Tau Class Light Destroyer
Hong Kong Class Light Destroyer
Defiant Class Light Destroyer
Akira Class Medium Destroyer
Constellation Class Medium Destroyer
Prometheus Class Medium Destroyer
Steamrunner Class Heavy Destroyer
Nuke'em Class Heavy Destroyer
Gemini Class Heavy Destroyer
Tau Class Light
Destroyer
Engines: Three heavy impulse engines.
FTL drive: Jump drive MkII medium version.
Size length: 2 km
Size Width: 1 km
Armor: Poor capital ship armor.
Weapons: Two heavy Incinerator Beam, ten medium
Incinerator Beams, 40 light Incinerator Beams and two torpedo launchers.
Shields: Energy shields 100 000.
Special Equipment: None.
Fighters: None.
Max. crew: 8 000
Norm. Crew: 1 000
Min. crew: 50
Cargo space: 500 m³
Capable of landing to planet: Yes.
Capable of atmospheric flight: Yes.
Reactors: Two large Antimatter reactors and one
large fusion reactors.
Info: Tau Class is an old design and isn't used
anymore. First Tau Classes were seen before the Gorg war started, where they
were a next generation destroyer, but ever since it has slowly lost its position.
Tau class was designed to be a next generation medium and light destroyer,
so even at the time it was built it was already quite weak. Taus quickly lost
their position as a medium destroyers and became one of the light destroyers
in Starfleet, which were used pretty much only to destroy small targets or
to perform patrols and scout missions. Taus served Starfleet well during the
Gorg war, but not so well in the Dominion war and when the Lightness war started
Taus had already lost their position so much that no more were built and some
had already been decommissioned. Lightness also liked kicking Taus' assess
pretty much since Lightness destroyed almost lots of Tau class destroyers
during the Lightness war. Only about 2 Taus survived from the Lightness war,
these were even considered to be historical ships, because of their old age.
One of those Taus were decommissioned and the other one was changed into a
museum, even that Taus never really were any special ships. Currently the
last Tau is orbiting Alpha Centaury 2.
Here's a picture of Tau.
Hong Kong Class
Light Destroyer
Engines: Three heavy impulse engines.
FTL drive: Jump drive MkI medium version.
Size length: 1 km
Size Width: 650 m
Armor: Average capital ship armor.
Weapons: Two heavy Incinerator Beam, eight
medium Incinerator Beams, 35 light Incinerator Beams and two torpedo launchers.
Shields: Energy shields 80 000.
Special Equipment: None.
Fighters: None.
Max. crew: 2 000
Norm. crew: 450
Min. crew: 10
Cargo space: 300 m³
Capable of landing to planet: Yes.
Capable of atmospheric flight: Yes.
Reactors: Two large Antimatter reactors and
one large fusion reactors.
Info: Hong Kongs were made to replace Taus.
Hong Kongs came into service just little after the Dominion war ended and
immediately replaced Tau destroyers. Hong Kong is faster and more maneuverable
than the Tau, but has little lesser of weaponry, but still poses threat
in groups. Hong Kongs were widely used in the Lightness War in, which they
mostly served as a fighter killers sometimes as light capital ship killers.
Hong Kongs were used a lot in attacks in the Lightness war, mostly because
of their incredible speed and great maneuverability. After the Lightness
war, Hong Kongs have been seen multiple times in the past conflicts, more
notably in the Emissary attack to Gigerdi Prime, where there were over 50
Hong Kongs. More Hong Kongs are in production in Starfleet and seem to be
big part in the Starfleet armada.
Here's a picture of Hong Kong.
Defiant
Class Light Destroyer
Engines: Four medium impulse engines.
FTL drive: Jump drive MkI medium version.
Size length: 400 m
Size width: 370 m
Armor: Light capital ship armor.
Weapons: Six heavy fusion cannons, Six heavy
pulse Incinerator Beams, two medium Incinerator Beam, four light Incinerator
Beam, six plasma cannons and two torpedo launchers.
Shields: Energy shields 5 000
Special Equipment: Cloaking device and cloak
detectors.
Fighters: None.
Max. crew: 800
Norm. crew: 90
Min. crew: 2
Cargo space: 100 m³
Capable of landing to planet: Yes.
Capable of atmospheric flight: Yes.
Reactors: One medium Antimatter reactor and
two medium fusion reactors.
Info: Defiant was designed only for battle
purposes. The first version of it was designed shortly after the Dominion
war begun and thus the Defiant became extremely important and used during
the Dominion war. At that time the Defiant's primary weapons were the pulse
incinerator beams, which proved to be extremely effective against the Dominion
ships. Several of the Defiant classes were built during the Dominion War.
However, also quite many of them were destroyed. Defiant packs quite a big
punch in quite small ship. Defiant is also extremely fast and maneuverable,
which makes it deadly in any battle, however it doesn't have so good shielding,
but does have quite good armor, compared to its size. The new version, which
was equipped with the new fusion cannons was designed during the Lightness
war and proved to be quite effective against Lightness. However, it wasn't
so good against bigger Lightness ships. Still many Defiant classes were
destroyed during the war. After the war, slight modifications were made
to them, but nothing too serious. Several Defiant classes have been seen
during the past conflicts, in which few have been destroyed. Currently a
new type of Defiant class should be in designing, one that would be part
organic.
