
Title		: Klingon Q5 Fleet Tanker
Filename	: KQ5.RAR
Version		: 1.0 final
Date		: 26th 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 Q5 Fleet Tanker.
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The Q5 Fleet tanker was based around the T5 Assault Transport Tug. Its appearance differs drastically from the T5 because of the permanently attached fuel tank and support pylon under the hull. Both the T5 and Q5 entered service with the Klingon Navy around the early 2200's.

The previous Q3 and Q4 fleet tankers, which the Q5 replaced, were based around Klingon civilian vessels. By early 2200's standards, they were poorly armed and had weak shields. After an incident where a Q4 fleet tanker exploded after receiving a single point blank Fusion Beam hit from a Hydran destroyer, which also destroyed both the Hydran and two escorting Klingon A1 corvettes, the Klingon High Command decided that all future fleet tankers would need to be better armed and better shielded.

The Q5 was intended to be able to operate in hostile territory without an escorts, though this seldom happened. It featured the same heavy shielding as the T5 Assault Transport Tug and the then latest medium range Phaser emplacements as opposed to the short range Disrupter armaments of both the Q3 and Q4. The missile defence was increased to 4 launcher racks though the same quanity of ammunition was carried as on the twin launcher equiped Q3 and Q4.

The role of the Q5 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.

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.

The Q5 had a maximum velocity of Warp 5.1 and some were still in service during the General War.

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 as 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.

