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Getting a little sick of waiting a year for the Journal Of Applied Treknology to post anything, and still haven't. So here it is on Deviantart.

Class name:        Auriga

Basic Ship Specs;

Ship Type:           Experimental galactic exploration cruiser

First Commission Date: 2263

Length:                 274m

Width: 150m

Height: 68m

Decks:   16

Displacement:   210,000 tonnes

Compliment;

Officers:               45

Crew:    255

Speed;

Warp (cruise):   5

Warp (max.):     7

Warp (max emerg.):       7.5

Emergency Evac.:             500

Max Sublight:    .25c

Armament:         4 phaser banks, 1 probe launcher.

Defence:             Cast rodinium shields

Embarked craft:                                2 class 5 warp shuttles, 4 impulse shuttle pods

“One of the best things about leading the Aries expedition is that all you need to do is look up at the constellation and you'll always see us and our ship.” – Captain Baysan Nejem, USS Hathaway, 2263.

Called the Charioteer, the Auriga class is an experimental galaxy survey ship that is recognized by its 3 experimental time dilation warp engines. Like her sister class, the Giacchino class, each of the Auriga class is assigned one of the 88 main constellations from Earth's skies and travels to the stars of those constellations. Once in that star system, the ship scans the cosmos from those vantage points and transmits their findings to the Earth Space Probe and Starfleet to coordinate with exploration cruisers for a more detailed investigation.

On the bottom of the saucer just above the lower high resolution sensor array are a series of long range scanners. They scan the cosmos for both radio and subspace radio waves, planets in the goldilocks zone, water, and valuable resources such as dilithium crystals.

The Auriga class uses an experimental time dilation warp drive. By conducting tachyons in the warp coils instead of negative energy, a time dilation effect takes place at warp where time slows like how time slows down on a ship approaching the speed of light using impulse engines. And the higher the warp speeds, the greater the time dilation effect.

At warp factor 1 (1c), the passage of time between the ship and the universe is equal. At warp 2 (10c) for every second that passes in the ship, 8 seconds pass in the universe. At warp 3 (39c), 27 seconds in the universe. Warp 4 (102c), 64 seconds, and so forth. This means a trip from Earth to where Vulcan use to be 16 light years away at warp 5 would still take 27 days to get there, but only 5 hours would pass for the ship and crew.

Critics have said that because the passage of time moves slower on the ship, the power to sustain warp factor 5 would be 125 times greater on the ship just to maintain speed. In reality it's the opposite that's true. Though it appears the ship within the effect is traveling at warp 14.34, it only needs warp 5 power to maintain inside the dilation effect, thereby using only 0.8% of the fuel needed for the voyage.

Critics also claim that if the ship were to become trapped at high warp speeds within the time dilation effect, then the crew would be trapped decades if not centuries in the future with no means of returning. In reality starships that can attain warp 9 cannot maintain that speed for more than 12 hours before overheat and warp field instabilities drops the ship back to impulse. And even then the most into the future the ship would travel to is only one year.

Though real time communications is impossible and other risks with interstellar debris have been addressed, numerous advantages with the new drive include ship fuel and supplies, perishables life expectancy and crew psychology.

One other effect of the time dilation drive is that it seems to disrupt the Lindelof effect.

The Lindelof effect is the effect that allows starships to fire phasers at warp when the pursuit ship matches warp velocities with the target ship and is within what is often regarded as suicidal range, typically 50,000km depending on the warp factor.

Starship warp engines generates a subspace displacement field that catastrophically expands space behind the ship's warp field at faster than light speeds that results in the space in front of the ship's warp field to catastrophically collapse at faster than light speeds. The collapsed space then warps around the ship’s warp field filling the gap from the expanded space behind the ship which causes the ship’s position to shift forward at faster than light speed without inertia.

Using a heavily publicized incident that happened in 2259 to help explain the Lindelof effect, as the USS Enterprise's warp field catastrophically expands the space behind it, the USS Vengeance's warp field catastrophically collapses that same space the Enterprise had just expanded. This then causes the space being collapsed by the Enterprise's warp drive to move past its warp field and handed off to the Vengeance's warp field. The result is a pocket of normal space being formed in between the 2 warp fields and being carried at warp speeds with the 2 ships. And it is within this pocket that allows starships to fire phasers at warp.

