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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Darkwing: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [qb] I posted the "failed prototype" comment just to get a rabid response from those that think the prommie is the ultimate in starship design and ws not really serious. :D Didnt work though... [/qb][/QUOTE]Well, I like the Prommie's external appearance, and the shipwide holoemitters was an interesting idea, but that multi-vector assault thing was idiotic. I'd build the second one with only standard saucer separation capability, making a little more room for normal things in the hull like quarters and holodecks and such. Now, the saucer would still have the warp drive, so that'd be an improvement, but I wouldn't bother with splitting the ship up any further than that, and I'd expect it to only be used as often as other ships do saucer separation, instead of making it a standard tactic. And I'd really only keep the routine saucer sep (as opposed to the never seen, but occasionally mentioned emergency saucer sep of TOS) only because it's so established. For a really workable "multi-vector assault mode", I'd have a set of subcraft that attach to the hull the same way the Captain's yacht does in the Galaxy class and the aeroshuttle for the Intrepid. Those would be large shuttle-size drone fightercraft. All the benefits of the silly multi-vector idea, without the structural drawbacks. I'd probably have a mix of manned and unmanned embedded craft for the purpose, too, for flexibility. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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