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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sirmaniac: [QB] Warped 1701: I'm not saying the parts can always go together without being modified. That's just a fitting problem, the same type of fitting problem we'd have if a the pieces were to scale and we tried melding them. To be accurate, we can take two Excelsiors, try to swap the nacelles, and we'd still have fitting problems. Scale doesn't matter here, the fact that the part wasn't made to go there matter. TSN: You said "making the Miranda pieces much larger (in comparison to the Ex. parts) than they would be if the ships had been Frankensteined from damaged ships." Should I take this to mean "Making the Miranda pieces much larger (. . .) than they would be if the ships had been Frankensteined from [Exclesiors and Mirandas]? If this is what you meant, than we're not necessarily dealing with Excelsiors and Mirandas (Since Excelsiors and Mirandas have different scales to the parts we're working with, the parts must have come from other classes of ships, right?), so we can only assume these ships would not have all of the parts where we would expect to find them. To sumarize (though looking this post over, it seems the summary is larger than my original point): the parts in question are not to scale, therefore they cannot have totally come from our familiar ships (I.e. saucer from Excelsior, nacelles from Miranda, rollbar from Miranda, Constellation saucer bumps). The biggest proof of this is the ship in the DS9TM that appears to have a runabout "wing." No one is going to convince me that was salvaged from a runabout. It is probably one of the custom assemblies. It is possible that the Curry does use parts taken directly from a Miranda, but then it cannot have an Excelsior saucer/body. The body must have come from some other class (and any variation of familiar/new parts). If there is absolutely no way an Excelsior nacelle pylon can attach to your ship's hardpoint for nacelle pylon connection, a custom pylon can be quickly made that marries the two foreign assemblies; you're splicing a part into the new shape the same way you use male/female connection in electronics (Don't modify the original part, just put a bridge bewteen them). TSN: You made an excellent point with the warp core example, but when we decided the pieces were out of scale to one or more of the ships we thought they took the parts from, we in essence proved the parts cannot all come from the ships we thought they came from, so we cannot use these ships (and the arrangement of important systems) as examples with much accuracy. So, instead of an Excelsior with the warp core in the saucer/neck/body, it came from (I don't know) the Patriot-class starship, an Excelsior variant with the warp core in the primary hull only. Having lost its original nacelles, Miranda nacelles were reclaimed and attached at the saucer where the Patriot always mounted its nacelles. To its final stage, this example could be that the Miranda-style nacelles could have come from (again, I don't know, the Nyota-class) and its nacelles might be larger or smaller than the Miranda's. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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