At 96 meters long, it is one of the smallest starships to serve in Starfleet. Its inside quarters are extremely spartan and dirty, due to decades, if not centuries, of neglect. Avalon's power source is a unique warp sphere and it is controlled mostly through a sentient AI program called Ava. Most of Avalon's internal space is taken up by a massive cargo bay located at the bottom of the ship, which extends to the ground when the ship makes its frequent landings upon planetary surfaces. The cargo bay is large enough to carry two shuttlecraft and several containers full of supplies.