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Aged_Urbanist said:
We have a bloody merchant marine.
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And?

The US has fuck knows how many giant container ships. The US Navy still operates militarized cargo ships, tenders, hospital ships, food ships, ice cream ships (well, okay, barges, and not anymore, but you get the point), because there are times and places where you REALLY don't want civilian ships around but you still need cargo capacity and civilian-style services.
 
Also the ability to serve as a modest cargo transport is, you know, explicitly part of the design breif?

And as mentioned previously, the largest option works out mathematically equivalent to what would be available for a theoretical full saucer+blister design with no secondary hull, but will be more manuverable since we're almost certainly going to put three Impulse Thrusters on it. Modest torpedo launchers plus reasonable phaser coverage, then at least a cargo bay, possibly a Workshop, and some kind of Science thing - I'm inclined to sensors if they're available, or failing that a Medbay - and we should satisfy the design goals without breaking the bank.
 
Mechanis said:
Also the ability to serve as a modest cargo transport is, you know, explicitly part of the design breif?

And as mentioned previously, the largest option works out mathematically equivalent to what would be available for a theoretical full saucer+blister design with no secondary hull, but will be more manuverable since we're almost certainly going to put three Impulse Thrusters on it. Modest torpedo launchers plus reasonable phaser coverage, then at least a cargo bay, possibly a Workshop, and some kind of Science thing - I'm inclined to sensors if they're available, or failing that a Medbay - and we should satisfy the design goals without breaking the bank.
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I think we have a sickbay already based on the image in the update.
 
Sayle said:
I'm thinking there's a transition towards a unified ship registry now. Older ships probably get grandfathered in, (1-800?), but I'm not super clear on how I feel the NCC numbering actually works. Ships get a "block" of numbers to use? It's in strict commissioning order? I dunno. On the name vote you'll get to decide if you want to go USS, UFS, or UFPS too.
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As a thought, you could do it how To Boldly Go did it? Each class gets its own pennant number 'set' - i.e. Constitutions were NCC-17XX from 00 to 99, Mirandas were 18XX, and so on. So this project could be NCC-800 or whatever you decide the number of grandfathered ships ought to be.

Starting in the 800s would probably work under this model, with the grandfathered ships taking up previous sets?

Freedom (assuming you consider it canon, I think this class would predate the divergence point/where we took control of the SDB) - 2XX
Stingray - 3XX
Merchant - 4XX
Enterprise/NX - 5XX
Thunderchild - 60X
Skate - 7XX
 
[X] 75-Meter Hull, 4 Decks (+Shuttlebay, +Auxiliary Slot)

If we'd gone for the saucer, with only two engine slots we'd only be able to get it to Medium maneuverability. Which is fine for a larger and more durable ship, but this design is going to mass around the same as the Curiosity.

For our upcomming Explorer, I think we all expect to go for as big and chonky of a saucer as we can manage.
 
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