Chapter 36 - The Warp 9 Capable Class 8 Probe (Patreon)

Each undeployed sensor cube also had maneuvering thrusters, a micro replicator, a small shield unit, a quantum entangled communications array, stealth capabilities I’d copied from the original FT, and warp capabilities that I had shamelessly stolen from the design of the Federation’s class 8 probes. I had been extremely impressed by that design, which I’d once seen in an episode of TNG. In that episode, Ambassador K’Ehleyer had been stuffed inside a class 8 probe casing with a life support unit and was warped to the Enterprise in what looked like a coffin. The Federation had designed an extremely powerful, yet surprisingly small and efficient warp drive for the probe. With an onboard warp drive, capable of sustained travel at warp 9, I wouldn’t need to individually drop and place each sensor cube at its final deployment coordinates.