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A continuation of a long term project of mine, extrapolating out possible designs for the DY Series. This one is largly based off of Sternbach's DY-100 refit (I even kept the name) that was featured in the old Starfleet Chronology.
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Here's an idea I had for the launching method, basically they're a pair of SRBs that once separated from the main craft can glide back to earth and even land on one of the space shuttle's old (in 2035) runways.
However I'm not entirely confidant that a ship that size is feasible, is there a rocket scientist in the house!?
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Well, let's see. You have to take into account the size of the ship, what its mass is, how strong the materials that it's made of are, and figure out how much force is required to enter orbit, account for atmospheric resistance...
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I don't know about those reusuable boosters, Rev. Those small-bore nozzles would weigh a lot more than a single large nozzle with the same rear surface area, so are rather inefficient. You'd be better off with larger, non-reusable boosters without that semicircular cross section. Or, go for a large reusuable air-plane shaped booster.
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Originally I had planned to have one big aerospike there instead, which as it turned out was exceedingly difficult to draw with that curve and not make it look...well crap. What you see here is plan-B. I suppose you could make up some technobabble about those little rockets, like say they use electron enhanced magnetic fields to increase the thrust pressure at high altitudes thus making the nozzles very efficient indeed. Or I could go back to using the magic beans
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Awesome work Reverend!! That has always been an interesting ship in the world of Star Trek. It is nice to see an updated version. I am truly impressed.
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quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Very nice work.
Just something - the position of the windows in the 'tower' made me wonder if there was a gravity system.
Then I thought about The Botany Bay - Did Kahn's ship have gravity in Space Seed? Does this then meen?mean? by the 1990's they had artificial gravity?
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Yes this is a sticky problem indeed.
The Botany Bay did indeed have gravity when Kirk & co beamed over, now you can look at this in two ways;
1 - Scotty beamed over a gravity generator ahead of the away team so they wouldn't have the inconvenience of a zero-G environment.
2 - The Botany Bay had it's own gravity generator/plating, something far in advance of the level of technology available at the end of the 20th century...not that they knew that back in the 60's.
For me the second option seams the most inviting, especially given that the design of Botany Bay set certainly didn't look like the inside of a zero gravity ship. In actuality it looks exactly like a room that people are meant to walk through instead of float. What I consider a fair explanation of how a gravity generator found it's way onboard such an old ship is that it was invented by Khan and/or those 80 or so super geniuses who were frozen aboard. Indeed the cryo freezers and ship itself is apparently far too advanced a technology so you could propose that the entire ship was designed by these people and most of it's advanced secrets were lost when they fled earth, which is why later ships such as the Aries IV were apparently less advanced.
So, to answer your question no, I don't believe this DY-300 had gravity since Khan and his followers took all of their knowledge with them, leaving only a construction company and a set of structural blueprints.
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"They" (elements within the US govt.) built the Botany Bay in Area 51 with technology "cribbed" from the Ferengi Shuttle which crash-landed in Roswell.
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But... Khan didn't come from the US! How'd he get his hands on it? (Based on the assumption that the US wasn't involved in the Eugenics Wars, given the setting in "Future's End.")
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