Any interest in drawing up an Andorian ship?

Captain X · Feb 24, 2009

I'm posting this on behalf of a friend of mine, who's looking for an artist who might be able to draw up the plans for an Andorian merchant ship for them based on his description.

We discussed the matter very briefly. I had envisioned the ship as following the same general lines as Shran's ship, the Kumari, in terms of overall shape and nacelle position. Of course it would be considerably smaller and the central fuselage would be somewhat thicker, proportionally. Also, where the Kumari carried what appeared to be weapon pods at the outer tips of her wings, the Lerteiran would carry cargo pods for non-perishable items like hardware. (Note that the Andorian design has the nacelles placed closer to the fuselage than Human design does).

The central portion of the Andorian design is long and slim. The control room/bridge is located approximately one fourth of the way back from the nose of the ship. There is no exterior viewport on Lerteiran's control room. The ship's internal gravity is oriented lengthwise. In other words, a ladder runs the length of the ship, and one climbs downward from the control room to the living quarters deck, then to the galley/sickbay deck, then to the internal cargo bay, then to engineering. There are two airlocks, one for crew and one for cargo. There is also a wide cargo bay door at the rear of the ship for those rare (very rare) occasions when they are hauling something that cannot be brought through the cargo bay airlock.

Lerteiran is set up for a crew of three, with single quarters for three. She is currently carrying four, and things are cramped. The Andorian engineer moved in with the captain and set up a bunk bed. The new Vulcan crewman took over the engineer's old quarters, and the human crewman still has his own place for now.

There are three cargo areas. the two cargo pods outside that I already mentioned, and one internal cargo bay that is pressurized and can be heated. The internal cargo bay is used for perishable items and/or passengers. She is currently contracted for thirteen passengers, and they are stacked in there like cordwood. Bunks are fastened up the sides of the walls with barely enough room to walk between them, and only one bathroom for all thirteen women.

Lerteiran does not have a tractor beam, but she does carry two grapples, one fore and one aft. She does not have shields, but she does have hull plating. Lerteiran with a Terran style phase cannon. Originally she was fitted with an Andorian standard low yield disruptor (Andorians do not fit their commercial ships with military grade hardware). However, when Daniel Johansen bought into the partnership he used his boomer connections to score a phase cannon for them. They ripped out the disruptor and retro fitted it.

Following a recent battle, Malcolm Reed and Trip Tucker double teamed an upgrad on Lerteiran's phase cannon. They ran an overload circuit from Lerteiran's impule drive to the cannon like the one ENT uses. Lerteiran dare not use it very often however, lest they blow up the ship. The whole concoction (phase cannon and overload cable) are obviously visible afterthoughts on the ship's appearance. They can plainly be seenn as cobbled up retrofits.

Lerteiran also carries spatial torpedoes, obtained from the same place as the cannon. When Starfleet upgraded their ships to photonic torpedoes they decided to sell off their surplus supply of spatial torpedoes to the boomers. Daniel contacted his old buddies and got some. After the aforementioned recent battle, while upgrading the phase cannon, Malcolm decided to spiff up Daniel's homemade torpedo launcher. They can now carry up to three spatial torpedoes, one in the tube and two in the magazine. The torpedo launcher is also an awkward looking addition that sticks out like a sore thumb. But nobody on Lerteiran cares. The weapons have already saved their butts more than once.

Anybody who might want to take a shot, or knows somebody who might be interested, i would surely appreciate it.

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