Drawn by: Michael A. Taylor
Copyright: 2021
Though Starfleet has attempted to avoid the dedicated warship designs in the past, the advent of renewed hostilities with the Klingon forces has forced Starfleet to rethink its starship design from a primarily scientific standpoint. From what Starfleet intelligence has gathered, Klingon starships have very little in the way of scientific research platforms. Their vessels are designed more around the fighting platform than that of interstellar research.
The D-7 being the primary warship that Starfleet has encountered to date carries and impressive assortment of weapons systems and combat durability. Also do to the fact that the Klingon empire tends to place their ships into what amounts to old earth wolf packs on the hunt. A vessel was needed that could act as a defensive platform of a frigate, but with the firepower and defensive capabilities of a Dreadnought. To that end the dreadnought frigate was conceived.
One of the first of these new ships was the Tando class. Overwhelming firepower gave the ship a tactical advantage. But the problem was maneuverability. With the added weight of the weapon systems and the deflector. The ship had a tendency to become unstable during high speed turns.
Starfleet R&D decided to take the ships design in a different direction. By lightening the ship with the simple deflector spires, and removing the heavy deflector dish. The ship was dramatically changed from a propulsion point of view. The ships dynamics changed allowing the ship to take tighter maneuvers during simulated combat engagements. With the removal of the secondary weapons pod from the design, the ships fire power was reduced. But the energy that would normally have been used for those systems was no available for use in other defensive or offensive systems. This allowed the ship to stay in a combat situation for a prolonged period beyond that of the Tando.
The Adamant class performance so far has been exemplary. All ship have performed either at expectations, or beyond.
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