Support Vessels

Because of the unpredictable and often dangerous nature of the Titan's mission she has been assigned a trial squadron of Starfleet's own fighter craft, known as the Airwing. This new unit taks up the whole of the main shuttlebay and effectively replaces the traditional marine fighter squadron stationed onboard and provides the USS Titan with both space and air support.

Because of the specialist nature of the Airwing, Starfleet has seen it prudent to equip the Titan with a good helping of shuttles and smaller craft, including the Captain Yacht. The number and type of vessels onboard the Titan are outlined below.

Starfleet Support Vessels

Captains Yacht - 'Hyperion'
Designation: Executive Transport
No. Units: 1

Personal:
1 Pilot & 22 Passengers.

Dimensions:
Height (overall): 7.2m
Length (overall): 33.5m
Total Wingspan: 26.7m


Warp Speeds:
Warp 3 cruising
Warp 5 Max.

Notes:
The Hyperion is warp-capable starship capable of acting independantly for upto two months. Its nacelles move down to their flight position after undocking from the bottom of the host starship.

Type 9 Personal Shuttle
Designation: Personal transport
No. Units: 4

Personal:
2 Pilots

Dimensions:
Height (overall): 2.9m
Length (overall): 9.1m
Total Wingspan: 3.2m


Warp Speeds:
Warp 3.2 for 48 hours

Notes:
These two vessels are kept in shuttlebay 2 and are reserved for small scale personnel transport.

Type 11 Personal Shuttle
Designation: Personal Transport
No. Units: 2

Personal:
2 Pilots & 10 Passengers.

Dimensions:
Height (overall): 3.6m
Length (overall): 16.5m
Total Wingspan: 8.8m


Warp Speeds:
Warp 5.2 for 48 hours

Notes:
These two vessels are kept in shuttlebay 2 for personnel transport and similar operations.

Airwing Fighters

FA-290 Fast Attack Space Superiority Fighter
Designation: Long Range Space Superiority Fighter
No. Units: 8

Personal:
2 Pilots (Plot Co-pilot)
2 Seated Passengers.

Dimensions:
Height (overall): 3.8m
Length (overall): 16.5m
Total Wingspan: 9.6m


Warp Speeds:
Warp 9.8 for 48 hours

Notes:
These eight vessels aresplit into two flights, known as Crossbow and Longbow. They are kept in the main shuttlebay and are solely for use by the pilots of the Airwing. Because of this the maintenance and unpkeep of the fighters is conducted by specialist technicians assigned to the Airwing.


Offensive Systems
The FA-290 is equippd with four two pulse phaser cannons and two type VII phaser emitters positioned to the aft of the vessel.

In addition the FA-290's has three modular hardpoints, one located under each nacelle pylon and the other built into the underside of the primary hull. This allows the craft to perform a wide variety of mission types, and even carry specialist detection and weapon systems if required. The usual armament for the FA-290 is two micro-quantum torpedo launchers (with 16 torpedos each) located on the wing hardpoints and a counter measure & decoy package positioned in the other hardpoint.

Sensor Package & Tactical Link
The FA-290 is equipped with an advanced tactical sensor package with a secure Tactical Link to the host-starship and indeed any other FA-290's in the local vacinity. This allows the fighter crafts onboard computers to accept tactical information from a range of sources and even communicate tactical information back to the host starship.