[TECH/RFC] Gagarin-class starship (REVISED)

[M Fnord]

'Cos I got bored, and the Gagarin hadn't shown up on camera, as it were.

Note: In case you start scratching your heads about the format, this particular article was put together in MediaWiki markup language, not DokuWiki. Mostly to prove that I could.

Comments, brickbats, etc. --Mal

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Starfleet Command
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The '''''Gagarin''-class explorer''' (also known as '''VVS Special Project 1''') is a deep-space vessel designed by the [[Soviet Air Force] and built by the [[United Federation of Planets].

==History==
Special Project 1 was designed during a general bull session following the VVS expedition to [[Epsilon Indi]. While the expedition had succeeded well beyond expectations, the limitations in ''[[Ptichka]'' as a long-distance explorer were clear. The Central Committee spent several long nights working out what was best about ''Ptichka'' (maneuverability, landing capability, high-resolution sensors), what they needed (better capacity for survey gear/sample return) and what they wanted (enough room so nobody was walking over others when trying to get from the bunkroom to the head), crunched the numbers and put together a basic hull that fit those criteria. Then, realizing that a) they didn't have the manufacturing capability needed to build the hull, and b) contracting out to a 'Danelaw firm would easily run in the hundreds of millions of dollars, the Central Committee stuffed the plans into the big folder marked “Someday.”

''Someday'' arrived in mid-2012, when the Committee approached [[Utopia Planitia Shipyard] with an eye towards licensing Special Project 1 or selling the design outright. The [[Trekkies] at the time were expanding their shipbuilding facilities as a forerunner to building the [[Archer-class] – the design originally known as the NX-class, which was (at the time) stuck in development hell. Special Project 1 was similar to the Archers if not quite as massive or as capable. Starfleet Command decided that, if nothing else, the Soviet design would make for good practice in large-vehicle construction and operation while the engineers continued working out the problems with the ''Archer''. Starfleet licensed Special Project 1 from the VVS shortly after SOS-Con. The Soviets would get the first prototype and a discounted (to the point of symbolic) price for any cruisers built afterwards.

Despite the Boskone conflict putting a dent in construction schedules, the first Special Project 1 (now renamed the Gagarin-class) left the Utopia Planitia slipways on 30 July 2013. The prototype ship GCU ''Yuri Gagarin'' was accepted into the Soviet Deep Space Exploration Forces and flew on the [[Into the Great Wide Open|2013 Delta Pavonis expedition]. The second ship off the line, USS ''Alan Shepard'' launched on 28 August 2013, and was assigned to extended duty in the [[Alpha Centauri A] system.

Gagarin-class starships are currently under construction at Utopia Planitia. The production line is expected to continue running until 2030 at the earliest.

==Design==
The original Soviet design for Special Project 1 was a [[Wikipedia:Blended-wing body|blended-wing body] aircraft 85 m long with a wingspan of 160 m. This design incorporated two decks, one outfitted with living quarters and one built for cargo or other mission-specific operations space. Utopia engineers refined the Special Project 1 design, extending the main hull length to 100 m and wingspan to 200 m, increasing the overall height of the hull to 15 m and adding three more decks through the centerline.

The most visible Trekkie design element on the Gagarin-class is of course the [[warp drive]. The 40 m warp nacelle sits on a pylon on the aft fuselage directly above the main [[impulse engines]. The nacelle extends 20 m past the aft fuselage, bringing the ship's total length to 120 m.

In a departure from Federation designs the Gagarin-class main bridge is smaller than usual, with only four stations - captain, helm, sensors/communications and engineering. This “mini-bridge” allows for both the traditional Starfleet bridge crew as well as the more abbreviated flight-deck crews common on Soviet ships.

The Gagarin-class is capable of landing on the surface and taking off again. However, the ship is so large that only a very small number of airfields on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system can accommodate one even in the short term. Crew and cargo transfers are usually handled via docking with a facility (using the Fenspace-standard docking collar) or through smallcraft. The Gagarin smallcraft bay can handle four Soviet [[iPods], two Starfleet [[shuttlepods] or one [[Type-7 shuttle] depending on service or mission requirements.

