalibur class was one of such projects that (which would in war times end as Command ship). Story of Pathfinder class starship starts on board the USS Atlantis (an Akira class) ship. Early during 2373 "then" commander Arnheim was first officer on board Atlantis (for the next six months). In his free time he would often work on his own project of a large well armed starship. Ad that time ship didn't had name. He would regulary send his work to his older brother who was one of main ship designers at Antares yards. Around the time that Dominion war started he would send to his brother a 3d model of new starship which he named Pathfinder. His brother present new design to "then" commodore Eric Mitchell (who would later be behind the Project Delta) Mitchell who believed that Starfleet need more combat oriented starships liked design, despite been almost a kilometer in length, ship was real multi-purpose ship. It was capable for deep space exploration duties but was also more then capable warship. Commodore Mitchel proposed this to his direct superior, Admiral Murdock who liked design and plan was send to Starfleet Command for evaluvation. While Starfleet believed that ship is to aggressive due large amount of weaponry, Mitchell dissagreed. During short retrofit of Atlantis in Utopia Planitia shipyards, Captain Arnheim was called upon Starfleet command to present his design.

While council was interested in design and taking that ship also have many advanced technologies on board like MVAM he was questioned about ship after all he was the first Captain in Starfleet to design new class of ship

His respond.

Quote

"Pathfinder class tactical battlecruiser is designed for exploration, diplomacy and combat. My design as you can see is based on Akira class ship but its far larger then Akira and even Midway. She is well suited for exploration due all equipment on board, diplomacy and maybe most important in deep and unknown space combat. If you send such massive ship into unknown you must ensure it can protect itself.

In case of war like current war is, this ship can be used as command ship from which entire fleet can be controlled and in case combat become personal like CQB (close combat battle) that enemy will not survive."

But Starfleet tried counter attack

"Starfleet may be military arm of Federation but our primary goal is exploration not combat."

Captain Arnheim response

"As long you think that way, there will be wars, other hostile species will test Federation and Starfleet and we will suffer heavy casulties as we suffer now. Starfleet do not need to be militaristic but it need to be able to defend itself. Forget the morality for the moment and think on survival, we are not fighting for one planet, we are fighting for every single one in Federation. Tell me, would you send an Excelsior class on deep space exploration? IF that class encounter aggressive species, as soon they scan the ship they would attack, but if they scan Pathfinder, they will think twice before engaging.

She is big and yes it would be expensive with all technologies on board but she worth it. "

And this would continue for hours. Eventually project would started with Commodore Mitchell supervising it and Arnheim's brother working hard on the new ship. Starfleet would allow small batch of ships to be built, by the 2380 Starfleet would allow total of twenty ships to be built due been large and expensive, and only first four ships will have the MVAM. This was victory for Arnheim and Starfleet command would later admit that Captian Arnheim was first officer in command of starship to design fully a new starship (despite Arnheim designed only exterior and her weapons and his brother did almost all internal job). After loss of USS Atlantis in 2378, Arnheim would spend next two years and Antares yards working on first two prototpyes, while name of one ship was of course known as USS Pathfinder, second ship was not named. In october of 2380 shortly after launch of USS Pathfinder, (now) Admiral Mitchell promoted captain Arnheim to rank of commodore and gave him command of new USS Atlantis (second Pathfinder). This maked Arnheim unique as he was only Starfleet officer to command ship, design new one and then command that ship that he designed.

Pathfinder was officionally known as Pathfinder class deep space explorer, her military designation was Tactical Battlecruiser and that suits her well considering of her arsenal. Pathfinder carry total of twelve Type XII phaser arrays, two heavy Type XV phaser cannons, one rapid fire quantum torpedo launcher, five burst fire/rapid fire photon torpedo tubes (later additional added for total of eight). In 2390s with Type XIII and Type XIV phasers in development, at least one member will receive Type XIV which would double the firepower of Pathfinder class.

