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Or the Chandley .
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Harry, i love your renderings.. one thing, i think that a lot of Federation-class fans had decided that we prefer the center nacelle rotated so the intercooler (the thing thats usually on the inside of the nacelles) would point up, just like the Saladin/Hermes has been revised to have the structure point down. symmetry!
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Um.... where the frell do they stick the warp core on that Coronado?
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You could ask a similar question about the Federation. If the modern assumption about main engineering being in the secondary hull is correct, how the hell do you get power up to the centerline nacelle? (Without endangering the flight deck personnel, that is.)
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quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: Um.... where the frell do they stick the warp core on that Coronado?
Warp Core? On a TOS era ship? No such thing.
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Never built? Yeah. We would'nt want to confuse it with the non-canon starships that "were" built!
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hmph.. i thought it was built and had to be reconstructed for design flaws. besides, they might have even built more than a few of the TOS variant, and they were left out of the manual as 'disinformation to threat forces'
cuz it was a sweet looking TOS ship!
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The TOS style Decateur was merely a design proposal. The Decateur as originally built had TMP nacelles but a saucer that was mid way between TOS and TMP. Then the Belknap was built. Finally the Decateur was modified to something a bit more like the Belknap but still distinct.
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the ones they built were top secret. hush hush. never mentioned by the manuals of the Defense Forces Institute.
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I know about all that. But I could still draw the TOS-era proposal. Was something ever built in this stage of the Decatur dev project, or did it only exist as a computer model?
quote:Originally posted by Woodside Kid: You could ask a similar question about the Federation. If the modern assumption about main engineering being in the secondary hull is correct, how the hell do you get power up to the centerline nacelle? (Without endangering the flight deck personnel, that is.)
For the Federation, though, there's a bit more room. Given how small the nacelle pylons are anyways, it's no big deal to route a plasma transfer conduit through the rear of the neck to get up to the third nacelle.
Though I wonder why they couldn't just have the third pylon mounted from the secondary hull, like Masao's Siegfried-class.
At any rate, I'd also like to cast my vote for Harry doing the Detroyat. That's one of the few fan designs of the "old" generation (those manuals that were published decades ago) that I genuinely love.
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