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Well for on thing, the upper right section of the secondary hull is not an impulse engine. It's a shuttle bay. Originally the ship was supposed to be a thru deck carrier, hence the half sphere. If let's say I expand the the hull alittle, maybe make it wider, then then the hull would be about the same size in terms of volume. The so called deflector, I don't think that is a deflector, it shows nothing to be a deflector. If it is, and just being covered, what advantage is that. Or if it is a different type of deflector, why id doesn't have any sort of receptive object like all the deflectors do?
Bellerphon might be spelled wrong, I might have to check, is a WWI era British battleship. It is in fact a dreadnought, the very next dreadnought ship to be built right after the HMS Dreadnought.
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Well, the little partial dome on the front of the Daedalus's secondary hull is the closest thing to a deflector dish -- there's certainly not one on the sphere itself.
Please, PLEASE do not make this ship a through-deck carrier! The idea is so ludicrous even for those Constitution-sized kitbashes and the Akira Class, it'd be worse on a ship the size of the Daedalus. Consider that by its very nature, a through-deck carrier has an enormously large internal hangar bay -- and thus loses a disproportionate amount of internal volume just to maintain a few small craft. On a ship the size of the Daedalus, there's no way that engineers could afford to sacrifice that much area. Especially considering contemporary technology.
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Matrix, it is Bellerophon. The first of her class. She had two other sister ships, HMS Superb and HMS Temeraire. You are right that she was the second British ship designed and built as a dreadnought.
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Well I did know I spelled the name wrong. I also did know she was the namesake of her class.
As for a thrudeck idea, that's why I decided against it. I realized that the it would only allow about a maximum of lets say 10 shuttles/fighters. But I kept the aft shuttlebay though.
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