Her defenses were state of art. High Capacity-Regenerative-Auto modulated shield system, one of strongest shield systems that Starfleet used, that enter service with USS Pathfinder and would later be added to all Pathfinder class ships as well Excalibur, Sovereign's, Legacy.... Powerful shield class that allow Pathfinder class to go toe vs toe with Bort tactical cube and survive the punishment. There were multiple secondary and tetriary shield generators that allows high speed shield recharging as well. Heaviest Duranium/Tritanium armored hull ever would be her last line of defense but this armored hull will also have 10cm of Ablative armor over itself for extra protection allowing Pathfinder to sruvive lot of enemy fire even if losing her shields. Ablative armor generators new technology which allows recovery of ablative armor. New generation of Ablative armor was coated with special nanites which have only one task, repair the armor damage. This was taken from Borg regeneration and further perfected during 2380s thanks to 7 of 9. Thanks to many upgrades Atlantis received it could hold on its own in Delta quadrant without problem even taking on fleet of Devore warships.

This allowed small to medium damage to be repaired in quite short time although heavy damage either need much longer time or entire armor plating to be replaced. And finally multi vector assault mode which while more offensive in nature can also be defensive, if properly used. If Prometheus class could eliminate D'Deridex class, each of Pathfinder sections alone could destroy D'Deridex in short time.

Jamming technologies as well new most advanced computers were installed on board. Modulation computer was first added to Pathfinders and it allows it to modulate shields at such speed that even Enterprise's commander Data couldn't do it fast. Different anti-probe equipment was also installed making Borg harder to break and adapt to this class. This allows Pathfinder to engage Borg cube directly and personally something that many other captains on other ships would think twice before they would do. If this was not enough Starfleet also added small number of Transphasic torpedoes on board, making Pathfinder even more dangerous. When USS Atlantis was deployed to Delta quadrant in 2384, it was the most poweful ship in the fleet. Outfited with more technologies then other of her sisters, Atlantis had advanced sensors which could detect even Voth cloaked ships, as well personal cloaks, this was to prevent some bad experience Voyager's crew had during its Delta quadrant trip.

Originally 10 ships was only to be built as Pathfinder's were quite expensive class. However since Starfleet was in need of larger ships, Starfleet placed order for additional fifteen ships, totaling twenty five ships to be built and in service, possibility of more ships to be ordered after that, highly unlikely. Still even this small number of ships was deadly as every ship on its own could hold a smaller fleet.

Ships in class (21 ships built so far, production still on going, at least 5 additional ships to be built before production stops):

USS Pathfinder             NCC-79900 - active

USS Atlantis                    NCC-65052-A - active

USS Stargazer                NCC-80215 - active

USS Miranda                 NCC-77000-A - active

USS Texas                     NCC-80401 - active

USS Rodan                      NCC-81357 - active

USS Anduril                     NCC-81672 - active

USS Odyssey                  NCC-71832-A - active

USS Palamedes              NCC- 82607 - active

USS Hyperion                  NCC-85442 - active

USS Hammerhead         NCC-86791 - active

USS Soryu                      NCC-88005 - active

USS Constellation         NCC-88152 - active

USS Defiance                 NCC-90021 - active

USS Tripoli                     NCC-90055 - active

USS Pharos                     NCC-90201 - active

USS Nestor                     NCC-91855 - active

USS Trieste                      NCC-92605 - active

USS Rhea                        NCC-92892 - active

USS Nyx                         NCC-93917 - active

USS Nike                          NCC-94004 - active

Description
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: Pathfinder
Type: Tactical Battlecruiser
Year of introduction: 2379
Production per year: 2
In service: 20

Total ships built: 20
Mass: 5,700,000 tons
Length: 980 meters
Crew: 1600
Troops: 40
Support Crafts: 1x Captain's yacht, 8x Type 9 Personnel Shuttles, 4x Type 11 Personnel Shuttles, 4x Danube class runabouts, 2x Warhammer class runabouts, 24x Rouge class starfighters

Propulsion/Warp capabilities:

Three cochrane warp core feeding two warp nacelles; four subatomic unified energy impulse engines
Cruise : Warp Factor 7.7
Maximum Cruise : Warp Factor 9.150
Maximum Rated : Warp Factor 9.150 for thirty six hours
Transwarp (some ships), Slipstream (USS Atlantis-A which have both Transwarp and Slipstream)

Expected Hull Life: 150 years

Armaments & Defense systems:

