The Spacedock-class (sometimes referred to as the Stardock-class) is the largest orbital starbase in use with the FederationStarfleet. At the time of the initial construction of the Earth Spacedock in the 23rd century it was the largest artificial satellite ever constructed by the Federation. Today the Spacedock-class design is used throughout the Federation core in orbit of key worlds and serves not only Starfleet but civilian craft as well.
Design History
For many years Starfleet depended on single-ship orbital platform facilities for the construction and maintenance of its starships. However, the rapid expansion of the Federation during the late 22nd and early 23rd centuries was fuelling an increase in the size of Starfleet and the existing platforms were becoming unable to cope. By 2264 Starfleet was petitioning for a major new orbital facility to be built, and in 2266 it was decided to proceed with this project. The requirement was for a space station which would put all the refining, processing, manufacturing and assembly facilities required for manufacture and maintenance of starships into one place. When finished in 2278 the station was essentially a small city, dedicated to Starship production. This enabled Starfleet to eliminate much of the transportation requirements previously involved in starship construction, the resources saved by this centralization covered the initial outlay for Spacedock within ten years.
Once it was realized that such efficiency savings could be achieved, it was decided to proceed with further stations in other major systems. Starfleet has continued to add new Spacedock facilities to its inventory ever since, with a total of 33 now.
Over their lives these stations have seen many revolutionary changes. The advent of industrial scale replication in the 24th century was a major revolution throughout the Federation and led to a major refurbishment of the manufacturing facilities on the Spacedocks. This freed up much internal volume, allowing a considerable increase in living standards for the crews. Many different sensor and weapon suites have been utilized on these stations over the years, the most recent being improvements to the shields and weapons to counter the Borg and Dominion threats.
During the last five years the Federation has seen a marked upswing in the level of threat directed toward it. As a result of this all Spacedock facilities have been working at maximum output in order to put as many new ships into the fleet as possible, as well as producing weapons for ground forces and other war materials. As such, these stations continue to form the backbone of the Federations war production capability.
Although the Spacedock series of stations proved highly successful, by the 2330's Starfleet faced a problem with its latest ships. The trend had been for ever larger designs, and all projections were that this trend would continue for the foreseeable future. The Spacedock stations needed considerable redesign and refit of their main docking area in order to accommodate these ships, a re-working which would reduce the efficiency of the stations handling arrangements and cause serious problems to Starfleets maintenance schedules during the work. It was decided to re-build the small number of stations in existence, making them much larger facilities which would be easily capable of handling significant numbers of the largest starships. All new Space Docks would be build using the new specs.
The sheer size of these stations was far beyond anything previously envisaged, a factor which weighed heavily on the minds of the design team. The original proposals called for an all-new station configuration, but the detailed design work for this would have taken at least fifteen years to complete. In order to cut this figure down as far as possible it was decided to use the existing design, scaled up.
Construction of Starbase 74, the first of the new, larger facilities, begun in 2342. Despite many technical problems the project kept to its projected build time of 14 years and the Starbase was commissioned in 2356. Since this time all original facilities have been refit (including Earth's Spacedock), with a total of 33 completed with 3 more underway. Starfleet eventually refitted all Stardocks to the larger configuration.
Starbase Specifications
Specifications
Basic Information
Dimensions: 3800 meters (L) x 3800 meters (W) x 5500 meters (H)
Decks: 800
Expected Duration: 200 years
Time Between Resupply: 10 years
Expected Refit Cycle: 30 years
Crew Complement
Total Crew: 86,500
5,000 Officers
70,000 Enlisted
1,500 Marines
Emergency Capacity: 500,000
Station Keeping / Other Propulsion Systems
Thrusters: FIPG-X1 impulse system for station keeping
Computer Systems: LCARS Controlled Isolinear Computer Systems
Transporters:
50 Eight-Person Personnel Transporters
Transporter Range: 45,000 kilometers
Sensor Range: 50 lightyears
Communications Range: 55 lightyears
Docking & Auxiliary Craft
DOCKING PORTS: 0
STARSHIP BAYS: 1
SHUTTLEBAYS: 20
SUPPORT CRAFT:
Shuttles: 80
Workbees: 100
Runabouts: 40
Fighters: 48
Other Notes
CREW AMENITIES:
Holo decks
Shopping centers
Public Dining
Recreation facilities
Parks and gardens
Hospital wards
STARBASE FEATURES:
Starship bay can be pressurised when all spacedoors are closed and secured, however, it takes a lot of time and resources to pressurise and depressurise the bay and it only done if absolutely necessary.
Starship construction facilities are available inside the starship bay.
Able to accommodate 8 Galaxy class and several smaller classes of ships simultaneously inside of its starship bay.
Starship bay has 4 sets of spacedoors, offset from each other at 90 degrees.
