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[X] Sprint Configuration (6.2/7/8.6) [238c/343c/636c]
Nah biggest shields possible is the only option. We ignored redundancy and cheapness in favour of type three so now we need the best shileds we can get!
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[X] Linear Configuration (6.4/7/8.4) [268c/343c/592c]
I need accessory rails for my cute bullpupped starship.
I need accessory rails for my cute bullpupped starship.
I have a concern that Linear in this case is going to end up resulting in "Not quite fast enough at sustained cruise to make up for not having a high enough Max Sprint to chase down (or run away from) a D7."
Endorfinator
Awkwardly Social
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Sayle doesn't do trap options like that though
I'm not calling it a trap option, but a possible miscalculation on our collective parts.
darkstarling
Brilliantly Crazed
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The D7 is a complete unknown. What do we know about its canon abilities?
Actually, why should I make other people do my research? Memory Alpha says its sprint could catch up with a Warp 9 ship, so it may not actually be possible for us to build a ship that can outsprint one yet. If that's the case we should actually lean into cruise.
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[X] Sprint Configuration (6.2/7/8.6) [238c/343c/636c]
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[X] Linear Configuration (6.4/7/8.4) [268c/343c/592c]
I understand the argument for sprint config, but this seems really cool, and sometimes generalist approaches are important too.
I understand the argument for sprint config, but this seems really cool, and sometimes generalist approaches are important too.
IIRC other faction's ships can be just as canon as ours.
We can't rely on canon anymore. And in any event, a nearly two WF jump in a single generation (D6 --> D7) seems a bit too much finger on the scale to the Klingons' favor.
The problem is that if the Klingons magically have warp 9 we are screwed.
But I don't think they do. Rather I think that Klingon ship classes are more guidelines than strict blueprints and later versions of the D7 will be a lot more like a D8 than the first D7 to roll out of a space dock.
Chargone
Invisable operator
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Good to know, but one does have to account for any changes caused by the altered timeline. Might be just as good, might be being made a bit early and thus not so good, might be balanced slightly differently if, between our different focus and kicking the Romulans harder, the changed situation meant the designers had slightly different priorities...
Probably still fairly close though.
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[X] Sprint Configuration (6.2/7/8.6) [238c/343c/636c]
The Klingon D7's max speed is unknown, only that its north of Warp 8.
If this design's primary purpose is to respond to and murder D7s, then we are obligated to achieve at least parity, and preferably superiority in warp speed. The greater the margin the better.
[X] Sprint Configuration (6.2/7/8.6) [238c/343c/636c]
The Klingon D7's max speed is unknown, only that its north of Warp 8.
If this design's primary purpose is to respond to and murder D7s, then we are obligated to achieve at least parity, and preferably superiority in warp speed. The greater the margin the better.
darkstarling
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Okay, this convinces me. I THINK linear will cut it for outsprinting them, but I don't actually know, and I'd rather not guess wrong. Changing my vote.
[X] Sprint Configuration (6.2/7/8.6) [238c/343c/636c]
That would, at least, fit the soviet analogy they were going for at the time. Especially given how Klingon society was only recently a collection of feudal clans and reverts to a council of those clans within a generation. Even if the D7 is meant to be a symbol of unity for the empire, in practice that will start to diverge as soon as the clans begin to reassert their independence.
I suppose so, but the canon warp 9 sprint was at least a possibility.
And don't underestimate Klingon technology. They say they don't really have many engineers, and that's true. They don't tell you that they've got priests that do engineering instead. Klingon religion and mad science have always been synonyms. See also, cloning Kahless. Discovery just made it official.
This is a very good point, we won't truly know it's capabilities until we meet the D7 in battle, all we can do right now is prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
Catching raiders requires having either greater speed or greater intelligence on their movements, and the latter isn't something we can guarantee given we've never faced them down before.
...Huh. Haven't watched any of the newer Trek shows, so that's all unknown to me.
slybrarian
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I would not trust anything Memory Alpha says to be accurate for this pre-canon time period, because it tends to smush facts about the same class across multiple decades together. It could just as easily be talking about the D7 in DS9 as TOS.