This one's especially for our Atlantic Canadian friends...
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The First One
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The DS9Tm has some weapons data on three of the FC ships, but given the Akira's tally of torplaunchers given therein is nowhere near the 'official' (?) 15, we should probably take all of it with a pinch of salt (no great hardship given the DS9TM in general!).
I'm also rather chuffed to see that the far-better side view of the Norway in the DS9TM doesn't add much to the side view in the Encyclopedia. . .
As far as weapons loads go, all we know is that it has a phaser beam emitter in the nose - but then so does the Steamrunner as seen in one of the pics in my Sabre thread, and those aren't visible either!
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The First One
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. . . and likewise this shot of the Steamrunner which is firing from a certain position, even though there's not much in that location except a possible phaser strip. . .
Romulan Warbirds use single emitters for their disrupters. Most Fed ships we've been privy to have used phaser strips, i.e. a linked array of emitters.
Why couldn't a ship just have a series of small emitters, with just one/two on the front, and not need a mother of an array.
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Actually, there seem to be two small rectangular things on the front of the triangle where phaser beams are fired from in FC.
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Anomaly: Watch when the E-D fires phasers. Y'know those two dots that move along the strips 'til they come together at the firing point? That's because one emitter charges up, and passes that to the next one, which charges up and sends the doubled power along to the next one, which does the same, and so on. A single emitter would have very little power in comparison to this.
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That's what you get when you rely soley on CGI's for creating ships. I'm a fan of them, don't get me wrong, but I also like the physical models. At least they don't seem to be a loss for details and weapons.
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*Can't believe I didn't challenge TSN on this first time round - musta forgotten*
I know about E-D's array. Who's to say that emitter strips are needed on the OUTSIDE of the ship? IMHO, they're a target waiting to be blasted. If the strips were to be changed into coils or clusters just under the skin of the hull, then a single emitter , with the coil/cluster output piped through, would be all that is reqired.
Anyway, I cannot recall ever seeing Voyager's arrays having to "pulse" and then meet together in order to discharge. They simply discharge without "pulsing".
Targeting of this system would be managed in the usual way, which I'll leave up to someone else.
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