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​STATION FEATURES
Yorktown Station is a Frontier Class station.
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The Rings - The station is made up of three intersecting rings, perpendicular to each other, with a central spherical core. The Horizontal Ring was known as "X" ring, with the two vertical oriented rings known as "Y" and "Z". Each of the station’s rings are composed primarily of docking facilities, cargo holds, and repair bays, as well as sensor arrays, shield generators and weapons ports. The operations center, informally known as the Hub, is located at the upper intersection of the two vertical rings. The docking ring is connected to the sphere by six crossover bridges.
The Hub - The command complex of the station is located at the upper intersection of the Y and Z vertical rings. Its disc shape features multiple levels including a centralized briefing table, a dedicated workstation for the Security Chief, and multiple other stations. The station commander's office is directly attached to it.
Corridors and Lifts – The station has spacious, brightly illuminated passages and corridors that are taller and wider than those found on starships. As with the corridors on the station, the lifts are well lit, very roomy, and quiet.
The Park - A grand amalgam of engineering and nature, of technology and beauty, the Park occupies an arc of the station’s primary section, a central sphere. In addition to its use as a place for the crew’s recreation, it serves as a functioning part of life-support systems. Soil and stone and flora had been imported from Terra to create the undulating, grass-covered hills, with rocky elevations rising along about a quarter of the perimeter. Above, a simulated blue sky crowns the locale, although as the internal environment of the station progressed into the nighttime portion of its virtual twenty-four-hour day, the holographic morning and subsequent afternoon fade, and the stars become visible through the transparent hull overhead. The park has been intentionally positioned away from the three perpendicularly intersecting rings that encircled the main sphere, thereby affording evening visitors to the picturesque setting an unimpeded view of the nocturnal sky.
The Plaza - A broad, three-story-tall concourse with an expansive walkway located a deck below the Park that wraps all the way around the circumference of the sphere, hugging the curvature of the hull. It features an eclectic mix of establishments to support the station's population — civilian and Starfleet — as well as visitors and transients. There are restaurants, cafés, taverns, game rooms, sports fields, a library, computer and communications facilities, a nondenominational place of worship, the valuation and auction house, the theater, the Replimat, and a music and dance hall. It also has four large atriums evenly laid out around that level. Public benches line each atrium, and artwork of varying origin decorates the bulkheads. In the center of each atrium stands a black pyramidal base, above which hangs a translucent holographic image of Yorktown Station, projected in three dimensions. Along the outer side, a transparent bulkhead bows out around the Plaza and the residential deck below, offering views not only of surrounding space, but also of X-axis ring, which sweeps past in a horizontal arc.
Residential Deck - Located a deck below the Plaza, which also wraps all the way around the circumference of the sphere, is where most permanent living quarters for civilians and Starfleet personnel are located.
Sector General/Hospital - Also located on the Residential Deck, it occupies nearly a quarter of the circular deck on which it sits. The facility has a much larger capacity for patients than any other station, featuring more than one operating theater, as well as a number of medical laboratories. At the entrance to the hospital, a wide opening with a circular desk is set in the center. The words "SECTOR GENERAL" march across the front of the desk in Federation Standard. Several security guards stand deeper inside, next to corridors that radiate away from the entrance like the spokes of a wheel.
STATION DEFENSE
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Yorktown Station has an arsenal of 48 Type-XII rotary-mounted pulse phaser cannons, 48 Type-XII stationary-mounted phaser emitters, 12 Type-XII slide-mounted phaser emitters, and 48 torpedo launchers. The station also has a payload of 100 transphasic torpedoes, 1,500 quantum torpedoes and 3,500 high-yield photon torpedoes.
The primary weapons feature of the station is the retractable defense sail. The sails are placed at 30-degree intervals around the X-ring’s dorsal and ventral sides and houses most of the tactical systems of the station, including Type XII phaser turrets, Type XII phaser arrays, rotary phaser cannons, torpedo launchers, and tractor beam emitters. These emplacements provide a nearly 360-degree sphere for defense, only interrupted by targets obscured at close range by the other platforms of the station.
Each sail tower is armed with two torpedo launcher tubes, two rotary-mounted phaser cannons, two stationary-mounted phaser emitters, one slide-mounted phaser turret and a tractor beam emitter. With this firepower, Yorktown Station is a virtual floating fortress.
The station is protected by enhanced, regenerative, triple-redundant, reinforced, multiphasic, multispectrum, unimatrix defensive shields and ablative hull armor. It is also installed with thoron shield generators that provide a seamless energy casing around the starbase, on the inner sides of the rings, with a separate shell around the Hub. The thoron-based screen interferes with log-range communications and sensors, but functions as a protective envelope far stronger than typical shields, defending against not only energy weapons and transporter beams, but also actual material objects. While it will not render the station impregnable, it will allow the starbase to withstand some attacks better and longer than traditional shields.
PERSONNNEL COMPLIMENT
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Yorktown Station has a full Starfleet complement of 2,500 personnel. 400 of whom are officers and 2,100 are enlisted. In addition, the station is inhabited by 10,000 civilians from different worlds nearby.
SHIP SUPPORT
From the Station Defense Task Force Division
One Prometheus-class Assault Cruiser, the USS Resolute, which serves as the personal flagship of the Base Commander and Sector Commander when needed.
Two Defiant-class Tactical Frigates, the USS Swart and the USS Patterson
Four Valiant-class Tactical Corvettes, the USS Phoenix, USS Mulder, USS Leon, USS Murray
36 Valkyrie-class advanced tactical flyers (4 squadrons)
From the Station Support Task Force Division
One Olympic-class Medical Cruiser, the USS Vandalia
One Parliament-class Utility Cruiser, the USS Sofia
One California-class Utility Support Cruiser, the USS Simmons
One Wallenberg-class Transport, the USS Fields
Two Nova-class Survey Frigates, the USS Morgan and the USS Margarite
Auxiliary Craft Complement
Six Venture-class scout ships
Six Yellowstone-class runabouts
Six Flyer-class heavy shuttlecrafts
Six Type-11 medium shuttlecrafts
Six Type-9 light shuttlecrafts
One Admiral's Yacht - the Boudica
If needed, the auxiliary craft complement, with their respective weapons systems, which are substantial, could provide additional defense to the station.
Rapid Reaction Force
Yorktown Station is the home port of two starships that are attached to the Rapid Reaction Force, the Odyssey-class USS Saratoga, and the Diligent-class Tactical Frigate USS Brooks. While the Brooks has a designated docking port on the x-ring of the station, the Saratoga has its own drydock in station keeping to Yorktown Station, which doubles as its designated berth.
