If you look at the upper row where the Fed starships are, there are five designs, of which only two have been marked (Defiant and Steamrunner class). The other three are left on silhouette shadow. One can assume that the Class 3 Federation Starship is the Akira class and the Class 5 Federation Starship is the Galaxy class. But what is the Class 4 Fed Starship? It seemed to have an Intrepid type saucer but the pylons seems suggestively pointing downward. Is this the Intrepid, or quite possibly an Intrepid variant, most likely to be the Yeager class.
From the Starfleet Ship Designs web page, the text on the Yeager goes like this:
"A new class of ship has been seen in some recent episodes of Deep Space 9; this has been referred to by Paramount as the "Yeager-class." It is made up of an Intrepid-type saucer, a Maquis raider primary hull, and two engine nacelles...
The new Deep Space Nine Technical Manual has a diagram of this ship (described as simply an "Intrepid-class Starship Variant"). "
Given the DS9 background of the game, I am thinking that it may be the Yeager class starships.
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I took a look, and IMO it's just the Intrepid. The nacelles don't appear to be "drooping" to me -- it's just a trick of the angle. Plus, the aft section is way too thin to be a Maquis raider-style hull design.
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Hmm... while I'll grant that the silhouette is a little funny if it was an Intrepid, one would assume that the "tailfins" on the back of the C-type Raider would be visible from this angle, which they aren't...
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And they show the Sabre as being half the size of the dDefiant. It'd be like a big Runabout.
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That's not why it shown so small. It's because it fall in the same catagory. Look at the Keldon/Galor class. They are the same size, also in the game from what I've seen in screenshots.
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You are truly evil for a turnip-lover, you know!
I wonder if Fed wargames are all like "Peak Performance": "I see Cmdr Smartaz survived the battle against the Nebula in that dinky Miranda of his. Now we can downgrade the fleet one step further and require every captain to be capable of the same. See to it that we transfer Smartaz to an Oberth for his next tournament. There could be major savings ahead - we have hundreds of those in storage after my predecessor fell for that stupid marketing trick."
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That's something to consider - in thirty years of Star Trek, we've seen that Starfleet consistently wins engagements when equipped with inferior ships and technology. Where's the impetus to upgrade?
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In some cases, Starfleet just doesn't have the tech to match the other, I would think.
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