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Oh, screw the brass! I must admit, I do like the commercial schemes on your site; gives things a bit of life rather than just endless Starfleet grey. I've done a marginally better version, with the end section from the Moskva class to make it look a little less truncated:
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I had a go at reconfiguring this one to try and make it look a little less...mole-like. I think I may have gone a little too far with the alterations. Here it is nonetheless.
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Wraith: I don't know about that one. The end cap was something I termed a "warp bustle" containing an easily separable warp reactor. If you put the reactor at the end, you lose the possibility of a stern shuttle bay.
Rev: Yikes! It's no longer my ship! What's that thing on the side?
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quote: Rev: Yikes! It's no longer my ship! What's that thing on the side?
It's a turn signal.
I always liked the warp bustle idea. One of the cool things about your site is that technology evolves. Things are actually different, from one time to another, beyond just getting bigger and faster. It adds realism. (Insert criticism of "Enterprise" here.)
On the other hand, because of my background in historical costume, the term warp bustle always makes me picture the ship with a giant Farthingale hoop skirt wrapped around the secondary hull, streaming behind it.
I just had a thought... I recall reading somewhere that the CVN-65 Enteprise, America's first nuclear carrier, had two big fission reactors, but that the Nimitz class ships had several small ones. Wouldn't it be cool to extrapolate a similar evolution on Star Trek? Instead of one big warp core, eight little ones. It would provide some redundancy in combat, too. Something to think about, for you guys designing post-Dominion War starships.
I also designed a warp corset, a warp chiton, and a warp codpiece, but in the interests of public sanity, those will remain under wraps for the time being.
"Bustle" is also used to refer to an extension or counterweight on the rear of a tank's turret, such as on the Sherman Firefly.
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quote:Originally posted by MarianLH: Originally posted by Masao: I just had a thought... I recall reading somewhere that the CVN-65 Enteprise, America's first nuclear carrier...
Does that make the next nuclear carriers Enterprise Class ships?
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No, it makes CVN-65, the first and only Enterprise class carrier. The next American carrier will belong to the CV(X) program and will not be named Enterprise and start a new Enterprise class of ships. And no, I'm not talking about USS Ronald Reagan or USS George H W Bush, both Nimitz class carriers, with the Bush being the last of them.
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quote:Originally posted by MarianLH: Originally posted by Masao:
quote: Rev: Yikes! It's no longer my ship! What's that thing on the side?
It's a turn signal.
I always liked the warp bustle idea. One of the cool things about your site is that technology evolves. Things are actually different, from one time to another, beyond just getting bigger and faster. It adds realism. (Insert criticism of "Enterprise" here.)
On the other hand, because of my background in historical costume, the term warp bustle always makes me picture the ship with a giant Farthingale hoop skirt wrapped around the secondary hull, streaming behind it.
I just had a thought... I recall reading somewhere that the CVN-65 Enteprise, America's first nuclear carrier, had two big fission reactors, but that the Nimitz class ships had several small ones. Wouldn't it be cool to extrapolate a similar evolution on Star Trek? Instead of one big warp core, eight little ones. It would provide some redundancy in combat, too. Something to think about, for you guys designing post-Dominion War starships.
Marian
CVN-65, at least when she was completed, had 8 reactors of the same basic type used by early nuclear subs (Westinghouse). The Nimitz class carriers use 2 reactors that I believe were designed specifically for them.
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quote:Originally posted by Masao: Wraith: I don't know about that one. The end cap was something I termed a "warp bustle" containing an easily separable warp reactor. If you put the reactor at the end, you lose the possibility of a stern shuttle bay.
Yeah, sorry should've explained better. The end cap section was just supposed to be representative of an aft assembly of some sort (basically a large aft shuttlebay). I have no artistic capabilities whatsoever so just grabbed a piece that looked vaguely like what I wanted
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quote:"Bustle" is also used to refer to an extension or counterweight on the rear of a tank's turret, such as on the Sherman Firefly.
Yes, well, tanks for pointing that out.
I sit corrected on the number of nuclear reactors on various carriers. My bad. I still think multiple small warp cores on a starship is a neat idea, though. Say, starship X has eight reactors. It can function normally on as few as six, and still limp home at warp 5 on as few as two or three....just thinking out loud...
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Indeed an interesting idea. A ship desidned for this system would likely benifit greatly from it. The reactors could also be placed so that other key systems could be given sole access to certan reactors at certan times (For example, one reactor that can be switched to the phasers and/or shields in a combat situation)
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A friend and I had an idea like this, only we invisioned four fullsized warp cores, each powering their own system, i.e. Core 1= Warp Engines, Core 2= Main Power, Core 3= Weapons, Core 4= Auxilary/Redundant Power. I've just been under the impression that they have to be quite large just to power the ship and use for warp, maybe if you used several Defiant sized warp cores it might work, but not for anything large comparable to a Nebula, Galaxy, or Soveriegn.
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quote:Originally posted by Wraith: Yeah, sorry should've explained better. The end cap section was just supposed to be representative of an aft assembly of some sort (basically a large aft shuttlebay). I have no artistic capabilities whatsoever so just grabbed a piece that looked vaguely like what I wanted
Yeah, I figured that. The type of fan-shaped shuttle bay (as on Constitution) is a fairly advanced feature in my design lineage, so I might just put a blunt end on the ship with a Reliant-style shuttle bay with curtain doors.
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