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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Darkwing: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [qb] Okay guys! The Gao Yao is my tanker/cargo ship/ antimatter carrier. [/qb][/QUOTE]I'm wondering why so many folks keep perpetuating the Ptolemy idea of a full-size starship for a transport. I prefer the Jackill's Fisher class for that job. It's the class II saucer (Grissom/Oberth style) with the integrated engines and the neck and connector plate. It hauls two containers, and uses a lot less resources to run cargo. Why use a class I saucer or extended hull that requires a large crew, has more parasitic mass and a full weapons loadout? As far as I can tell, the only real reason to use a Ptolemy or other such design like that is troop transport or for transport through hostile sectors without available escort. All that said, your model is well done and I like that you turned expectations on their head by putting the containers outboard of the engines, rather than the reverse used everywhere else. Without engines, that cargo goes nowhere and has no value. Whereas without cargo, that engine still gets the ship around. So for use in hostile areas, it makes more sense to use the cargo to shield the ship, rather than vice-versa. However, why does a cargo ship need [i]four[/i] sensor pallets aft? And I think even a cargo ship (perhaps [i]especially[/i] a cargo ship) needs at least one shuttle bay, if not two. After all, Miranda's have an internal cargo bay, so why would this ship not have one, despite having the external cargo pods? I'd have a small shuttle bay for crew use and a large one connecting to the internal cargo bay for use transferring freight. Transporters [i]do[/i] break down or are inappropriate for some cargos. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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