The ISS Defiance (ICC-1701) was a Defiance class starship in service to the Terran Empire. The Defiance was the flagship of the Terran Empire and Empress Hoshi Sato's flagship in the 24th century. The Defiance had a more militaristic design, with phasers shooting multiple rounds with torpedoes simultaneously in a barrage. The phaser banks,located on the dorsal and ventral sides of the saucer section,fired red phaser bolts resembling proximity blasts. It's other weaponry included several phaser banks that fired blue promximity blasts in rapid fire and banks that fired red phaser beams. The Defiance carried several torpedo launchers, using multiple torpedoes including quantum torpedoes and plasma torpedoes and photon torpedoes.