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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] For forward torps, a good idea. But if the aft ones were fired, Scotty wouldn't even have time to cry "Not me bairns!" before the engineering section blew up... Even if you angle the tubes out to clear the aft engineering bulge, you risk hitting the upper pylons. You'd get a much better field of fire by putting the launchers at the very stern. This ship could also be very, very small - a subscale testbed with a fake saucer bolted to the bow, and with that second bridge dome necessitated by the fact that one couldn't fit a pilot inside the forward dome! Not unusual for prototypes of radically new ship or aircraft designs in the real world. This would also allow for the telescoping function of the aft hull. Were this a full-sized starship, telescoping would mean that most of the saucer would have to be a hollow receptable for the aft hull boom, useless for anything else. In a testbed, such an arrangement wouldn't be odd at all... Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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