Here is picture of Defiant orbiting planet.
Akira Class Medium Destroyer
Engines: Five heavy impulse engines.
FTL drive: Jump drive MkI heavy version.
Size length: 11,5 km
Size width: 5,7 km
Armor: Average capital ship armor.
Weapons: Classified!
Shields: Classified!
Special Equipment: Classified, probably sensor
jammers.
Fighters: Unknown.
Max. crew: 19 000, cannot be confirmed.
Norm. crew: 5 500, cannot be confirmed.
Min. crew: 40, cannot be confirmed.
Cargo space: Unknown.
Capable of landing to planet: Unknown, presumably
no.
Capable of atmospheric flight: Yes.
Reactors: Three large Antimatter reactors and Four
large fusion reactors, exact numbers remain unknown.
Info: Akira is quite new design and has been kept
in secret quite much. The reason why not much information about this vessel
has been released, is because only few of them have been seen and not any good
sensor scans have been able to be made. That's the reason why it's suspected
that the Akira has some kind of new sensor jamming system that prevents almost
any scans. It's believed that this is some sort of prototype ship that was probably
designed against Lightness, but because only one, that can be confirmed, was
seen during the war, it couldn't be used so well. After the Lightness war few
sightings have been seen and it has been confirmed that at least eight of these
ships exist in the Starfleet, more detailed numbers remain unknown. Akira itself
seems to be quite powerful, fast and maneuverable, making it a powerful destroyer.
It is believed that they were designed only for battle purposes, but since really
none of this info can be confirmed that cannot be confirmed either.
Here is a picture of Akira orbiting planet.
Constellation Class
Medium Destroyer
Engines: Four heavy impulse engines.
FTL drive: Jump drive MkII medium version.
Size length: 9 km
Size width: 4,6 km
Armor: Average capital ship armor.
Weapons: Eight heavy Incinerator Beams, 24 medium
Incinerator Beams, 45 light Incinerator Beams and three torpedo launchers.
Shields: Energy shields 300 000
Special Equipment: Advanced sensors and advanced
communications, quite a lot of science equipment.
Fighters: Unknown.
Max. crew: 14 000
Norm. crew: 5 000
Min. crew: 20
Cargo space: 1 km³
Capable of landing to planet: No.
Capable of atmospheric flight: Yes.
Reactors: Two large Antimatter reactors and two
large fusion reactors.
Info: Constellation isn't so old design. Even
when the Constellation was designed, which was during the Dominion war, it wasn't
really powerful. It contained more science and exploration space and equipment
than weapons or some defensive equipment. It's unknown, why this ship was actually
designed as it pretty much only appeared in battles, even that it wasn't designed
to be in those. Some rumors exist that why this was the case and the most believed
one is that it was only experimenting some new technology, however that cannot
be once against confirmed as Starfleet won't give much of any info of this vessel.
Lots of Constellations were built after the Dominion war, even that they didn't
prove to be so effective in the Dominion war. By the time of the Lightness war,
Starfleet seemed to had mysteriously lost several Constellations and continued
to loose them in the Lightness war. Mostly because Lightness pretty much just
ate these ships for breakfast. After the Lightness war the number of Constellations
just got smaller and only few have been seen in the Emissary conflicts in, which
all of those were destroyed. After that, no sightings of Constellations have
been made, only few rumors of some Constellations wondering in the outer rim
territories. Currently it remains unknown are these ships still in service.
Here is picture of Constellation in space.
Prometheus
Class Medium Destroyer
Engines: Five heavy impulse engines.
FTL drive: Jump drive MkI heavy version.
Size length: 12 km
Size width: 4 km
Armor: Average capital ship armor.
Weapons: Unknown.
Shields: Unknown.
Special Equipment: Unknown.
Fighters: Unknown.
Max. crew: 17 000
Norm. crew: 4 000
Min. crew: 40
Cargo space: 2,5 km³
Capable of landing to planet: Yes.
Capable of atmospheric flight: Yes.
Reactors: Two large Antimatter reactors and three
large fusion reactors.
Info: Prometheus is really old design, it came
into use even before Gorg war. It was one of the most powerful ships in Starfleet
before the Gorg war, but since then has constantly loosen its position in
Starfleet. Prometheus have had to be upgraded several times because of its
old technology. Prometheus does go fast, but has poor maneuverability, which
was one reason why it slowly went out of use. In the Gorg war it still was
a good ships against the Gorgs, but already in the Dominion war it started
to loose its importance and in the Lightness war it lost that totally. Prometheuses
were no match against Lightness forces, mostly because of their maneuverability,
but also because of their poor weaponry. No more were constructed after the
Dominion war. In the Lightness war many of them were destroyed and after that
only few remained.
Here's a picture of Prometheus.
Steamrunner
Class Heavy Destroyer
Engines: Six heavy impulse engines.
