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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Identity Crisis: [QB] I've got the Decipher book and titbits such as ship names and registries are starting to appear on my web site. (I think I've got as far as Intrepid class, going alphabetically). Stats are heavily based on Starship Spotter, which means that the odd pice of FASA or Ships of the Star Fleet stuff appears. Beyond that I can't be bothered to say much about the stats, they're tied to the game system and don't always translate into 'real' numbers (e.g. phasers are classified by they're overall effectiveness rather by the exact number and fire arc). Each ship has a small photo and larger starboard, dorsal (ventral for the Excelsior!) and fore (aft for the Nebula!) illustrations. The illos are not photo-realistic or CGI renderings, but are a million steps above the LUG Price of Freedom illos. A few illustrations are very wrong, clearly the artist was not provided with enough reference photos and had to fill in some angles from his imagination. Those that are wrong are - * Talon class (scoutship from Insurrection) * Klngon Raptor class (top view is okay, side and fore views are well off) * Romulan Theta class (the scout/science vessel, though some of the background fluff seems to refer to the warpshuttle instead... In the LUG game the shuttle was Theta class and the scout was Deresus class. Anyway, the illos are only really wrong in that they've added some sort of pod onto the top of the hull) * Cardassian Galor class (Keldon is used instead. Stats for these two ships are also confusing.) * Jem'Hadar Warship (conflates the BC and BB). There are no new ships, though a wingless version of the Maquis raider (large version) is called a Harmony class Fast Escort of Orion manufacture. The freighter Timo mentions is called the Altair class, not the Antares class. There is no Antares class (thankfully, the last thing we need is another take on the Antares...). The Raven is given as an Aerie class Surveyor, and to keep with canon these ships have USS names but NAR registries, but we all know to blame Voyager PTB for that, not Decipher. It's not the mythical 'Big Book of Starships', it's a book for a game. Buy it if you play the game or if you're a fanatical collector. If you just want some more Names/Registries then visit my site where I'll try to list all the new ones. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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