Barolian Borhyas Class Corvette

General Specifications
Dimensions
     Length:                     180m
     Width: Primary Hull:        26.5m
            Wingspan:            86.3m
     Height: Primary Hull:       16.25m
             Wingspan & Tailfin: 44.25m
            
Decks: 5
Cargo Bays: 2
Shuttle Bays: 0
Transporters: 2 (1 Personnel, 1 Cargo)
Standard Crew Complement: 52
Passenger Capacity:
     VIP: 2
     Security: 4 (Brig)

Power & Propulsion:
     Warp Reactor: Artificial Quantum Singularity Assembly
     Warp Nacelles: 1 (Aft, Central)
          Maximum Cruising Speed: Warp 7.5
          Maximum Speed: Warp 8.5 (12 hrs or less)
     Impulse Reactors: Fusion (4)
     Impulse Engines: 2 (Aft, Central)
          Maximum Cruising Speed: Full Impulse (0.25c)
          Maximum Speed: 0.5c

Tactical:
     Offensive Subsystems:
          Pulse Phasers: 2
               Fire Arc: 1 Forward/Starboard 
                         1 Forward/Port
          Disruptors: 4
               Fire Arc: 1 Forward/Starboard
                         1 Forward/Port
                         1 Aft/Starboard
                         1 Aft/Port
          Photon Torpedos: 1
               Fire Arc: Forward
               Torpedos: 10

     Defensive Subsystems:
          Sensor Stealth: Incorportated into Hull
          Deflector Sheilds

Description: 
     The Midnight Sun, a Borhyas class Corvette, is the only vessel of its
class ever designed and built.  It is a long, thin starship, designed for
both interstellar and atmospheric flight, hence the aerodynamic design.
Extending for half the vessel's length in front of it are two long mandibles
which spout from the vessel's primary hull.  These mandibles contain the
sensory and much of the offensive and defensive equipment of the Midnight Sun.
     The Primary Hull is fairly thin and wide in shape, starting more
narrow where the mandibles meet the hull and widening a little near the rear
of the vessel.  Off the primary hull extend two horizontal wings which spread
downward and a forty-degree incline, and a tailfin which sprouts from the
top of the Primary Hull.  These, of course, are to guide the vessel while
engaged in atmospeheric flight, although its anti-gravity generators assist
greatly with this also.
     At the rear of the vessel sprouts a single engine unit, rectangular in
shape, which houses the warp nacelle and the impulse engines.  The primary 
thrusters are also located in the rear of the vessel, although other
manuevering thrusters are located throughout the outer hull.
     The ship's hull is matte black in colour, making it difficult to detect
with the naked eye while in space.  Another slightly unusual function of
this spacecraft is the fact that the Bridge is located on the bottom of the
vessel, as opposed to the top.  A long, One-hundred and eighty degree window
covers the front of the Bridge, allowing for a clear view of the stars.

Deck Layout
     The Midnight Sun, primarily designed as a transport/interceptor, is
quite long and thin, making for cramped space inside the vessel.  The 
designers primarily focused on speed and maneuverability, and it is not
comfortable by any means.  Only the Captain has his/her own quarters, and the
rest of the crew functions in two or four man bunk rooms, sharing communal
cleaning facilities.  The ship has five decks, each of which are approximately
2.85m in height, making those exceptionally tall crewmembers rather
uncomfortable.

     The following deck layout description includes some external devices 
which cannot be accessed from the internal of the ship.  These are indicated.

