* Length: 65m
* Width: 40m
* Height: 8m
* Decks: 2
* Crew Capacity: 15
* Warp Speed
* Cruising: Warp 8.5
* Peak: Warp 9.5
After the Dominion war Starfleet felt the need for ships that are substantially larger than the Peregrine class fighters, but still smaller than full size starships. The Defiant was famously effective but there were not enough defiants to go around to engage the Jem-Hadar fighters.
The Orca was conceived as an intermediate spacecraft that ewould be cheap to build and deploy in numbers, but still durable and deadly enough to make an impact.