Many have mistakenly believed the effect as the collapse and the expansion between the 2 warp fields canceling each other out forming the pocket of normal space.

During a test flight of the time dilation drive to see how the ship would react to pursuit and attack with phasers at 1/100th power, the particle beams began to break up the instant they left the warp field. Though never tested at full power, readings indicated that a full phaser strike would rebound back into the warp field collapsing the field of the attacking ship. But this also renders the time dilation ship's weapons useless.

To compensate for the interstellar debris risk, the Arugia class is equipped with 2 deflector dishes. The saucer mounted dish is a standard navigational deflector while the upper pylon dish is an enhanced tachyon sonar to give the crew in the time dilation effect more time to focus the deflector dish or to make a minute course correction.

The Arugia is armed with 4 phaser and a forward probe launcher that can fire class 8 and 9 probes that have their modular sensor and science equipment packages replaced with cobalt fusion warheads and have their drive systems set to overload and detonate on impact. The shields however are military grade cast rodinium shields.

In each of the dorsal sections and in the quarter aft saucer, the Auriga class has diagonal full ceiling height Jefferies tubes. Deemed an engineering challenge, the graviton wind emitters for artificial gravity are angled with the Jefferies tubes to give the sense of down perpendicular to the tube's deck plate. One side of the tubes has the utility trunks while the other has deck access that can be sealed off in the event of a hull rupture. Even with ease of maintenance and access, the transition from standard decks to the diagonal tubes and back have often described as disorienting.

Rumours have been circulating that the time dilation drive is going to be installed on other exploration cruisers and starships under the Earth Space Probe Program. Though Starfleet hasn't acknowledged this, they did confirm that more Auriga class starships will be constructed with the time dilation drive at the recently commissioned Utopia Planitia shipyard on Mars, to take advantage of the lower gravity, and they will be sent to explore the constellations of Earth.

1-Does not conform to ILM’s official figures

2-The TNG warpscale is used for warp 1-9 while the “All Good Things...” warp scale is used for speeds above warp 9. The TOS warp scale is used for the time dilation effect.

Description

Getting a little sick of waiting a year for the Journal Of Applied Treknology to post anything, and still haven't. So here it is on Deviantart.

Class name:        Auriga

Basic Ship Specs;

Ship Type:           Experimental galactic exploration cruiser

First Commission Date: 2263

Length:                 274m

Width: 150m

Height: 68m

Decks:   16

Displacement:   210,000 tonnes

Compliment;

Officers:               45

Crew:    255

Speed;

Warp (cruise):   5

Warp (max.):     7

Warp (max emerg.):       7.5

Emergency Evac.:             500

Max Sublight:    .25c

Armament:         4 phaser banks, 1 probe launcher.

Defence:             Cast rodinium shields

Embarked craft:                                2 class 5 warp shuttles, 4 impulse shuttle pods

“One of the best things about leading the Aries expedition is that all you need to do is look up at the constellation and you'll always see us and our ship.” – Captain Baysan Nejem, USS Hathaway, 2263.

Called the Charioteer, the Auriga class is an experimental galaxy survey ship that is recognized by its 3 experimental time dilation warp engines. Like her sister class, the Giacchino class, each of the Auriga class is assigned one of the 88 main constellations from Earth's skies and travels to the stars of those constellations. Once in that star system, the ship scans the cosmos from those vantage points and transmits their findings to the Earth Space Probe and Starfleet to coordinate with exploration cruisers for a more detailed investigation.

On the bottom of the saucer just above the lower high resolution sensor array are a series of long range scanners. They scan the cosmos for both radio and subspace radio waves, planets in the goldilocks zone, water, and valuable resources such as dilithium crystals.

The Auriga class uses an experimental time dilation warp drive. By conducting tachyons in the warp coils instead of negative energy, a time dilation effect takes place at warp where time slows like how time slows down on a ship approaching the speed of light using impulse engines. And the higher the warp speeds, the greater the time dilation effect.

At warp factor 1 (1c), the passage of time between the ship and the universe is equal. At warp 2 (10c) for every second that passes in the ship, 8 seconds pass in the universe. At warp 3 (39c), 27 seconds in the universe. Warp 4 (102c), 64 seconds, and so forth. This means a trip from Earth to where Vulcan use to be 16 light years away at warp 5 would still take 27 days to get there, but only 5 hours would pass for the ship and crew.