12 x Type XII phaser arrays, total output 85,000 TeraWatts,
1x Type XV Phaser cannon, total output 175,000 TerraWatts
1 x Rapid fire quantum torpedo turret + 600 torpedoes,
5 x Type 4 Burst Fire photon torpedo tubes + 500 photon torpedoes total,
It carries 60 Transphasic torpedoes
Antimatter spread emitter

High Capacity-Regenerative-Auto modulated shield system, total capacity 6,590,000 TeraJoules
Heavy Duranium/Tritanium double hull plus 10 cm Ablative armor
High level Structural Integrity Field
Ablative Armor Generators
Multi-Vector Assault Mode

History:

In mid 2350's project Starfleet issued new "Long range or deep space" program. This program was to create starships capable of going far from Federation and still be self sustanable without need of transport ships to re-supply them. Ships that qualify for this project need to be well fitted for exploration, carrying lots of exploration equipment hand having multiple labs on board but they still need to be well armed and protected in case of contact with hostile species. Excalibur class was one of such projects that (which would in war times end as Command ship). Story of Pathfinder class starship starts on board the USS Atlantis (an Akira class) ship. Early during 2373 "then" commander Arnheim was first officer on board Atlantis (for the next six months). In his free time he would often work on his own project of a large well armed starship. Ad that time ship didn't had name. He would regulary send his work to his older brother who was one of main ship designers at Antares yards. Around the time that Dominion war started he would send to his brother a 3d model of new starship which he named Pathfinder. His brother present new design to "then" commodore Eric Mitchell (who would later be behind the Project Delta) Mitchell who believed that Starfleet need more combat oriented starships liked design, despite been almost a kilometer in length, ship was real multi-purpose ship. It was capable for deep space exploration duties but was also more then capable warship. Commodore Mitchel proposed this to his direct superior, Admiral Murdock who liked design and plan was send to Starfleet Command for evaluvation. While Starfleet believed that ship is to aggressive due large amount of weaponry, Mitchell dissagreed. During short retrofit of Atlantis in Utopia Planitia shipyards, Captain Arnheim was called upon Starfleet command to present his design.

While council was interested in design and taking that ship also have many advanced technologies on board like MVAM he was questioned about ship after all he was the first Captain in Starfleet to design new class of ship

His respond.

Quote

"Pathfinder class tactical battlecruiser is designed for exploration, diplomacy and combat. My design as you can see is based on Akira class ship but its far larger then Akira and even Midway. She is well suited for exploration due all equipment on board, diplomacy and maybe most important in deep and unknown space combat. If you send such massive ship into unknown you must ensure it can protect itself.

In case of war like current war is, this ship can be used as command ship from which entire fleet can be controlled and in case combat become personal like CQB (close combat battle) that enemy will not survive."

But Starfleet tried counter attack

"Starfleet may be military arm of Federation but our primary goal is exploration not combat."

Captain Arnheim response

"As long you think that way, there will be wars, other hostile species will test Federation and Starfleet and we will suffer heavy casulties as we suffer now. Starfleet do not need to be militaristic but it need to be able to defend itself. Forget the morality for the moment and think on survival, we are not fighting for one planet, we are fighting for every single one in Federation. Tell me, would you send an Excelsior class on deep space exploration? IF that class encounter aggressive species, as soon they scan the ship they would attack, but if they scan Pathfinder, they will think twice before engaging.

She is big and yes it would be expensive with all technologies on board but she worth it. "

And this would continue for hours. Eventually project would started with Commodore Mitchell supervising it and Arnheim's brother working hard on the new ship. Starfleet would allow small batch of ships to be built, by the 2380 Starfleet would allow total of twenty ships to be built due been large and expensive, and only first four ships will have the MVAM. This was victory for Arnheim and Starfleet command would later admit that Captian Arnheim was first officer in command of starship to design fully a new starship (despite Arnheim designed only exterior and her weapons and his brother did almost all internal job). After loss of USS Atlantis in 2378, Arnheim would spend next two years and Antares yards working on first two prototpyes, while name of one ship was of course known as USS Pathfinder, second ship was not named. In october of 2380 shortly after launch of USS Pathfinder, (now) Admiral Mitchell promoted captain Arnheim to rank of commodore and gave him command of new USS Atlantis (second Pathfinder). This maked Arnheim unique as he was only Starfleet officer to command ship, design new one and then command that ship that he designed.

