The transporter systems are enormously useful during missions that require bringing large numbers of individuals to or from the ship in short timeframes. The use of transporter systems imposes specific requirements on evacuation mission profiles.

Evac to Ship

            In case of emergency evacuation to the ship, all six personnel transporters would be brought into use. Maximum beam-up rate is limited by the minimum duty cycle of the transporter systems. Utilizing all six personnel transporters results in a maximum beam-up rate of approximately seven hundred persons per hour.

            In such scenarios, however, the personnel transporters would be supplemented with the eight cargo transporters. Although the cargo transporters are normally optimized for operation at molecular (nonlifeform) resolution, they can be reset for quantum (lifeform-safe) transport at a significant reduction in payload mass, yielding an additional beam-up capacity of three hundred persons per hour for a total system capacity of one thousand persons per hour.

Evac from Ship

            Emergency evacuation from the Cobain can be accomplished at a significantly greater rate than transport to the ship due to the availability of six emergency evacuation transporters capable of transporting twenty-two persons at a time off the ship. These units, which are incapable of transport to the ship, share the personnel transporters’ pattern buffers, but employ high-volume scan-only phase transition coils, yielding a 370% increase in payload mass over the standard units, although their range is limited to 15,000 km (compared to 40,000 km for the standard units) As a result, when emergency transporters are sued to supplement the personnel and cargo transporters, the rate is nearly doubled to some 1,850 persons an hour.

            The emergency transporters have another significant operation advantage, that of lesser power requirements. This can be of great importance during crisis situations when available power is limited. In such cases, transport can be restricted to emergency transporters only, yielding an evacuation rate of about one thousand persons per hour, owing to the longer degauss time for the lower-power transition coils.