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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: If the empire had just changed the schematics that they LET be stolen to lead the fighters down one of those other branching tunnels and into a dead end then RTOJ would have led to the Rebel's destruction even if the Emperor was thrown down a open bottomless pit with no handrail.
the emperor finally had to pay for years of continued ignorance of OSHA regulations.. how many independant contractors would have been saved if handrails and dual language warning signs had been posed next to bottomless pits (or doors that lead to bridges that arent there)?
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"So the Empire goes to the time and trouble to build a miles-long starship and doesn't bother to put an emergency bridge somewhere in case (perish the thought) someone should actually TARGET the main command facility? Oy, gevalt!"
Gee, might that have something to do with the Empire's rigid doctrines of building what were believed to be practically unassailable starships? Much like a certain Federation we all know and love, whose BRILLIANT engineers, in strokes of unparalleled genius, place TRANSPARENT ALUMINIUM-shielded bridges DIRECTLY ON TOP of THEIR mightiest ships, and tuck secondary BATTLE bridges away for all eternity deep inside them (because during combat, there is AMPLE opportunity for a command crew to vacate the main bridge, especially after a photon torpedo barrage).
The SSD just happened to spin out of control before anyone in the "emergency bridge" (surprise!) could react.
Save for your sarcasm for someone else, m'kay?
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: If the empire had just changed the schematics that they LET be stolen to lead the fighters down one of those other branching tunnels and into a dead end then RTOJ would have led to the Rebel's destruction even if the Emperor was thrown down a open bottomless pit with no handrail.
the emperor finally had to pay for years of continued ignorance of OSHA regulations.. how many independant contractors would have been saved if handrails and dual language warning signs had been posed next to bottomless pits (or doors that lead to bridges that arent there)?
Not to mention automatic doors that close at 300 miles per hour (in Ep IV)!!
Cartmaniac : This is Flare! I can't keep my sarcasm to myself! It's in the handbook you know. ...and the "obvious target" of the bridge applies equally to those miles long Star Destroyers too y'know. The Empire is chock full of the *smart* guys that almost crashed two of those miles long STar Destroyers into each other in ESB as I recall...
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Not you, Jason.
Anyway, I think we can all agree that Exposed Command Center = Bad Thing, no?
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Anyway, I think we can all agree that Exposed Command Center = Bad Thing, no?
Well...not if you're the one attacking....!
The So'Na, Romulan, Reman, Dominion, Mon Calimari, Breen and Tholian ships all have bridges buried safely within their hulls, so I guess it's just the humans and Klingons that are foolish in the ship design area. One cerntalized Impulse engine seems a large target as well...
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I know where they're not: they're not at the center of a circular bullseye like on Fed ships or at the highest point on the dorsal side like on Imperial ships. The (often inaccurate, I know) specs in the ST:TM show the aproxamite locations of the bridges on the Dominion and So'Na ships.
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Klingons and Fed ships might as well place some neon piping around their bridges with a sign marked "shoot here".
...of course I'm sure that anyone with sensors could figure out a bridge's location pretty quickly.
I agree with you, Andrew that the Romulan bridge is somewhere in the warbird's "head" but it might be buried deep for safety reasons.
The D-7 is the worst idea in bridge design ever: why didint anyone just shoot hat skinny "neck" and be done with it?
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: The D-7 is the worst idea in bridge design ever: why didint anyone just shoot hat skinny "neck" and be done with it?
Perhaps it's a Klingon thing.
"Brave, honourable warriors of the Empire do not cower in fear in the middle of our ships! We place ourselves at the front, in grave danger, so that we may gain much honour! Qapla!"
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I remember Gene's rationale for the bridge being at the top of the saucer being something like "when the shields fail, most contemporary weapons will be able to blast through the structural material well enough that it won't really matter if you bury the bridge deep inside the saucer"...
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Actually a 80 AU V'Ger would probably be on the same page as the Dyson Sphere. Of course the Dyson Sphere would be the size of this period.
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You know, it is only 8 in the director's cut. Or did someone already point that out? At any rate, I think counting an energy/gas cloud as a structure might be stretching things a bit.
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Because it was hideous and looked far too dated for even Kirk's time after we saw stations like Regula One and Spacedock.
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