Deck Listing
Central Core
Deck
Details/Specifications of Deck
Deck 1:
Command Section
Upper Subspace Communications Array
Upper Sensor array
Deck 2:
Command Section
Station Command Center
Station Commander’s Office
Station operations offices
Main conference lounge
Transporter rooms 1 and 4
Express lift stop 1
Deck 3:
Command Section
Phaser arrays 1 through 4
Phaser maintenance and monitoring rooms 1 through 4
Dual torpedo launcher emplacements 1 through 4
Torpedo storage
Transporter machinery rooms 1 and 4
Deck 4 - 14:
Command Section
Station operations offices
Deck 15:
Command Section
Deuterium storage
Auxiliary fusion generators 1 through 8
Command section life support systems
Command section waste management facilities
Command section food replicators raw material storage
Deck 16 - 19:
Command Section
Station operations offices
Command section computer core
Deck 20:
Command Section
Transporter rooms 5 and 8
Express lift Stop 2
Sector command and operations offices
Deck 21:
Command Section
Transport machinery rooms 5 and 8
Sector command and operations offices
Deck 22 - 47:
Command Section
Sector command and operations offices
Deck 48:
Command Section
Phaser arrays 5 through 8
Phaser maintenance and monitoring rooms 5 through 8
Dual torpedo launcher emplacements 5 through 8
Torpedo storage
Sector command and operations offices
Express lift stop 3
Deck 49 - 50:
Command Section
Sector Command and operations offices
Deck 51:
Spacedock Section
Express lift stop 4
Transporters 9 through 12
Fleet logistics offices
Deck 52:
Spacedock Section
Transporter machinery rooms 9 through 12
Fleet logistics offices
Deck 53:
Spacedock Section
Fleet logistics offices
Deck 54:
Spacedock Section(Inner Core)
Chief Security Officers office
Armory
Brig
Security briefing rooms 1 though 5
Deck 55 - 75:
Spacedock Section(Inner Core)
Marine core training facilities
Deck 76
Spacedock Section(Inner Core)
Marine commander’s office
Marine briefing rooms 1 through 10
Marine core training facilities
Marine core supply depot
Deck 77 - 79:
Spacedock Section(Inner Core)
Starfleet Marine core training facilities
Deck 80:
Spacedock Section(Inner Core)
Express stop 5
Transporter room 17 through 20
Spacedock observation galleries
Deck 81:
Spacedock Section(Inner Core)
Deuterium storage
Auxiliary fusion generators 17 through 22
Spacedock Industrial replicators raw materials storage
Space dock pressurization gasses storage tanks upper level
Transporter machinery rooms 17 through 20
Deck 82:
Spacedock Section(Inner Core)
Space dock pressurization gasses storage tanks lower level,
Antimatter storage complex,
Antimatter generators 1 through 4
Deck 83 - Deck 114:
Spacedock Section(Inner Core)
Spacedock fabrication Facilities
Docking ports
Deck 115 - Deck 120:
Spacedock Section(Inner Core)
Spacedock computer core
Spacedock fabrication facilities
Docking ports
Deck 121:
Spacedock Section(Inner Core)
Express stop 6
Transporter rooms 21 through 24
Spacedock parts storage
Deck 122:
Spacedock Section(Inner Core)
Transporter machinery rooms 21 through 24
Spacedock parts storage
Deck 123 - 126:
Spacedock Section(Inner Core)
Shuttle bays 1 through 5
Shuttle storage and maintenance
Shuttle maintenance parts storage
Deck 127 - 130:
Spacedock Section(Inner Core)
Shuttle bays 6 through 10
Shuttle storage and maintenance
Deck 131 - 134:
Spacedock Section(Inner Core)
Shuttle bay 11 through 15
Shuttle storage and maintenance
Shuttle maintenance parts storage
Deck 135 - 138:
Spacedock Section(Inner Core)
Shuttle bay 16 through 20
Shuttle storage and maintenance
Deck 139 - 145:
Spacedock Section(Inner Core)
Shuttle maintenance fabrication bays
Shuttle maintenance Deuterium storage tanks
Antimatter storage tanks
Deck 146:
Spacedock Section
Cargo bays 1 through 20
Cargo Transporters 1 through 5
Deck 147:
Spacedock Section
Cargo bays 21 through 40
Cargo Transporter machinery rooms 1 through 5
Deck 148:
Spacedock Section
Deuterium storage
Auxiliary fusion generators 9 through 16
Spacedock section life support systems
Spacedock section waste management facilities
Spacedock section food replicators raw material storage
Deck 149:
Spacedock Section
Transporters 13 thorough 16
Station quarter masters office
Fleet quarter master’s office
Cargo bays 41 through 50
Deck 150:
Spacedock Section
Transporter machinery rooms 13 thorough 16
Cargo bays 51 thorough 65
Cargo transporters 6 through 10
Deck 151:
Spacedock Section
Cargo bays 67 through 70
Cargo machinery rooms 6 through 10
Deck 152 - 155:
Upper Engineering Section
Upper engineering industrial replicator raw materials storage
Deck 156 - 179:
Upper Engineering Section
Upper engineering fabrication bays
Deck 180:
Upper Engineering Section
Express lift stop 7
Transporter rooms 21 through 24
Phaser arrays 41 through 53
Phaser monitoring and maintenance rooms 41 through 53
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