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Here's a little design I've toying with. I first made it out of chopped up micro-machines, then made a little schematic thingy. I did a color diagram, but color doesn't suit it well. However, if one of you wizard artists out there would like to make a decent diagram, be my guest.
Excelsior-class Modification (U.S.S. Monaghan NCC-2100) Length: 469 m Beam: 186 m Height: 78 m Weight 1.5 million metric tonnes Computer Systems: Isolinear matrix, Korimar data storage pods Crew Compliment: 700 Support craft: 20 Type-7 shuttlecraft (Occultus version) Transporters: 6 standard, 6 emergency, 3 cargo Armaments: 3x Type-V phaser emplacements; 3x Type-X phaser arrays; 4x Type-II phaser caannons (Occultus version); 6x rapid fire remora torpedo tubes + 375 torps Defence Systems: High redundancy level shield system; interphase cloak; level 9 structural integrety field Propulsion Systems: Corsica Systems CVF-20156 cold fusion impulse reactors; Corsica Systems CRT-61007 warp core Maximum Sublight Speed: 0.95c Maximum Lightspeed Cruise: Warp Factor 8 Maximum Rated Lightspeed: Warp Factor 9.9795
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Actually, the pod's been rotated so the torp launchers face aft. If there are any aft-firing tubes on the Miranda-class pod, then they've been removed on this ship.
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A very nice design, but personally, I see a few problems with some of the specifications.
1. Interphase cloak. The registry on this ship is 2100, suggesting it was built somewhere inbetween the 2290's or the 2310's. The first 'illegal' interphase cloak wasn't introduced until 2358.
2. High warp factor. If this ship was indeed constructed in the 2310's as the registry suggests, a warp speed of 9.9795 seems highly unlikely. Especially if 50 years later the max speed for the E-D was 9.9 for 10 minutes. It would be plausible if the ship could reach this speed for 2-5 minutes, at the cost of it's warp core, however.
3. Type X phasers. I don't think the Type X phaser was implemented until the GCS. If so, this ship cannot carry phasers that large. I won't say anything about the phaser cannon, since the Reliant had something similar in the 2280's.
If the registry is boosted into the 40000-50000 range, it would seem likely that this might be possible through upgrade and modification. But with the 2100 registry, these specs seem unlikely.
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Well, I haven't told you guys everything about this ship. It is the flagship of the Occultus Shipyards, a shpyard that was created in the late 2280's by Starfleet in a secret location. The last design sent to the yards was the Excelsior-class, then all contact with the Federation was lost. Everyone forgot about them. So, they had to fend for themselves. This ship has undergone innumerable modifications, as it is also a testbed for new technologies. The cloak on her is experimental for the shipyards. They have no clue that cloaking technology was outlawed in the Federation.
The_Tom: I actually have no idea if it's Irish or not; I named it after a destroyer that was at Pearl Harbour when it was attacked.
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I sailed past the Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor on a USN destroyer, heh. You know all the crew has to get out on the deck and salute it as they pass. Nevermind. Of course if I were naming a ship after the Jap attack on military bases on Oahu, I'd do it after the USS Arizona.
I think it might be better if the weapons pod thing was a little higher up. And I also noticed you flipped the end of the secondary hull upside-down. If shuttles are suppose to come out of there it would be too hard, near impossible, because the floor is curved instead of flat.
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Of course, the people at the shipyard should know that cloaking devices are illegal, since they were outlawed by the Treaty of Algeron back in the 2140's-2160's that ended the Romulan War.
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Cloaks were banned from the Federation in 2301 following the Tomed Incident and the signing of the Treaty of Algeron. The 2160 Romulan War's ending only established the Romulan Neutral Zone
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There. If the yards lost contact shortly after the Excelsior-class was approved for mass-production, then they couldn't have known about the ban on cloaks in the Federation.
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