USS Freedom Fighter

The USS Freedom Fighter is a Khopesh class Combat Battleship. The Freedom Fighter is an entirely unique creation. It was designed by Kilam Richards. Currently the only on in its class it is commanded by its designer.

Pre-creation
While the design schematics of the Freedom Fighter were created by Rear Admiral Richards, some of the technology came from a shuttlecraft from an ancient race of people. Everything except for the offensive systems was carefully studied and recreated with direction from the ship.

Kilam spent several days in his office designing the ship from stem to stern. He had thought of multiple names for the ship but the name Freedom Fighter wasn't settled on until only a few days before the ship was launched.

Creation
Building the Freedom Fighter took a great amount of time. Without the use of Anchorage Complex's advanced ship building facilities it would have taken years. Throughout the building of the ship many problems arouse that had to be corrected else the ship not function correctly. The actual building of the ship was mostly automated as Kilam would only allow a few people in to see the ship. Besides the rest of the Admiralty only a select few saw the ship before completion.

One of the biggest problems for the Freedom Fighter during its construction was how the forward section of the ship was designed. He had purposely made the ship's saucer section closer to that of a Prometheus class ship then the traditional circular saucers. However, one extreme difference to the Freedom Fighter was that the nose of the ship ended in a very sharp point. It was made this was so as to be able to pierce enemy ships hulls and literally rip them in half.

Getting the hull to conform to such a shape was where the challenge lied. The computer was not able to produce the hull in such a pointed shape. So what Kilam did was to take the hull and place a slight curve on the fore section and then later, when he installed the armor plating, made the armor conform to the extreme sharp point that was required as the armor was considerably more malleable then the actual hull plating.

Another on of the concerns of the Freedom Fighter was its Omicron drive, or otherwise called the OSIRIS drive. Given the rarity of Omicron particles gathering up the necessary quantity of them proved challenging. However, the shuttle that he got the technology from was able to provide some from a foreign replicator on board. It was also helpful that this shuttle already had a similar drive aboard it just considerably more refined. It was from this shuttle that Kilam had designed his OSIRIS drive.