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Starlight Class Science Ship
Class Overview
Class type:	Science Vessel
Class name:	Starlight Class Science Ship
Preceded by:	Unmanned Probes/Viking Class Cruisers
Succeeded by:	Ericson Class Science Vessel
Operated by:	The Phoenix Militia
General Characteristics
Length:	115m
Width:	85m
Height:	50m
Complement:	6 fleet officers, 6 science officers and 42 men
Powerplant:	One Type 2 Mod 5 Warp Core with Emergency Fuel Cell System
Drives:	-2 Nacelle-mounted Warp Engines rated at warp 8 (2 hour burst at 9) -4Impluse Sub-Light Engines -16 thrusters
Weapons:	-3x Type 1 Type 1/Block IA Naedion Disruptor Turrets - 38x foward torpedo tubes, 12 aft - 1x type-7 phaser array
Shields:	Primary Energy Shields, Secondary forcefields
Armor:	Type 3 Rivetted Tritanium Alloy Armor Plating over Titianium skeleton
Auxillary Craft:	4 shuttles, 2 shuttle pods, 6 probes

"Starlight" Class Science Ship

The Starlight Class Science Vessel was purchased to supplement the warships of Phoenix Fleet and perform tasks menial tasks such as ferrying personell, surveying asteroid and debris fields, mapping planet surfaces and so on. Although it was not designed for combat, the defense weapons, consisting of only 6 foward torpedo tubes, 2 aft and singe phaser array, was determined grossly inadaquate. Therefore, multiple torpedo launchers were installed as well as 3 of the now-obsolete Type 1 Naedion Disruptors in underside turret mounts. The Phoenix Fleet had never seen phasers before buying the 2 prototype Starlight Class Ships and the blue prints from an alien trader, Although not as powerfull as a disruptor, the type-7 phaser was found to be very accurate and as such inspired the creation of the Black Talon Phaser array which transformed the Phoenix fleet. Although it was somewhat simmilar to the disruptor beam type weapon which was used on the Viking Class Crusier, the phaser array system was totally new to the Phoenix Fleet's engineers. The first test of a Black Talon Phaser array occured on a very heavily modifed version of the Starlight Class. Although all Starlight Class Science Ships were taken out of service in 2498, several Corvettes, which were obviously derived from the same basic design, still serve in the defense forces, but of course with much better weapons.