Length: 180 Meters Height: 23.42 Meters Decks: 9 Warp: 9.2 Weapons: Two Type-R Phaser Cannons; Four Type-IX Phaser Arrays; Two Mark-QII Quantum Torpedo Launchers. Crew: 110.
First off, it's not named after the football team. I hate football, and came up with the design long before the Superbowl. Patriot's was my high school's mascot.
The Patriot-class is a small escort/patrol ship. It's primary duties include providing escort for large fleet ships and patrolling SMC jurisdiction planets and limited transferring personnel and supplies.
There are 8 full decks, with a half 9th deck in the main hull which contains the anti-grav landing struts. The design is based off the Norway-class and Miranda-class. The flat bottom provides better balancing on landings.
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Whould a civilization who has evolved past nation states still consider Patriot an attractive word?
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Riiiiight... I don't see why 'patriot' would be any less attractive than any other word.
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It's hard to tell with your diagram, even though it's superbly done in that medium, is the rest of the ship angular? Is the top composed of flat surfaces?
And I echo Snay's question, is it a troop-deployment vessel? If that were the case, does it have the capacity to carry hoppers?
All in all I like it. It's almost identical to a design I've been toying with recently, called the Patton Class. Interestingly enough, it looks a great deal like your diagram above (minus the torpedo "rollbar").
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Think of it as an amphibious warfare ship and a C-130 plane. Carrying equipment for ground base forces. While Starfleet takes to the stars, my Marines are land based. It carries land vechicles, and other stuff in it's cargo hold.
I'd like to try to design a troop transport/carrier type starship though, something that the Patriot-class would provide escort for, sort of a 24th century carrier battle group if you will.
Type-R phaser cannons... well regular phasers use numbers, so I decided to make up a different designation for cannons, a letter instead of Type-XIIVIX phazorz.
My last ship, the USS Pioneer was rounded out, so I wanted to make this ship different. Instead of having the smooth flat hull as other ships, this would have the industrial look of runabouts. That type of detail would have taken forever to do in Photoshop though.
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Well yeah B, that's what I said in the first post, "based off the Norway and Miranda-class."
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It's such a blatant rip-off of the Norway...
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You might want to revise either your deck count or the ship's height, Hobbes. A height of 16.9 meters with 8 full decks and a half-deck works out to about 1.98 meters (6 1/2 feet) per deck. Considering there needs to be space for machinery, wiring, air ducts, etc., you'd need very short marines or the entire crew stooping all the time to make that work.
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