Designed as a research craft first and a warship second (or fifth, depending), the Gagarin-class is not heavily armed. The class has a laser point-defense system based off a similar system used by USSR ''Ptichka'' during the Boskone war. Gagarins also have two missile launchers which can fire the Starfleet standard torpedo or [[NOMAD] survey probes.

===Class Quirks===
* '''''We Are The Trek Collective:''''' The computer-generated voice synthesizer on all ''Gagarin''-class ships uses the distinctive tones of [[Wikipedia:Majel Barrett|Majel Barrett]. This applies to ships that ought to have a different voice as well as any (non-AI) computer hooked into the ship intranet for longer than 12 hours.
* '''''Slit-Screen Power (part 1):''''' In FTL flight, the view outside the windows, external cameras, etc. is a shifting two-dimensional light show very similar to that seen in the last half-hour of "2001: A Space Odyssey."
* '''''Slit-Screen Power (part 2):''''' Related to the first, engine performance can be improved by playing Pink Floyd's "Echoes" for the first twenty minutes of any flight. (The original track off "Meddle," not the short version from the "Best Of" album.)

===Variations===
The main Gagarin model is the '''Block I''', which is as described above. The '''Block Ia''' model is a design change requested by the Soviet Air Force in order to use the vehicle as a mothership for the VVS flagship ''[[Ptichka]'' and the MCU ''[[Columbia]''. The distinctive warp nacelle is replaced by two smaller nacelles integrated into the hull at the wingroots. Where the original support pylon was located, a cradle and umbilical rig designed for space shuttles is integrated into the airframe.

'''Block II''' vehicles are expected to come into service in 2016-18, as Utopia Planitia absorbs and improves upon the technology in the [[Whole Fenspace Catalog]. The Block IIs are expected to be faster, more reliably quirk-free and easier to maintain than the Block Is. Starfleet may or may not authorize building a ''Block IIa'' variant for their own flagship, USS ''[[Enterprise]'' (OV-201).

==Vehicles of Note==
===GCU ''Yuri Gagarin''===
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The ''Yuri Gagarin'' was the first Gagarin-class to be contracted and built. The ship was formally delivered to the Soviet Air Force on 1 August 2013 (it had been launched with great ceremony two days earlier). ''Yuri Gagarin'' underwent shakedown with a short circum-Uranian flight, then was remanded to the VVS staging area at L2 for outfitting for the 2013 Delta Pavonis mission.

On the Pavonis expedition ''Yuri Gagarin'' performed according to expectations. The ship acted as mothership for the expedition proper and as such did not undertake any planetfall operations. The science team onboard ''Yuri Gagarin'' was responsible for charting twenty small bodies in the outer system and producing high-resolution photographic maps of the major planetary bodies.

GCU ''Yuri Gagarin'' has undertaken solo missions to [[Proxima Centauri], [[Barnard's Star] and [[Alpha Centauri B] in the interim. Plans are currently underway for a survey of the [[Sirius] system.

====Known Vehicle Quirks====
* '''''A House Divided:''''' When the ''Gagarin'' was constructed, the expected AI ship avatar (a highly exuberant Russian man named Yuri) sparked in the navigation mainframe. However, not long after another AI sparked in the engineering mainframe. This AI, avataring as the infamous Kei from "Dirty Pair," took an immediate dislike to her companion in the navigation system, and vice versa. Planitia engineers were almost ready to scrap the ''Gagarin'' and start again when a ''third'' AI sparked, this time in the interwave router. The router AI called itself Mughi and devoted most of its time to making sure Yuri and Kei kept to their jobs and didn't try to kill each other (and by extension, the crew). The balance of power is uneasy, but stands.

