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This is the United Space Ship Highwind (NCC-0688), a light Galactic Survey Cruiser. A compact variant of the larger Einstein-Class Starship made famous by the U.S.S. Kelvin (NCC-0514), which was attacked by the Romulan vessel Narada on January 4th, 2233, the Sentinel-class light GSC is only 2/3 the length of the Einstein-class vessels and requires just a little over half of her big sister's crew complement. Sentinels got their name due to their main role as scout and survey vessels. Equipped with increased laboratory space (due to the decreased crew requirement) and fitted with specialized equipment including a powerful floodlight mounted on the single underslung warp engine nacelle, outboard scanner palettes, four large sensor dishes and an upgraded navigational deflector dish equipped with additional sensors, they are ideal "eyes" for Star Fleet cruiser squadrons and also perfectly suited for research missions in uncharted sectors of space.
However, she does have one major drawbacks: the Sentinel-Class is not as heavily armed as the Einstein-Class was, reflecting her more peaceful role as a scout. She is only equipped with a handful of twin-turret Phaser banks scattered across the hull to spread out her firing arcs, and has a minimum of three pop-out Photon Torpedo launchers, two on the top of the saucer section and one on the bottom. The compromise was made to help secure the space for more laboratories and scientific equipment, and justified by her designers because she was not expected to engage in much direct combat as she was to be a scout cruiser, not a frontline warship. However, the Sentinel-Class is still no pushover. Her armament was light for a cruiser, but good enough to give her a chance against known enemy vessels of comparable size - at least before the Narada arrived in 2233.
The vessel's name and class are both references. Her class, Sentinel, is a shout-out to the U.S. Coast Guard's Sentinel-class cutters as well as to the ship's role as a long range scout cruiser/surveyor. Her own name is the more obvious pun: she's named after the famous Highwind airship from "Final Fantasy VII."
Original design and idea by galaxy1701d, found here: [link] and original parts by Captain Shade!
However, she does have one major drawbacks: the Sentinel-Class is not as heavily armed as the Einstein-Class was, reflecting her more peaceful role as a scout. She is only equipped with a handful of twin-turret Phaser banks scattered across the hull to spread out her firing arcs, and has a minimum of three pop-out Photon Torpedo launchers, two on the top of the saucer section and one on the bottom. The compromise was made to help secure the space for more laboratories and scientific equipment, and justified by her designers because she was not expected to engage in much direct combat as she was to be a scout cruiser, not a frontline warship. However, the Sentinel-Class is still no pushover. Her armament was light for a cruiser, but good enough to give her a chance against known enemy vessels of comparable size - at least before the Narada arrived in 2233.
The vessel's name and class are both references. Her class, Sentinel, is a shout-out to the U.S. Coast Guard's Sentinel-class cutters as well as to the ship's role as a long range scout cruiser/surveyor. Her own name is the more obvious pun: she's named after the famous Highwind airship from "Final Fantasy VII."
Original design and idea by galaxy1701d, found here: [link] and original parts by Captain Shade!
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Since you've read my journal entry about the Gorn, I hope you can see why I chose to make the Highwind a Kelvin variant. When I first conceived her, she was to be a tiny Oberth class science vessel. But I wanted to give her more tactical ability, so she became bigger, but then I no longer knew if I wanted her to be an existing ship type or something new. The idea of using a Kelvin base came largely because it make the whole deal with the emergency manual warp core ejection easy to visualize since the Einstein Class only had one big nacelle under the ship's belly. 