Deck One
     Crew Quarters
          The Crew Quarters consist of two and four man rooms with bunks and
          storage lockers to keep personal items.
     Crew Facilities:
          These are two multi-man cleaning facilities with sonic showers,
          sinks and personal waste recyclers (toilets) which all the crew 
          share.
     Life Support
     Impulse Engines

Deck Two
     Sensor Systems (mandibles)
     Forward Disruptors: 2 (mandibles)
     Structural Integrity System (mandibles)
     Navigational Deflector Array (central mandibles - between them)
     Transporter Room
     Ship's Mess
          The Ship's Mess includes one replicator, the only one aboard.
     Pulse Phasers: 2 (external)
     Impulse Reactors
     Impulse Engines

Deck Three
     Sensor Systems (mandibles)
     Inertial Dampening System (mandibles)
     Navigational Deflector Array (central mandibles)
     Computer Core
     Engineering
          Engineering includes the Quantum Reaction chamber which houses the
          artificial quantum singularity and the central Power Transfer
          Conduit.
     Aft Disruptors: 2 (external)
     Warp Nacelle

Deck Four
     Anti-grav System (mandibles)
     Navigational Deflector Array (central mandibles)
     Photon Torpedo Launcher (central mandibles)
     Computer Core
     Cargo Bays
     Fuel Supply
     Warp Nacelle

Deck Five:
     Bridge
          The Bridge is almost circular in shape, extending in a semi-circle
          in the forward portion, and then the circle narrows into an
          eliptical shape.  The Captain's chair is located in the centre of
          the Bridge, with the Tactical and Flight Control located forward of
          the chair, to port and starboard respectively.  The First Mate has  
          no specific position, as he/she is expected to move frequently and
          is often located in the rear of the bridge at one of the may 
          sensor and control stations positioned there.  As previously 
          mentioned, a one-hundred and eighty degree window encompasses the
          front of the Bridge, but these windows are constructed in such a
          manner to allow them to become viewcreens at any time, allowing for
          the display of pertinant information in the forward section of the
          Bridge.  The Captain's chair has a semi-circular control panel
          attached to it, allowing for the panel to be swung around when the
          seat is occupied.  This panel can override all functions on the
          vessel.
     Breifing Room:
          This small observation room is located directly behind the Bridge.
          It is rectantular in design, and possess windows on the port and
          starboard sides.  There is a long table located centally, and 
          several viewscreens populate this area.
     Captain's Quarters
     Cargo Bays
          The lower cargo bays are the central ones, and cargo can be loaded 
          and unloaded directly via access hatches.  It is in this cargo bay
          that the cargo transporter is also located.

Note: If a device appears on more then one deck, it is simply the same device
      which is large enough to encompass more then one deck (ie Navigational
      Deflector Array)
      Any item device located in a mandible is accessable via cramped access
      hatchways, but not via the primary hull.  The exception to this is the
      Navigational Deflector Array and Torpedo Launcher, which can be accessed
      via the Primary Hull.

Unusual Properties
     Besides being the only vessel of it's class, the Midnight Sun possess an
an additional unusual property.  Due to the material that it was constructed
from, it is difficult to detect at long range.  The material, known as
DyDuranium, warps sensor emmisions, making the vessel appear as a wandering
spatial anomaly at long range.  While this phenomenon used to function at
shorter ranges as well, the increase in sensor technologies over the last
forty years has reduced its effectiveness.  The vessel cannot be penetrated
by a passive scan, and the cargo bays were reinforced with this material,
making it difficult to penetrate them with even an active scan.  This gives
the Midnight Sun an edge over most vessels, but it can be a double edged
sword, as many partols find these innate qualities in a Starship immediately
suspicious.

