Sanctuary

The newer of the two Harmony fleet tenders, the Sanctuary is intended to carry and support a swarm of Dancer or Virtuoso strike corvettes, and has extremely deep stores of supplies and fuel for the task, as well as lavish accommodations for its crew and the crew of its attendant corvettes. Still, for a ship of its raw size, its other abilities are not terribly impressive, being equal to or in the case of hull strength less than those of the 2mt smaller Ambassador-class.

Starfleet Intelligence report
Harmony of Horizon Ship Analysis Report - Sanctuary Fleet Tender Prepared 2319Q4

Between the observation mission undertaken by Captain Kanil and a tour given to our diplomatic mission on Horizon upon the launch of HPDV Haven we’ve been able to put together a detailed package on the largest vessel in the Harmony’s inventory:

The pride of the Peacekeeper Directorate is the Sanctuary Pattern Heavy Fleet Tender. Just under one kilometer long and weighing in at close to 5mt the Sanctuary is heavily armed and in possession of a sensor package individually more powerful than any single sensor suite, mobile or stationary, in the entire Federation. (2324 note- since matched by the Ambassador-class) However, the main purpose of the Sanctuary pattern in battle is to serve as a command and control vessel. Each individual Sanctuary class vessel is equipped with an the most powerful space going communications array possessed by a Federation peer with multiple redundant arrays built along the length of the hull. Multiple dedicated purpose built fleet command and control facilities on board the vessel enable a Peacekeeper Admiral to oversee the simultaneous operations of dozens of individual vessels in detail.

In its role as a dedicated Fleet Tender the Sanctuary is outfitted with facilities to to support both the crew and hardware of the ubiquitous small Harmony corvettes. To this end the Sanctuary class is equipped with a set of rest and recreational facilities that would not be out of place on a starbase; making up for the limited crew facilities on board the corvettes by providing extensive facilities aboard the tenders themselves. Additionally the Sanctuary posses massive antimatter and supply stockpiles and is overpowered for even its size with much hull space taken up with multiple Antimatter reactors and Sarium Krellide batteries that are placed to do double duty as ablative armour for the vessel.

The primary purpose of the Sanctuary is support of the smaller corvettes and to this end the tenders are equipped with connection points for crew access, energy refueling, and a hardened transfer point for the antimatter micro torpedoes that make up a corvette’s armament. As service onboard the austere corvettes is considered a hardship, multiple crews are kept aboard the tender and crews and cycled through short periods of service and short periods of rest. In the normal course of operations a Sanctuary is designed to have upwards of six corvettes undergoing replenishment and crew cycling at once.