
Title		: Klingon Q4 Fleet Tanker
Filename	: KQ4.RAR
Version		: 1.0 final
Date		: 28th November 2011
Author		: Andy Reid (A.K.A. panzergranate)
                : Textures by Don Woligroski (A.K.A. - Cleeve)
Email		: panzergranate@hotmail.com

*****NOTE*****

		  This ship has been tested in all versions of SFC 1.

The Klingon Q4 Fleet Tanker.
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During hostilities with the Kzinti and also the Hydrans, during the late 2190's, the need for a faster fleet tanker to supply fuel to deep penetrating Klingon battlefleets led to an improved version of the Q3 fleet tanker, the Q4.

The Q4 featured a third B'anarix Warp engine to solve the problems that the Q3 had with Warp field instability caused by the position of the fuel tank under the forward command hull. The improvements allowed the Q4 to achieve Warp 5 occasionally, though its official maximum speed was Warp 4.9.

Federation crews nicknamed the Q4 "Fast Hammerhead" due to its distinctive shape and speed increase over the Q3 "Hammerhead" fleet tanker.

Production of the Q4 took over from the Q3, which was relegated to lower priority and rear line fueling runs. Some Q3 and Q4 fleet tankers were still in service with the Klingon Internal Security Fleet as late as 2280, by which time they had been replaced by "newer" hand me downs from the Deep Space Fleet, such as the Q5 and Q6 fleet tankers.

The role of the Q4 was to keep the Klingon Deep Space Fleet supplied with both anti-matter, for the MAM Warp reactors, and Deutronium slush for the Impulse engines and shuttle craft hangar supply tanks. It mainly served on long haul fueling runs to battle fleets that were sometimes advancing deep into hostile territory or behind enemy lines.

The fuel tank itself had the anti-matter containment bottle in its core with baffled Deutronium sludge tanks surrounding it. 
A small Fusion reactor supplied power for the containment bottle with a back up battery in case of reactor failure. In emergency imminent containment failure situations the fuel tank could be separated by explosive bolts and solid fuel boosters would propel it downwards away from the ship.

In the rare instances that this needed to be enacted the host ships still managed to suffer blast damage from the ensuing explosion.

Steps to install:
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(1) Unpack zipped file.

(2) Move the model folder to Starfleet Command/Assets/Models folder. If you're smart enough to have all the races in seperate folders then place this ship in the Federation folder.

(3) Copy the Shiplist fragment and paste it into the appropriate race and part of your Shiplist file in Starfleet Command/Assets/Specs/Sfbspc13.txt

(4) Modify the model folder references to suit your own SFC models directory structure. 


NOTE: You must have at least one stock SFC game ship in human player squadrons to use this ship in multiplayer games. However, AI player squadrons are not bound by this restiction/problem and can have all three ships non-stock ships if desired. 

These ship has been put under the Klingon F for Freighters part of the SFBSPC13.TXT, so that it can be called up for use in scripts using the FMSE (Fleet Model Script Editor) software add on by Eagle Eye Software. If you want to actually be able to select this ship, in normal SFC select ships, you will have to move it into the FF, CL, CA or DN part of the listing. 

Copyright and Distribution Permissions
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THIS PATCH IS NOT MADE, DISTRIBUTED, OR SUPPORTED BY INTERPLAY
 TM & (C) INTERPLAY & PARAMOUNT PICTURES.

Copyright notices: 

Star Trek, Star Fleet Command, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Next Generation,
Star Trek: Voyager (and the various logo devices used in them) are copyright Paramount Pictures,
as are the characters, related images, and sound from the productions. 

If you use this model in any Starleet Command project please include this file. 
If you make this file available at your website or anothers please include a link to
http://starfleet.thegamers.net

Please do not modify this file or the included texture with out seeking the authors opinion.
Nothing legal here, it is just polite.

