Mayfair Class Light Cruiser
Modified Constitution-Class Cruiser
The sheer number of unexplained stellar phenomena encountered and cataloged
between 2260 and 2300 within the Federation alone necessitated the development
and construction of a dedicated class of vessels to provide long-term
study and research of these distortions. Although Oberth-class vessels
possessed the necessary instrumentation for passive research, its shielding
and size made it impractical for long-term research in close orbit to
such phenomena. Starfleet engineers instead turned to the extremely
durable design of the Constitution class vessel to provide the primary
hull for the durable research vessel.
Starfleet Engineers soon determined that a sleeker profile would be
key to creating a vessel suited to the task. In initial tests of designs
at the Yalbo shipyards, engineers discovered that the more sturdier
support structure of the Miranda class of vessels would be better suited
to the stresses placed on the craft in more violent energy fields and
space-time distortions. The Constitution Nacelles were subsequently
moved forward to be attached to the primary hull. The Warp core was
run perpendicular to the drives across the primary hull. Removing the
core from the Secondary Hull allowed for additional instrumentation
and sensors to be included to augment the main deflector dish array.
After reviewing the actions of the Enterprise-B's encounter with the
Nexus, The secondary hull was moved to a dorsal position to provide
a more even line of fire in disrupting stellar phenomena. The new location
allowed such burst to open gaps more suited for the vessels profile
to slip through.
A modified Oberth-class primary hull was used as a shell for the over-sized
probe launching bays for the Mayfair class. This dedicated 'third hull'
allows the Mayfair Class to carrying nearly ten times the complement
of automated probes of other Starfleet vessels, allowing it to make
super-detailed analysis of stellar clouds and nebulae. For combat missions,
these probe launching facilities can be easily converted to torpedo
bays, making the Mayfair an effective gunboat or convoy escort.
Mayfair Class Production Roster
| USS Acheron |
USS Ophette |
| USS Serenity |
USS Ganymede |
| USS Moya |
USS Varak |
| USS Nostromo |
USS Telvin |
| USS Bennett |
USS Shrass |
USS Acheron
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody has thought.
- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
USS Serenity
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he
emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
- Blaise Pascal
USS Moya
What happens depends on our way of observing it or on the fact that
we observe it.
- Werner Heisenberg
USS Nostromo
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
- Garrison Keillor
USS Bennett
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's
eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
USS Ophette
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant
USS Ganymede
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain
USS Varak
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can
alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
- William James
USS Telvin
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the
illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
USS Shrass
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
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