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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shik: [QB] With [i]Cheyenne[/i], I decided to make it a modular corvette concept, the idea being you could mix & match saucers & drive sections, clicking them together like toys parts. Again, the as-written part with no edits yet applied: [QUOTE][i]Cheyenne[/i] was first in 2338, the most radical in design, taking the modular corvette concept begun with [i]Citizen[/i] to an extreme form. Easy swapping of external components such as bridge modules had been commonplace for nearly a century, while internal mission module replacement had been a recent innovation. [i]Cheyenne[/i] looked to simplify these processes by making the whole starship mission-swappable: not only could the bridge section be easily replaced but the entire saucer or engineering section could be exchanged, locking into place via a plug-and-play format made possible by an early form of modular docking latch system later modified for use in [i]Galaxy[/i]-class explorers. The belief was that this system would allow an entire array of ships to be created & modified as needed for any mission—in theory, an entire ship could be swapped out for a totally new one. Saucers would be built complete and unchanging for a variety of mission types and engineering sections constructed to support long-range or short-term tasks as needed. In reality, however, this was rarely used as the costs of supplying the various types of components to such a large area of operation meant the idea soon became prohibitive, and ships often stayed in the same configuration for their whole service lives or had a module swap once or twice in emergency situations. The most common configuration became the four-nacelled version for courier, scout, and escort duties; much rarer were the ships with a twin-engine/secondary hull arrangement or extra sensor pods or weapons, many of which were eventually refit to the quad-engine standard. Drawbacks in module replacement did not otherwise prevent [i]Cheyenne[/i]s from performing their assigned missions admirably, however. The quad-nacelle configuration boosted speeds to Warp 9.12 (1588 c), making the ships well suited for deep space support missions. Some vessels using that engineering section were paired with a thicker nine-deck saucer, replacing the standard five-deck module, equipped with expanded research facilities and crew spaces for investigative missions and associated personnel. These variants were colloquially referred to as "exploratory scouts" despite being much larger than the average scout ship due to their ability to and mission orientation towards long-range deep space survey operations.[/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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