FTL drive: Jump drive MkII heavy version.
Size length: 14 km
Size width: 11 km
Armor: Excellent capital ship armor.
Weapons: 16 heavy Incinerator Beams, 68 medium
Incinerator Beams, 120 light Incinerator Beams, 35 medium pulse cannons, 60
light pulse cannons and eight torpedo launchers.
Shields: Energy shields 260 000
Special Equipment: Advanced sensors, sensor jammers,
communication jammers and cloak detectors.
Fighters: None.
Max. crew: 28 000
Norm. crew: 8 000
Min. crew: 10
Cargo space: 5 km³
Capable of landing to planet: Yes.
Capable of atmospheric flight: Yes.
Reactors: Four large Antimatter reactors and
Six large fusion reactors.
Info: Steamrunner is really powerful and also
quite new ship. It was designed specifically to fight against Lightness ships.
However not many of these were built during the war, but still they did prove
to be extremely efficient against the Lightness ships. Even that the Steamrunners
showed to be extremely powerful, their speed and maneuverability still placed
them more as a defense ship. During the Lightness war, some of these ships
were built and few were also destroyed. Still they proved to be good defense
ships. Several of them still survived from the war and some of those were
seen in the GA-IPA conflict, when Starfleet sent few of these ships to protect
few IPA colonies. Also several of these were placed to patrol UFP borders
during the conflict. Also few Steamrunners were protecting Gigerdi Prime when
the Emissaries attacked. Steamrunners seem to have earned their place as one
of the main defense destroyers in UFP.
Here is picture of Steamrunner orbiting a planet.
Nuke'em Class
Heavy Destroyer
Engines: Six Heavy impulse engines.
FTL Drive: Jump Drive MkI heavy version.
Size length: 10 km
Size width: 6 km
Armor: Excellent cap ship armor.
Weapons: 14 heavy Incinerator Beams, 50 medium
Incinerator Beams, 116 light Incinerator Beams, 18 heavy pulse Incinerator
Beams, 32 medium pulse Incinerator Beams, 70 light pulse Incinerator Beams,
three missile launchers and four torpedo launchers.
Shields: Energy shields 200 000.
Special Equipment: Advanced sensors, sensor jammers,
communication jammers and cloak detectors.
Fighters: 40 fighters.
Max. crew: 19 000
Norm. crew: 4 000
Min. crew: 4
Cargo space: 2 km³
Capable of landing to planet: No.
Capable of atmospheric flight: Yes.
Reactors: Three large Antimatter reactors and
three large fusion reactors.
Info: Nuke'em is also another ship that was designed
specifically against Lightness. Nuke'em was designed to carry a lot of weapons,
but still have better speed than like Steamrunner. Also Nuke'em has some fighters
unlike Steamrunner. However Nuke'em proved to be a lot worse than the Steamrunner
class. Still Nuke'em continued to serve in the Starfleet. Quite many of these
were destroyed during the Lightness war and even that these were pretty much
meant to nuke some Lightness ships, it seems that Lightness nuked more these.
Still quite many survived from the war and were seen in the past Emissary
conflicts. None of these really were in the GA-IPA conflict. However all the
Nuke'ems, in service at the time when was the attack to Emissaries' control
world, participated in the attack to Emissary control world. Also several
were seen at both Gigerdi Prime and Aldaain during the Emissary attacks. Currently
Nuke'ems seem to be one of the main attack destroyers, even that ships like
Gemini MkII are used more.
Here's picture of Nuke'em in space.
Gemini MkII Class Heavy Destroyer
Engines: Nine heavy impulse engines.
FTL drive: Jump drive MkII heavy version.
Size length: 12 km
Size width: 4 km
Armor: Good capital ship armor.
Weapons: 11 heavy Incinerator Beams, 41 medium
Incinerator Beams, 90 light Incinerator Beams and four torpedo launchers.
Shields: Energy shields 240 000
Special Equipment: Cloaking device. advanced sensors
and cloak detectors.
Fighters: 52 fighters.
Max. crew: 18 000
Norm. crew: 4 500
Min. crew: 10
Cargo space: 4 km³
Capable of landing to planet: Yes.
Capable of atmospheric flight: Yes.
Reactors: Four large Antimatter reactors and five
large fusion reactors.
Info: Gemini MkII is bigger, faster, more maneuverable
and more powerful than the MkI. Gemini MkII was designed after the Lightness
war, but was still pretty much designed against Lightness, however none of these
ships were able to fight against Lightness. Almost immediately these ships came
into service they became one of the main attack destroyers in the Starfleet.
Being more powerful and faster than like Nuke'em and Steamrunner. Gemini MkII
was first seen in battle in the GA-IPA conflict where several of them were seen.
They posed quite big threat to GA forces at that time. At least one Gemini MkII
class ship was destroyed in the conflict. Next time these were seen in the Emissary
conflicts where three were damaged, and one was damaged almost beyond repair,
that vessel was, however, later decommissioned and used to build a new one.
Currently Geminies are the main attack destroyers.
Here is picture of Gemini MkII in space.
