Prototype Biological Starship

Class: Hellhawk

This ship is a nearly whole biological starship, sentient in its own right. It is not the fastest, nor the most advanced ship in some respects, but it is *the* future of SF, and is better than mechanoid starships in other ways. It feeds on space radiation, fusion fuel and asteroid matter; digestive systems and specialist organs make up a good 30% of its mass.



HULL DIMENSIONS
Length: 280 meters
Beam: 115 meters
Draft: 65 meters
Number of Decks: 17
Mass: 1.8 million tons

The internal structure is very complex. Aside from the hallways, rooms and turbolifts that are there for the crew, the insides are nothing like a normal starship`s. Primarily duratanium\tritanium braces set hexagonally(bones, in essence), buckyball tubes are extruded by specialized glands and are used as additional structural support. Supporting the various organs, cell clusters, etc is a complicated network of veins and arteries, though what they carry is far more complicated than blood. Surrounding all this is a nutrient gel that also acts as a emergency hull sealent if the SIF is not working. The outer hull is extruded by a complicated layer of mitosis cells; any armor or such is applied by outside forces.
-Duratanium\Tritanium\carbotanium primary construction
-Type 1 Force Hull Armor:
single layered blade of carbotanium and tungsten-ytterbium.
minimal energy costing
-Type 2 Ablative Armor:
triple layered ablation materials for enhanced control
standard subsystem energy costing
approximately 1 meter


CREW INFORMATION
Standard Crew: 160
Maximum Capacity: 500
Standard Quarters: 70 square meters per officer
Senior Staff Quarters: 100 square meters per senior officer

The maximum capacity on the ship is limited to space available, not recycling capabilities..

COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Computer Core Type: Biological neural-network\Biocore
Maximum Storage: inexact, estimate at 3.2 million kiloquads
Data Transfer Rate: 3,000 kiloquads / second

The biocore is actually the 'brain' of the ship; in reality the personality is a homogenous prescence but the core contains most of the hard data. Advanced version of bioneural gelpacks, intersplice packs, are used to interface SF hardware(such as control panels and such) with the bionet. Splices the fiber optics in such systems to genetically-tailored neurons.
Quantum transient relays provide a quicker reaction time in the helm console. It also has a telepathic ability; this proposes an interesting possibility. If the helmsman is telepathic, he\she can access the ship directly and fly it without needing a helm console.


PROPULSION SYSTEMS
Hyperlight Drive: fusion\chemical warp system
Nacelles: 2
Maximum Cruise: Warp 8.2
Emergency Speed: Warp 9.3 (for 12 hours)
Sustainable Field Output: 3100 cochranes
Sublight Drive: Twin MF Impulse
Maximum Cruise: 0.6c (for 5 minutes)

The power system is one of those half-bio, half-technological systems. Most of the power is provided by three muon-aided fusion cores using He3 and deuterium; they pass the plasma amongst themselves in a manner similar to impulse engines.
Power is further provided by 'nodes', buds that absorb cosmic radiation, light, etc in space and converts it to electricity. The last source comes from the nutrient fluid produced by specialist organs. They take hydrocarbons from asteroids, crew waste, dead cells, etc and process them into usable nutrient fluid that is pumped to the organs and such.

Fusion Reactor: 100 TW Fusion generator. Consumes deuterium & He3 to generate warp and impulse power and to provide raw energy for other ships functions.

Deuterium Storage Tank, Helium3 Storage Tank: 7000 kg each
Contains the fuel for the fusion reactor and the matter supply for the warp system. The primary deuterium tank is normally loaded with slush deuterium at a temperature of -259 degrees Celsius or 13.8 K, as is the He3.
Power is two-fold. For the Warp coils in back, a EPS system is set up using the usual superconducting magnetic containment. For everything else, the subsidiary power sources provide electricity.

TACTICAL SYSTEMS
Shields Sustainable Load: 52,000 TW
Shields Auxilliary Load: Up to 60% of primary
Phasers: 4 Type A1 Pulse Phaser Cannons
Arrays: 4 type X Phasers
Thasers: 4 type II Thaser cannons
Maximum Emitter Length: 110
Torpedo Launchers: 2 forward, 1 aft
Torpedo Payload:
120 Quantums
20 Graviton
20 Cluster
-Plasma starburst-
Similar to the way electric eels can store and discharge electricity, the ship can store, for long periods, relatively large amounts of plasma energy. When released, it acts like a large-scale plasma torpedo, though the effect is slightly lessened.

-'Acidic' Spray-
A..unusual ability, to say the least. Very reminiscent of several species of snakes, or of the Grellan tree toad, Pantheus can apparently create a viscous goo 'shot', that will splatter across shields; if hull contact is made, the substance begins eating through the metals. Its base is magnesite, but the rest are highly complex compounds that have not been encountered before.


Sensors Navigational Sensors:
Standard: 2 primary, 1 secondary
Lateral Sensors: Enhanced: 18 arrays of 6 pallets
Probe Loadout: Class I Short-Range Sensor Probes
Class II Multimission Sensor Probes
Class III Planetary Survey Probes
Class IV Stellar Encounter Probes
Class V Medium-Range Reconaissance Probes
Class VI Communications Relay/Emergency Probes
Class VII Remote Culture Study Probes
Class VIII Medium-Range Multimission Warp Probes
Class IX Long-Range Warp Probes

Sensor Pallets:
Pallet 1:
Wide-Angle EM radiation imaging scanner.
Quark population analysis counter.
Z-Angle particulate spectrometry sensor.

Pallet 2: High energy proton spectrometry cluster.
Gravimetric distortion mapping scanner.

Pallet 3: Steerable lifeform analysis instrument cluster.

Pallet4:
Active magnetic interferometry scanner.
Low-frequency EM flux sensor.
Parametric subspace field stress sensor.
Hydrogen-filter subspace flux scanner.
Linear calibration subspace flux sensor.

Pallet 5: Variable band optical imaging cluster.
Virtual aperture graviton flux spectrometer.
High-resolution gravition flux spectrometer.

Pallet 6: Passive imaging gamma interferometry sensor.
Low-level thermal imaging sensor.
Virtual particle mapping camera.

Navigational Sensors:
Wide-Angle IR Source Tracker.
Narow-Angle R-UV-Gamma Ray Imager.
Passive Subspace Multibeacon Reciever.
Stellar Graviton Detectors.
High-Energy Charged Particle Detectors.
Galactic Plasma Wave Cartographic Processor.
Stellar pair Coordinate Imager.

Cargo Bays: 2
Shuttle bays: 1

2 yellowstone runabouts
2 type 9 shuttles
1 type 8 shuttle

Appearence:
If you have ever seen the White Star from B5, you know the basic appearence; hull color is a dull black with dark grey streaks, lighter sections indicating recent repair.