Ohio Class Astrogation Services Class Vessel
Modified Excelsior/Oberth Hybrid Starship
A key responsibility Starfleet has to the commercial traffic and shipping
of the Federation is in the maintenance of key star lanes and in the
clearing of astrogational hazards within star systems. Starfleet recognized
the need for dedicated vessels to be used in the duties from the beginning
of the Federation. Early vessels used in these procedures tended to
be retired Ships of the line that were no longer capable of long term
interstellar travel, but more than adequate for the task at hand.
As the Federations borders expanded and the types of astrogation hazards
faced by commercial vessels increased, Starfleet looked to develop a
vessel designed specifically for the removal of such obstacles and to
develop safe and navigable space lanes. The production project, codenamed
Icebreaker after the marine vessels that perform similar functions,
was begun in the late 2290s. Researchers determined that the Icebreaker
vessels would need to have an expanded deflector system and tractor
beam capabilities in order to move obstacles and to clear lanes. Rather
than designing a new class of vessel with such an oversized deflector
system, Starfleet engineers worked with the possibility of using two
separate deflector assemblies in tandem with one another, effectively
doubling the range of said deflectors. Increased power systems for these
deflectors could increase its range by as much as four times one deflector.
Engineers elected to use the deflector arrays of Excelsior class starships,
as well as the engineering hulls, which would be used to house the massive
tractor beam arrays and explosive ordnance bays used in the clearing
of asteroid belts and Oort clouds. The hulls were placed side by side
in a catamaran-like configuration. The hulls were connected by an Oberth-class
Primary hull and Impulse Engine Assembly, chosen as the Icebreaker class
vessels would need a much smaller crew than other capital starships.
Two Excelsior class warp nacelles were placed under the saucer section,
between, the Excelsior hulls. Although not the optimum configuration
for proper warp fields, this location provided the nacelles maximum
projection from debris and collision with other stellar phenomena, as
they are placed directly within the umbra of the tandem deflector array.
The resulting class of starship was renamed the Ohio class after the
home state of the design engineer who developed the tandem deflector
system. It is a powerhouse of a starship, having nearly six times the
tractor beam capability of other ships of its size range.
Alameda Class Production Roster
| USS Ohio |
USS Cuyahoga Falls |
| USS Akron |
USS Gahanna |
| USS Toledo |
USS Hiram |
| USS Dayton |
USS Newark |
| USS Cinncinatti |
USS Oberlin |
| USS Cleveland |
USS Oxford |
| USS Defiance |
USS Parma |
| USS Eerie |
USS Granville |
| USS Beaver Creek |
USS Springfield |
| USS Bowling Green |
USS Ada |
| USS Chillicothe |
USS Rootstown |
| USS Columbus |
USS Canton |
| USS Sylvania |
USS Celina |
| USS Tiffin |
USS Westerville |
| USS Trotwood |
USS Youngstown |
USS Ohio
Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real
Strength.
-Ralph W. Sockman
USS Akron
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support.
Strength needs it far more.
- Madame Swetchine,
USS Toledo
I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly
standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took
a hatchet.
- Carry Nation
USS Dayton
He conquers who endures.
- Persius
USS Cincinnati
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to
quit.
- Napoleon Hill
USS Cleveland
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn
long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you
except the will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
- Rudyard Kipling
USS Defiance
Illegitimis non carborundum. (Don’t let the bastards grind
you down)
- Gen. Joseph Stilwell
USS Eerie
Do not go gentle into that good night.
- Dylan Thomas
USS Beaver Creek
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an
indomitable will.
- Gandhi
USS Bowling Green
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
power, and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
USS Chillicothe
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
USS Columbus
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
USS Sylvania
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
USS Tiffin
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies
within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through
trials which may lie ahead.
- Andre Norton
USS Trotwood
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the
pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
- Ovid
USS Cuyahoga Falls
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that
must be thought.
- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
USS Gahanna
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is
because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Seneca
USS Hiram
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince
USS Newark
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to
grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
USS Oberlin
We must become the change we want to see.
- Gandhi
USS Oxford
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important
that you do it.
- Gandhi
USS Parma
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no
path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
USS Granville
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
USS Springfield
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
USS Ada
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability
to start over.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
USS Rootstown
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your
eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford
USS Canton
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises,
is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
- Henry Ford
USS Celina
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
- Henry Ford
USS Westerville
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle
USS Youngstown
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
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