7.0 SENSOR SYSTEMS

Long range and navigation sensors are located behind the main deflector dish, to avoid sensor "ghosts" and other detrimental effects consistent with main deflector dish millicochrane static field output.

Lateral sensor pallets are located around the rim of the entire Starship, providing full coverage in all standard scientific fields, but with emphasis in the following areas:

Astronomical phenomena
Planetary analysis
Remote life-form analysis
EM scanning
Passive neutrino scanning
Parametric subspace field stress (a scan to search for cloaked ships)
Thermal variances
Quasi-stellar material

Each sensor pallet (twenty in all) can be interchanged and re-calibrated with any other pallet on the ship.

7.1 WARP CURRENT SENSOR

This is an independent subspace graviton field-current scanner, allowing the Steamrunner Class to track ships at high warp by locking onto the eddy currents from the threat ship's warp field, then follow the currents by using multi-model image mapping.

7.2 TACTICAL SENSORS

There are twenty-two independent tactical sensors on the Steamrunner Class. Each sensor automatically tracks and locks onto incoming hostile vessels and reports bearing, aspect, distance, and vulnerability percentage to the tactical station on the main bridge. Each tactical sensor is approximately 84% efficient against ECM, and can operate fairly well in particle flux nebulae.

7.3 STELLAR CARTOGRAPHY

One stellar cartography bay is located on Deck 4, with direct EPS power feed from engineering. All information is directed to the bridge and can be displayed on any console or the main viewscreen.

7.4 SCIENCE LABS

There are twelve science labs on a Steamrunner class ship. All are located on Deck 4. Three labs are bio-chem-physics labs that can also be reconfigured for Medical labs. Xeno-biology and Botany, Geology, Astrophysics/Astrometrics, Stellar Cartography and other physical sciences are represented, as well as the cultural sciences (Sociology, Archeology, etc.). Many of the labs are multi-functional labs that can be equipped for various experiments.

The Chief of Science's office is located adjacent to Science Lab 1. It is decorated to the CSO's preferences as well as containing a work area, a personal viewscreen, a computer display, a replicator, and a washroom/head.