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Why in the hell Akira was desighned so early?!
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] We know that the fighters (Peregrines?) can travel interstellar distances all on their own, as seen in "The Maquis". So obviously those blue-glowing things on them are warp nacelles, and the craft are capable of something like warp 5 at the very least. Otherwise, Cal Hudson and pals would not have arrived at their target within the season, let alone the episode... It seems that operational procedures call for some of the fighters to be out between the big ships when a fleet is moving. This doesn't rule out the idea that some of them are being carried inside big starships, or that some are patrolling the outer perimeter well outside camera range, or that when the fleet is ordered to warp speed, all the fighters are recalled to their carriers. The Akira may not be much of a carrier, making only a halfhearted attempt at accommodating these big fighters. It's obviously closer to the old Russian or Italian model of a carrier (a cruiser with a flight deck scabbed on) than the US one (an airfield placed atop a big freighter). Still, it's one of the ships with a high shuttlebay volume to overall volume ratio, probably only beaten by the Steamrunner. That is, if we assume that a large portion of Akira innards is indeed dedicated to the hangar. The Steamrunner is a very likely candidate for a carrier: the shuttlebay door is a gigantic one-piece thing, so it would make no sense to have only a short bay behind (or rather in front of) it. It seems obvious that most of the hull is dedicated to one huge boxy bay (the contours of which are obvious from outside), with forward launch tubes in addition to the humungous back door. It's also more like the US aircraft carriers in that it has few and short phaser strips and nothing that would even remotely look like a torpedo launcher. I have no trouble believing that Starfleet would have had these carriers in pre-TNG days, not when we know how the UFP was constantly fighting somebody back then. Picard's E-D adventures seem to have represented only a brief lull of peace. And if O'Brien went to Setlik III in 2347 aboard a ship with a 57000 rego, then the Steamrunners with their 54000 regos probably date back to the mid-2340s... (In general, registries seem to follow a pattern where the first digit is one higher than the earliest known operating decade: 57XXX in the 2340s, lots of 7XXXX ships in the 2360s, and so forth. But we all know the system is not really systematic.) Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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