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It would also be possible to use a much shorter warp core much farther aft. A four-deck core just aft of the aft end of the lower pod would be very nice: the plasma conduits would go straight up to the neck impulse engine and the pylon stems, and the core could eject down through a standard ejection hatch (which would have been obliterated by the Borg on USS Kyushu, as seen in the ventral photo).
Alternately, the core could be horizontal and eject aft through a hatch that also lies in a Borg-demolished spot.
Incidentally, the ventral photo seems to show another belly phaser further aft, roughly where the aft end of the lower pod is. Like the forward belly phaser, it would suffer some firing arc limitations due to the pod...
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Well, everyone else seems to have the technical aspects covered, so I'll just ask this: What does the smiley face in that room in the forward dorsal part of the saucer do? :-)
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quote:Originally posted by TSN: Well, everyone else seems to have the technical aspects covered, so I'll just ask this: What does the smiley face in that room in the forward dorsal part of the saucer do? :-)
Arrg he has discoverd the face!
Yes its an in-joke like the Duck,Plane and the Porsche 911er on the E-D's MSD. Lobo
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quote: It would also be possible to use a much shorter warp core much farther aft. A four-deck core just aft of the aft end of the lower pod would be very nice: the plasma conduits would go straight up to the neck impulse engine and the pylon stems, and the core could eject down through a standard ejection hatch (which would have been obliterated by the Borg on USS Kyushu, as seen in the ventral photo).
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Well, this gets into theoretical warp core engineering, but a shorter warp core could be considered as a sort of predecessor to the Defiant's ultra-powerful reactor. Some people have suggesed that the height of a warp core translates into efficiency, as it makes the aiming of the fuel injection more accurate.
I also finally went and picked out the image of the damage to the Kyushu's rear section: IMAGE If you look closely, you can see that the SIDES of the aft section have been chewed away, but the "point" of the hull still remains. That means that there's no shuttlebay on the New Orleans in that location.
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I still don't get why someone felt the need to suggest there could be a shuttlebay there, especially when the existing one on top of the saucer is sufficient.
In regards to the warp core; Indeed a horizontal core is certainly possible, however a four deck, vertical core is a much simpler and conventional solution.
You could say that the damage to the underside of the secondary hull is evidence of the borg targeting the antimatter injectors, or - even more interesting - extracting the whole core with that cutting tractor beam.
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: the bottom 'pod' that we see now is attached with a mini-pylon-thingy has a protruding round nodule on its anterior surface.
I know, it makes me sad. The New Orleans is my favorite, but that extra funk-pylon is a severe buzz-kill. But for that detail, it is one of the rare profoundly-good kitbashes.
I'm too picky, and use hyphens too often.
At any rate, it's easy to tell why they like to have damaged bridges for kitbashes. In this case, it would have had to have been scratch-built.
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quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: If you look closely, you can see that the SIDES of the aft section have been chewed away, but the "point" of the hull still remains. That means that there's no shuttlebay on the New Orleans in that location.
Wow . . . and that area is hanging by a thread, too. Tough little ship.
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Sorry to bring this up but why would a ship like the New Orleans Class need more than one shuttlebay? The Intrepid and Prometheus Class starships only had one, which was quite enough.
Nice work on the MSD though, but I'd reconsider using the upper pods as shuttlebays. The color on the front of the pods are black instead of something that looks like a shuttlebay door.
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