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The Piranha Class Soliton Fighter is a small (8m long) one pilot craft. Meant for school/pack deployment, but also serves individually as a scout craft.
The Phantom Class is a heavy assault fighter and measures 50 meters long- also has a soliton drive. Crew can range from 1-4, but there is room for 20 passengers/evacuees
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Well, in RP we used them, but alongside more orgainic looking classes like the Wells. The soliton drive also led me into stepping away with many of the standard design features of a normal warp ship.
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Cool work! I like Phantom more than Pirhana because those squarish brackets look out of place, I think. Okay for Trek, but probably not for Starfleet, which is pretty conservative. I wonder, though, about a soliton drive. Doesn't that require the ship to travel along a predetermined path (the wave)? Not so practical for a fighter.
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They still have thrusters and impulse for sublight, and the soliton drive can be used on fractional power for sublight as well. There is no warp drive though- but with either warp or soliton propulsion, as Tom Paris once said; "Faster than light, no left or right."
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Great art, but I think that the soliton wave is not suited for military purposes: You can only go from point A to B and if you are stuck at C you need some sort of carrier to pick you up.
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I feel the opposite is true, and that it is more suited for military purposes. With Warp you plot a point A to B course as well. Under impulse (which you'd be fighting at anyway) it would be equally maneuverable, if not more maneuverable within an atmosphere especially, because it doesn�t have the bulky nacelles.
LaForge: �Isn�t this exciting! We are going to witness a moment in history.� Data: �Every nanosecond in this continuum is a moment in history, once it has elapsed.� LaForge: �No, no, no�. I�m mean� We�re going to see something that people are going to talk about for years. Think about it, no more bulky warp engines- or nacelles, a ship just generates a soliton wave and then rides it though space like a surf board.�
So thought the test of the technology was a point to point, this does show that once the bugs were worked out, it could be used by ships without the need for stations to shoot them places.
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Here's one of my very first fighters, or ship of any kind really that I rendered- please forgive the simple design and lack of texture. I would probably only recommend such a design to be used as a scout... I just see it having a warp core breach if it got into a fight *L*
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