Flare Sci-fi Forums
Flare Sci-Fi Forums
Topic Closed  Topic Closed
Post New Topic  
Topic Closed  Topic Closed
my profile | directory login | search | faq | forum home

This topic has been moved to Designs, Artwork, & Creativity.     next oldest topic   next newest topic
» Flare Sci-Fi Forums » Star Trek » Starships & Technology » Olympic MSD (Page 1)

  This topic comprises 2 pages: 1  2   
Author Topic: Olympic MSD
Lobo
Active Member
Member # 669

 - posted      Profile for Lobo     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Hi.
Now, i'm working at the Olympic Class MSD. But i have again a problem. Where should i set the Warpcore?

Here a re to versions by me.
 -
 -
I think the second vers. is better because the warp core can be faster ejected in a emergency.
What do you think?

Lobo

--------------------
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die..."

Registered: Jul 2001  |  IP: Logged
Reverend
Based on a true story...
Member # 335

 - posted      Profile for Reverend     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Yeah the second option looks best.
If you want to do something different you could make the warpcore twice as tall, so the deuterium tanks can be housed in that dorsal hump.

--------------------
Dark Knight Adventures & Batman Beyond:Stripped - DeviantArt Gallery
================================
...what we demand is a total absence of solid facts!

Registered: Apr 2000  |  IP: Logged
Intruder1701
Member
Member # 880

 - posted      Profile for Intruder1701     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Yeah, most of the ships keep their warp cores in the secondary hull

--------------------
"Who cares if we bomb a few hospitals, it just means we got them a second time" Warrant Officer Robert Clift, CVN-71 OEF

Registered: Aug 2002  |  IP: Logged
Starship Millennium
Member
Member # 822

 - posted      Profile for Starship Millennium     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
What about laying it horizontally along the spine of the ship? Or making the engine core and nacelles a self-contained, ejectable unit like the Belknap class from SotSF?
Registered: May 2002  |  IP: Logged
Akira
Member
Member # 850

 - posted      Profile for Akira     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Id mirror the warp core so you have room for the Deflector dish

--------------------
Christopher
[email protected]
SR20Egg

Registered: Jun 2002  |  IP: Logged
J
Active Member
Member # 608

 - posted      Profile for J     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I think that the warp core should be horizontal with the M/ARC at the spot where the warp pylon would intersect--- check it out... most MSDs already show that the core is at the spot.

--------------------
Later, J
_ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ _ _
The Last Person to post in the late Voyager Forum. Bashing both Voyager, Enterprise, and "The Bun" in one glorious post.

[email protected]
http://webj.cjb.net

Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged
Lobo
Active Member
Member # 669

 - posted      Profile for Lobo     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Hmmm here is a first pic of the MSD
http://mitglied.lycos.de/mrbrown5/Olympic.jpg

Lobo

[ September 15, 2002, 01:27: Message edited by: Lobo ]

--------------------
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die..."

Registered: Jul 2001  |  IP: Logged
TSN
I'm... from Earth.
Member # 31

 - posted      Profile for TSN     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Is that a matter injector for the matter injector?
Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged
iam2xtreme
Member
Member # 836

 - posted      Profile for iam2xtreme         Edit/Delete Post 
Cool. However after this how about doin the Steamrunner or Ambassador classes?

--------------------
"Marge, trying is the first step towards failure!!" Homer

Registered: Jun 2002  |  IP: Logged
Guardian 2000
Senior Member
Member # 743

 - posted      Profile for Guardian 2000     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
As always, your work is superb. I adore your New Orleans, in case I haven't already said so.

I had not noticed the navigational deflector before. Being an idiot, I simply assumed this was another ship without one. Thanks for helping me see the light!
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/mechanics/pasteur-lighted.jpg

Nitpicks:

1. The ventral sphere phaser array is quite high. You've got it about 50% of the way between the sphere centerline and the weird inset divit thingy. But, on the model, the phaser array was about 75% of the way down.
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/mechanics/pasteur-model2.jpg

2. Not a nitpick, really, but look at the door-looking-thingy beneath the pylons in the pics:
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/other/pasteur2.jpg
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/mechanics/pasteur-model2.jpg

Do you think that might be a through-deck bay of some sort? Having a substantial shuttling capability would make a fair bit of sense for a medical ship.

