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Stardock Class Starbase Category: Orbital/Deep Space Repair and Manufacturing Facility ![]() Stardock Expected Duration: 200 years Time Between Refit: 20 years Personnel Officers: 12790 Enlisted Crew: 72120 Marines: 900 Passengers: 100000 Starship Docking Capacity: 100 Dimensions Diameter: 8910 metres Main Height: 10930 metres Overall Height: 13460 metres Decks: 2500 For a complete listing of the deck layout, click here. Auxiliary Craft Shuttlebays: 200 Fighters Broadsword Multi-role Assault Fighter: 24 Peregrine Heavy Fighter: 12 Razor Interceptor: 36 Valkyrie Space Superiority Fighter: 72 Garrison/Patrol Vessels Runabouts Shuttles Type 11 Shuttle: 100 Type 15 Shuttlepod: 84 Type 6 Shuttle: 150 Type 7 Shuttle: 150 Type 8 Shuttle: 150 Type 9 Shuttle: 120 Wyvern Hopper Transport: 60 Armament Phasers Shielding Systems Torpedos Description Although the Spacedock series of stations proved highly successful, by the 2330's Starfleet faced a problem with its latest ships. The trend had been for ever larger designs, and all projections were that this trend would continue for the forseeable future. The Spacedock stations needed considerable re-working of their main docking area in order to accomodate these ships, a re-working which would reduce the efficiency of the stations handling arrangements and cause serious problems to Starfleets maintanence schedules during the work. It was decided to build a small number of new, much larger facilities which would be easily capable of handling significant numbers of the largest starships. The sheer size of these monsters was far beyond anything previously envisaged, a factor which weighed heavily on the minds of the design team. The original proposals called for an all-new station configuration, but the detailed design work for this would have taken at least fifteen years to complete. In order to cut this figure down as far as possible it was decided to follow the engineering of the successful Spacedock series. Construction of Starbase 74, the first of the new facilities, begun in 2342. Despite many technical problems the project kept to its projected build time of sixteen years and the Starbase came on-line in 2358. Since this time several further facilities have been completed and two more are underway; Starfleet looks likely to petition for more of these facilities as the need for more and more starships becomes more pressing. |