Sort of a Super Stargazer kind of thing....?
Single-Nacelle Ships
- Thread starter Herkimer Jitty
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Nah. Haven't done more than four yet.
Kirov first, no octet nacelle starships!
*cracks whip*
I've got your 3-view printed out and sitting next to me as we type.
I also want to do a TOS Anton at some point. It's practically the only FASA design I actually like.
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Ziz is working on an Anton hull, so you won't have too long to wait for that. (He just made his own version of the Surya and Coventry). I'm a little surprised at your hostility towards the Loknar and Larson, though... though I can easily understand the antipathy to many of FASA's other designs...
Ziz is working on an Anton hull, so you won't have too long to wait for that. (He just made his own version of the Surya and Coventry). I'm a little surprised at your hostility towards the Loknar and Larson, though... though I can easily understand the antipathy to many of FASA's other designs...
To me, 3 nacelles seem ideal but all you need is 1. The more nacelles you get, the more your ability to warp space time (of course simple having more warp coils should have the same effect) and the more you can change your field geometry to change course (of course the field balancer does this also).
With one nacelle, you can travel at warp in a straight line but have theoretically would have to drop the field to change course. So one is enough but ideal. I don't think the Kelvin layout looks very cool either.
With one nacelle, you can travel at warp in a straight line but have theoretically would have to drop the field to change course. So one is enough but ideal. I don't think the Kelvin layout looks very cool either.
The field provides propulsion similar to how lift is generated across an airfoil. The warp field compresses space time in front and expands it toward the rear. The resulting imbalance pushes the object in the center forward as the fabric of space time tries to balance itself. It is a push resulting from the difference of pressures. This isn't propulsion like from a rocket engine, yes, but how the field is balanced DOES provide propulsion. A physicist wrote a paper recently outlining that this is theoretically possible.
However the doohickey works, I think it goes without saying that two nacelles would give you more options than one.
Thou shalt not number thy nacelles at three.
Five is right out.
Five is right out.
No, recently, as in in the past 3 years. The Alcubierre drive was proposed in 94 but it was mathematically proven possible in 08.
Agreed, redundancy is always a good engineering principle.
Shoot, Voyager was given a second warp core (just in case).
What about a warp-capable ship without any nacelles at all but just a saucer section that contains everything needed? Blasphemy?
The second core isn't exactly ready to go in a moment's notice. It takes a few days to get the sucker installed and running, and in this instance, they really didn't have a few days. Plus, the simple fact that they really couldn't let the old warp core fall into someone else's hands.
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