McCreary, remember that Adorian think-tank? They sent us another design. Unlike that hilarious deathtrap, this one actually looks surprisingly viable. Sending you their full writeup this time, I want your opinion before I forward this to San Fransisco.
-Starship Design Bureau, Utopia Planitia, internal memo.
The Otodus Class Combat Cruiser is intended as a modernization package for existing Selachii production as much as possible for the new era, in order to improve the ship's performance against modern Klingon warships.
Consequently, the design retains as much of the original hull design as is possible, forcing innovative solutions to overall geometry in order to fit the desired weapons load and modern systems.
The primary addition is a large 30 meter diameter, 50 meter long engineering hull in-line with the previous main body to contain the new warp core, a modest shuttlebay, an extended torpedo magazine (see below) and some amount of flex space for other systems. Both Nacelles are moved to a catamaran sprint configuration rather than being directly attached to the trailing tips of the hull; two additional phaser banks have been added in their place to take advantage of existing conduit space.
Both original thrusters are replaced with the new Type Three thruster to maintain high performance despite the increased mass of the ship, hopefully maintaining the majority of the original Selachii class's performance.
Most obviously, however, is the "Torpedo Pod" on the dorsal surface. This consists of six total standard torpedo launchers, four oriented forewards and two to the aft, fed by a large magazine in the main engineering hull. In addition to the two existing torpedo tubes in the main saucer retained from the original Selachii, this is likely to allow these vessels to more effectively engage modern Klingon warships thanks to their heavy torpedo punch. Rapid fire launchers were considered, however the current costs of developing those systems was deemed prohibitive in light of other factors of design.
