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In TOS they'd likely have to build "on location" nad probably from mostly native materials (meaning starbases would likely be somewhat near asteroid belts or uninhabited worlds they could mine the hell out of).
FASA has some nice tug designs that can tow a Regula sized staton, but tha's mostlt TMP and later.
By TNG, they should be able to inport large quantities of raw materials or locally mined stuff to replicate whatever they'd need.
While never shown, I'd think some starbases slighty reflect the cultures that built it- the Andor starbase would vary a bit from the Vulcan version while following a common overall design.
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Looks like I'll be buying the second book based on the cover, too.
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Interesting how Trek novelists and cover artists do their damnedest to discredit the connection between this sphere-and-cylinder ship and the name Daedalus... Doesn't anybody remember that Data declared the class of that name decommissioned from 2196 onward?
Of course, this picture could be of the unstuck SB 46, making all chronological considerations moot. And it's truly a testimony to human stubbornness that we kept building these things after losing 45 of them to explosions.
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Nice, but the two EVA suits are out of scale with the windows....and someone's been downloading Hubble pics.
Purdy oildrum Deadalus- the USS Haliburton?
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No. It is swamp gas reflected off a weather balloon on Venus. Move on.
Frankly, I can't fathom this obsession with Daedalus class ships, when the single canon datapoint we have on them is that they were not in service when anything of significance happened to anybody we know.
Okay, the Starfleet Corps of Engineers book uses an ex-Starfleet Daedalus as a SCE support vessel in a basically valid manner. But having one in active NCC registry at the time of "Vanguard" is not consistent with what we know.
Unless, of course, the sphere-and-cylinder ship is actually of Icarus class, and the real Daedalus looked completely different. Or then NCC-470 (430?) ran into another spatiotemporal anomaly.
I'm not sure I understand the obsession with the Daedalus class (or whatever the sphere and cylinder ships are called), given that I think they look kinda dumb. I've only ever seen one image I really liked of one of these. Plus it reminds me too much of the Discovery from 2001, only 500% less cool.
I really love the design of the station, Masao, and you are to be congratulated. But did you intend for it to be so shiny? I know you did not make the model, beyond your control, I'm just curious if you thought imagined it that way. Look at those perfect reflections in the foreground.
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Yeah, BX, I noticed those reflections (Marco sent me large poster of the artwork). I figure starships have a sort of satiny semimatte/semigloss finish like modern aircraft, but Vanguard shines like a dance floor in a Fred Astaire movie.
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Mabye they just skipped the paint to save the million tons of mass it would add to the station.
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The reflection looks strange because otherwise the surface doesn't give me the impression of being highly reflective. Still it is impressive cover art.
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I bought the book several days ago. I saw your name on the foldout and it hit me like a brick, "Flare!" Dude, congrats. I really like the design, too.
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