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[X] UFS Taqi Ad-Din

I like this one.

Copy pasting from Wikipedia.

His major work from the use of his observatory is titled "The tree of ultimate knowledge [in the end of time or the world] in the Kingdom of the Revolving Spheres: The astronomical tables of the King of Kings [Murad III]" (Sidrat al-muntah al-afkar fi malkūt al-falak al-dawār– al-zij al-Shāhinshāhi). The work was prepared according to the results of the observations carried out in Egypt and Istanbul in order to correct and complete Ulugh Beg's 15th century work, the Zij-i Sultani. The first 40 pages of the work dealt with calculations, followed by discussions of astronomical clocks, heavenly circles, and information on three eclipses which he observed in Cairo and Istanbul.
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Sarpedon said:
Did, did we end up designing the Frigate proposal after choosing the Light Cruiser option? A specialized lightly armed ship in the 200kt range or so? Amazing.
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B- tactical rating says we really aren't that lightly armed!

We never did get an extra lab from dropping torpedoes though, so with that dice rolled all that is left is regret that the torpedo guys were right.

Well we were warned it wasn't 1-1 mapping. On the upside we had enough room for both the probe launcher and a second teleporter, so perhaps it was worth it!
 
[X] UFS Taqi Ad-Din
[X] UFS Arev
[X] UFS Galileo
[X] UFS T'Pol
[X] UFS Hoshi Sato
 
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[X] UFS Taqi Ad-Din
[X] UFS Arev

[X] UFS Agricola
Makes me think of corn syrup because I'm an uncultured pleb but I like the bit of history/ accomplishments so recognizing it and other pioneers in similar fields would be cool.
 
Kartr_Kana said:
[] USS Gienah
After the brightest star in the constellation Corvus (Crow) and means "wing" in Arabic. This vessel truly allows Starfleet's scientific endeavors to take wing, with the undercurrent of "ooh shiny".
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Ooh, that's a much better name than my sour oats.

[X] UFS Gienah
[X] UFS Taqi Ad-Din
[X] UFS Arev

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[X] UFS Hoshi Sato
 
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Sarpedon said:
Did, did we end up designing the Frigate proposal after choosing the Light Cruiser option? A specialized lightly armed ship in the 200kt range or so? Amazing.
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It would be hilarious if Starfleet simply rejected this design out of hand and went for a concept from a rival design team. Also a good thing for the quest frankly; Aircraft Design Company got most of its juice from the fact that the protagonist's team was bidding for contracts with other companies, and would lose contracts if they did better. Starfleet are not idiots and should have some kind of a similar system; even the USSR had different design bureaus who would present proposals for aircraft and so on. But it would be a radical departure from the quest thus far, where we have to date never had a design rejected.

Instead I suspect that it's @Sayle revising the tonnage estimate for the Galileo down? Otherwise it would be an odd coincidence that the Cost, Tactical and Infrastructure ratings match up exactly.
 
[X] UFS Agricola

Mostly because the guy actually had a normal name, but the wacky renaissance people liked translating things to Latin, so 'George the farmer' became Georgius Agricola.
 
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[X] UFS Europa
[X] UFS Taqi Ad-Din
The Europa class with them named after scientists, astronomers, explorers... basically anyone who advanced a species knowledge. Which means we could have the UFS Sir David Attenborough or UFS Steve Irwin
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Skippy said:
But it would be a radical departure from the quest thus far, where we have to date never had a design rejected.
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Well, we could always just play a separate Bureau for a design phase, that or (much easier) have mention made to contracts we've lost out on compared to our rivals (who, as Starfleet starts to rapidly grow, get a better handle on just what it wants).
 
[X] UFS Europa
[X] UFS Gienah
[X] UFS Kea

I certainly won't be put out if Taqi Ad-Din wins, just the next thing keeps me from jumping on it is that IIRC we haven't had any ship class named after a person in both threads.
 
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TheShadowDeamon said:
Which means we could have the UFS David Attenborough or UFS Steve Erwin
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Surely Sir David Attenborough? It is a suffix after all.

Irwin.
Funnily enough his dad would be as much of if not a slightly better pick. He's the one that started it all off after all (particularly with regards to animal conservation and non-harmful capture methods), and who helped give his son the love for the natural world he eventually had.

Bob Irwin - Wikipedia

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Golgotha said:
B- tactical rating says we really aren't that lightly armed!

We never did get an extra lab from dropping torpedoes though, so with that dice rolled all that is left is regret that the torpedo guys were right.

Well we were warned it wasn't 1-1 mapping. On the upside we had enough room for both the probe launcher and a second teleporter, so perhaps it was worth it!
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I mean 12 across the board is pretty damn anemic for a ship of this size.

[X] UFS Galileo
 
Sarpedon said:
Did, did we end up designing the Frigate proposal after choosing the Light Cruiser option? A specialized lightly armed ship in the 200kt range or so? Amazing.
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Basically, yeah. I mean, it can take hits like you would expect... Mostly... but the lack of torps is just going to see it shoved into the backline/removed from combat considerations entirely like, y'know, every other ship with no Torpedo launchers, so despite the fact that we could have had an amazing backbone cruiser what we ended up with is a Science Palace. Which is what it is.

Skippy said:
It would be hilarious if Starfleet simply rejected this design out of hand and went for a concept from a rival design team. Also a good thing for the quest frankly; Aircraft Design Company got most of its juice from the fact that the protagonist's team was bidding for contracts with other companies, and would lose contracts if they did better. Starfleet are not idiots and should have some kind of a similar system; even the USSR had different design bureaus who would present proposals for aircraft and so on. But it would be a radical departure from the quest thus far, where we have to date never had a design rejected.

Instead I suspect that it's @Sayle revising the tonnage estimate for the Galileo down? Otherwise it would be an odd coincidence that the Cost, Tactical and Infrastructure ratings match up exactly.
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No, we made design choices early on to save costs, then choked on actually spending when tactical came along because the people who were actually reading the whole post got shouted down by people who skimmed and bandwagned and so the word "cost" and immediately turned off their brains. So we basically ended up building the frigate option the size of a cruiser, and are basically only going to get away with it because those cost saving measures mean it's about the same cost to manufacture.

Otherwise, we could have replaced the Cygnus as and Curiosity at the same time with a shedload of cheap science heavy line cruisers.

Anyway, for names has anyone considered slightly more modern in universe heros because

[X] UFS Hoshi Sato

She deserves a ship Darn It, and doesn't get one in canon
 
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