Despite many technical problems the project kept to its projected build time of sixteen years and the Starbase came on-line in 2358. In order to cut this figure down as far as possible it was decided to follow the engineering of the successful Spacedock series.Ĭonstruction of Starbase 74, the first of the new facilities, begun in 2342. The original proposals called for an all-new station configuration, but the detailed design work for this would have taken at least fifteen years to complete. The sheer size of these monsters was far beyond anything previously envisaged, a factor which weighed heavily on the minds of the design team. It was decided to build a small number of new, much larger facilities which would be easily capable of handling significant numbers of the largest starships. The Spacedock stations needed considerable re-working of their main docking area in order to accomodate these ships, a re-working which would reduce the efficiency of the stations handling arrangements and cause serious problems to Starfleets maintanence schedules during the work. The trend had been for ever larger designs, and all projections were that this trend would continue for the forseeable future.
Not capable of independent movement attitude control and/or orbital adjustment only.Īlthough the Spacedock series of stations proved highly successful, by the 2330's Starfleet faced a problem with its latest ships. Two hundred hangar bays capable of holding up to three thousand shuttlecraft Internal docking bay capable of holding up to two hundred starships, depending on type.
High Capacity shield system, total capacity 1,215,000 TeraJoules 85,000 Starfleet, typically 120,000 to 240,000 civilianĢ000 x Type XII phaser arrays, total output 12,150,000 TeraWattsĩ6 x Type 2 burst fire photon torpedo tube
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