Alexander Class Dreadnought
Created by Vice Admiral Domingo Martinez on 09/13/2021 @ 12:53pm
Designing the Alexander Class Dreadnought Mk II
In 2372 during the Dominion War crisis. Starfleet's newest designs of starships were proven affective, but they did not have the resources or materials to mass produce them. Starfleet decided it would be best to retrofit older models of starships and bring them up to standard specs. Starfleet started to look at retired and mothballed starships. A lot of ships were brought out of mothballed. Some were kitbashed parts from several ships. Starfleet needed a ship as powerful as a sovereign class starship, a ship to go toe to toe with a Dominion Dreadnought or a heavy cruiser. From this came a new class of ship. The new production would be called the "Belisarius Class Development Project."
Starfleet did not have a lot of time to prepare the mothball fleet. Two issues arose immediately. The Fleet was outdated, and needed to be brought up to Starfleet Standards if they were going to stand a chance of surviving a battle with the Dominion Fleet.
Upgrading the Alexander Class Dreadnought Mk I to Mk II
Captain Gabriel Sharpe was in charge of Beta Antres Fleet Yards Corps of Engineering Team and helped create the "Alexander Class Dreadnought," the ship was spliced together in order to max out peak efficiency. The body also known as the hull of the ship was from a Constitution Class Mk II refit design. The nacelles were cut off the hold to be retrofitted and the support struts were redesigned to enforce the new nacelle design. The struts needed to be reinforced.
One of the first issues facing Starfleet was how to create a ship with comparable fire power to a sovereign class starship.
The Alexander Class Dreadnought MK I computer corps was ripped out and a sovereign class computer corps was installed on the Alexander Class Mk II design. This was only possible thanks to the Bio-Neural gel packs that were graphed onto the design of the ship. The ship was gutted and repurposed for combat over luxury. Captain Sharpe personally over seen the design of the Alexander Class Dreadnought Design. By June 2372 the new computer corps was online and the rest of the ship could be completed.
Constitution Computer Systems:
Core: Type 6, MK VII Isolonear Processing Core
Software Version: LCARS 5.8
Storage Capacity: 850 TeraQuads
Processing Speed: 435,000 ExaFLOPS
Sovereign Computer Systems:
Core: Type 6, Bio-Neural Processing Core
Software Version: LCARS 6.6
Storage Capacity: 1496 TeraQuads
Processing Speed: 787,000 ExaFLOPS
Designing after the Sovereign Class Starship
During the design phase, Starfleet Corps of Engineers wanted to design a ship that had similar firepower to the Sovereign Class Starship. Starfleet needed a battleship, that would be easy to produce and put out on the front lines as soon as possible.
Starfleet had been loosing to many starships on the front lines. Capital ships, and carriers were needed to lead the fleet against the Dominion Alliance.
Initially testing proved to be unsuccessful with adapting 24rth century technology onto the space frames and computer corps of the Constitution class design. The corps of engineers had to create a new computer to handle the updated software, but were still finding power suppy to be a big issue.
Early in development, Starfleet Corps of Engineers recommended that Starfleet approve a third nacelle for the Belisaurs Project. Initially in the project, galaxy class designed nacelles were incompatible with the design project. So it was decided that the current nacelles on the starship would be sufficient, they just needed to add another one on the top section of the hull.
The extra warp nacelle provided the extra power to charge the computer corps and defensive upgrades to the ship, but a new problem was created. The ship now had to much power in its reserve, and the phasers already on the ship could not handle the extra power.
The Corps of Engineers borrowed a design based on the Miranda class, and created four forward mounted canons to the hull. The extra weight of the canons plus the nacelle, forced the corps of engineers to redesign the aft section of saucer.
With additional plating. The engineers borrowed a design based again off the Miranda class. Which now allowed the ship to have three shuttle bays. During the dominion war, Starfleet took advantage of this and the battleship now had a wing of fighters assigned to it.
The corps of engineers also learned even with the weapons upgrade the ship still had a vulnerability. Her aft section was poorly designed. Two rapid torpedo launchers were added to her aft section, to help protect her aft end, and fighters coming in to land.
To support the extra mass, the neck and saucer sections of the Constitution class and Miranda Class frames were both extended. The hull was also lengthen. The new mass was now properly supported. The Mark II version of the Alexander Class Dreadnought was launched on September 05, 2372.
Kitbash History
The kitbash design is not mine, I do not known any rights to the design. The images shown here can all be found and located at there website.
When researching ships to add to the lore history for Valhalla Fleet Yards, the USS Belisarius was one of the first images that came up on a google search. The ship seems perfect for the kitbash fleet, that helped protect the Federation during the Dominion Wars that was featured on Star Trek Deep Space Nine.
I took some liberities with the canon folk lore for this fan made creation, but I believe I have kept the spirit of the kitbash fleet alive. That time period was a fun piece, and it allowed a lot of 3d artist like "In Payne" to create wonder representations of what ships would have looked like up close.
This kit bash ship, looks a little over powered at first, hence why I am writing about its history. I dont want anyone to think the ship is to over powered, so I have it comparable to a sovereign class starship. During the dominion war, the best heavy cruiser starfleet had to offer.
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