Defiant class

The Defiant class is a Federation Heavy Corvette.

Description
"Officially she's an escort vessel, unofficially, she's a warship" -Captain Benjamin Sisko. The battle of Wolf 359 saw the destruction of an entire Federation Task force by a single Borg cube. Although the cube was stopped before succeeding in its goal of assimilating earth, a wave of fear over Borg invasion swept through the Federation and Starfleet. This spurred the development of a number of new starship classes with greatly enhanced combat capabilities. While classes such as the Intrepid, Nova, Saber, and Norway were capable of diverse roles, the small frame and overpowered defense systems made the Defiant suited for one purpose: front line combat. Engineers at Utopia Planitia mothballed the Defiant when they found that the ship would nearly shake herself to pieces when powered up: She was simply too powerful for such a small ship frame. After being redeployed to Deep Space Nine and extensively overhauled by Chief of Engineering Miles O'Brian, Defiant was made fit for action. She quickly proved herself in action with Jem Hadar warships. When the threat of war with the Dominion materialized, the Defiant class was put into full production and a number of examples are seeing action in every theater against the Dominion.

The Defiant class is a late game heavy corvette. This is a misnomer, however, as the Defiant is extremely over gunned for a ship of her size and can hold her own in battle with much larger ships. Moreover, Defiant class vessels take significant time and resources to construct. Once deployed, however, a commander can send Defiant class ships into the thick of fighting with confidence that they will survive and even turn the fight. The weapons systems are arranged to fire directly to the fore. While this class does have two aft facing torpedo tubes and a small number of standard phaser banks meant to fire in an aft oriented and 360 degree arc respectively, the main weapons compliment fire in a forward oriented configuration. These weapons include photon and quantum torpedo launchers along with pulse phasers. Defiant class ships are ideally suited for assaulting heavily armored space stations or battleships.

-Charlie Goodfellow.

Performance
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External References
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