Specifications - USS Danu (Unlucky Lady)

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Summary

The Delta-class runabout is the ultimate culmination of creativity out of necessity. The Delta-class was created from the efforts of the crew of the USS Voyager to establish a new, formidable and multi-purpose small craft that could perform tasks well above and beyond that of the Intrepid-class' standard Type 9 shuttlecraft. The Type 9 shuttles suffered from being cramped, short ranged and with highly limited capabilities which hampered Voyager's efforts to get home from their estimated 70+ year journey through the Delta Quadrant.

The first of the class, the Delta Flyer, was originally constructed by Lieutenant Commander Tuvok, Lieutenant Tom Paris, Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres, Ensign Harry Kim and Seven of Nine. The Delta Flyer's original mission and reason for construction was to retrieve a multispatial probe from a gas giant, and therefore was outfitted with tetraburnium hull plating which would help it survive the massive amounts of pressure. However, while constructing the Delta Flyer it was decided that the crew would outfit the ship with all the latest and most potent technologies in order to make it a multipurpose vessel to suit all their needs. Eventually Borg-enhanced regenerative shielding, bio-neural gel pack circuitry, retractable warp nacelles, more "pilot-friendly" controls for better control handling, upgraded warp systems and a Phaser Array system, instead of phaser emitters, were all installed during the construction of the vessel.

When Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant, the Starfleet Corps of Engineers immediately began to implement the design with a few upgrades to the Starfleet systems that Voyager didn't have during the ships construction. Although somewhat resource intensive for a runabout, it paid itself off two-fold in its usefulness and abilities. Eventually the Delta-class was available to larger starships, and generally only one was assigned per ship, although not obligatory. Starships with Delta-class runabouts assigned to them are capable of running them on assignments at one time, freeing up the starship for possible other duties.


General

Class Delta Class Runabout
Role Long Range Runabout
Duration 10 Years
Time Between Refits 1 Year
Time Between Resupply 6 Months

Dimensions

Length 23 Meters
Width 12 Meters
Height 4 Meters
Decks 1 main and 1 subdeck

Personnel

Officers 1-5
Emergency Capacity 15

Speed

Cruise Speed Warp 5
Maximum Speed Warp 6
Emergency Speed Warp 7.2 (for 6 hours)

Weapons & Defensive Systems

Shields Multi-Layered Shielding System
5cm Ablative Armor
Weapon Systems 8x Type-VIII Phaser Arrays
2x Pulse Phaser Cannons
2 forward Micro-Torpedo Launchers
Armament 10 Micro Photon Torpedoes
6 Micro Quantum Torpedoes