Are the individual ships other than Voyager (which has been modified for slipstream with longer nacelles and deflector dish addenda) and the two Vesta-class ships with the Full Circle fleet able to create and maintain their own slipstream corridors?
An early section of Unworthy discusses the fleet entering a quantum slipstream corridor that Voyager formed, which would seem to suggest that the other individual ships may not be able to pull that off...or it could simply be the preferred method to use and I'm just overthinking it.
The idea that they cannot is further impressed by the prescence of the two Vestas; since it had been stated that there are only nine in existence (and probably one of the nine is kept back as a test bed for new technologies) and Starfleet would almost certainly have many other things to do with the remaining ships rather than send a valuable pair of them to the far reaches of the Delta Quadrant for a projected three-year abscence, so I am thinking that the Vestas are required if the Full Circle fleet is going to be able to quantum slipstream their merry way to the DQ.
Additionally, I am wondering if the reason that two Vestas are there is to have one on point to open the slipstream corridor and the other ride drag to help keep the corridor open between the two ships, with Voyager's own slipstream-producing capability somewhere in between to help expand and maintain the corridor. IIRC, three ships (including a Vesta) were going to go on their own to check something out several thousand light-years away from the rest of the fleet first before linking up with the fleet later.
Finally, a blurb in Memory Beta says that there are two Nebula-class ships in the FC fleet (Hawking andCurie), but I don't recall reading those ship classes anywhere in Full Circle or Unworthy. Did I miss that in the books, or was that just out-of-book speculation? Without significant modifications to a Nebula, it would seem to contradict the discussions that a quantum slipstream corridor is fairly narrow and thus not suited to larger, wider vessels.
I know the overall answer to these topics is going to be something along the lines if, "Wait and read Children Of The Storm!", but in the interim have these topics been discussed somewhere in Unworthy or on the BBS and I've just overlooked them?
An early section of Unworthy discusses the fleet entering a quantum slipstream corridor that Voyager formed, which would seem to suggest that the other individual ships may not be able to pull that off...or it could simply be the preferred method to use and I'm just overthinking it.
The idea that they cannot is further impressed by the prescence of the two Vestas; since it had been stated that there are only nine in existence (and probably one of the nine is kept back as a test bed for new technologies) and Starfleet would almost certainly have many other things to do with the remaining ships rather than send a valuable pair of them to the far reaches of the Delta Quadrant for a projected three-year abscence, so I am thinking that the Vestas are required if the Full Circle fleet is going to be able to quantum slipstream their merry way to the DQ.
Additionally, I am wondering if the reason that two Vestas are there is to have one on point to open the slipstream corridor and the other ride drag to help keep the corridor open between the two ships, with Voyager's own slipstream-producing capability somewhere in between to help expand and maintain the corridor. IIRC, three ships (including a Vesta) were going to go on their own to check something out several thousand light-years away from the rest of the fleet first before linking up with the fleet later.
Finally, a blurb in Memory Beta says that there are two Nebula-class ships in the FC fleet (Hawking andCurie), but I don't recall reading those ship classes anywhere in Full Circle or Unworthy. Did I miss that in the books, or was that just out-of-book speculation? Without significant modifications to a Nebula, it would seem to contradict the discussions that a quantum slipstream corridor is fairly narrow and thus not suited to larger, wider vessels.
I know the overall answer to these topics is going to be something along the lines if, "Wait and read Children Of The Storm!", but in the interim have these topics been discussed somewhere in Unworthy or on the BBS and I've just overlooked them?
