| USS Sachem |
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| Class | Hetman |
| Registry | NCC-96612 |
| Owner | United Federation of Planets |
| Operator | Starfleet 5th Fleet |
| Launched | 2402 |
| Status | In service |
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USS Sachem
Hetman-class Fast Multi-Mission Cruiser
Starship Registry NCC-96612
USS Sachem is a Hetman-class fast multi-mission cruiser currently in service with Starfleet, under the command of Ohsala Rinn. The ship was commissioned a few years ahead of the Klingon War and has featured in most of the campaigns of the 2410s. The ship re-entered service in 2422 following a one-year-long refit and restoration of damage caused by a cracked nacelle pylon.
History
The Sachem is part of the second tranche of Hetman-class starships to enter commission. She was completed in late 2401 at Utopia Planitia in a construction program led by Koenig-Prax-Nelok Star Dynamics, undergoing a period of star trials before entering service in September 2402 under the command of CAPT Victoria Wu.
Sachem undertook survey missions along the former Neutral Zone between 2402 and 2402, acting as part of various roving sector defense forces, before being transferred to Starbase 343 in early 2405 in anticipation of hostilities with the Klingon Empire. The ship formed part of the Federation blockade of the Archanis System beginning that year and saw regular combat on the front lines of the nascent Klingon War. In this role, Sachem under the command of Wu proved highly effective. The ship was instrumental in several key victories, most notably the Battle of 68 Eridani: Sachem was the flagship of a mid-sized Federation taskforce intercepting a larger Klingon raiding party in the near-border 68 Eridani system, defeating the enemy fleet in detail.
The vessel served on the front through much of the war, only withdrawn for an extended period in 2407 to the Laurentian system to repair significant damage sustained repelling an assault on a supply colony in the Gliese 182 system. The ship returned to the front and took part in several fleet actions before again taking a prominent role in the March 2409 Klingon attack on Starbase 24. Out of system at the time of the attack, Wu and Sachem responded to the station’s distress signal and rendezvoused with a small escort convoy, arriving in a warp burst to attack the Klingon approach lane to the system. The maneuver helped to isolate Klingon forces and contributed to the saving of the station.
With Sachem suffering heavy damage during the Battle of Starbase 24, the ship was moved to Utopia Planitia for major repairs, during which time CAPT Wu was promoted. Command was assumed by newly-promoted CAPT Tagg glasch Gol. Sachem re-entered service in late 2409 and undertook a period of flight testing early in 2410. This coincided with the Romulan attack on Vulcan, to which CAPT Tagg responded. Sachem arrived midway through the battle and assisted with destroying two D’deridex-class warbirds before the end of the engagement.
Sachem was transferred to the Romulan front as hostilities with the Klingons eased, ultimately ending up in several engagements with Imperial remnants in the course of providing security and cargo transshipment to the nascent Republic. The ship was part of a task force that engaged a Borg cube in the vicinity of Starbase 82 in 2412. However, she was withdrawn into overhaul again in 2413 following the loss of her sister ship, USS Cacique, in a freak accident. Subsequent investigation revealed that Cacique lost a nacelle pylon at maximum warp due to structural fatigue inherent in the class’s design, including to Sachem: The ship’s engineering staff confirmed structural microfracturing in both nacelle struts. The ship entered drydock at McKinley Station for a complete pylon and nacelle replacement, replacing the at-launch MAM-9900 nacelles with more efficient Yoyodyne Swallowtail nacelles.
The ship returned to service in mid-2414, primarily engaging in combat with Iconian Herald forces prior to the end of that task force operation. In the wake of that kerfuffle, Sachem was transferred to the Federation’s rimward sectors, operating primarily between Cait and 24 Lyncis as flagship of a multi-sector border patrol task force intended to forestall Tholian incursions along the zone of contact. This period saw the ship’s pace of combat slow dramatically, but she featured in a number of relief missions and other key utility and scientific duties within these sectors.
In 2419, CAPT Tagg retired, and command was transferred to CAPT Ohsala Rinn, former commanding officer of USS Swift Current. Sachem was dispatched to the Bajor Sector to join the regional patrol force, with a particular focus on forestalling incursions by the Breen and tamping down trouble by Cardassian rebels. The ship appears to have engaged in several operations inside Cardassian space during this period, most of them pertaining to delivery of relief and undertaking of joint operations with the nascent Union navy.
This period proved brief: In mid-to-late 2420, Sachem returned to Deep Space Nine limping on one nacelle, under tow by a Union Galor-class ship. The ship was quickly moved to the Caph Yards and assessed, the damage quickly being chalked up to pylon microfractures. Documents declassified in 2422 revealed that Sachem was involved in joint Federation-Cardassian efforts to disperse and capture Cardassian rebels gathering for a coup attempt backed by a Detapa Council member. The ship suffered survivable-seeming phaser strikes to her port pylon during combat, but these strikes exacerbated low-quality submicron welds applied in 2413 and caused the pylon to fracture when the ship attempted to leave the system. The ship was equipped with a warp sled and moved to Utopia Planitia for a complete overhaul and nacelle replacement along with an advance of her mid-life extension upgrade package. A subsequent investigation resulted in the sanctioning of four McKinley engineers involved in the refit. The ship’s crew would be quietly awarded for the mission.
By August 2421, Sachem's repairs were complete, and the ship returned to service under the command of CAPT Ohsala.
In 2422, Sachem received an upgrade to her tactical systems. Four of her forward phaser arrays and two ventral arrays on her engineering hull were replaced with more modern Type XV-C burst phaser arrays.
