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Bernd
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I wonder how the lower nacelle pair is attached to the engineering hull (or is it still the saucer?). I think the ship would look very massive from the front. Nevertheless, it's still a well-balanced design. It looks like the nacelles are slanted like that:

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so they wouldn't be too large for the ship. In any case I would have prefered this ship any time over the ugly Steamrunner.

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How does any part of the ship separate for atmospheric flight, for that matter? The only obvious seams are between the nacelles and their ramscoops. A ship consisting of the forward hull *and* the ramscoops wouldn't be very aerodynamic... And reattaching the ship to four free-floating nacelle aft ends would be a chore. Perhaps there were several versions of Zandura, and this one did not have the atmospherics yet / any more.

I agree that this looks like an Akira stablemate - somewhat newer than the angular Steamrunner and Sabre, somewhat closer to the Galaxy smoothness and roundness. If used, it would probably have been rendered in Akiraish white instead of Steamrunnerish dark grey.

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Huh.

It takes a little getting used to, but I like it.

But it doesn't look seperable. Someone mentioned the seams between the nacelles and the ramscoops -- but the ramscoops are the only connect point for the nacelles -- they're not attached to the secondary hull. If you look at the top view, it seems that there's a kind of "valley" between the command section (bridge ridgeline) and the nacelles.

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