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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] For the Deneb class mess, read the Guide. :) Essentially, Duane herself was of two minds about those ships. In "My Enemy, My Ally", the Inaieu was a Denebian Defender-class destroyer, one out of two. In "The Wounded Sky", a starship Inaieu was described as a "multihulled battleship", one out of presumably dozens, all from Starfleet proper. Clearly, I wanted to do away with the silly concept of the ships being "destroyers" (since that specifier already had a different 23rd century meaning). "Battleship" sounded much more logical, but I decided to play a little trick and call these ships "defenders" instead. That way, they still are "defender class", without capital D... ...And then I had second thoughts and added the option of them literally being "Defender class defenders", save for the two Denebian-builds which are called "Deneb class defenders". It's *almost* as complicated as real world naval naming practices. :) In any case, this is what Duane has to say about the ships: -Built for Denebian physique (at least the [i]Deneb[/i] and [i]Inaieu[/i] are) -Saucer thrice as large as that of the [i]Enterprise[/i] (here I took that to mean volume, not diameter) -Four nacelles, twice as long as the [i]Enterprise[/i] ones, in cruciform arrangement -Secondary hull a mile long and 1/4 mi in diameter (absurd, completely absurd, as that would far out-beam the primary hull, which isn't aesthetically acceptable) -Multi-hulled deep space patrol vessels I took most of that and dropped the mile-based measurements. Perhaps Kirk wasn't all that good with Imperial units, but kept using them because he thought Metric would be unpatriotic? Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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