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slybrarian
Creature of Fable
- Location
- A Far and Sunless Land
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- He/Him
All the Vulcans at Starfleet Command are side-eyeing each other and trying not to think about matters of Vulcan biology.
yeeeee, gimmie the shark name
- Location
- USA
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- She/Her
I kind of want to continue to submarine-esque naming convention of sealife that we had with the Skate class.
UFS Lionfish or UFS Barracuda or something.
UFS Lionfish or UFS Barracuda or something.
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
. . . but Vulcan has no seas larger than Earth's Caspian, and may not have macroscopic sea life?
LunaMoth
Wings of Kynareth is my comfort song...
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- He/They
[ ] UFS Lirpa. For the Vulcan ceremonial weapon. (The classic)
[ ] UFS Ahn'woon (another vulcan weapon from Amok Time)
[ ] UFS ushaan-tor (Andorian weapon seen in an ENT episode)
Non human representation is cool I think.
Yeah this is why I don't think a fleet tender would work, we almost never see ships in trek going around in fleets, and every ship is more or less self sufficient.
Don't forget latinum.
[ ] UFS Ahn'woon (another vulcan weapon from Amok Time)
[ ] UFS ushaan-tor (Andorian weapon seen in an ENT episode)
Non human representation is cool I think.
Yeah this is why I don't think a fleet tender would work, we almost never see ships in trek going around in fleets, and every ship is more or less self sufficient.
Don't forget latinum.
[ ] UFS ushaan-tor (Andorian weapon seen in an ENT episode)
That's kinda why I don't like alien names for ships. From a Watsonian perspective, it makes sense that we'd have them. It is the federation after all.
From a Doylist perspective, there's only a handful of canonical names we could use, less that'd fit a small attack ship.
We could just make shit up for alien names, but face planting the keyboard to produce something sufficiently Welsh to pass for an alien word does not produce names with actual meaning. There will not be that joy there was when individual Stingray class ships, such as the Munk's Pygmy were namedropped during the Romulan War.
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0t4n1z3r019
Member of the HAFPTG
- Location
- Philippines
[X] UFS Lirpa. For the Vulcan ceremonial weapon. (The classic)
[X] UFS ushaan-tor (Andorian weapon seen in an ENT episode)
[X] UFS ushaan-tor (Andorian weapon seen in an ENT episode)
LunaMoth
Wings of Kynareth is my comfort song...
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- He/They
Is it weird that I don't mind alien names in the slightest, not every ship name has to have clear meaning. Star Trek itself names a few background ships with alien gibberish.
Only Earth names for starships?.
StriderInCosmos
Wanderer in the Worldsea
- Location
- Somewhere in... Terminal Dogma? I think?
[X] UFS Ushaan-tor
[X] UFS Arrow. For the shape and projectile it resembles.
[X] UFS Selachii. For Earth's sharks.
With Lirpa (Edit: Changed to Ushaan-tor), and even Arrow, we have the potential for some non-human weapons rep. With Selachii, we have the potential for non-Earth creature rep.
[X] UFS Arrow. For the shape and projectile it resembles.
[X] UFS Selachii. For Earth's sharks.
With Lirpa (Edit: Changed to Ushaan-tor), and even Arrow, we have the potential for some non-human weapons rep. With Selachii, we have the potential for non-Earth creature rep.
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- Him/He
[X] UFS Arrow. For the shape and projectile it resembles.
If we name it the arrow, we can call a formation of them a 'quiver'.
If we name it the arrow, we can call a formation of them a 'quiver'.
[ ] UFS Soyuz. For a workhorse of early space exploration.
Feels like a Soyuz to me.
Feels like a Soyuz to me.
dhasenan
always lowercase
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- She/Her
There are a few issues that a fleet tender could help with:
- Throughput: your ship has a handful of engineering grade replicators and the tender has fifty times as much replicator capacity. It's the difference between your ship being fighting fit in a few days versus a few months.
- Storage: your ship has cargo space to fit like 1% of the mass of the ship in replicator feedstock, which means it can't replicate all that much before it needs to go back to starbase.
- Precision: it's possible that industrial replicators have extreme precision beyond what standard shipboard replicators can handle, which means some components can't be repaired with just onboard replicators. The tender has those facilities (as well as replacement parts).
- Scale: shipboard replicators probably aren't up to replicating an entire 20m armor plate, but the tender can fit some amount of large scale production.
- Specialists: some problems require personnel that your ship might not have, or just plain more labor. The tender could have the appropriate personnel aboard. Likewise for specialized equipment — sometimes you'll have problems that can be solved much more easily just by bringing in some weird tool than by replicating a whole new part, which is why Star Trek shows engineers doing stuff other than yanking out parts and replacing them with freshly replicated ones.
- Recreation: you can give crew members "shore leave" aboard the fleet tender, extending the available amenities significantly and providing a lot more opportunity for socialization.
We're relying on starbases instead, which is especially handy because they're built from an entirely different budget. It means losing an edge for invasions, but the Federation doesn't invade. On the other hand, maybe it should, or at least have the option. Canonically, it tends to defend itself, destroy invading forces, and not actually enforce a peace afterwards. The invaders don't even have a threat of losing their military infrastructure if the war goes sour, which means invading the Federation is low risk.
- Location
- 47° 09′ S, 126° 43′ O
Is it used in technology ?Don't forget latinum.
also:[ ] UFS Or Else. Not a threat, a promise.
LunaMoth
Wings of Kynareth is my comfort song...
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No Latinums just un-replicatable like the other materials listed in the post I was replying to. meaning its used as currency by the Ferengi and stored within blocks of replicated gold.
