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[QUOTE]Originally posted by aridas: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Dunno, I found the [i]Leonardo[/i] side profile quite "conventionally cool" - it immediately struck me as an Oberth-sans-ventral-pod kind of vessel. (The "just two decks" thing is a bit weird, though, since it would be incredibly difficult to squeeze MORE than two decks into an Oberth saucer!)[/QUOTE]I'm sorry. The [i]Darwin[/i] class is the one that is two decks thick plus a bridge level, because it was quite literally the [i]Grissom[/i] without the lower pod, which I took to be a third, (or third and fourth, combined) warp unit. [i]Darwin[/i] was a scout, while [i]Grissom[/i] with its enhanced enginery was a supercout type. [i]Leonardo[/i] was only one deck thick, a bridge and an expanded deck behind, terminating in the impulse arrangement I mentioned. [QUOTE]Very interesting info on the [i]Frobisher[/i] and [i]Ariadne[/i]... Is the former perhaps conceptually related to the Spaceflight Chronology [i]Sawyer[/i] scoutships, which consist of two big nacelles plus a cabin in between? [/QUOTE]I don't recall there being any connection between [i]Frobisher[/i] and any of the [b]Chronology[/b] ships. There was a close connection between [i]Nordenskjold[/i] and that book, however. IIRC [i]Nordenskjold[/i] is basically our tip of the hat to Rick's [i]Baton Rouge[/i]. We didn't like very much in that book, but liked Rick so we wanted to acknowledge him in some way. [QUOTE]And what is the latter supposed to do inside a nebula? Is it more like a special research vessel, similar to a minisub a wet navy might operate - or a regular warship/explorer which just happens to have an unconventional drive system, similar to a hovercraft- or hydrofoil-based warship in a wet navy?[/QUOTE]God, [b]Timo[/b]. I don't have a lot of the notes for that thing handy anymore, and I'm trying to remember this stuff. As I recall, [i]Ariadne[/i] was my way of really challenging the fans' ideas of what these ships could look like. I went as far outside the envelope as I could while still staying true to what was the accepted, Paramount-given explanation for how things worked. Mandel had explained warp drive in the [b]Maps[/b] as I described above, and I took that and went with it. I don't believe that class ever got any more detailed mention in any of the books than name and NCC numbers, so I don't think any clear mission profile was established. It started out as a fighter design, and it ended up as something much bigger. But it still had a very small crew -- twelve IIRC. If I were to pick between your two options, I'd say it was a research vessel, but it was definitely meant to be outfitted with an adapted propulsion system, sort of like the hovercraft that ply the Everglades. A warp drive using existing propulsion tech reworked to access a particular environment in the best possible way. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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