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Length
Beam
Draft
Mass
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766 metres
225 metres
92 metres
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| Decks | 24 (22 habitable) |
| Standard Crew | 727 (122 officers, 605 enlisted) |
| Emergency Capacity | 2,700 |
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Armaments
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6x Type XV-C burst phaser array
10x Type XIV phaser array
4x multi-purpose photon torpedo tube
2x twin-bore rotary quantum torpedo turret
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Defenses
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28x shield grids generating 13,600 MW
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Auxiliary Craft
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6x Type 11 shuttle
4x shuttlepod or work bee
1x captain’s yacht (Niantic)
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Deck Layout
- Deck 1 - Bridge; Captain’s sea-cabin and office; conference room.
- Deck 2 - Crew quarters; administrative rooms.
- Deck 3 - Crew quarters.
- Deck 4 - Crew quarters; shuttlebay operations control; Transporter Rooms 1 thru 4.
- Deck 5 - Shuttlebays 1 and 2; impulse engine systems; cargo bays 1 through 3; crew lounge (“The Five-oh-One”)
- Deck 6 - Impulse engine systems; science labs; senior officer quarters; Captain’s quarters.
- Deck 7 - Science labs; guest quarters; Holodecks 1 thru 4; Holosuites 1 thru 8.
- Deck 8 - Science labs; Stellar Cartography; sensor control stations.
- Deck 9 - Sickbay and associated medical wards; counseling office; gymnasium and training centre; guest quarters.
- Deck 10 - Crew quarters; weapons control stations; ventral saucer torpedo turret control; ventral phaser coils; captain’s yacht access.
- Deck 11 - Subspace communications array; primary power conduit access.
- Deck 12 - Life support systems; Ship’s Security; brig.
- Deck 13 - Engineering phaser control; crew quarters.
- Deck 14 - Aft torpedo control systems; crew quarters.
- Deck 15 - Secondary power couplings; primary matter-antimatter shunt; crew quarters.
- Deck 16 - Warp pylon maintenance access; deuterium fuel storage; crew quarters.
- Deck 17 - Main computer core; deflector control; deuterium fuel storage.
- Deck 18 - Main Engineering; engineering support stations.
- Deck 19 - Antimatter injector access; central waste management; ventral stardrive weapons access.
- Deck 20 - Engineering support stations.
- Deck 21 - Forward torpedo launcher access and control stations; engineering support stations.
- Deck 22 - Engineering and environmental support stations.
- Deck 23 (non-habitable) - Antimatter storage pods section 1.
- Deck 24 (non-habitable) - Antimatter storage pods section 2.
Configuration
Sachem was originally designed as a high-speed, rapid-reaction combat cruiser, and its configuration reflects choices intended to maximize effectiveness, right down to simple things like how the Captain lives. The ship lacks a conventional “ready room,” instead using a “sea cabin” and “port cabin” configuration. The Captain’s “port cabin” is the main and best-appointed living space and located on deck 6, with a nice aft view; the commanding officer typically sleeps here while the ship is in transit or at port. The “sea cabin” is immediately aft of the bridge and consists of a small and comparatively Spartan office space, with a slide-away divider for a small bunk, sonic shower and head facilities. When on the front lines or in potentially dangerous territory, the Captain will usually sleep in the sea cabin, from which they can walk straight out onto the bridge in the event of an emergency.
Port quarters are generally quite high-standard for what was initially a combat ship, largely owing to modifications made when the ship lost its 250-man MACO contigent and filled up the large amount of empty space previously allocated to storing ground vehicles and heavy equipment. The ship has sufficient space that section heads can have individual quarters and junior officers can maintain two-to-a-room arrangements. Enlisted crew will typically share quarters, typically in blocks of two to four, but there are no large-scale “barracks” arrangements.
Crew
Commanding Officer: CAPT Ohsala Rinn
** Executive Officer: CMDR Jeane-Lucie Khine
*** Alpha Shift Helm Controller: LT T’Shonek
**** Beta Shift Helm Controller: ENS Kelley Carrauza
**** Gamma Shift Helm Controller: CPO Nistra
*** Yeoman: YN Yxayn Vani
Chief Operations Officer: LT Dain Briax
** Deputy Operations Officer: LTJG B’reysa Nelac
*** Computer Systems Manager: LTJG Bui Thuy Mien
*** Mission Operations Officer: LTJG Wescott Arona
Chief Tactical Officer: LT Thyllari zh’Larel
** Deputy Tactical Officer: LT Avanti Youna
*** Strategic Operations Officer: LT Gu Xuefeng
*** Lead Energy Weapons Officer: ENS Nhlox
**** Energy Weapons Officer: PO1 Maeyin
**** Energy Weapons Officer: PO1 Starek
Chief Engineering Officer: LCDR Dahlia R. Dexter
** Deputy Engineering Officer: LTJG Miguel Ruiz Obiang
*** Field Engineer: LTJG B’Etara
*** Systems Technician Section Head: ENS Adaline Angalich
**** Systems Technician: CPO Llegeus i-Virinat tr’Raellillaen-thra’dein
Chief Science Officer/Second Officer: LCDR Sayaana Khudanov
** Deputy Science Officer: LT Tesryl sh’Aen
*** Lead Stellar Cartography Officer: LTJG Rumani Belor
*** Geophysical Specialist: LTJG Beyen Kayn
Chief Security Officer: LT Divada Niru
** Deputy Security Officer: LTJG Ifeani Onyewelu
*** Rapid Response Field Team Lead: LTJG Thyrr th’Kallas
Chief Medical Officer: CMDR Padas Nei
** Deputy Medical officer: LT Mark Corton
*** Lead Nurse: LT Prag glasch Rugol
*** Lead Counselor: LT Dana Ward Reese
Past captains
- 2402-2409: Victoria Wu
- 2409-2419: Tagg glasch Gol
- 2419-2420: Ohsala Rinn
- 2421-present: Ohsala Rinn
