Aquarius Type

The Aquarius prototype is a somewhat larger competitive design of San Francisco Fleet Yards to the Resolute class. However, the weapons of the USS Aquarius are rather conventional. Many technical improvements have been adopted from the meanwhile introduced Sovereign class. The most noticeable feature of the ship is the voluminous main hull, which provides much more room for labs, equipment, cargo and crew quarters than on other ships with about the same overall dimensions.

The lead ship USS Aquarius was just about to complete its outfitting at Betazed in 2374, when the Dominion invaded the system. Although the ship was already under full power, with shields only partially installed, phasers not yet adjusted and photon torpedoes not yet delivered, there was no chance but to warp away at maximum speed. After taking damage to the spaceframe due to the unscheduled warp flight, the ship was completed and commissioned at Copernicus Ship Yards one and a half year later and made its maiden voyage to Betazed. It is not clear whether more units of this type will be built.

 

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Thanks to jbobroony for the refinement.

 

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