I start out chatting with Hotfoot over my ideas on how Fisher should work up his ship, and I wind up with this:
Captain's Name: Commander George Ellison
(Acting Captain) Lt. Commander Eoife Kirk
XO: Lt. Serin
Captain's Species: Human/Terran
(Acting Captain: Human/Colonial)
Acting Captain's Background: Despite the name, Eoife is no relation to the Hero of the Federation. The teasing she got from the name haunted her in the Academy made her nearly change her name, and the high expectations from some teachers in the Academy nearly had her quit. Sheer stubbornness got her through, not realizing that was one of the traits the teachers saw.
She was assigned to the
USS Spector after graduation with the class of 2370, and unlike the Great Capt. Kirk she did not have a fast rise in rank, although her record would show her diligent and focused. The outbreak of the Dominion War changed that, and as the
Spector served proudly at Chin'tocka, Cardassia, and by the Prometheus Incident she was serving First Watch on the Battle Bridge, coordinating fighter attacks.
The Borg Invasion and the destruction of the Federation was a hard blow. The
Spector was involved in several of the first battles, with heavy cost to their fighter complement. The Battle of Earth was their last large fight, and the
Spector lost nearly half her fighters that day, as well as the majority of her senior officers. ABorg Phaser sheered through the shields and scored a glancing hit to the Main Bridge. The blow out-right killed the XO and many bridge crew; Captain Ellison and few survivors managed to escape to the turbolift, but not to safety. As the hull gave way, the turbolift lost power and dropped multiple decks before the safeties caught it and also contained the hull breech. Capt. Ellison has been on medical life-support ever since, fading in and out of a coma.
Lt Commander Eoife, being the ranking officer on the Battle Bridge, was raised to Acting Captain, and with the battle lost she called in the
Spector's remaining fighters and retreated to Warp. The last few years had been the hardest test of any officer.
As Acting Captain of a damaged fleeing ship, Eoife has had to make hard choices, with only occasional input from Capt. Ellison. With the fighter complement decimated, she chose to turn two of the fighter bays into replicator bays, scavenging asteroid fields and former battlefields for the parts to keep her torpedo bays full and her remaining fighters operational. She's taken a nearly maternal view of her ship and crew, not wanting to risk 'her babies' (the fighters) to any stand-up battles. So far, Capt Ellison has understood and supported her when lucid. Those moments have been growing less frequent, however.
But now the call to Bajor has come, and Lt. Commander Eoife Kirk and the
Spector must answer.
Lt Serin, XO
Serin was actually an adopted child of mixed heritage. He looks like a green-haired human, due to Orion and possible Romulan genetics in his lineage. His adoption by Vulcan parents has been explained as exactingly logical, as was his own personal adherance to the philosophy of Logic. He does not recall his birth parents, although he knows they were both at the Vulcan Science Academy, and that he has distant relatives who work in various scientific and mathematic fields. Serin was encouraged to follow his birth family's inclinations towards scientific study. His decision to join Starfleet was met by no surprise from his adopted parents, who found it logically followed his interests.
Ship Name: USS Spector (NCC-65549)
Ship Class: Akira
Length: 464.6 meters
Width: 316.7 meters
Height: 87.4 meters
Mass: 3,055,000 metric tons
Decks: 26 decks
Crew: 500/4500 personnel evacuation limit
Speed: Cruise: Wp 6
Max. Cruise: Wp 9.2
Max. Emergency: Wp 9.8
Armaments: 6(4) Phaser arrays, 15 Torpedo tubes
Defences: Ablative armor, Deflector Shields
Auxiliary craft (Remaining): 10(3) Work bees, 40(20) Fighters, 10(4) Shuttlecraft, 5(4) Shuttlepods
Crew composition: Out of the standard crew composition, the
Spector has only the junior officers from the Battle Bridge left, as well as the Chief Medical Officer and Engineer. Out of the 500 normal crew, only 2/3 remain, with many non--military family members attempting to cover the missing shifts.
At this point, only 15 fully trained fighter pilots remain.
Special Systems and other Acquisitions:
Fighter Complement: 20 fighters, of which only 12-15 at a time are flyable. Each fighter has 3 torpedo launchers and 2 phaser emitters, as well as deflector shields.
Using scavenged equipment, 4 of the fighters have been turned into cloaked bombers, at the cost of the phasers and all warp capability. These silent bombers are meant for sudden surprise flanking attacks, dropping a brace of torpedoes before vanishing into cloaked evasive maneuvers.
Ship's Weakness:
1. No senior officers, and just an Acting Captain. Eoife Kirk is young and unsure of herself, haunted by the weight and expectations of her last name.
2. Main Bridge inoperable due to unrepairable hull damage. Crude repairs have been attempted so the shields do protect the wound, but any shots to that section of hull have a greater chance of destroying the ship.
3. Weakened Fighter Complement. (see above)
4. One Flight Bay. The others are now replicator bays to keep the fighters armed, as well as the
Spector's own torpedo launchers
