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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] This ship is intended as a dead end evolving from Daedalus. The designers of this ship (not me!) developed existing technologies to their limits, but the technologies weren't good enough. Sort of like adding more pison engines to a plane in an attempt to make it faster than jets or building a very large coal-fired steam locomotive. However, some of the new equipment it introduced were used successfully in later ships, although this ship was a failure overall. As I mentioned before, I want this ship to look brutish, a Daedalus on steroids. I wanted it too look like an overbuilt prewar tank (with multiple turrets or with the main gun in the hull ). I didn't want it took too sleek (sorry, Aridas! But the coke-bottle shape is very elegant.). The navigation deflector was specifically moved from the primary hull to allow it to be longer, which, for some reason, was necessary at the time to give it greater range and power. The secondary hull was then extended downward to accomadate it. This ship is a missile carrier, which is one reason the primary hull is flattened; missles are carried in the outboard parts of the primary hull. The reactor is in the stern of the ship. This is an arrangement that was used in some of my later ships, such as Moskva. The reactor was not ejectable, but the rear of the ship could be broken off, like the tail of a skink. This occurs through the engineer's best friend: explosive bolts! The nacelles would also be broken off (or maybe the nacelles could also be powered with a fusion reactor in the "thorax" part of the ship). [IMG]http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/232/PostDCH3.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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