Deck Listing

Taking up the lower 'brow ridge' of the Chariot class, the Dilicatic Reception Hall is an open space fronted on its forward side by a pane of uninterrupted qazi-sapphire. At a meter thick in testings this material can withstand explosive forces equal to that that would carve up Tritanium-B battle armour.

Thus this lavish sweeping view of space uninterrupted can be the setting for crew celebrations or diplomatic functions.

Standard Panolply pattern hyper diamond data array system running a modern LCAR's holographic operating system.

Spanning 13 decks, the Linear Compression Warp Core is an experimental design originally designed for use on Starbases due to its size. As opposed to a traditional station-bound antimatter reactor, the LC design uses gravity lensing to compress the matter and antimatter streams so that when they reach the intermix chamber the energy release is exponentially higher than a similar-sized warp core.

This affords the Chariot class a much higher energy budget for propulsion, life support, and tactical systems. But this also means the LC runs at close to its maximum operating regime constantly, faltering on the edge of overload that a myriad of subsystems and dedicated Advanced Machine Intelligences watch over. (See 'The Three Brothers'.)

Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar: the three brothers of the Daystrom Institute of Advance Cybernetic Intelligence. Whereas the Chariot class like most Starfleet vessels is served by a Generalised Aritifal intelligence, main engineering is assisted directly by three Ingram Nanoscale Solutions Tarsus class QAI's.

Quantum Artificial Intelligences are rarely if ever, allowed to directly interact with sentient or sapient crew members due to the negative observer effects this can put into their system. QAI's operate on abstracting information from the forward flow of computational time. By borrowing processing power from their future incarnations, they can keep the power of the LC Warp Core from becoming unstable and running away into melt down.

Taking up four decks of the lower keel sail of the Chariot class, the Proteus Drive Core is a unique combination of Starfleet and Federation Science married with the barely understood relics of Iconian science.

The drive projects the matter of the ship through an open portal connecting two disparate points in space. The further apart the two endpoints are the greater the degree of accuracy and fidelity in the transference. At distances shorter than 500 lightyears the technology runs up against a 'resolution barrier, where the matter transference breaks down resulting in a breakdown of object permanence but not mass.

The test vessels used to discover the Resolution Barrier are twisted malformed things, but which somehow still had fully functional impulse and warp drive systems. WHilst the matter's pattern might be torn apart by the process of transference, there appears to be at least some measure of intelligence as to the use of matter.