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I was looking at all the topics posted during the past year and there was no topics about the steamrunner so... Anyway, what is the crew complement for this class? And during piece time, will there be any ships of this class being commissioned? or is just like Defiant-class which only call into service during conflicts?
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There isn't any reliable number for the Steamrunner's crew compliment. Heck, there isn't really a reliable number for any ships aside from the main ones.
Also, there's no indication that the Steamrunner is anything else then an ordinary starship.
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There have been a few Steamrunner discussions some time ago, but they were mostly pointless because there is *nothing* we know about the ship, we only have a very rough guess about its size. I think we all agree that the specs given in the DS9TM are crap.
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I reckon - if it was Jaeger who desgined them - went an looked back at Matt Jefferies original sketches for alternate Enterprises... This is where I reckon they originally got the ideas for the oberth too... There is a sketch in there with a saucer section attached to the top of two nacelles and the engineering section attached to the back...
maybe the Steamrunner is just a newer spin on the old oberth design!?!
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This isn't canon or anything, but in one of the TNG Sourcebooks, they go into specific details about the Steamrunner, Norway and Saber classes. They say that they were part of some sort of fleet wide modernization program to deal with weapon obseoletness(sp?). Anyways, I can't remember the exact details, the book itself I read at chapters. It was a very well done book though, very informative even if it wasn't canon or anything. I might go back and check out what they say for length and all that.
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The way I see it is that the First Contact CGIs were never meant to be analysed in great detail. They're simply insignificant battlefield filler ships. We'll probably never see the insides of any of them. Other than the Akira-class, we know next to nothing about these ships.
It would be good to speak (or write) to Jaegar about these ships. He's the only one liable to know the "secrets" behind these vessels. I'd be happy to know just how big/long they're meant to be.
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We tried. We made contact, secured his permission to submit a brief list of questions, agreed to about twenty between ourselves - Vorlon may still have the list - and then never heard from him again. Probably ran a mile when he realised how serious we were.
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Y'know what, let someone else try it...the person just needs to say that he finds Jaeger's ships very cool, that he's drawing a big nice size comparison chart, and that some numbers are needed.
Then somebody else could call him up two weeks later and say that he finds his ships kick unowhat, and that he's wondering about the number of guns they have!!!
Then somebody else could call him up a month thereafter and say that he finds his ships really cool, and...
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Well, Vorlon's actually the only one who has Jaeger's e-mail address. As I recall, he got it by e-mailing ILM's HR department. If you can find that address, I suppose you could possibly get Jaeger's...
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