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I think you might be talking about the warp sled for the large shuttles. Check out the last sheet for a key to all the auxilliary craft and stuff.
quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: If you look on the 5th image, in the main shuttlebay, there are several long, narrow pod looking things. Then, towards the aft, there's one of the pods with what looks to be some kind of warp sled attached to it. It looks amazingly like a runabout.
Yes, I had noticed the resemblance too (both to a warp sled and a runabout). So, that 'sled' thing, when attached to a shuttle, turns it into some sort of runabout? That would certainly explain the somewhat modular appearance of the runabouts, and in part support what the DS9TM says about their modularity. Something like what this page shows, in fact:
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Cool to see these. Andy Probert told me about them way back when. I like the use of the ship's internal psace a lot better here than in the "official" plans. It seems there's a lot more space devoted to equipment, storage, etc. I always chaffe at plans that are all "rooms" with no support structure or anything approaching the volume of raw materials and fuel such ships would actually require.
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So, on the official bluprints by Sternbach, are there any crafts in the shuttlebay?
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Late edit: HERE is a quick scan of the shuttlebay according to Sternbach, with additions by me to prove that runabouts and the two-person "Peregrine" fighters could fit in there.
quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: ...with additions by me to prove that runabouts and the two-person "Peregrine" fighters could fit in there.
The problem with the shuttlebays and Runabouts is that the doorway isn't big enough for a Runabout to fit in. The Peregrine wouldn't fit height-wise either. Yes, there's enough room for them to maneuver around inside the bay (Shuttlebay 1 anyway), but not enough room to enter or exit.
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The overhead doors could be used for that, I guess. Three runabouts were somehow carried by the E-D, that much is known - and warp-towing isn't the likeliest explanation for that...
The smaller interceptor portrayed here should fit through the main door AFAIK. It's not really *that* much higher than a type 6 shuttle.
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I had assumed the Runabouts delivered to DS9 were kept in one of the large three-deck high cargo bays on the aft undercut of the Galaxy Class's secondary hull. I even scratchbuilt such a bay on my under repair USS Challenger model.
quote:Originally posted by SoundEffect: I had assumed the Runabouts delivered to DS9 were kept in one of the large three-deck high cargo bays on the aft undercut of the Galaxy Class's secondary hull. I even scratchbuilt such a bay on my under repair USS Challenger model.
I agree: the Enterprise shit out the initial three Runabouts.
And the Perigrine is (obviously) 32 meters long.
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