Critics have said that because the passage of time moves slower on the ship, the power to sustain warp factor 5 would be 125 times greater on the ship just to maintain speed. In reality it's the opposite that's true. Though it appears the ship within the effect is traveling at warp 14.34, it only needs warp 5 power to maintain inside the dilation effect, thereby using only 0.8% of the fuel needed for the voyage.

Critics also claim that if the ship were to become trapped at high warp speeds within the time dilation effect, then the crew would be trapped decades if not centuries in the future with no means of returning. In reality starships that can attain warp 9 cannot maintain that speed for more than 12 hours before overheat and warp field instabilities drops the ship back to impulse. And even then the most into the future the ship would travel to is only one year.

Though real time communications is impossible and other risks with interstellar debris have been addressed, numerous advantages with the new drive include ship fuel and supplies, perishables life expectancy and crew psychology.

One other effect of the time dilation drive is that it seems to disrupt the Lindelof effect.

The Lindelof effect is the effect that allows starships to fire phasers at warp when the pursuit ship matches warp velocities with the target ship and is within what is often regarded as suicidal range, typically 50,000km depending on the warp factor.

Starship warp engines generates a subspace displacement field that catastrophically expands space behind the ship's warp field at faster than light speeds that results in the space in front of the ship's warp field to catastrophically collapse at faster than light speeds. The collapsed space then warps around the ship’s warp field filling the gap from the expanded space behind the ship which causes the ship’s position to shift forward at faster than light speed without inertia.

Using a heavily publicized incident that happened in 2259 to help explain the Lindelof effect, as the USS Enterprise's warp field catastrophically expands the space behind it, the USS Vengeance's warp field catastrophically collapses that same space the Enterprise had just expanded. This then causes the space being collapsed by the Enterprise's warp drive to move past its warp field and handed off to the Vengeance's warp field. The result is a pocket of normal space being formed in between the 2 warp fields and being carried at warp speeds with the 2 ships. And it is within this pocket that allows starships to fire phasers at warp.

Many have mistakenly believed the effect as the collapse and the expansion between the 2 warp fields canceling each other out forming the pocket of normal space.

During a test flight of the time dilation drive to see how the ship would react to pursuit and attack with phasers at 1/100th power, the particle beams began to break up the instant they left the warp field. Though never tested at full power, readings indicated that a full phaser strike would rebound back into the warp field collapsing the field of the attacking ship. But this also renders the time dilation ship's weapons useless.

To compensate for the interstellar debris risk, the Arugia class is equipped with 2 deflector dishes. The saucer mounted dish is a standard navigational deflector while the upper pylon dish is an enhanced tachyon sonar to give the crew in the time dilation effect more time to focus the deflector dish or to make a minute course correction.

The Arugia is armed with 4 phaser and a forward probe launcher that can fire class 8 and 9 probes that have their modular sensor and science equipment packages replaced with cobalt fusion warheads and have their drive systems set to overload and detonate on impact. The shields however are military grade cast rodinium shields.

In each of the dorsal sections and in the quarter aft saucer, the Auriga class has diagonal full ceiling height Jefferies tubes. Deemed an engineering challenge, the graviton wind emitters for artificial gravity are angled with the Jefferies tubes to give the sense of down perpendicular to the tube's deck plate. One side of the tubes has the utility trunks while the other has deck access that can be sealed off in the event of a hull rupture. Even with ease of maintenance and access, the transition from standard decks to the diagonal tubes and back have often described as disorienting.

Rumours have been circulating that the time dilation drive is going to be installed on other exploration cruisers and starships under the Earth Space Probe Program. Though Starfleet hasn't acknowledged this, they did confirm that more Auriga class starships will be constructed with the time dilation drive at the recently commissioned Utopia Planitia shipyard on Mars, to take advantage of the lower gravity, and they will be sent to explore the constellations of Earth.

1-Does not conform to ILM’s official figures

2-The TNG warpscale is used for warp 1-9 while the “All Good Things...” warp scale is used for speeds above warp 9. The TOS warp scale is used for the time dilation effect.