Length: 180 Meters Height: 23.42 Meters Decks: 9 Warp: 9.2 Weapons: Two Type-R Phaser Cannons; Four Type-IX Phaser Arrays; Two Mark-QII Quantum Torpedo Launchers. Crew: 110.
First off, it's not named after the football team. I hate football, and came up with the design long before the Superbowl. Patriot's was my high school's mascot.
The Patriot-class is a small escort/patrol ship. It's primary duties include providing escort for large fleet ships and patrolling SMC jurisdiction planets and limited transferring personnel and supplies.
There are 8 full decks, with a half 9th deck in the main hull which contains the anti-grav landing struts. The design is based off the Norway-class and Miranda-class. The flat bottom provides better balancing on landings.
[ February 11, 2002, 12:20: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by OnToMars (Member # 621) on :
Whould a civilization who has evolved past nation states still consider Patriot an attractive word?
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
Riiiiight... I don't see why 'patriot' would be any less attractive than any other word.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Is it a troop carrier? What purpose does it serve in the Marines?
Posted by Antagonist (Member # 484) on :
It's hard to tell with your diagram, even though it's superbly done in that medium, is the rest of the ship angular? Is the top composed of flat surfaces?
And I echo Snay's question, is it a troop-deployment vessel? If that were the case, does it have the capacity to carry hoppers?
All in all I like it. It's almost identical to a design I've been toying with recently, called the Patton Class. Interestingly enough, it looks a great deal like your diagram above (minus the torpedo "rollbar").
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Why does it look like an iron?
Explain for us Type-R Phaser Cannons please...
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
Think of it as an amphibious warfare ship and a C-130 plane. Carrying equipment for ground base forces. While Starfleet takes to the stars, my Marines are land based. It carries land vechicles, and other stuff in it's cargo hold.
I'd like to try to design a troop transport/carrier type starship though, something that the Patriot-class would provide escort for, sort of a 24th century carrier battle group if you will.
Type-R phaser cannons... well regular phasers use numbers, so I decided to make up a different designation for cannons, a letter instead of Type-XIIVIX phazorz.
My last ship, the USS Pioneer was rounded out, so I wanted to make this ship different. Instead of having the smooth flat hull as other ships, this would have the industrial look of runabouts. That type of detail would have taken forever to do in Photoshop though.
[ February 08, 2002, 14:35: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :
Hmm. Reminds me a lot of the Norway class.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
Well yeah B, that's what I said in the first post, "based off the Norway and Miranda-class."
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
It's such a blatant rip-off of the Norway...
Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :
Well, if the ship is a Norway relative, then it's okay with me.
Posted by Proteus (Member # 212) on :
quote:Originally posted by OnToMars: Whould a civilization who has evolved past nation states still consider Patriot an attractive word?
Because by the time of star trek, your pathetic country is owned by america.
*just said this because his original comment was unreasonably stupid.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't OnToMars from the US?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
That's the beauty of it.
Posted by Woodside Kid (Member # 699) on :
You might want to revise either your deck count or the ship's height, Hobbes. A height of 16.9 meters with 8 full decks and a half-deck works out to about 1.98 meters (6 1/2 feet) per deck. Considering there needs to be space for machinery, wiring, air ducts, etc., you'd need very short marines or the entire crew stooping all the time to make that work.
Posted by Squawk (Member # 313) on :
One little problem that got overlooked, I think. It says Height: 16.9 metres, correct? 9 Decks? 17 metres? That yeilds a deck height of 1.88 Metres. Even if the 9th deck is only half, that still leaves a little over 2 metres per deck. A little cramped, no?
EDIT: Recalculated. Even if the 9th deck is a half-deck, it's still less than 2 metres. 1.99
[ February 11, 2002, 05:57: Message edited by: Squawk ]
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
Alright alright... I'll rework the height.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
Ok, I changed the height to 23.42 meters.
Eight 7-foot decks, with the ninth deck being 4-feet and 2 feet between decks.
Also, here's a dedication plaque I just made...
Instead of the gold plaque, I decided to go for a silver plaque for Marines and Starfleet gold. Here's my last plaque for the USS Pioneer...
[ February 11, 2002, 19:54: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
What's up with the low stardates?
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
My own personal stardate system.
My system sets a Federation-Standard year as 400 days. So the first three numbers are the day number, and the last two the year number.
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