Titan Class Starship
In 2363 the Titan Development Project was initiated to come up with a ship that would operate as a home base for a large contingent of fighter craft and act as a mobile command station. The development team studied the operational records of the Akira Class and from this put forward the first design brief in 2365. After a three month review of the brief the Advanced Starship Design Bureau rejected the brief as not meeting the needed requirements and a list of thirty-four requested changes was returned to the development team. A second and final design was submitted in 2369 and after another three month review the design was accepted by the ASDB.
The accepted design was a monster of a ship at 144 decks and 2406.29 meters in length the Titan as the design was quickly dubbed was closer to a mobile station than a ship of the line. Instead of the iconic saucer and engineering sections the Titan was a single boxy hull. There were four impulse engines that provided the ship with sublight propulsion and act as secondary power sources for the ship systems.
In a first for a Federation vessel the Titan was equipped with six warp nacelles, with three on the port and the other three on the starboard side of the vessel in a stacked configuration. The center nacelles are operation at all times the ship is at warp with the upper and lower nacelles coming on line at speeds of warp 5.5 to keep from over stressing the center nacelles.
The need to power six warp nacelles and a ship the size of the Titan led to another design first, namely the use of a duel core system. In this two warp cores of the same design as utilized for the new Sovereign Class. Under normal operations each warp core would generate power for one group of three nacelles along with power for other ship systems. Should one of the warp cores become damaged or have to be taken off line the other core could power all six nacelles but this would see the ship limited the to a maximum of warp five. Power from the ship systems would be drawn from the impulse engines until the second core could be returned to service.
The Titan was equipped with a total of thirty-three docking bays. A large main docking bay accessible by bay doors located along the ventral surface of the hull, two secondary docking bays located at the aft end of the ship between, and thirty fighter bays located on the port and starboard sides of the ship along the ships center line.
The accepted design was then handed over to the Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems who started construction of the USS Titan was begun at the Copernicus Ship Yards in orbit of Luna in the Sol System. In 2373 the Dominion War broke out pushing the Shipyards Copernicus Ship Yards to hurry production on the USS Titan. The number of work crews were tripled and the Titan pulled out of the shipyards in 2374 for a shakedown cruise. Once the cruise was completed the Titan returned to dry dock for the final hull signage to be painted onto the hull and during a brief ceremony the USS Titan was commissioned in 2375.
While the Titan was active only for the last six weeks of the war it did see combat operations during that time. These final combat actions quickly proved the Titan was a capable ship of war. Once the War more ships of this class were produced and in peace time these ships have proven as capable in research and exploration as in war. The massive size and the extensive facilitates carried on board ships of the Titan class has given them the ability to handle operations that would normally tie up multiple ships.
The accepted design was a monster of a ship at 144 decks and 2406.29 meters in length the Titan as the design was quickly dubbed was closer to a mobile station than a ship of the line. Instead of the iconic saucer and engineering sections the Titan was a single boxy hull. There were four impulse engines that provided the ship with sublight propulsion and act as secondary power sources for the ship systems.
In a first for a Federation vessel the Titan was equipped with six warp nacelles, with three on the port and the other three on the starboard side of the vessel in a stacked configuration. The center nacelles are operation at all times the ship is at warp with the upper and lower nacelles coming on line at speeds of warp 5.5 to keep from over stressing the center nacelles.
The need to power six warp nacelles and a ship the size of the Titan led to another design first, namely the use of a duel core system. In this two warp cores of the same design as utilized for the new Sovereign Class. Under normal operations each warp core would generate power for one group of three nacelles along with power for other ship systems. Should one of the warp cores become damaged or have to be taken off line the other core could power all six nacelles but this would see the ship limited the to a maximum of warp five. Power from the ship systems would be drawn from the impulse engines until the second core could be returned to service.
The Titan was equipped with a total of thirty-three docking bays. A large main docking bay accessible by bay doors located along the ventral surface of the hull, two secondary docking bays located at the aft end of the ship between, and thirty fighter bays located on the port and starboard sides of the ship along the ships center line.
The accepted design was then handed over to the Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems who started construction of the USS Titan was begun at the Copernicus Ship Yards in orbit of Luna in the Sol System. In 2373 the Dominion War broke out pushing the Shipyards Copernicus Ship Yards to hurry production on the USS Titan. The number of work crews were tripled and the Titan pulled out of the shipyards in 2374 for a shakedown cruise. Once the cruise was completed the Titan returned to dry dock for the final hull signage to be painted onto the hull and during a brief ceremony the USS Titan was commissioned in 2375.
While the Titan was active only for the last six weeks of the war it did see combat operations during that time. These final combat actions quickly proved the Titan was a capable ship of war. Once the War more ships of this class were produced and in peace time these ships have proven as capable in research and exploration as in war. The massive size and the extensive facilitates carried on board ships of the Titan class has given them the ability to handle operations that would normally tie up multiple ships.