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What about taking a few more liberties with this thing?
The model as shown has no torp launchers. But it does have major damage to both sides of the bow. What about inserting torpedo tubes (perhaps two per side, one atop the other) in the damaged areas, and saying that the smart Dominion gunners targeted those spots specifically because that's where the ship's main armament was?
Or, if the ship is torp-less, perhaps one could call it a fleet salvage tug, and say it was rescuing this single nacelle this time? Perhaps the lower pylons aren't a makeshift arrangement for a single towing mission, but instead a permanent towing receptable?
Incidentally, how did you do the impulse engines? Does each nozzle glow red, in both halves of the saucer? The additional things on the top half are even less likely to be impulse engines in this thing than in the E-B: here they would fire directly at the pylons!
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Actually, froma little lower angle, it looks like the Ent-B Side Impulse Engines would fire directly underneath the pylons. However, I tend to think the two thin slots right under the the aft pylon... er... anchorage (the block structure with shuttlebays?) are the impulse engines.
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The impulse engines, as I did them, are the where you'd expect them on an Excelsior. But as this involves two Excelsior saucers stuck together it would mean there are two pairs of engines. I phased out the two above, it's the two below which are the impulse engines.
I like the idea of putting torp tubes on the saucer, where the damage on the photos is. I'll see what I can come up with...
Dax, I also came up with the same idea that this may have once been a four nacelled ship... I'm going to try that as well.
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Mabye this thing is a repair/support ship chock full of repair crews and workbees and it needs the extra nacelle to help tow crippled ships at warp. The space at the rear of the saucer could house additional shuttle bays/repair ships.
We really have not seen many starfleet support ships....except for that hideous "tug" from DS9.
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BTW, on the original kitbash, do we know what that blocky thing at the back of the saucer and below the top pylons is?
A kennel.
The two nacelled version looks like a cool updated Loknar class.
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The 2 nacelle design is much better looking I'd say. After all, RA has a very nice looking, 4 nacelled excelsior type already.
To answer a previous question, no I do not have any particular aversion to 3 nacelled ships, but then I'm not particularly fond of them either. It really depends on how the ships are designed. For instance, the Niagara is a fairly nice looking ship, with it's balanced configuration but FJ's old Dreadnaught on the other hand is decidedly unbalanced and not a clever design at all.
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Dude, you are kiddin'. The Viagra? That is the WORST of the BOBW ship-bashes by far! Even the Fryingpan...er...Firebrand is better than that!
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From Vulcan are we? The kennel thing was a joke about the "blocky thing" on the Medusa.
The Medusa is a starnge, unbalanced monster, I agree. The Niagra monster makes even less sense as it has nacelles of a later vintage than the secondary hull and the saucer is just freakish.
At least the frying pan (freedom) class is an update on the jackhill scout ship....
I really think that the Medusa looks good as a modern Loknar class once you drop the third nacelle.
I've been thinking of making an updated "Remora" class destroyer from some extra Ambaassador parts..any ideas Admiral?
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actually the Freedom would more realistically be an, intentional or not, homage to Franz Joseph's Hermes/Saladin from the ST:TM.
I still dont get the kennel.
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DON'T YOU ROLL YOUR EYES ON THIS FORUM, YOUNG MAN! THIS NEWBIE BASHING HAS GOT TO END! YOU OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF THIS CRUEL AND DEGRADING TREATMENT YOU ARE SUBJECTING JASON TO!
Is it my imagination, or are we actually making progress in this respect?
The two-nacelled Medusa is a real beauty. All it needs now is a name and a registry. Somehow, a 7000-range one doesn't fit my mental image of the thing. This could rather be something built to accompany the 14000-range Excelsiors...
Also, what about getting artistic? The Mirandas have their registries painted differently from those of the Constitutions. The Medusas could have smart blue-gold lines framing the registry, or something...
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