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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] Looking at the Centaur screencaps, it looks like at least the forward-most greeblie added to the ventral saucer is a phaser turret, since the beam doesn't come from the standard turret positions on the Excelsior. Personally, I think that makes sense -- they strapped on a higher-power phaser emitter to supplement their standard armament. Kinda enhances the "retrofit" feel of the ship -- even if the Centaur was an original-build design, there were lots of custom add-ons made for the war. I like that idea. I think that if the Centaur were really scout-sized (note I said [b]if[/b]), then maybe the forward saucer projection that we think is a shuttlebay is actually a some customized piece of armor to provide additional protection for the bridge, and it isn't REALLY a shuttlebay at all. It just looks like a similar piece on the Excelsior. Actually, I think that that same argument could apply to the larger scale as well! And in that case, as others have already suggested, they just took the hull shell from an Excelsior shuttlebay (maybe salvaged from a wrecked ship after the war started?) and welded that in place without it having any real functionality underneath. The same would go for the larger bridge dome. As for the scale... I'm not all that good at measuring relative ship sizes, but I think that based on [URL=http://home.arcor.de/spike730/screenshots/Centaur18.jpg]this shot[/URL], accounting for the fact that the Centaur is firing its phaser at nearly a 90� angle relative to the fore-aft axis and the apparently small distance (tough to judge, I know) to the Jem'Hadar bug, that the ship is probably using a real Excelsior saucer rather than supposed to be a miniature, like the New Orleans. I also consider the fact that the designers took the time to paint windows onto the hull -- inaccurate though they might be in terms of actual decks -- that they definitely indicate the approximate scale they had in mind when making the model. Besides, these windows even [URL=http://home.arcor.de/spike730/screenshots/Centaur15.jpg]appeared illuminated[/URL], meaning they had to add the white glow during the visual effects process. (I still think we should ignore the actual deck counts from the windows, though, since there simply can't be that many decks in between, even on an Excelsior.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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