The USS Ascension is a Endurance class cruiser. The Endurance class was designed as a multi mission deep space explorer.
Developement startet after the Dominion war, after many ships proved to be incapable of defending the Federation.
The most important features are:
-the ability to sepparate into two independent sections which can both travel at Warp-speed
-the ability of the saucer sektion to land on planets
-the ability to explore independent of starbases for 5 years
-the ability to serve as a fleet command centre
-an artificial intelligence which can take command in cases of extreme emergencies

the USS Ascension is about 1000 meters long 400 meters wide and 120 meters high.
the maximum cruising speed of Warp 9.6 and a maximum speed of Warp 9.986 for 36 hours.
The Ascension has a total of 18 type XV phaser arrays 2 dual pulse phasers
and 6 torpedo launchers.
It has a standard crew is 600 people plus 200 mission specific crewmebers.
The evacuation limit is 20,000.
The ship has two Shuttlebays one in the Engineering- and one in the Saucer section, which has two gates.



I have used the warp nacelles from Mometaneouslys Odyssey class and changed some bits.

(sorry for any spelling,or grammatical mistakes Im not a native speaker)