===The Fleet===

{| {{table}} width=100%
| {{tableheader}}|'''Name'''
| {{tableheader}}|'''Registry Number'''
| {{tableheader}}|'''Service'''
| {{tableheader}}|'''Type'''
| {{tableheader}}|'''Year Launched'''
|-
| ''Yuri Gagarin''||NCC-100||VVS EXFOR||Block I||2013
|-
| ''Alan Shepard''||NCC-101||Starfleet||Block I||2013
|-
| ''Yang Liwei''||NCC-102||Starfleet||Block I||2014
|-
| ''Arbitrary''||NCC-103||VVS EXFOR||Block I||2015
|-
| ''Laika''||NCC-104||VVS EXFOR||Block Ia||2015
|-
| ''Neil Armstrong''||NCC-105||Starfleet||Block I||2014
|-
| ''John Glenn''||NCC-106||Starfleet||Block I||2014
|-
| ''Winging It''||NCC-107||VVS EXFOR||Block I||2017
|-
| ''Undocumented Feature''||NCC-108||VVS EXFOR||Block I||2017
|-
| ''Valentina Tereshkova''||NCC-109||Starfleet||Block I||2015
|-
| ''Sally Ride''||NCC-110||Starfleet||Block I||2015
|-
| ''Alexei Leonov''||NCC-111||Starfleet||Block I||2015
|-
| ''It Was Like That When I Got Here''||NCC-112||VVS EXFOR||Block II||2018
|-
| ''Michael Melvill''||NCC-113||Starfleet||Block I||2016
|-
| ''Vladimir Komarov''||NCC-114||Starfleet||Block I||2016
|-
| ''Anousheh Ansari''||NCC-115||Starfleet||Block I||2016
|-
| ''Paradigm Shift''||NCC-116||VVS EXFOR||Block II||2018
|-
| ''Just A Weather Balloon''||NCC-117||VVS EXFOR||Block II||2018
|-
| ''Edwin Aldrin''||NCC-118||Starfleet||Block I||2016
|-
| ''Gherman Titov''||NCC-119||Starfleet||Block I||2016
|-
| ''Public Nuisance''||NCC-120||VVS EXFOR||Block II||2019
|-
| ''Thetan Collector''||NCC-121||VVS EXFOR||Block II||2020
|-
| ''Virgil Grissom''||NCC-122||Starfleet||Block I||2017
|-
| ''James Lovell''||NCC-123||Starfleet||Block I||2017
|-
| ''Christa McAuliffe''||NCC-124||Starfleet||Block II||2017
|-
| ''Rolled A Twenty On The Random Encounter Table''||NCC-125||VVS EXFOR||Block II||2018
|-
| ''Cultural Imperialism Is Better Than The Other Kind''||NCC-126||VVS EXFOR||Block II||2019
|-
| ''John Young''||NCC-127||Starfleet||Block IIa||2017
|-
| ''Shannon Lucid''||NCC-128||Starfleet||Block II||2018
|-
| ''Eugene Cernan''||NCC-129||Starfleet||Block II||2019
|}

==Stories==

The Gagarin-class starships have appeared in the following stories:

* [[Into the Great Wide Open]
* [[Anschluss]

==Related Images==

Image:Gagarin emblem.png|''Yuri Gagarin'' ship's emblem
Image:Gagarin plaque.jpg|''Yuri Gagarin'' dedication plaque
Image:Laika emblem.png|''Laika'' ship's emblem
Image:Laika plaque.jpg|''Laika'' dedication plaque

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[[Category:Spacecraft]
[[Category:Space Vessels]
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information

"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

[Cobalt Greywalker]

So you've gone for a aerospace-capable design instead of a pure space design this time. Nice.

But a 200m wingspan? Yikes! Definately not going to be seeing one in a standard airport. The differenciation between sublight and FTL drive I expect to be a
Trekkie design quirk. And in my opinion she's too lightly armed, even for an explorer. Personally. I'd increase the point-defence arrays to at least 4
(dorsal and ventral port and starbord) and probably up to eight (add nose, tail, and outboard both wingtips), and add a rear facing launcher. But that's
just me.

