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Message: <blockquote data-quote="knightemplar" data-source="post: 4918328" data-attributes="member: 56260">Ship DescriptionU.S.S. Ascendant NX-76620 <img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd124/knightemplar/starfleet/ascendant1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Class and Type: Ascendant-class Dreadnaught Commissioned Date: She has not been commissioned yet, as the starship is still in evaluation mode. Constructed: Utopia Planitia Staryards, Mars Size: 7 (492m long, 26 decks)Crew/Passengers/Evac: 250/1000/3000 Fleet Data: After the Battle of Wolf 359, in which the Borg destroyed 39 starships, the Office of Strategic Operations, in conjunction with the Office of Fleet Deployment and the Starfleet Corps of Engineers, advocated a new approach to starship construction. The task force assembled to rebuild the fleet focused on improved technologies in response to the Borg threat, resulting in unconventional starship designs including the USS Ascendant. Unlike most ships of its size, which have 500-750 crewmen, the Ascendant has less than 300 due to the extensive use of automation and advanced systems on the ship. Among other things, it boasts a bio-neural computer network with an advanced LCARS system knows as the LCARS-I with a holographic avatar by the name of Carsi. Other things of interest are an advanced tactical system, that has the ability to coordinate a group of ships in a space conflict, as well as advanced sensory systems and holocommunications systems. The Ascendant is also a test bed for the EMH Mark II as well as the new prototype EEH or Emergency Engineering Hologram. Due to the amount of Hologram systems being tested here, there are holographic projectors on every deck. Its technological sophistication also shows in its use of redundant backup systems; for example, it has a fully functional auxiliary control room and a backup navigational computer as good as the standard models. Due to its powerful warp drive and impulse systems, the Ascendant-class is a fast, highly maneuverable ship well suited to perimeter defense, patrol, and threat response duties.  The Ascendant's deceptively simple design - a blunt arrow-shaped saucer with two fin-shaped nacelle pylons its aft sides - hides a potent offensive punch in the form of 15 proton torpedo launchers capable of firing the standard Mark II proton torpedoes or the new Mark II Quantum torpedoes. There are two forward facing proton torpedo launchers, one aft, as well as six facing port and starboard, giving the Ascendant the ability to do a 'broadsides' type of torpedo launch. Considering that she is one of the newest designs, the Ascendant also has pulse phaser cannons, ablative armor and an experimental regenerative shield generator. <img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd124/knightemplar/starfleet/AscendantPlaque.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting" - Sun Tzu <img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd124/knightemplar/starfleet/ascendantdev.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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