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Then again, each of the two cores could be individually weaker. This might not be cost-effective if the duplication of hardware outweighed the lesser demands placed per core - but it COULD be the only practial choice, dictated by the ship's internal structure.
Just think of the weird machinery arrangements of amphibious attack ships in the real world.
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True, but we've seen other suggestions for places a warp core could go on an Akira and not need to be split into two individually inferior models.
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That *may* be the core hatch, but it seems like, if it were, the navigational deflector machinery would run right though the core. Or the core would have to go through the nav. def. in the event of ejection. The deflector runs aft for a little ways behind it's exterior plate.
Edit: But now that I go back and look at your placement in the MSD, you have placed *directly* behind a somewhat shortened deflector (compared to other ships' deflectors, that is). I dig it. I am now officially out of nitpicks. Except that "Nacell" still has an "e" at the end
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It does seem likely that that's the core hatch, assuming it's not just some meaningless detail on the hull anyway. At any rate, I can't think of a better place to put a solitary core.
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I considered that but I'm pretty sure the tractor emitter is further fwd, just below the deflector dish. You can clearly see it in this production sketch but it's also there in the final product.
BTW, that sketch shows the 3 remaining torpedo tubes (the only tubes out of the 15 that aren't in the pod) just above the deflector dish. Before anyone says "they're windows, not torp tubes", photorps were shown to be fired from that location in First Contact. And again, that hull detail also exists on the final product.
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my curiousity is piqued.. could i have the URL so i could unobtrusively go to a public comp lab, sign up for fake accounts and bid a lot of made up money on that?
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Excellent work! The watermark kinda spoils the effect, but I don't blame you for placing it there.
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