And you've finally got a carrier aircraft for when you need to pick Ptichka up. Cool.

Given their launch dates, I expect no Gagarin-class ship will be involved in Serenity Valley?

WRT MediaWiki markup: I assume you're occasionally playing with this still. The shipbox construct looks interesting IMO.

[Black Aeronaut]

Damn you, Fnord, for taking all those awesome names inspired/from the Culture series. Ah well, at least they now exist. Kudos on having one called the Undocumented Feature. Although, the one that sparks the best mental imagery is the It Was Like That When I Got Here.  Yet there is one that I gotta ask about: what inspired Rolled A Twenty On The Random Encounter Table?  With a name like that, you know there's got to be a story behind it.
Incidently, I noticed that while all the Starfleet ships have 'mundane' names, the VVS has all the hilarious ones.  Do the VVS ships happen to have AIs as quirky as we've seen in the Culture novels?

[M Fnord]

So you've gone for a aerospace-capable design instead of a pure space design this time. Nice.

Well, a *technically* aerospace-capable design. This was inspired by the realization that the kitbashed Discovery One variant I'd originally went with was ugly as sin and not really in either the Soviet or Trekkie idiom. A wing- or lifting body-shaped hull, though, had a precedent for both.

But a 200m wingspan? Yikes! Definately not going to be seeing one in a standard airport.

Off the top of my head there are three airports where you could land a Gagarin: Mojave Spaceport, Baikonur Cosmodrome and Kennedy Space Center.

Personally. I'd increase the point-defence arrays to at least 4 (dorsal and ventral port and starbord) and probably up to eight (add nose, tail, and outboard both wingtips), and add a rear facing launcher. But that's just me.

I thought about that, and it may go up in a revision. Thing is, Mal is at best a reluctant soldier, and the idea of *arming* EXFOR spacecraft is anathema to him. Still, things might change.

Given their launch dates, I expect no Gagarin-class ship will be involved in Serenity Valley?

Hm.. when was Serenity Valley again? Mid-August? The Shepard will still be in the graving docks, but Gagarin might show up as part of a relief force if nothing else.

WRT MediaWiki markup: I assume you're occasionally playing with this still. The shipbox construct looks interesting IMO.

Yeah, I keep poking at it here and there. The shipbox stuff was sparked by my frustration with having to build a table completely from scratch each time I wanted to do an infobox in Dokuwiki. Getting the template to work was a pain in the ass, but once it was ready it simplified vehicle writeups immensely.

Yet there is one that I gotta ask about: what inspired Rolled A Twenty On The Random Encounter Table? With a name like that, you know there's got to be a story behind it.

There's no real *story* behind Rolled A Twenty, it's a Culturesque ship name that I thought of years ago & kept in dead storage in the back of my head until the time was right.

Incidently, I noticed that while all the Starfleet ships have 'mundane' names, the VVS has all the hilarious ones.

Starfleet, as they'll be the first to tell you, is Serious Business. In-jokes are only allowed if they can masquerade as "legitimate" names.

(In fact, had the VVS had the time & man/botpower to build the Gagarins solo, the first ship of the line would *not* have been the Yuri Gagarin. The ship would've either been the GCU Arbitrary or the GCU Just Passing Through. Now you know.)
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information

"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

[Cobalt Greywalker]

Personally. I'd increase the point-defence arrays to at least 4 (dorsal and ventral port and starbord) and probably up to eight (add nose, tail, and outboard both wingtips), and add a rear facing launcher. But that's just me.

I thought about that, and it may go up in a revision. Thing is, Mal is at best a reluctant soldier, and the idea of *arming* EXFOR spacecraft is anathema to him. Still, things might change.

I was thinking LESS about blowing up ships, and more about COVERAGE for your point-defense arrays. The rear facing launcher is for those nasty tailgaters.

Given their launch dates, I expect no Gagarin-class ship will be involved in Serenity Valley?

