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(formal registry NX-42022)
Ship Slogan: "Wear a Coat of Stars"
Spider Class Starfighter Experimental Recluse Subclass
Command Staff ONLY Security Clearance Required
All Spider classes ship designs are considered secret status and are designed to be untraceable to UFP sources. Many systems are acquired from non-Federation trade partners and captured technology. All ships are equipped with special packages to ensure that enemies cannot capture the vessels intact.
The Recluse subclass of the Spider Class Starfighter is intended to fill the gap in the Federation fleet needs for a multimission low-personnel high-risk intelligence and surveillance vessel. While the Trapdoor Spider represents a fine cloaked assault vessel, her massive power and weapons systems make her easier to detect and unable to run long missions to to seat multiple crew for specialized missions. The Wolf Spider has similar problems, in addition to which the lack of cloaking and high powered sensors in exchange for killpower to compete with Jem'Hadar assault ships leads to even shorter mission durations.
A previous incarnation of the Recluse, now codenamed Longlegs, sacrificed too much firepower in return for speed and maneuverability, and the five models built are now used for rapid secret courier activity.
The Recluse has only a prototype, the Grievous, and the first mission capable model, the Mischievous, in mission status. A third ship, the Inconceivable, has been funded but not built. The Mischievous has been in test-stand mode, assigned to a Lt. Howell Bridger of Starfleet Intelligence for long term mission testing and exhaustive reliability and reconfiguration testing. This ship has already proven itself in terms of the basic mission capabilities of stealth, tracking, and shielded communications. The rather odd but technically informative mission log of Lt. Bridger made interesting reading, and have resulted in several improvements to the future production runs. The idea that the ship could go through visible configuration as a medical rescue craft is credited to this ingenious officer.
The current mission status and whereabouts of the USS Mischievous are unknown.
Update, 2374
The ship is now owned by J. Chen Liu, President of Liu Industries and by Howell Bridger, an officer of Starfleet Command. It was declared property of these two when they won their injunction to own the ship, regarded as space salvage, since no legal possession was demonstrated by Starfleet Operations during their repossession efforts in mid-2373. Liu and Bridger have leased the ship back to Starfleet in return for it's being under authority of Mr. Bridger and for a promise that the ship will be serviced adequately and replaced if destroyed.
In the refit of the USS Knight, the SS Lady Mischievous, as she is now known, has permanent alterations made to accommodate her new mission. She has been fitted with a permanent torpedo mount, fore and aft, and a 'bay' that contains up to 10 photon or quentum torpedoes, or any other kit that can be contained in a Mark IV through XII torpedo casing.
Inside, she has been fit with improved life support and space previously given to other purposes has been converted into a tiny wash area attached to the lavatory. She also has the new Foucault Interface Modules installed in all four crew workstations.
Externally, she is fit with a large static frame for mounting to the hind end of the command saucer of the Knight. This enables her to drive that section, when in independent operation from the Engineering section, at speeds of up to Warp 4.5. Her drives have been rehauled to better enable her to work at this task.
Her berth on the Knight is located at the after part of Deck 5, and includes a special mount and power feeds for direct linkage to command saucer Engineering controls. The berthing area includes an airlock, an equipment room, and specialized repair and parts kits, as well as a loading area for reloads of the torpedo bay of the Mischievous.
Minor upgrades have been made to sensors and communication gear.
The former cloaking device is certified destroyed (Bridger: HA!).
Class Standards
Mission:
Multimission Stealth Assault Shuttle Can be specialized to Marine Mission, Ground Assault, Medical, Courier, Long-Range Mission Scout, Intelligence Mission, and Stealth Tracking. Current tests indicate superior performance in Stealth Tracking as default assigned kit.
Weapons:
Main Ship Type XII Phasers - 7.2 mw, 6 shot, requires 5 minute recycle/recharge
Fore & Aft Torpedo Launcher - 5 single launch external load tubes (multi-rigged)
Max Torpedo Simultaneous Spread - 5, no reload
Size:
Length - 10 meter shuttle and 11m warpsled
Beam - 5 meter shuttle and 10 meter warpsled
Height - 4m shuttle and 7 meter warpsled
Mass - 125 metric tons shuttle and 455 metric tons warpsled
Capacity:
Cargo Capacity - 18 metric tons
Number of Decks - 1
Officer Crew - 1 or 2
Special Contingency Crew -- 10
Civilians/Families - 0
No Tractor Beams
No Airlock
No in-flight repair capacity
No standard Identification Beacon
Simulated Identification Beacon available (software)
In-Flight Cryogenic Suspension system for long mission capacity
Type IX Cloaking Device, Interphased Interpolating, requires warpsled
(CLASSIFIED)
Shields
Interphased Pulsed Contingency, requires warpsled (CLASSIFIED)
Shields -- Station Keeping
Scanning:
High Resolution Long Range Max Effective Range - 1 light years
Medium to Low Resolution Effective Range - 15 light lears, power through warpsled
Bio/Neural Gel Pack Computer System Network
Crew Interface Software - LCARS 2
Data Transfer Rate - 3000 kiloquads/second
Number of Dedicated Modules - 40
Storage Capacity/Module - 120 000 kiloquads
Impulse Propulsion System:
Limited to shuttle section, 20 seconds overall to 0.9999 lightspeed 5 seconds without warpsled
Warp Propulsion System:
Limited to warpsled
Warp Reactor - M/ARA Mark II
Normal Cruising Speed - Warp 5.5
Max Cruising Speed - Warp 8
Fuel (MRI) - Supercritical Cryogenic Deuterium
Fuel (ARI) - Supercritical Cryogenic Anti Hydrogen
M/A Reaction Moderating Element - Fifth-phase Crystalline Dilithium
Fuel Replenishment - Bussard Scoop1
Transporter Systems:
Personnel Transporters - 1 10 man or 10 ton cargo
Impulse Propulsion System:
IPS Fuel - Slush Cryogenic Deuterium
Impulse Reactors - 1
Drive Coil Assemblies - 2
Vectored Exhaust Direc. (VED) - 8
Separate systems on command and warpsled units
Communications Network:
Intraship Transmissions - Voice & Data
Personnal Communicator Range - 500 km
Ship to Ground Range - 42,000 km
Subspace Burst Comm - Interpolating and Phased/Bozon
Communications Speed - 10 kiloquads/second
Subspace Speed
Warp 7
Internal Security:
Secure lockout of all or partial systems
Specialized keyword and key-codes systems for explosive destruction of both segments