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Hi. Now, i'm working at the Olympic Class MSD. But i have again a problem. Where should i set the Warpcore?
Here a re to versions by me. I think the second vers. is better because the warp core can be faster ejected in a emergency. What do you think?
Lobo
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Yeah the second option looks best. If you want to do something different you could make the warpcore twice as tall, so the deuterium tanks can be housed in that dorsal hump.
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Yeah, most of the ships keep their warp cores in the secondary hull
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What about laying it horizontally along the spine of the ship? Or making the engine core and nacelles a self-contained, ejectable unit like the Belknap class from SotSF?
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I think that the warp core should be horizontal with the M/ARC at the spot where the warp pylon would intersect--- check it out... most MSDs already show that the core is at the spot.
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1. The ventral sphere phaser array is quite high. You've got it about 50% of the way between the sphere centerline and the weird inset divit thingy. But, on the model, the phaser array was about 75% of the way down. http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/mechanics/pasteur-model2.jpg
Do you think that might be a through-deck bay of some sort? Having a substantial shuttling capability would make a fair bit of sense for a medical ship.
A. A horizontal core along the vessel centerline, housed in the "strongback" where the nacelle pylons connect to the rest of the ship. I like this idea . . . it's a little off-the-wall, but would make sense insofar as a medical ship trying to be as roomy as possible (hence their choice of a sphere). It also has the advantage of allowing you to put the deuterium tanks right under the impulse deck. The antimatter pods could be placed beneath the brown square at the back of the strongback, with the core itself being beneath what could be Space Shuttle-style doors forward of that brown square, in an area normally assumed to be connection hardpoints.
Or, alternately, you could postulate an as-yet-unseen ejection door on the back of the strongback, which would send the core sailing over the shuttlebay.
B. A standard vertical core could be placed beneath the brown square. This has the advantage of allowing a shorter trip for the drive plasma, but I'm not sure how to arrange the reactant tanks. You could put the antimatter nearby, just under the hull in the flat section, with the matter tank in the forward area of the strongback (meaning it still wouldn't be far away from the impulse deck).
Anyway, just a thought.
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That is such a brilliant ship. I love it. Why couldn't they have given us the Olympic class on DS9!?! Orbiting DS9 would have been perfect instead of something like the bloody little Yeager Class!
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Actually, that's a point; why did we never see a single hospital ship in however many years of war? And the MSDs are brilliant BTW.
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The insert on the side of the Pastuer, below the nacelles, isn't a door. You can see a little hole on the one side of it, which is supposed to be a shuttlepod docking port. The rest of the insert merely just gives a location to put the name of the ship.
Also notice there may be another shuttlebay door on the very bottom of the sphere, underneath the deflector. I however don't know if there's enough room down there to actually store anything.
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