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Well, it started out as a concept for a Star Fleet fighter back in the time I was designing the Killer Bee. I wanted something that looked much older to compare the "modern" Killer Bee to. Thus I drew on the Jefferies ringship shown in TMP for inspiration (though I was never really sure it would be a ringship until I drew the detailed drawing you see here). This design ended up working at a size that seemed just too damned big for a fighter, so it ended up being slotted into that silhouette chart as a clipper.
quote:Originally posted by Shik: To me, it's like the Spice Girls: you KNOW it's bad & yet you can't help but be mesmerized by it.
YES!! It has a certain Je ne sais quoi??
BUT what the bloody hell is that red thing at the front... HAHAHH!
Aridas - you originally designed that Recognition Chart?? Or are you just extrapolating from it? There were ships to the left and right of it on that chart that were equally weird - but looked like that TMP Enterprise ring ship sillohuette if you joined them together.
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The red thing is equivalent to the dome on the front of the nacelle. In the FJ/SotSF take on Trek, the front of the nacelle was a spacetime attractor, and the Bussard collectors were the screwthread-like vents just behind the dome. If you'll remember, there was another dome at the back of the 1701's nacelle -- the spacetime restoration.
On the Ariadne you have both these domes, and they carry micro singularities to create the intense gravity to warp space around the ship, and then to restore the space to its normal shape. The ring is a negative energy induction ring, and would be matched in the nacelles by multiple ring-like coils. The negative energy ring's antigravity keeps the warped space from collapsing around the ship and crushing it.
And yes, I did that silhouette chart. I've read the speculation about those three ships adding up to the Jefferies ringship. That's coincidental -- if you looked at the other ships, they really don't look anything like the various parts of the ringship (which I did draw, but which didn't make it to that chart).
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I've never seen something like this before. This may be because it rather looks like a headphone than like a ship.
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