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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shik: [QB] There, I said it. I'm at the point in my editing where I've hit the paragraph on this dumbass design & the more I think about it, the more it pisses me off. We have this ship where its big secret, its major idea, is that it splits into three smaller weirder-looking ships to...what? Swarm an enemy? Woo. It's the incongruity of it all that's bothersome. This is a full-size 415-meter cruiser with all the bells & whistles: big sickbay, labs, large-ish crew capacity, lounges, quarters with windows. Each of the parts are a couple hundred meters apiece, all with the same redundant functions. It's supposed to be secret, but also..big? And fully crewed? But also, it can all be computer-controlled by five guys (or two holograms) saying "SUPER ROBOT FIGHT MODE ENGAGE!!!" Wouldn't something smaller have been more sensible, not only from a tech demonstrator POV but also a tactical one? Something [i]Defiant[/i] or [i]Oberth[/i]-sized splitting into a couple smaller solely-computer-controlled parts seems more practical; of course, this is the same fleet that built a new full-sized starship for a new untested drive, but [i]Excelsior[/i] still otherwise made sense. [i]Prometheus[/i] just...doesn't, except as some sort of tactical engineering masturbational wartime fantasy made manifest. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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