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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] A very helpful soul has offered his services in regards to my Volumetrics page . . . I've added over 20 ships to it, though I haven't finished modifying the other text yet and thus the old version is all that's on the site. One of the new additions is the NX Class. 199,505 cubic meters. This doesn't seem to mean much, until you skim up the list and note that the Constitution Class is 211,248 cubic meters! The NX Class is thus disturbingly big compared to the Constitution. She has about 94% of the volume of the Constitution, which is bad enough. However, if you add to that the fact that her nacelles take up far less percentage of that volume, you come to realize that the useful internal volume of the NX Class is actually [i]greater[/i] than that of the later Connie! Fortunately, the NX has a crew of just 80 instead of the 203 of the 2250's Constitutions. This allows us to assume that the ship's inner mechanics . . . propulsion, life support, et cetera . . . actually take up a far greater percentage of the available volume than on the later ships. Nonetheless, a less-voluminous design would've been preferred. Also to appear in the revised list is Deep Space Nine. One of the more interesting questions, of course, was how large to make the station . . . 1097 meters? 1350? 1451.82? 2000? I opted for a compromise position of 1275 meters, which falls between 1100 and 1450 and is close enough to 1350 to satisfy those who accept that value. Maybe off-the-wall, but it's all Stipes's fault. That done, the value we obtained for the station's volume was 28,601,800 cubic meters . . . the equivalent of 135 Connies, almost 12 Sovereigns, or just under 5 Galaxies. (Or 53% of a Star Destroyer) Also potentially of interest would be the masses. As noted previously, I get low-end estimates of mass from the Doctor's 700,000 ton comment, and higher-end masses from Scotty's million ton comment. Between these two extremes, there ought to be the truth. DS9's mass falls somewhere in the range of 32,000,000 to 110,500,000 metric tons. I would say that it should probably be on the lower end due to the lack of warp systems, but this is the same station which features duranium conduits with walls two meters thick in some places, as noted in that Tosk episode. Though it's a little iffy to use the same range on the NX Class, nevertheless I've done so. The range would be 223,000 to 771,000 metric tons . . . probably on the higher side of that, given the closer temporal proximity to the Constitution from which Scotty's "nearly a million" tons arose. Thoughts? Reactions? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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