To be fair, it's a hell of an act to retire on.
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The fact that the Excaliburs cost more but still had more produced than the Constitution in the end is all the indication we need that we made a worthy vessel.
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God I wonder what the Klingon captain must have thought of that...
Especially given the fact that in a punchup a d series gets folded now...
Especially given the fact that in a punchup a d series gets folded now...
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Excellent, it did it's job well, as both a D7 Deleter and as a ship that can Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before.
Kinda wish we did choose one of the Cargo options, given both the intro blurb and the mention of how they couldn't help with the immediate post-war reconstruction due to lacking the facilities. Something for the future though.
So, since it looks like they gave enough of an edge to win the Klingon War, meaning we might not have to do another wartime design, what's next?
There's the Miranda and Excelsior, of course, but any other canon ships before we catch up to the start of the first thread?
Kinda wish we did choose one of the Cargo options, given both the intro blurb and the mention of how they couldn't help with the immediate post-war reconstruction due to lacking the facilities. Something for the future though.
So, since it looks like they gave enough of an edge to win the Klingon War, meaning we might not have to do another wartime design, what's next?
There's the Miranda and Excelsior, of course, but any other canon ships before we catch up to the start of the first thread?
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Probably evil, unfortunately.
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"Time for a pithy Shakespeare quote before I go to Sto'vo'kor."
I wouldn't be so certain of that. 'The Counter Offensive of early 2244' implies we're either being pushed back until then or dont/can't push into Klingon space until then.
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We have 6 years before the Klingon War breaks out. That's enough time for a smaller ship to be coming online right as the conflict begins I think.
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Temporal agent showing up to the shipyard and swapping out the stencil for the name plate.
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We got told Starfleet wanted to delete the D7, so we let Starfleet delete the D7.
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Every Klingon in that battle who realized what was happening likely collectively jizzed their pants.
"That ship has a close combat function!"
Cue Klingons crash-starting their own melee ship designs.
Pretty sure the list of Excalibur class ships lost during Pathfinder missions was just a list of Constitution-class shops lost during TOS episodes.
Which is fair enough, I can't think many of those problems would have solved by more boom. I mean, when an evil computer takes control of your ship higher Tactical only makes it a more effective killing machine.
Which is fair enough, I can't think many of those problems would have solved by more boom. I mean, when an evil computer takes control of your ship higher Tactical only makes it a more effective killing machine.
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The only exception is Hauteclere, which is instead our version of the Defiant.
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I was actually low-key hoping that a couple designs from now we'd be offered a multitronic computing upgrade that could go horribly wrong if taken.
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There's also the Oberth, A.K.A. the unfortunate lovechild of a science lab and a roll of tissue paper.
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Im hoping that the enhanced medical functions at least made it possible to gather enough data on the biological discoveries that lives were saved compared to a path where medical was compromised to improved some other function.
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I can't wait for "Literally just a giant flying Bat'leth"Every Klingon in that battle who realized what was happening likely collectively jizzed their pants.
"That ship has a close combat function!"
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Isn't that just a d3/4?
(I mean... Just look at the designs...)
(I mean... Just look at the designs...)
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The Cruise Configuration variant would have gotten the same Cruise speed as the Canon Constitution, but then it being able to get to Tarsus IV on time would have been in question.
In this case by cruise I'm referring to the (cruise) range of the ship, not speed. Sorry for not making it that clear.
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More or less in line with the increase in crew size between the Cage and the show proper, going from our 136. With enough wiggle room for a bunch of extra non-crew persons as we often sawing the show.
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Those are canon losses I think. We didn't do worse than expected on exploration, we were on par.
Excalibur shipgirls are short, Brittish, built like track stars with an absolutely massive sword. Lots of art of them in the machine shop - playing the dainty dissonance for all it's worth - or in a really cozy bedroom. Stargazing is also popular.
Seems like our options to prevent Tarsus were high sprint speed, Cargo would have cut it too, maybe Hydroponics to cure the fungal blight. Or, as we got, advanced machining letting us break the Engineer's heart for a bit.
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"We warned you."
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I too would have liked more specific science labs, but we're good.
No no, the Tholians and Mirror Tholians planned to share only for the Terrans to killsteal.
The Enterprise went Snicker Snack.
Encounters with the new Excalibur class must have hit the Klingons pretty similarly to the canon Federation fighting the Jem Hadar. In particular I'm remembering the Jem Hadar fighter taking out a Galaxy Class by ramming, largely to make a point.
You know... Not actually an awful design. Forward spires for weapon mounts... A wide flat inverse curve blade hullform... It's not unreasonable.
I would also like to say I have found a reason to stand for a torus hullform.
Imagine it, surface hugging nacelles in the middle of a giant saucer design where the nacelles still have full visibility to each other because the saucer has a nacelle shaped hole in the middle. The advantage of a nacelle half buried in your ship, but the nacelles still function like external nacelles with no loss of efficiency.
They look like a ridge running back from the top of the saucer.
I mean, I think this just means the cargo hauler king the Newton picked up the slack. If there was anything to not be good at, the thing the Newton is king at is it.
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