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Erm. It seems there are no credits at all. On the other hand, people keep asking me about the status of shipschematics.net. Is the URL supposed to be publicized?
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Yeah, while we're at it, the Titan Class Heavy Superscout is mine.
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Octagonal saucer: Actually, thats a boo boo on my part. The description of the saucer from 'Dreadnought!' said that it had a hexagonal saucer (and hexagonal internal details, looking a little like precursors to the 1701-refit's hexagonal corridors i imagined). I interpreted the lines on the saucer in the painting as the corners of the hexagon.. but when i rotated it around and did the front, i left them in.. so when i completed the top it was an octagon. when i realized, i tried to go back and hexagon it, but it looked a little ungainly so i decided to leave it as a little artistic license.
I used as a reference a very large scan of the book cover You cant see it so well here, but ill try to find a better picture
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It's basically a "Mary Sue" conspiracy book. The book is told in first person from the perspective of Lieutenant Piper. She gets assigned to the Enterprise and one her first mission out with Kirk and crew, they discover that a Starfleet commander and rag-tag team of Academy cadets plus her boyfriend are on-board the brand-new and stolen dreadnaught Star Empire. Vice-Admiral Rittenhouse comes in with backup to help take back the Star Empire, but Kirk smells a rat. It turns out that the Star Empire was part of a plot on behalf of Rittenhouse to conquer this side of galaxy and declare himself ruler of it all. So, Piper and her new buddies from the Enterprise (including an osctracized Vulcan tactical officer, a nerdy sensor technician, and a medical intern who is really in cohoots with Rittenhouse) get on the Star Empire and help defend her from Rittenhouse. Oh, the Enterprise does some stuff to help, too. In the end, everyone on the Star Empire is given commendations, the Star Empire is going to be mothballed, Rittenhouse is killed, and Piper is made a lieutenant commander (and she just graduated from the Academy, too).
It was an interesting read, but it also shows some of the downsides of the "Mary Sue" style of fanfiction and novels.
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On the up-side, it was written by Diane Carey. She's cool, because she's from Maryland. And so is Ann Crispin, I believe (or, at the very least, current residents of Maryland). So is Howard Weinstein, and Dennis Bailey (and for a little while at least, David Bischoff). I think Bob Greenberger moved down this way recently too.
And aside for the two Piper books, her Trek stuff is very good -- The Great Starship Race, for one.
You cant see it so well here, but ill try to find a better picture
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