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Toadkiller
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Member # 425

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Instead of 'old worn out saucers" I'd like to see a modified saucer design that was meant to be a station (or station part) from the begining. What I mean is: hook a "station saucer" temporarily onto a Galaxy stardrive section - warp out to the system that you want the station in and drop it off. Repeat as needed for a multi-saucer station like Jup. Since the galaxy doesn't need a saucer to go from point to point, you can outfit it with anything you want....

Maybe it is a prototype?

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Treknophyle
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Member # 509

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Actually, assuming that an Ambassador-class saucer which is no longer warp-worthy (cracks in the spaceframe?) is routinely utilized for space station hulls solves a problem/question posed in another posting, where someone queried the lack of Ambassador-class vessels seen in the Dominion Task Force.

Lets face it, replacing worn/warped/destroyed hull plating is probably routine for the Corps of Engineers, but to replace a frame member would entail the virtual deconstruction of the entire saucer.

Look at the unmentioined perils of a Jupiter-orbit station: radiation belts, tidal stresses, micrometeor impacts... A proven design such as the Ambassador-class is to good to scrap.

Plus, the built-in thrusters and impulse drive make for a high safety-factor in that tidal nightmare (how many moons are we up to?)

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Timo
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Member # 245

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Then again, Ambassadors don't have built-in impulse engines in their saucers - and the picture of Jupiter Station doesn't seem to show any RCS clusters, either.

Timo Saloniemi

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DARKSTAR
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Deep Space Nine had lifeboats left by the cardassians. These were used in emergencies to land on Bajor if the station was threatened with destruction

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