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Designwise, it's be neat to see the cockpit up in the pod.
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I'd prefer to keep the people as far away from the dirty great transmitter/receiver array as is possible, to be honest. It's an interesting idea though, but on this small design I think it'd look very reminiscent of the Skyflash from Thunderbirds, which had it's cockpit on the rear stabiliser/rudder. Over the New Years period I have drawn up some ideas for my next ship, possibly slightly larger than the Vigilant. This time I went for a more nautical style in that the bridge area is mounted far back and high up with a wide aspect, rather like the bridge of a ship. I think it will make a nice departure from the usual Trek bridge placement, but still be acceptable to most.
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I was thinking of the entire (larger) lower part of the craft as the sensor pod and mabye the ship pivoting in space like a space telescope (but moving more like Slave One). Mabye one big mobile tachyon detection sensor platform for patroling along the NZ.
Mabye as a specialty ship operating with an escort or deployed from large starships- Galaxy ,Akira etc.)
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I like it, actually. Although I might make the nacelles bigger, since it's a small ship to start with. Those look like they're barely bigger than a shuttlecraft's nacelles, and a ship like that looks like it'd need to haul ass in a firefight.
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