Difference between revisions of "Construction Ship"

The New York class has been a long time in coming. The recent rapid expansion of the Federation has highlighted the dire need for a new class of Construction Ship that is able to cope with the ever-mounting orders for outposts and orbital construction projects in the colonies. To deal with the challenge, the New York class is a much larger vessel than her Berlin class predecessor, and comes with the very latest in fabrication and replication technologies. Much of her basic operations are fully automated, and her larger internal volume means that larger crews and more materials can be supplied to construction projects.

The Romulan Star Empire is a finely tuned machine, and one sustained at its driving core by a tireless capacity to advance, construct, and expand. The Construction Ship is the tool by which this goal is achieved. And were it not for Construction Ships such as the Ehrehin, there would be no stations, and thus no fuel supply, no range, and no defence.

The Chen Qach is a rare design from the shipyards; it lacks teeth of any kind. But it lacks them for one important reason - the Chen Qach is designed to make the weapons that the empire needs, rather than to wield them. Equipped with advanced forges and matter fabrication technology, the Chen Qach can construct virtually any station or orbital facility that our commanders could desire, vastly extending our fleet support and defensive capabilities.

The fleet relies on the valuable fuel supplies stored on the many stations of the Union, but those stations would not even exist if we did not have a platform from which to build them. The Damar is that platform. Named after the great builder of the Union, the Damar class is a mobile construction platform. It won't survive long in combat - but neither is it intended to be present in warzones. The Damar just does what it was designed for - and it does it with breakneck efficiency, indirectly ensuring that the Union is both defended and fuelled.

The true genius of Asp class Construction Ships is to be found in their modular hulls, which can be dismantled and rearranged to provide the core sections of an outpost or starbase, granting key starship support in remote or strategically important sectors.