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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] That would only be if the Akira truly was the kickass torpedo ship/carrier that that idiot Jaeger made it out to be. (I want to know what he was smoking when he started coming up with such an outrageous warship design.) Anyway... To go back to the "kitbash" designs... I did a little thinking on the subject of fleet size. Most estimates of the size of Starfleet range around 8,000 or so, with about 4,000 to 6,000 full-size combatant starships in service. Consider that these ships aren't just in the core region of the Federation, but also had to be spread out to protect all of Federation space (all 8,000 light-years of it). That means that Starfleet had only a few thousand ships available. When you're playing with relatively small numbers like that, a Frankenstein's Fleet that numbered around 200 ships total would actually make a crucial difference, collectively. Spread along the relatively limited border regions (where a patrol fleet doesn't necessarily have to spread across a wide volume of space) the ships can be concentrated more effectively. To address the "kitbash" nature of the ships themselves... I have a hard time believing that the starships were really designed that way deliberately as a seperate class. We know that Federation starships are highly modular, with only general characteristics attributable to each section. Therefore, mating two dissimilar components is possible given the interconnects. For some ships like the Yeager, I'd be willing to guess that the sections are actually fairly seperate, and the hulls are simply attached to create one more heavily armed starship. In any event, remember that Starfleet was basically launching empty hulls with weapons strapped on to them at some points during the war. So the kitbash ships don't have to be fully realized starships. Instead, it's just a mating of semi-compatible components that each could house the necessary facilities. To use the Yeager as an example again, the saucer held the main weapons systems, while the raider-style hull held the warp core and engines. Aside from power and probably a few crew interconnects, not much is needed. Certainly not a fully integrated corridor structure with supply feeds in every deck and Jeffries tubes installed everywhere... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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