U.S.S. Pegasus NCC-73805Federation Battlecruiser
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The basic design elements of the Pegasus Class were borrowed from the Galaxy Class Development Project.
Hull design and shape is virtually identical, The Saucer and Engineering Hull differ only in arrangement.
The Saucer Module retains a 55 degree elliptical hull platform.
However, unlike the Galaxy Class, the Saucer Module in a Pegasus Class does not separate from the Engineering Hull in emergency situations.
Lifeboats, Shuttlecraft, and Transporters are the only forms of evacuation for the ship in a catastrophic emergency situation.
The Engineering Hull is the same in size, except for the absence of a connecting interhull, and incorporating a Quad Nacelle Configuration.
These minor changes make the Pegasus Class a sister ship to the Galaxy and Nebula Class Starships.
The addition of another pair of warp nacelles would normally create a loss of efficiency while making Yaw maneuvers.
However with a reduction of the y-axis profile, a smoother slippage into warp is affected with no loss to X and Z maneuvers, while also allowing for a reduction in tortional field stresses created at sublight and warp speeds, and isopiestic lines running virtually straight through the hull.
The incorporation of two pairs of warp nacelles is necessary to meet the Propulsion requirements of the Mission Objectives for this class.
To accomplish these enormous tasks, the matter/antimatter reactor would have to sustain at least and output of 3053 cochranes to reach the required velocities and still provide power to other systems.
While one reactor could achieve this task, the power loss to other systems would be critical in emergency situations, and only one reactor would burn itself out at an unacceptable rate.
Creating these enormous energy requirements was finally deemed impossible from only one reactor, so a twin M/ARA was incorporated into the design.
With two reactors the Pegasus Class has the ability to produce enough power to accelerate the ship at speeds exceeding 400 times the speed of light.
However, the spaceframe could never survive at such speeds.
The computer controlling the reactors locks out power to the warp field coils past 3200 cochranes.
The excess energies created, are utilized through EPS power taps and fed to other systems at various power levels.
It should be noted, that just as propulsion, weapons, defenses, and other systems are revolutionary, the Pegasus Class Starship was not created for exploration and first Contact scenarios as traditionally defined.
The Pegasus Class Starship is classified as a Battleship.
It was created to protect the Federation from superior threat forces with ship to ship ratios of 20 to 1 for small ships, such as scouts and freighters.
5 to 1 for medium ships, such as the Klingon K't'inga Battle Cruiser and K'Vort and B'rel Birds of Prey.
2 to 1 for large ships, such as the Cardassian Galor and Klingon Vor'cha Attack Cruiser, and 1 to 1 for Capital Class ships such as Negh'Var Class Warship, Romulan D'deridex Warbird, Jem'Hadar Battleship and Borg Cubes.
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