Pathfinder was officionally known as Pathfinder class deep space explorer, her military designation was Tactical Battlecruiser and that suits her well considering of her arsenal. Pathfinder carry total of twelve Type XII phaser arrays, two heavy Type XV phaser cannons, one rapid fire quantum torpedo launcher, five burst fire/rapid fire photon torpedo tubes (later additional added for total of eight). In 2390s with Type XIII and Type XIV phasers in development, at least one member will receive Type XIV which would double the firepower of Pathfinder class.

Her defenses were state of art. High Capacity-Regenerative-Auto modulated shield system, one of strongest shield systems that Starfleet used, that enter service with USS Pathfinder and would later be added to all Pathfinder class ships as well Excalibur, Sovereign's, Legacy.... Powerful shield class that allow Pathfinder class to go toe vs toe with Bort tactical cube and survive the punishment. There were multiple secondary and tetriary shield generators that allows high speed shield recharging as well. Heaviest Duranium/Tritanium armored hull ever would be her last line of defense but this armored hull will also have 10cm of Ablative armor over itself for extra protection allowing Pathfinder to sruvive lot of enemy fire even if losing her shields. Ablative armor generators new technology which allows recovery of ablative armor. New generation of Ablative armor was coated with special nanites which have only one task, repair the armor damage. This was taken from Borg regeneration and further perfected during 2380s thanks to 7 of 9. Thanks to many upgrades Atlantis received it could hold on its own in Delta quadrant without problem even taking on fleet of Devore warships.

This allowed small to medium damage to be repaired in quite short time although heavy damage either need much longer time or entire armor plating to be replaced. And finally multi vector assault mode which while more offensive in nature can also be defensive, if properly used. If Prometheus class could eliminate D'Deridex class, each of Pathfinder sections alone could destroy D'Deridex in short time.

Jamming technologies as well new most advanced computers were installed on board. Modulation computer was first added to Pathfinders and it allows it to modulate shields at such speed that even Enterprise's commander Data couldn't do it fast. Different anti-probe equipment was also installed making Borg harder to break and adapt to this class. This allows Pathfinder to engage Borg cube directly and personally something that many other captains on other ships would think twice before they would do. If this was not enough Starfleet also added small number of Transphasic torpedoes on board, making Pathfinder even more dangerous. When USS Atlantis was deployed to Delta quadrant in 2384, it was the most poweful ship in the fleet. Outfited with more technologies then other of her sisters, Atlantis had advanced sensors which could detect even Voth cloaked ships, as well personal cloaks, this was to prevent some bad experience Voyager's crew had during its Delta quadrant trip.

Originally 10 ships was only to be built as Pathfinder's were quite expensive class. However since Starfleet was in need of larger ships, Starfleet placed order for additional fifteen ships, totaling twenty five ships to be built and in service, possibility of more ships to be ordered after that, highly unlikely. Still even this small number of ships was deadly as every ship on its own could hold a smaller fleet.

Ships in class (21 ships built so far, production still on going, at least 5 additional ships to be built before production stops):

USS Pathfinder             NCC-79900 - active

USS Atlantis                    NCC-65052-A - active

USS Stargazer                NCC-80215 - active

USS Miranda                 NCC-77000-A - active

USS Texas                     NCC-80401 - active

USS Rodan                      NCC-81357 - active

USS Anduril                     NCC-81672 - active

USS Odyssey                  NCC-71832-A - active

USS Palamedes              NCC- 82607 - active

USS Hyperion                  NCC-85442 - active

USS Hammerhead         NCC-86791 - active

USS Soryu                      NCC-88005 - active

USS Constellation         NCC-88152 - active

USS Defiance                 NCC-90021 - active

USS Tripoli                     NCC-90055 - active

USS Pharos                     NCC-90201 - active

USS Nestor                     NCC-91855 - active

USS Trieste                      NCC-92605 - active

USS Rhea                        NCC-92892 - active

USS Nyx                         NCC-93917 - active

USS Nike                          NCC-94004 - active