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I think that the Daedalus class was designed as a super ship thatcould be easily produced. She probably incorporated newer, smaller lasers tht equaled to the larger ones on larger ships. She was probably faster and more manuverable than those larger ships. The Daedalus class might even have firstor second generation shields. So producing these ships in vast quantities that these ships might be equal or better than those larger ships.
Example: Heavy cruiser os WWII could take down early battleships of 1900 becuase or longer range, faster, better fire control, and better ammunition
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Larger Earth ships or Romulan ships. If you think about it, the Daedalus class is small its about the same size as a foot ball field. Also the only thing that is canon on the ship is that it is one of the first Starfleet ships and might have been the first with the multi-hull concept. The only reason I could think of that makes this ship siginificant is that the class was a technical marvel as it could have been built the latest tech to defeat the Romulans. The small size could only indicate that either that the previous ships were smaller or that this ship was buit for mass production or even that the class isn't even a heavy cruiser type like it was thought of, perhaps a detroyer.
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DEFEAT the Romulans? Wasn't the Daedalus-class introduced *after* the Federation-Romulan wars? I don't have my chronology with me here, but if that is true, than the Daedalus-class would have never encountered a Romulan ship, as the Romulans entered a period of extended isolation afterward. Please correct me if I'm wrong!
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Perhaps what is meant is that Starfleet designed the Daedelus-Class to be able to attack and destroy any Romulan starships. You know, "the war is over, let's go build a ship that can kick the butt of those damn Rommies."
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Looking above, I think Darky's getting a sense of humour.
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Ok in the chronology, it never stated that the Daedalus class was built AFTER the war, it only stated that a couple ships in the class was lost after the war in the 2160's. So that leaves out that you can write an entier history on the class without contradicting what's already known. We don't even know when the war started in the first place! For all we could know the war could have lasted over 20 years!
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Here's a conjectural history of the Daedalus class by some guy. http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/sfmuseum/daedalus.htm The article basically says that Daedalus cruisers were demilitarized, exploratory versions of Comet cruisers and entered service with Earth's Navy just before the end of the war.
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I've always liked that take on the Daedalus. Plus, the nifty pictures don't hurt.
There's that serial novel by Pocket books that has something about the creation of the Daedalus. I don't know what it's about, I only have one of the chapters. From what I've read, it's interesting enough.
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The "Starfleet: Year One" story in its entirety is a pretty dull read, but it has its moments. I've got the chapter where the former Christopher class ship captains discuss what should go into the Daedalus and what shouldn't. The author believes that these earlier RW era ships had small crews of just a few dozen, so the Daedalus and her 200 crew would be bigger than what Starfleet used to have. It might of course be that only the top-of-the-line Christopher class was lightly manned, while more mundane ships were bigger and clumsier.
Anyway, the Christopher captains argue about the balance between long-range military and short-range scientific sensors, the possibility of giving the ships efficient subspace communications, and the range vs. speed balance. It's not quite revealed which attributes are chosen for the final ships, though. Evidently, the Daedaluses would feature arboretums and extensive laboratories while earlier ships did not. Weaponry would still be missiles and lasers.
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The only problem is that the Daedalus is too small at 105m. Masao and some other guy came to the conclusion that the nominal crew should be only 100, and that the 200 aboard the Essex should include guest scientists.
Alternatively, we could make the ship a lot larger. This could solve the problem of the neck which is hardly tall enough to stand upright. If the windows are supposed to match the decks too, we would easily get a 300m ship.
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