SDS tay'ghoqor
'avwI' batlh tlhIngan (Klingon Honor Guard)

Terran translation of name: Ty'Gokor

Type: Strategic Defense Station

Unit Run: Unknown; thought to be approximately 140 built. 26 reported lost during the Dominion war

Commissioned 2365 - present

Dimensions

Diameter: 1,532 m
Height (main): 1484 m
Height (overall): 1,584 m
Decks: 395
Mass: 180,000,000 tons

Crew and Auxiliary Craft
Standard Crew: 2,000 - 5,000
Marines: 10,000
Fighters: 100 Squadrons of 4 (400 two-man fighters)
Breaching Pods: 1,000 (two-man pods)
Assault Shuttles: 400 (one-man shuttles)

Armament

36 Mark 18 Disruptor cannons, total output 3,600,000 TeraWatts
16 Type 3 Burst Fire photon torpedo tubes + 3,200 photon torpedoes, 6,400 casings (max. 60 reloads)

Defense Systems

Auto-modulating high capacity shield system, total capacity 5,022,000 TeraJoules
Standard Duranium/Tritanium single hull + 25 cm high density armour
High level Structural Integrity field

Warp Speeds

(TNG Scale) Not Applicable

Docking Facilities: 4 Bird of Prey class vessels can be housed in docking bays. Larger ships can be tethered to the station by way of tractor beams.

Docked Vessels: IKV 'Iw SuvwI' - may'qa'vam

Strength Indices (Galaxy class = 1,000)

Beam Firepower: 6,900
Torpedo Firepower: 1,200
Weapon Range and Accuracy: 1,180
Shield Strength: 1,860
Hull Armour: 2,425
Speed: -
Combat Maneuverability: -
Overall Strength Index: 1,937.86

Diplomatic Capability: equivalent to Starfleet Grade 7

Expected Hull Life: 200+ years

Refit Cycle

Minor: 5 years
Standard: 10 years
Major: 40 years

Notes: The Klingons have always been relatively secretive about their military hardware, but during those periods when they have been allies, the Federation has built up a good knowledge of the Klingon fleet's numbers and capabilities. During the Dominion war, Klingon and Federation ships worked very closely together, giving each a good picture of the numbers and capabilities of the other. When it comes to those military forces based within the Klingon Empire itself, however, rather less is known.

The Federation was aware that the Klingons had developed a new class of space station in the mid 2360s, and that it was designed to provide heavy defenses to fixed installations such as planets and asteroids. But there was no information regarding the nature of this station, and for a long time it was assumed that the system was based around relatively small unmanned weapon platforms.

In 2373, Captain Sisko discovered information indicating that Chancellor Gowron had been replaced by a Changeling. He led a small team into Klingon space in an attempt to infiltrate the Klingon base of tay'ghoqor, the site of an upcoming ceremony which Gowron would attend. The asteroid proved to have several defense stations orbiting it, and the Bird of Prey which carried the infiltration team was able to conduct detailed passive scans of them while Sisko was away.

The stations proved almost all of Starfleet's expectations wrong. Instead of small weapon platforms, they were fully manned and equipped stations in their own right. Each one was over a kilometer and a half tall and was equipped with both disrupter and torpedo weapons. The upper and lower sections were studded with various antennae, indicating a formidable communications and sensor capability. The central section is the largest, and is thought to contain most of the crew quarters and major systems.

Above this is a narrower section which has four hangar bays extending radially from it. Each of these is large enough to accommodate a Bird of Prey, and every station has several such vessels permanently assigned to it in order to provide a local patrol capability and augment its firepower - in much the same way that Starfleet assigned the USS Defiant to Deep Space Nine.

Current beq roster of SDS tay'ghoqor

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