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Developed as a parallel project to the experimental Defiant class, the Nike class is an advanced light cruiser designed and built for the express purpose of war. As Director and head of the project Admiral Orthschild Ngyuen put it, "Other ships have weapons. Nike is a weapon that we put engines and other weapons around it."

Built around new technologies directly resulting from the on-going Dominion War, the Nike was designed around a spinal-mounted Phased Tetryon Lance, a weapon designed specifically to bring down deflector shields of opposing ships and interfere with a target's ability to bring them back online. The development team controversially chose to keep the crew of the cruiser small, with sentient holographic systems automating many of the necessary functions, including security. Together with a new multi-vector impulse system, pulsed manifold warp engines, 2 pulse phaser cannons, 4 phaser banks, 7 torpedo tubes, and regenerative/reactive armor, the Nike was meant to act as a powerful deterrent to hostilities from foreign powers. Unfortunately, only 5 years into development, two-thirds of the prototype ships were commandeered in the Antiome Coup attempt. The current whereabouts and status of these captured vessels are as of yet unknown.

Additionally, flaws would be shown in the performance of these vessels, notably power fluctuations from overtaxing the warp core from too many hungry systems, as well as a vulnerability in the reactive armor plating system to high penetration nano-projectile impacts. After much consideration, production of more Nike-class ships would be approved, despite these events.

Shown here in image on patrol around the Calx rift anomaly: USS Boudica {stolen}, USS Artemsia {stolen}, USS Jeanne d'Arc, USS Nakano {stolen}, USS Lozen {stolen}, USS Zenobia

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Developed in Maya and Photoshop

Description

Developed as a parallel project to the experimental Defiant class, the Nike class is an advanced light cruiser designed and built for the express purpose of war. As Director and head of the project Admiral Orthschild Ngyuen put it, "Other ships have weapons. Nike is a weapon that we put engines and other weapons around it."

Built around new technologies directly resulting from the on-going Dominion War, the Nike was designed around a spinal-mounted Phased Tetryon Lance, a weapon designed specifically to bring down deflector shields of opposing ships and interfere with a target's ability to bring them back online. The development team controversially chose to keep the crew of the cruiser small, with sentient holographic systems automating many of the necessary functions, including security. Together with a new multi-vector impulse system, pulsed manifold warp engines, 2 pulse phaser cannons, 4 phaser banks, 7 torpedo tubes, and regenerative/reactive armor, the Nike was meant to act as a powerful deterrent to hostilities from foreign powers. Unfortunately, only 5 years into development, two-thirds of the prototype ships were commandeered in the Antiome Coup attempt. The current whereabouts and status of these captured vessels are as of yet unknown.

Additionally, flaws would be shown in the performance of these vessels, notably power fluctuations from overtaxing the warp core from too many hungry systems, as well as a vulnerability in the reactive armor plating system to high penetration nano-projectile impacts. After much consideration, production of more Nike-class ships would be approved, despite these events.

Shown here in image on patrol around the Calx rift anomaly: USS Boudica {stolen}, USS Artemsia {stolen}, USS Jeanne d'Arc, USS Nakano {stolen}, USS Lozen {stolen}, USS Zenobia

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Developed in Maya and Photoshop