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[QUOTE]Originally posted by FawnDoo: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [qb] I don't know why you'd build a spacecraft on a planet if you didn't have to, though. [/qb][/QUOTE]Because it's easier and less dangerous than building them in space: no need for spacesuits, no need to worry about simple accidents causing hull breaches, vacuum exposure, or any one of the many other nasty things that can happen up in space. Taking into account what we know about the Federation's level of technology at the time of the episode Mars could either be completely terraformed (in which case the ships could be built by construction crews just breathing the local air) or the construction bays could be within pressurised forcefields. They also have antigrav technology, presumably the entire shipyard area on the surface of the planet could be a variable gravity area, set to whatever they need. Hell, within those shipyards they might well work in microgee conditions. I can see planetside construction being a whole lot simpler, especially on a planet that's M class or close enough to be used by air-breathing life: no need to maintain orbital habitats, less chance of things going wrong, easier to get crews in to work on sections of the ship being built, and easy to get up into orbit once finished by using a combination of tractor beams, variable gravity environments and even shuttles. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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