Star Trek: Klingon Bird-of-Prey Haynes Manual by Ben Robinson & Rick Sternbach

Author:Ben Robinson & Rick Sternbach [Robinson, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek
Published: 2012-11-06T00:00:00+00:00

1 Microfusion Chamber Housing

2 Thrust Expansion Nozzle

3 Nozzle Flange Cover

4 Chamber Temperature Sensor

5 Chamber Overpressure Bleed Vent

6 Chamber Maintenance Plate

7 Computer Control/Sensor Data Conduit

8 Plasma Power Coupling

9 Thruster Structural Attachment

10 Waste Heat Radiator

11 Deuterium Feeder Conduit

NAVIGATIONAL DEFLECTOR

The most constant threat faced by a Bird-of-Prey isn’t an enemy vessel but the damage that could be inflicted by specs of dust. Like all vessels traveling at the kind of velocities needed to traverse interstellar space, if the Bird-of-Prey collided with dust, cometary emissions, micrometeroids and even gasses it would penetrate the hull causing catastrophic damage that would kill the crew in seconds.

These particles pose a continuous hazard to navigation, beginning with relative velocities as low as 20,000 kellicams per hour—some 40,000 kilometers per hour. The problem becomes even greater at warp speed. The Bird-of-Prey’s on-board navigational computers will automatically plot a course around large objects such as planets or even asteroids, but the only effective way of dealing with small particles is to clear them out of the ship’s path.

Various spacefaring cultures have used electromagnetics and radiative subspace devices to build barriers ahead of their ships, effectively driving particles away from the flight path. Some of these deflector fields have a very long range. This is necessary at warp factors as high as warp 9 where the ship is traveling many times the speed of light and yet must move particles away before the ship reaches them.

Many spacefaring cultures use multi-tonne coils and dishes to create a sweeping deflector path. The B’rel-class employs a combination of smaller fields generated by the plasma-powered warp wing, the close-in field emitted by the defensive shields, plus a more powerful central field flung ahead of the ship by the central deflector—a series of energized plates surrounding the photon torpedo launcher.

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