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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [qb] The Neck: If the neck is lowered to be flush with the top of the secondary hull, then either the primary hull is lowered (interfering with the nav deflector) or the neck hits the primary hull below the equator, which looks a bit weak. The Nacelles: I'm still messing with them. But I think that SRB-style ribbing would be out of scale. Impulse thrusters: They'll probably be on the curved rear part of the "thorax" someplace so that the ship will still have them if the M/AM reactor in the "abdomen" is ejected. Shuttle bays. I still haven't decided the final location. Possibly at the end of the neck, someplace on the thorax (where one is now), or on the primary hull. The ship is big enough to have more than one shuttlebay. NCX:I haven't decided whether this ship will be in service or just experimental, so I put on something halfway between "NCC" and "NX." [/qb][/QUOTE]I think Sternbach used "NXP-" for the Defiant-Class pathfinder vessel, which is what this sounds like. More a concept vehicle than a shakedown prototype; the Spruce Goose of the late 22nd Century. I wonder if the Shuttlebay could go on the aft face of the primary hull, just above the neck? Perhaps with flanking P/S cargobays. As for the impulse engines, what if you stuck them at the tail end of the neck? It has good clearance and is near enough to the centre of mass, though the machinery may make access through the neck a little tricky. I agree the nacelles could use a little something to convey the idea that this thing is way more overpowered. Perhaps a bulge down the length of the midsection, maybe even a scooped out cooling grill, the ancestor of the features on the inside of the connie's nacelles or indeed the refit nacelle grill. [EDIT] Sort of like this. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v24/Reverend/icarus2.jpg[/IMG] ...vaguely. Perhaps add the SRB style ribbing to that, linking to two bulges together, then you have yourself an over designed cooling system. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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