Hm.. when was Serenity Valley again? Mid-August? The Shepard will still be in the graving docks, but Gagarin might show up as part of a relief force if nothing else.

Ah. Me is enlightened.

WRT MediaWiki markup: I assume you're occasionally playing with this still. The shipbox construct looks interesting IMO.

Yeah, I keep poking at it here and there. The shipbox stuff was sparked by my frustration with having to build a table completely from scratch each time I wanted to do an infobox in Dokuwiki. Getting the template to work was a pain in the ass, but once it was ready it simplified vehicle writeups immensely.

I take it there's no chance of porting it to DokuWiki? MediaWiki sounds more complex to set up but more flexible to use. Argh, six of one, half dozen of the other I guess.

[M Fnord]

I was thinking LESS about blowing up ships, and more about COVERAGE for your point-defense arrays. The rear facing launcher is for those nasty tailgaters.

Well, maybe. LIS, it's worth thinking about & may change (that is after all what the C is in RFC).

I take it there's no chance of porting it to DokuWiki? MediaWiki sounds more complex to set up but more flexible to use. Argh, six of one, half dozen of the other I guess.

Not really. I've been looking for a decent infobox plugin for Doku ever since Fenwiki first went live, but no dice. I guess there's just not enough demand for one from the regular users of Doku. MediaWiki *is* trickier to set up, especially on an administrative level (no sysop control panel! You want to change shit, you add code to your settings php *by hand*) but *once* it's set up it's a fair bit more flexible. Especially if you do what I do & loot Wikipedia down to the bones for markup templates.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information

"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

[robkelk]

Y'know, after the Yuri Gagarin comes back from Delta Pavonis and has proven itself as a research ship, Stellvia Corp. is likely to want to buy one of the class for an extended (read "semi-permanent") research mission to Beta Hydrus... Any chance we can sneak the Rinna K onto the fleet list somewhere?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Black Aeronaut]

I have to admit, I'm liking the design very much myself, especially the way the standard and 'b' variants are differentiated (for some reason, some
strange part of my engineer's side loves the idea of the option of one- or two- nacelle models).

The Roughrider's Highly-Advance R&D and Interplanetary Exploration department (NASA-Fen) might just commission a few of Gagarins if you don't mind.
Of course, Ben would probably outfit the propulsion units himself.

[M Fnord]

For those who want a Gagarin of their own, requests can be submitted to the Starfleet Corps of Engineers, but be aware that Starfleet *will* put their ships
ahead of anybody else's in the construction queue. That, plus construction delays & other assorted nonsense... don't expect to see a finished ship
until the 2020s.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information

"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

[robkelk]

That, plus construction delays & other assorted nonsense... don't expect to see a finished ship until the 2020s.

Meh. It'll take that long to hire and train a decent crew.

(No, Noah isn't going to crew the Rinna K with meganekko fembots; that's just silly. He'll include one in the crew - it wouldn't be a Stellvian ship otherwise - but the majority of the crew will be human.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[M Fnord]

Okay, based on suggestions & thoughts of my own I've updated the fleet list:

