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Its funny, I was just looking at the update - mainly the second of the four pictures. Its a wonder that in the earlier ships (Enterprise doesn't allow for this) the decks weren't perpendicular with the nacelles. That is - like a rocket... Astronaughts sit atop the rocket - I wonder if you could have a starship where the decks are arranged so that the bridge would be say - as in Lobo's pic where the deflector is - and each deck down closer to the Engine at the 'bottom'.
I guess with the Space shuttle and onwards we've just sat like we would in a plane, not like a rocket.
It could have made an interesting design for pre-gravity-plate ships - but it seems we developed them relatively quickly after (if not before First Contact).
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My Wasp class ship has its deck stacked along the longitudinal axis (ie, perpendicular to the nacelles). Such an arrangement allows full-circular decks in the middle of the sphere while putting all the engineering stuff in the back of the sphere.
quote:Originally posted by Masao: My Wasp class ship has its deck stacked along the longitudinal axis (ie, perpendicular to the nacelles). Such an arrangement allows full-circular decks in the middle of the sphere while putting all the engineering stuff in the back of the sphere.
That sounds like a very intelligent idea into the design and it makes sense. There is your artificial gravity caused by the force of the nacelles and the impulse thrusters. Mr. Brown's ship is also well designed and I am glad that he changed the pennants to reflect the time frame.
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Great job Lobo. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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