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Rick Sternbach stated that Jupiter Station's saucers were made from old starship saucers that could no longer stand the stress of warp travel. My question is, just how long does it take to stress out a ship? The reason I ask is because there are an awful lot of Excelsior and Miranda class ships still in service, apparently flying at warp speed frequently, yet Jupiter Station's saucers look to be a relatively newer design.
BTW, this is my very first Flare post. Hi everybody!
Mark Delgado
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Welcome to Flare...I'll wait for someone to point out the misspelling in your name so the Babylon 5 fans can yell at him/her.
As for your question...maybe the saucers were exposed to unusual conditions (on all those long-range missions etc.), or they were just faulty to begin with.
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Which I think is lame anyway that it'd have to be contructed from starship parts instead of just building all new original ones.
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Recycling old parts would save the time and cost of building new ones. Why do people refurbish buildings when they could just tear it down and build another?
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I don't like the idea of their using actual saucers, either. Especially since the station parts were probably completely radially symmetrical (at least in shape), while the saucers wouldn't be, due to the stuff on top, and the spot where the neck connects. I'd guess the engineers who created the station simply based it on the Ambassador saucer design. Perhaps they even had the parts built at the same facilities that produced the Ambassadors, because the assembly of the spaceframe and such would be easier.
Oh, and the first time I glanced at that name, I thought it said "Duckhat"... :-)
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I don't think anything's wrong with using old Ambassador saucers from decommissioned vessels. It spares some time. And if you remove unnecessary equipment (engines, mission-specific devices), it will work just fine.
BTW, why would spacestations be symmetric? The Internation Space Station (IRL) isn't symmetric too, as weren't the Mir and Skylab.
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