{| {{table}}
| |'''Name'''
| |'''Registry Number'''
| |'''Service'''
| |'''Type'''
| |'''Year Launched'''
|-
| Yuri Gagarin||NCC-100||VVS EXFOR||Block I||2013
|-
| Alan Shepard||NCC-101||Starfleet||Block I||2013
|-
| Yang Liwei||NCC-102||Starfleet||Block I||2014
|-
| Neil Armstrong||NCC-103||Starfleet||Block I||2014
|-
| Laika||NCC-104||VVS EXFOR||Block Ia||2015
|-
| Arbitrary||NCC-105||VVS EXFOR||Block I||2016
|-
| John Glenn||NCC-106||Starfleet||Block I||2014
|-
| Valentina Tereshkova||NCC-107||Starfleet||Block I||2014
|-
| Sally Ride||NCC-108||Starfleet||Block I||2014
|-
| Undocumented Feature||NCC-109||VVS EXFOR||Block I||2017
|-
| It Was Like That When I Got Here||NCC-110||VVS EXFOR||Block II||2017
|-
| Alexei Leonov||NCC-111||Starfleet||Block I||2015
|-
| Michael Melvill||NCC-112||Starfleet||Block I||2015
|-
| Rinna K||NCC-113||Stellvia Corp.||Block II||2022
|-
| Anousheh Ansari||NCC-114||Starfleet||Block I||2015
|-
| Edwin Aldrin||NCC-115||Starfleet||Block I||2015
|-
| Gherman Titov||NCC-116||Starfleet||Block I||2016
|-
| Virgil Grissom||NCC-117||Starfleet||Block I||2016
|-
| James Lovell||NCC-118||Starfleet||Block I||2016
|-
| Christa McAuliffe||NCC-119||Starfleet||Block I||2016
|-
| Eugene Cernan||NCC-120||Starfleet||Block I||2016
|-
| Shannon Lucid||NCC-121||Starfleet||Block II||2017
|-
| John Young||NCC-122||Starfleet||Block IIa||2017
|-
| Rolled A Twenty On The Random Encounter Table||NCC-123||VVS EXFOR||Block II||2019
|-
| Vladimir Komarov||NCC-124||Starfleet||Block II||2017
|-
| Frank Borman||NCC-125||Starfleet||Block II||2017
|-
| Cultural Imperialism Is Better Than The Other Kind||NCC-126||VVS EXFOR||Block II||2021
|-
| David Scott||NCC-127||Starfleet||Block II||2017
|-
| Takao Doi||NCC-128||Starfleet||Block II||2018
|-
| Marc Garneau||NCC-129||Starfleet||Block II||2018
|-
| Eileen Collins||NCC-130||Starfleet||Block II||2018
|}

Items of note:

1) There are a lot fewer VVS ships on the list in this iteration, 'cause it struck me as kinda silly that the VVS would even bother to try and maintain fleet parity with the largest faction in Fenspace.

2) On a part of the spreadsheet I didn't copy over, I'm maintaining a table of contract-to-finish times. The record holder for longest delay in construction is SCSV Rinna K, contracted in 2014 and not delivered until 2022.

3) Hull numbers 131 through 150 are open.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information

"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

[Black Aeronaut]

Hrm... Roughriders would probably contract for three Gagarins - One of them a Block IIb to facilitate a mother ship for the NASA Pegasus.

As for their names...

|Ludicrous Mandelbrot ||NCC-131||RR HARDIE||BlockIIb||2022

|-

|Remarkable Fractal||NCC-132||RR HARDIE||Block II||2022

|-

|Singular Anomaly||NCC-133||RR HARDIE||Block II||2023

[robkelk]

The record holder for longest delay in construction is SCSV Rinna K, contracted in 2014 and not delivered until 2022.

Well, it was the second Block II ship to be contracted - obviously, Starfleet was using it as a testbed while StellviaCorp recruited its crew (and Noah & A.C. built ship's shuttle/fighter pilot H. Amano). I doubt EXFOR would have tolerated Starfleet using It Was Like That When I Got Here as a frame to test new ideas during construction.

This of course means that the Rinna K has a few "bugs" in its systems compared to the other Block IIs. Not good for Starfleet's purposes, but good for storytelling...

(Ah, yes - just because the ship's computer sounds like Majel Barrett doesn't mean the crew is going to call it "Computer", "Ms. Chapel", or "M'Ress". The first is rude in the Stellvian culture, and the other two are more appropriate for a Starfleet ship. They'll call her "Dr. Bradley"... and expect her to take an active role in the research.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Foxboy]

I would posit NCC-144 be the Fibonacci, and part of Starfleet, captained by someone calling him or herself "Captain Mudd." As a weird quirk, alone of all Starfleet computers this one uses Leonard Nimoy's voice.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll