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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov: [QB] Hehe, I wonder if the ship is an Intrepid saucer with a scaled up Maquis raider or a Maquis raider with a scaled down Intrepid saucer... Anyway, I think Elkins and Yeager are two entirely different things. Yeager: Mim, I asked exactly this question when I started coming here, but obviously, the Yeager's origins are more mysterious than the class itself. Maybe it was Moore, but I have the feeling that the information cloud have the same source as the name 'Curry'. The entire varible warp geometry thing isn't something you come up with today and start building tomorrow. If it was tht easy, Kirk's Enterprise would have had varible geometry nacelles, too. So I guess the vessel was indeed some sort of testbed. Janeway said Voyager ('s class) was the only Starfleet ship being able to navigate through the Badlands. But we already know that smaller hips like the Raider can navigte there without any problem. Next locical step? Take a rider (which is designed for these operation - hull structure, sublight engines and stuff) and put the newly designed "aerodynamic" highspeed saucer and the subspace-friendly nacelles on it, and you have a first testbed for field studies and stuff. In connection with this, I don't think the Intrepid-project was similar to the Galaxy-project for example (take mission objective and design a vessel) but rather an engineer-friendly ship to test various new systems and engines and things like that. What is Intrepids designation? Explorer? Scout? Cruiser? There isn't a single task other ships couldn't handle too, but this one got all the latest tech, many never-before seen things like biopacks, EMH, the engines or speedboat-shuttles. Same reason I think Intrepid didn't look identical to Voyager, and the reason I think Yeager, Elkins and other ships were assembled in a different way just for testing purposes because the ship was very modular, user-friendly. (Of course, you have some basic ships like Bellerophon, but who knows what gimmicks they installed on tht ship? Do you really think an Admiral would take such a vessel to romulus instead of something more powerful like a Galaxy?) Elkins: AWACS-cruiser, bouy tender, tug, don't know. The two jet engines (sorry, 'deflectors') could be something else instead. Like tractor beam emitters or removable antimatter tanks. Or the ship was assembled with parts of old vessel (engines). Of course, the fact that there are several ships flying around with Intrepid saucers leads to another theory: Maybe Intrepid saucers and seconary hulls are assembled in different yards and the one producing the hulls had to cancel that or was destroyed. They'd have some saucers sitting around. And instead of just throwing them away, they made something out of it. Creative minds, those engineers. Imagine the war would have lasted some years longer. I wonder what Frankenstein's we'd have gotten then. :eek: Of course, this doesn't work for the low-registry Yeager. But maybe the ship's original configuration was a Maquis-Raider hull with an Ambassador-class saucer! *double- :eek: * (I could do this stuff for hours) What if Yeager's Maquis-part was the hull of another Starfleet ship-class, and at one point that class was rendered useless in terms of reliablilty, effectivity or whatever. They threw them away, built some good-looking secondary-hulls for the lonely Ambassador-saucers and that's it. Maquis' stole the hulls from the junkyard and used them as Raiders (they also used Starfleet attack fighters, so the fact that those Raiders aren't civilian vessels shouldn't be a problem here). Later, during the war, wher the old class was our of service or whatever, Starfleet noticed how good the hulls are for fighting. They pulled out the Intrepid-saucers (see above ;) ) �t voil�: a new kitbash was born. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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