2a. If that's a through-deck bay, you can see in this pic and the previous side shots that it would interrupt some of the warp core maneuverings you've done already:
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/mechanics/pasteur-model1.jpg

I can think of two possible solutions:

A. A horizontal core along the vessel centerline, housed in the "strongback" where the nacelle pylons connect to the rest of the ship. I like this idea . . . it's a little off-the-wall, but would make sense insofar as a medical ship trying to be as roomy as possible (hence their choice of a sphere). It also has the advantage of allowing you to put the deuterium tanks right under the impulse deck. The antimatter pods could be placed beneath the brown square at the back of the strongback, with the core itself being beneath what could be Space Shuttle-style doors forward of that brown square, in an area normally assumed to be connection hardpoints.

Or, alternately, you could postulate an as-yet-unseen ejection door on the back of the strongback, which would send the core sailing over the shuttlebay.

B. A standard vertical core could be placed beneath the brown square. This has the advantage of allowing a shorter trip for the drive plasma, but I'm not sure how to arrange the reactant tanks. You could put the antimatter nearby, just under the hull in the flat section, with the matter tank in the forward area of the strongback (meaning it still wouldn't be far away from the impulse deck).

Anyway, just a thought.

--------------------
. . . ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

G2k's ST v. SW Tech Assessment

Registered: Nov 2001  |  IP: Logged
AndrewR
Resident Nut-cache
Member # 44

 - posted      Profile for AndrewR     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
That is such a brilliant ship. I love it. Why couldn't they have given us the Olympic class on DS9!?! Orbiting DS9 would have been perfect instead of something like the bloody little Yeager Class! [Smile]

Andrew

--------------------
"Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica." - Jim Halpert. (The Office)

I'm LIZZING! - Liz Lemon (30 Rock)

Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged
Wraith
Zen Riot Activist
Member # 779

 - posted      Profile for Wraith     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Actually, that's a point; why did we never see a single hospital ship in however many years of war? And the MSDs are brilliant BTW.

--------------------
"I am an almost extinct breed, an old-fashioned gentleman, which means I can be a cast-iron son-of-a-bitch when it suits me." --Jubal Harshaw

Registered: Feb 2002  |  IP: Logged
The359
The bitch is back
Member # 37

 - posted      Profile for The359     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
The insert on the side of the Pastuer, below the nacelles, isn't a door. You can see a little hole on the one side of it, which is supposed to be a shuttlepod docking port. The rest of the insert merely just gives a location to put the name of the ship.

Also notice there may be another shuttlebay door on the very bottom of the sphere, underneath the deflector. I however don't know if there's enough room down there to actually store anything.

--------------------
"Lotta people go through life doing things badly. Racing's important to men who do it well. When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting."

-Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney, LeMans

Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged
Treknophyle
Senior Member
Member # 509

 - posted      Profile for Treknophyle     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
That second door may just be a cargo-loading hatch. The Galaxy-class had quite a few.

Very nice MSD - very clean.

--------------------
'One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.' - Lazarus Long

Registered: Feb 2001  |  IP: Logged
Lobo
Active Member
Member # 669

 - posted      Profile for Lobo     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Here an Update:
http://mitglied.lycos.de/mrbrown5/Olympic.jpg
Lobo

--------------------
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die..."

Registered: Jul 2001  |  IP: Logged
  This topic comprises 2 pages: 1  2   

Post New Topic  
Topic Closed  Topic Closed
Open Topic   Feature Topic   Move Topic   Delete Topic next oldest topic   next newest topic
 - Printer-friendly view of this topic
Hop To:


© 1999-2024 Charles Capps

Powered by UBB.classic™ 6.7.3