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[QUOTE]Originally posted by J: [QB] This is the sad story of the USS Elkins, which suffered a devastating accident while in flight trials. When the captain ordered the ship to fire a torpedo at the targeting range the torpedo jammed in the launcher, and then exploded. The resulting forces sheared the ship apart, and destroyed most of the Engineering Section. Now this was the time of the Dominion War, Starfleet hadn't the time to rebuild the Elkins' secondary hull. But the ship had an almost perfectly working saucer. It was decided to take the nacelles of the Elkins' [which had survived the accident] and the saucer then mate them to another secondary hull. The reworking would only take a few months to complete, far less than the two years necessary to repair or build a new secondary hull from the Intrepid Class. The reworking involved only two steps. The nacelles were connected by simply welding them on in the appropriate spot where the PTCs would match up. As for mating the two hulls together, this process was done by making a simple five part conversion section. The conversion section created one corridor path, two turbolift paths, and two utility conduit paths which connected the two hulls with power grids, data lines, and others [this also included two paths between the hulls via the Jefferies Tubes]. And so ends the sad story of this ship. After spending those few short months getting it's secondary hull, the vessel was sent to the front lines. A majestic ship was thus reduced to cannon fodder. To this day, no one has ever told me if the vessel survived the war physically, though spiritually it died the day of that accident. Perhaps, just perhaps, one caring admiral was able to get the ship sent back to it's shipyard and rebuilt. But if this is what happened, the story was never told... ______________________________ In the past I've tried explaining the above in the driest of technical ways. I added in some drama this time. Do you understand yet? :D [/QB][/QUOTE]
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