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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Wraith: Great! That's exactly what I'm looking for - a ship that definitely is part of the Trek universe, yet hasn't received canonical attention. IC: Thanks for the data! Detroyat at Constitution-like 180,000 tons sounds relatively reasonable, even if there is no secondary hull; the "keel" is thick and heavy-looking enough, as are the pylons. I've used the following dimensions, assuming the saucer is a classic Constitution model (for easy conversion of USS Resolution to a Surya prototype): 213.7 m length, 151.8 m beam, 50.6 m height (counting a high-profile bridge dome like the "The Cage" Constitution bridge - I think the ship as usually portrayed is just missing her bridge module). The PB-25 nacelles in my little universe are "spool-coil" units, lighter than the later "solid-state" ones (Jerry Oltion has something like that in his Captain's Table book, too). I chose to have them at 100,000 tons apiece as opposed to the 250,000 ton PB-31. Hence, the Detroyat is now at 380,000 tons total mass... With more modern engines, she'd be about twice as heavy, much like a Miranda. Durance I sized using window rows, arriving at something like 73 m length, 38 m beam, 25,2 m height. The mass appears a little low for such a bulky-looking ship. I haven't decided on nacelle mass yet. Using a cleaned-up Caracal side profile and assuming nacelles roughly of Constitution size, I took the ship to be 140.2 by 70.1 by 39.9 m. I also "rounded all the edges" so that the forward profile is ovoid, not rectangular... Spool-coil engines give roughly 250,000 ton total mass, as I try to keep the ship no heavier than the 50,000 ton hull mass (sans nacelles) of the Mann class. The masses of ships increase relatively steadily in this scenario, and the Detroyat is exceptionally heavy for a destroyer of its time, as the source text suggests. I'm currently so enamored with the nacelles-dictate-mass idea that I find the 4.5 times multiplication impractical. It would mean exceptionally dense materials in hull construction, for one thing. And when I run into discrepancies in total mass, it's much easier to say "these nacelles have more coils inside than the others" than "this hull is much denser than the others"... Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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