These Are The Voyages...

The USS Premiere is the first Roman Class Battle Cruiser constructed by Starfleet. Primarily functioning as a defense and tactical vessel, the Premier makes use of many experimental combat upgrades. It houses increased Hull, powerful weaponry, and a prototype heavy weapon known only as “The Prime Beam”, which focuses the majority of the ship’s power into one devastating, front-facing blast of pure energy. Use of this weapon temporarily puts all of the Premier’s power levels at minimal, and in essence leaves the ship defenseless while it recharges, but the pure devastation the Prime Beam can unleash can easily destroy even the hardiest ships. It takes approximately 9 minutes for the Premier to recharge its power supplies after one blast of The Prime Beam. Therefore, this potent weapon is only used in dire situations, as it leaves the ship completely vulnerable to attack during that time.

The Premier is outfitted with both Phaser Beam arrays and Phaser Bolt launchers, which expel short blasts of Phaser energy. While the ship is designed as a Tactical vessel, it has scientific and medical capabilities that can handle up to moderate dilemmas of those sorts, but without the efficiency of a more specialized vessel. Due to this, complex issues involving scientific or medical equipment must be resolved at suitably outfitted research stations or starbases.

Due to her main function as a Tactical vessel, the Premier is outfitted with a complement of 2 Class F shuttlecrafts instead of the standard 4. These shuttlecrafts are the Lexmont (NCC-1818/1) and the Paralond (NCC-1818/2).

The crew of the Premier has access to the standard Type I Phaser (2d6 damage, Stun Setting -2 to break the Shaken condition. This penalty increases by an additional -1 for each raise on the damage roll), with Tactical officers having access and receiving training in the use of the more powerful Type II Phaser Rifle (2d8 damage, no Stun setting).