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Kittyhawk Engineering Group:
Captain Tom Paton - CO USS Kittyhawk
Cmdr. Ralph A. Winans III - USS Columbus - Chief Engineer
Commander Christopher Shirk
Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Davis - USS Kittyhawk - Chief Engineer - Designer
Captain Michael Walter Sr.

Specifications - U.S.S. Asgard  NCC~72402:

Capital Class Mark I:  Heavy Space Control Ship
Naval Construction Contract # 72402

Displacement:  5 million metric tons



Physical Dimensions:

Length Overall:  750 meters
Beam Overall:  335 meters
Draft Overall:  130 meters
Primary Hull Length:  375 meters
Primary Hull Beam:  335 meters
Primary Hull Draft:  65 meters  
Secondary Hull Length:  370 meters
Secondary Hull Beam:  230 meters
Secondary Hull Draft:  100 meters
Nacelle Length:  342 meters
Nacelle Beam:  50 meters 
Nacelle Draft:  30 meters 

Propulsion:

Warp Engines:  2
Type:  LF-41 Mod 22 Dual Coil Adv. Linear Warp Drive Units

Impulse Engines:  2
Type:  FIG-5 Subatomic Unified Energy Impulse Units, uprated

Maneuvering Thrusters Type:  QASR 2 Particle Beam  
Reaction Control System Type:  "Trentis IV" Pulsed Laser 

Velocity:
    
Optimum Speed:  Warp 8.0
Maximum Safe Cruising Speed:  Warp 8.5
Emergency Speed:  Warp 9.0
Maximum Speed:  Warp 9.3
Not To Exceed Warp 9.5

Navigation:

System Type:  RAV / ISHAK Mod 3 Warp Celestial Guidance

Computers:

System Type:  M-15 Isolinear III

Embarked Craft:
 
Danube Class Runabouts - Assault:  20
Fighters:  75 - F/A 11 Raptor
Type 9 Combat Shuttlecraft:  16•
Type 16 Shuttles:  12
Utility Craft:  24

Transporters:
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Standard Transporters:  10
Assault Transporters:  8
Emergency Transporters:  12
Cargo Transporters:  7
Vehicle Transporters:  4

Armament:

Type X Collimated Linear Phaser Arrays:  12
Phaser Output:  1.5 x 10¹²W / 7.4 x 10¹²W cont. 
Torpedo Launchers:  5 (dual fore, 1 aft, 1 port, 1 starboard)
•Photon / Quantum Torpedo Capacity:  480
Probes:  700, Classes I through IX

Defense:

Shield Holdoff:  8.39 x 10¹²W
Shield Refresh:  2.39 x 10¹²W
Deflector System Type:  FSQ/2 Primary Force Field
Exterior Ablative Armor

Life Support:

Gravity / Atmosphere:  Type MM6 Modular Gravity Unit
Waste Regeneration System:  Type AL4 Life Support System

Auxiliary:

Tractor Beams:  2
Towing Capacity:  4.25 x 10⁸ metric tons
Maximum Range:  1.06 x 10⁶ kilometers


Maximum crew complement:  2,125
Emergency or Transport Berthing:  8,000

So just how big is this beastie?

Editorial comment by Commander Chronos

 

The USS Asgard is a BIG ship.  The Capital Class vessel is one of the largest, if not THE largest, ship in the fleet.  So just how large are we talking?  For those of you not familiar with the metric measurements, let’s look at it a different way…

 

The overall length of the Asgard is 750 meters.  That’s 2,461 feet long, or 820 yards, or just shy of a half mile in length!  That’s over 8 football fields long!  That’s as long as a 205 story building is high.  Remember the Twin Towers of the WTC before 9/11 and imagine them stacked on top of each other!

 

The width, or beam, at its widest point, which is across the saucer section, is 335 meters.  That’s 1,099 feet wide, or 366 yards!  That’s over 3.5 football fields wide!  That’s wider than a 91 story building is high.

 

The height, or draft, of the saucer section, considered the primary hull, is 65 meters.  That’s 213 feet tall, or 71 yards.  That’s an 18 story building, or at least 21 decks!        

 

The nacelles alone are 374 yards long, almost 4 football fields!  And they’re over half a football field wide!

 

The secondary, or engineering hull has similarly huge dimensions.  It’s no wonder how we can fit 150 fighters, runabouts and shuttles inside this big beastie!  

 

The displacement, or mass, of the Asgard is roughly 5 million metric tons, over 11 BILLION pounds!  The mass of an elephant is about 4 to 6 tons, so the ship is about the same mass as one million elephants.  The Blue whale is the largest animal ever to have existed on our planet Terra.  They weigh in at about 170 metric tons.  The Asgard has about the same mass as 29,400 Blue whales!

 

Do you suppose that’s why we’re classified as a “Heavy” Space Control Ship?

And why we’d fly apart like an over ripe watermelon if we exceed warp 9.5?

 

OK, so maybe we can’t chase down an Intrepid class traveling at warp 9.8.

But why would we need to?