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The
Courageous carries a wide variety of extravehicular craft.
The standard complement of a Courageous class ship is patterned
after the standard complement of a Galaxy class ship: 12 personnel
shuttles, 10 cargo shuttles, 6 runabouts, 7 special purpose craft, 1
multipurpose vehicle and 12 two-person shuttlepods.
The breakdown of these are as follows:
3- Shuttlepod type 16
3- Shuttlepod type 16A
3-Shuttlepod type 17
(Similar in shape as their predecessors, Types 15-16).
6-Personnel Shuttle
Type 7
6-Personnel Shuttle
Type 7A
The abovementioned shuttlecraft are christened after historical personages.
5- Cargo Shuttle Type
9A
5-Cargo Shuttle Type
10
The cargo shuttles are named after distinguished cities in the Federation.
3-Danube-class
runabouts
U.S.S. Rubicon
NCC-72936
U.S.S. Nile NCC-73817
U.S.S. Amazon NCC-73018
The Danube class runabouts are named after well-known rivers
in the Federation.
3-Sphinx workpods,
Type 5 (modifiable)
4-Work Bee workshuttles
And the ship carries the new class of runabouts, Everest class.
3-Everest-class
runabouts
The U.S.S. Fuji NCC-74861
U.S.S. Vesuvius NCC-74902
U.S.S. Rainier NCC-74988
The Omega Flyer is housed in Shuttlebay Three.
All of the runabouts are housed in Shuttlebay One.
Part of the shuttle and shuttlepod inventory are divided between all
of the shuttlebays.
Everest Class Runabouts
The
Everest-class runabout is an advanced runabout, recently developed
by Starfleet. The first three have been assigned to the Courageous.
It has stronger defensive capabilities and offensive capabilities than
the Danube-class runabout, hence the frequent use by the Starfleet
Marines. A full squadron can travel in one Everest-class runabout.
These runabouts are mainly used for scouting systems ahead of the Courageous,
and as military transports. They look similar to the Danube-class
runabouts with subtle differences. Note: not all of the modules from
Danube-class runabouts are swappable with Everest-class
runabouts.
Omega Flyer
The
Omega Flyer is patterned after the Delta Flyer
that Lieutenant Tom Paris and the crew of the Voyager had designed
in the Delta Quadrant nearly 8 years ago. The Omega Flyer
is a multipurpose craft, capable of a variety of tasks. It can shuttle
cargo, like a Runabout or a cargo shuttle. It can also be used as a
fighter craft with a minimum crew of two. It carries two micro-torpedo
launchers capable of launching either micro-photon torpedoes or the
newer micro-quantum torpedoes. In addition to the launchers, the ship
has several phasers strips, and two pulse phasers are mounted on the
forward part.
Also, the Omega
Flyer has ablative armor, just like the Courageous and
Defiant class ships. On top of that, the craft utilizes the first
combination Federation-Draganzian shield generator. The craft can withstand
a beating from all forms of weapons fire, or from high atmospheric pressures.
This shield generator replaces the hybrid Borg shield generator that
the Delta Flyer has, since Starfleet R&D has found it very
difficult to replicate the hybridized technology off the Delta
Flyer.
The interior of the
Omega Flyer follows the same pattern the Delta Flyer has.
There are two distinct portions, the forward compartment, and the aft
compartment. The forward compartment houses the cockpit, which has four
stations- helm, OPS, Tactical, and Engineering. The aft compartment
is divided into two parts, a large area suitable for ferrying people,
or housing a laboratory. The other portion is the cargo area.
The only change in the
cockpit is the new helm station. It utilizes advanced holographic controls.
Lieutenant Paris’s theory that tactile flight controls were more
efficient for piloting skills was studied, and it was found to be sound.
So the Omega Flyer’s controls are three dimensional, allowing
for physical manipulation, as opposed to the flat screen controls. To
aid in better piloting, holographic emitters are installed in the helm
station, creating holographic controls.
These controls allow
for the pilot to alter the layout of the helm controls to suit his or
her, or its needs. The holographic controls are programmed with several
different templates, ranging from human controls to Horta controls.
Also included is a replica of the original Delta Flyer’s
‘retrofuturistic’ controls, as a homage to Lieutenant Paris’s
contributions.
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