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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] Well that shuttle in the MSD is really only to show scale, but to answer your question, no, the Deneva doesn't carry a Type-17 as apart of it's standard compliment but I have designed it to be able to support anything as large as a Type-6 (Type-7 at a push) while still having a usable shuttle/cargo bay. After all, shuttles can be cargo too. As for the escape pod seen in "Legacy", you can see it on the MSD on C Deck, below and to the right of the Type-17. The idea is there are always two of them stored there, each sat on it's own elevator so when the evacuation sequence begins, both of them power up and ascend to the shuttlebay so the crew can leg it from wherever they are on the ship to the shuttlebay and have two escape craft warmed up and ready to go. In the even that the shuttlebay is inaccessible to either the crew (ie the forcefield has failed) or the pods themselves (hull damage/wrekage) then what happens is the crew still go to C Deck, but instead of ascending they blow the lower cargo platform clean off with explosive bolts and then retract the pod's lift platform and simply drop out the ship's belly. Now that's a little more dangerous since if they can't wait a few seconds between blowing the platform and dropping out of the bay then they run the risk of colliding with stray cargo modules, or indeed the platform itself before it's fully clear of the ship, which is why it's a contingency escape procedure. Of course the Travel Pod and the work bees don't have the delta V to escape a core breach, so the only other alternatives are: - 1 - Blow the bolts on the command section, though they'll only have thrusters to escape the blast zone. 2 - Blow the bolts on the aft section; they'll have impulse and possibly the cargo pods too, though they'd have a hard time steering it. 3 - Jump in an EVA suit and beam to the maximum safe distance. Of course in the situation the Arcos was in, the best option would be to do as they did and use the pod(s) as the aft section can't land on it's own, the command section would need a good landing stretch to perform an emergency slideou, while still expecting to suffer sever damage in the process and standard EVA suits aren't able to survive re-entry. Bottom line the shuttlebay stays. I like how it lookes with an open bay and the entire internal cargo transfer system is useless without a large bay at the end of it. Also for the record I designed it with a minimum crew of 2 in mind. Though the optimum compliment is more like 6. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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