Alexander Graham Bell II Design Worksheet

This design worksheet represents the upgraded Alexander Graham Bell class. Only the Alexander Graham Bell itself had this very extensive refit, under the supervision of the Chief Engineer, Bruce Dawn Sky. Unfortunately, I have lost the original design worksheet, but I have some notes which describe the extent of the upgrade. The improvements to the original design include -

The original design was somewhat cheaper ( by about MLv 9.635 - just don't ask how Bruce Dawn Sky got this amount of hard currency ... ).

Note that while this is mostly a standard NAM design, the vessel has a reduced crew complement, has a nonstandard hull configuration and uses adjusted solar panels with an output of 0.10 MW per 100 m2 ( 1 kW per square metre ). Despite these changes, this vessel was not designed with the Technical Architecture and predates the latter by several years. I will redesign the Alexander Graham Bell with the Technical Architecture when the chance presents itself ( and the Technical Architecture is complete ).

The vessel is a simple, "classic" wedge configuration ( see the description of this in the Technical Architecture ) with dimensions 9.61 metres high x 19.22 metres wide x 28.84 metres long. ( The length excludes the thruster venturi, and the height excludes the landing gear ). This gives a basic volume of (9.61 x 19.22 x 28.84)/6 = 887.8 m3 volume, which I rounded up to 888 for simplicity's sake. The solar panels are folded in normal use, and unfold to form a " petal configuration". With the solar panels deployed, the vessel resembles a parabolic dish with the ship itself at the centre. The ship is designed to operate without wilderness fuelling, by employing a "closed system" - water from the fuel cells is cracked into hydrogen and oxygen with electricity from the solar panels, meaning that the Bell can operate for extended periods of time without "refuelling".

Design

Component Description Volume (m3) Mass (tons) Price (MLv)
Primary Power Plant 1 MW Fuel Cell New Commercial 20.0 20.0 20.0
Secondary Power Plant 1 MW MHD New Commercial 15.0 15.0 0.4
Dual Power Plant Overhead N/A 3.5 3.5 N/A
Primary Power Plant Fuel 5.25 Day Duration 123.75 75.0 N/A
Fuel Processor 75 tons in 40 hours 93.75 37.5 1.875
Solar Arrays 3.15 MW, 3150 m2 unfolded. N/A 3.15 1.575
Thrusters N/A 1.5 1.5 0.8
Jerome Drive 1 MW New Commercial ( VAR : 16.05 ) 13 15 9.7
Crew Workstations Reduced Complement

Section Position Crew Workstations
Bridge Captain / Helm 2 1
Bridge Navigation / Communications 2 1
TAC Sensors (Passive Array) 1 1
TAC Fire Control (EA-122) 0.5 (Gunner doubles as Remote Operator) 1
TAC Remote Pilot 0.5 (Remote Operator doubles as Gunner) 1
Engineering Engineering Team 3 2
Medical N/A 0 (Not permanently manned) 1
64 40 (0.24) included in hull
Accommodations Cramped, No spin, Comfort -2 225 32.5 N/A
Life Support 9 crew by 14 days 0.63 0.126 N/A
Sensors (1) Navigational Radar, 20m2 surface area 5 1 0.02
Sensors (2) Deep System Scan, 30m2 surface area 15 20 0.1
Sensors (3) Passive Sensors, 30m2 surface area CS:0 R:5 10 1 0.8
Masked Turret 4 aspects, 30 m2 surface area N/A 3 0.035
Target Tracking Array 30 m2 surface area N/A 2 0.040
Targeting Computer +1 1 1 0.7
Hyde Dynamics EA-122 Laser x1, +1. Powered by MHD power plant. 3 3 0.105
Ordnance 1 bay x 3 of German SR-9, 2 m2 exit port 24 24 0.567
Hull Material 888 m3 hull, Low Profile Synthetics, 0.3 Signature (7) not counted against internal volume 21 0.245
Streamlining Lift Factor 1.0 88.8 N/A N/A
Thruster Fuel 2 trips up in 1 G 174.0 105.43 N/A
Cargo N/A 7.07 0.3535 N/A
TOTALS 888.0 424.1595 36.242

Stutterwarp Performance

Load Mass (tons) Warp Efficiency (light years per day)
Unloaded 319.715 2.347
1/2 Loaded 372.425 2.231
Fully Loaded 425.175 2.134
2300AD

This page was last updated on the 24th July 1998.

This page is © 1998 Andy Brick except where components are already copyright / trademarked by others in which case their use is not intended as a challenge to such ownership.