History
     During the later half of the twenty-fourth century, the long and bloody
conflict between the Cardassian Union and the United Federartion of Planets
finally came to an end.  An uneasy truce between the two long-standing
adversaries was reached in 2366, and, by the terms of the treaty between the
two powers, a de-militerized zone between Cardassian and Federation Space
was created.
     However, there were many beings, whose homes were now located within 
this zone, who were unsatisfied.  They had seen the atrocities of which the
Cadassians were capable, and were unwilling to stand idly and watch while
the Cardassians continued their horrific acts under Starfleet's very nose.
     Inspired by the success of the Bajoran resistance movement, which 
pushed the Cardassians out of Bajor and forced them to abandon their orbital
mining station, Terak Nor, which later became Starfleet's Deep Space Nine
Station, some of these beings renounced their Federation citizenship and
formed the Maquis, a terrorist organization dedicated to destroying the
Cardassian influence in the zone.
     Recruiting members from all over the Quadrant, including many former
Starfleet Officers, the Maquis met with limited success.  Few supplies and
absolete vessels prevented them from launching any major offenses against 
the Cardassians.  However, their guerilla tactics scored them many small
victories in their war.
     One of the major difficulties the Mauis encountered was in cargo and
supply shipment.  Many of the offensive craft that they had obtained were too
small to be effective transports, and their freighters, like the Antares and
Merchantman classes, could not withstand any kind of attack.  If the 
Cardassians discovered any of their envoys, these freighters were sitting 
ducks, and their destruction represented the loss of months worth of work,
not to mention countless lives.
     What they needed was a vessel large enough to transport good quantities
of cargo, but fast and manueverable enough to evade Cardassian warships.
This vessel also required enough of an armament so it could withstand an
attack by a Galor class starship.
     To this end, the Maquis contracted the Barolians to design and build
such a vessel, in return for Federation engineering secrets.  To assist the
Barolians, the Maquis assigned an engineering team headed by Krael Cris, a
youg engineer who had been with Lieutenant Thomas Riker during his brief
forage into Cardassian space aboard the USS Defiant, an experimental 
Federation warship.  Krael had managed to escape prosecution by the Federation
for the theft of the vessel, and possessed some of the Defiant's secrets.
     The resulting design was a strange combination of Barolian, Federation
and Romulan technologies.  Like Romulan vessels, the starship, dubbed a
Borhyas class Corvette by Krael, utilized an artificial quantum singularity
as it's primary power source.  The ship possessed two of the Defiant's
'pulse phasers', but the remaining energy weapons were disruptors, due to 
power limitations.  The remaining subsystems were of Federation design,
while the overall structure and hull material was Barolian in origin.  As a
detection counter-measure, the hull was primarily constructed of DyDuranium,
and alloy of duranium which had the property of distorting sensor emmisions,
making the vessel difficult to detect and scan (This was the reason that the 
vessel was dubbed a Borhyas class, 'borhyas' being Bajoran for 'spirit' or
'ghost').
     Construction of the vessel was completed in late 2372, and the corvette
was christened the Midnight Sun, not only in reference to its sensor stealth,
but also to its quantum singularity power source, the only one of its type
in the Maquis at the time.
     The Midnight Sun was a great success.  Its stealth and maneuverability
enabled it to slip by Cardassian blockades, while its offensive capabilites
gave it the ability to hold its own against singular Galor class Warships.
Command of the vessel was given to Arlen Steele, the former Starfleet 
Captain who had suggested the design of the corvette, and Krael Cris was made
his Cheif Engineer.
     The Maquis attempted to have more of the Borhyas class vessels 
constructed, but the Barolian design team were all killed in a strange and
sudden 'accident', making the creation of more of these vessels impossible.
Thus, the Midnight Sun became the only vessel of its class, or its kind.
     The corvette continued in service for the terrorist organization for the
next sixteen years, destroying countless Cardassian vessels and transporting
millions of tons of cargo to a vast number of Maquis cells.  However, in
2389, this all changed.
     Arlen Steele was getting old, and some members of the Maquis were
becoming skeptical of his ability to command.  Steele was indignant; he was
beter than he'd ever been.  The leaders of the Maquis disagreed, and he was
told to step down from command to make room for a replacement.
     Steele's response was to take his leave of the Maquis, taking the
Midnight Sun with him.  With a skeleton crew, Steele made for the Gamma
Quadrant via the Bajoran wormhole, to evade capture by his former comrades
and to start a new life for himself and his crew.  Disappearing into the
wormhole, the corvette was not seen again for the next fifteen years, and
was eventually forgotten.  Even the Maquis, who had spent so many resources
in the construction of the exceptional vessel, eventually gave up the chase,
assuming that the vessel had been destroyed by the Jem'Hadar upon entering 
the Dominion's territory, and the Midnight Sun faded from memory.
     Until now.

Jason Kee
eclipse@ionsys.com