Thats Explorer shit
Fat Feddie's big, but not quite so big as to afford those kinds of facilities
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Fat Feddie's big, but not quite so big as to afford those kinds of facilities
- Location
- Australia
If this was being treated as a limited number dreadnought, I would go diplomatic modules. But diplomatic modules aren't really a good fit in anything built in larger numbers.
I, too, want a primarily generalist ship with a slight emphasis on science. I think I lean towards larger, generalist labs than specific niches.
I don't want them to go "We only need 10 mineral surveys, so order only ten"
I want them to want all the ships for every occasion that is within two weeks of a potential problem.
I, too, want a primarily generalist ship with a slight emphasis on science. I think I lean towards larger, generalist labs than specific niches.
I don't want them to go "We only need 10 mineral surveys, so order only ten"
I want them to want all the ships for every occasion that is within two weeks of a potential problem.
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Archduke
Don't Take Geology Puns For Granite
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- Texas
It's slow and a poor emergency responder. Archers are great for growing and improving the Federation, but not good at reacting to a developing situation. The much maligned Radiant class's one moment of fame was rushing medical and food supplies to Federation Colonies with its high max cruise speed. You can't really have an Archer do that.
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Shuttles, cargo, basic science. It's an everyman cruiser designed to potter around the interior helping out where help is needed.
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- Australia
Appreciated!
If thats enough to become one of the most used ships, for a damned long time, I'm more than happy to do similar on the Federation. Of course, less potter about and more race between.
We have the shuttles, cargo should be easy, and I think we can hit moderate science.
Now to convince people not to take Fabrication bays...
- Location
- California
We will make 1 Mirandillion of them.
Strunkriidiisk
THE LEGEND
- Location
- Canada
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...No, let's not copy the Miranda's mission profile, that makes procurement less interested in the Fed, not more. Pharmacology, then dilithium surveying, then cargo - in that order of priority.
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- Australia
I truly don't understated how Pharmacology can be a useful focus for an extremely fast, hopefully bulk produced ship.
That's speciality stuff. That's long term research. That's staying in one spot for long periods of time. That's a module that's the opposite of the actual ship design.
That's speciality stuff. That's long term research. That's staying in one spot for long periods of time. That's a module that's the opposite of the actual ship design.
Ngl I think the module debate should wait until we see what the first set of options look like.
Archduke
Don't Take Geology Puns For Granite
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- Texas
With the Attenborough's ability to identify disease vectors and discover treatments during colony aptitude studies, having the ability to synthesize said treatments on demand for outbreaks, along with the speed to deliver them in an expedient matter is a pretty good combo.
KlavoHunter
THOU SHALT WORSHIP NO GODS ABOVE ENTERPRISE!
Do I really have to spell it out to you? *sigh*
So, our battleships will divert from their usual course to meet with the Orion Syndicate, and we'll sell them the hottest-pink Saturnine Glitterdust that bored Starfleet Science officers can cook up. This shit will reset your pacemaker. In return, the Orions pay in cold hard dilithium crystals. The Orions don't try and pull any funny deals unless they want to face the Federation's wrath, and in return we keep real quiet about it.
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- west
That's what planet bound hospitals are for.
Strunkriidiisk
THE LEGEND
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- Canada
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All under the command of Captain Heisenberg, of course.
We are "the One Who Knocks" (Quick, someone translate that into Klingon!
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Godwinson
"Well, I've got nothing."
A hell of a lot of colonies that are supporting vital efforts don't have lavishly equipped hospitals for synthesizing every possible treatment for exotic or novel diseases.
lo'laHvIS nuvpu'We are "the One Who Knocks" (Quick, someone translate that into Klingon!
TortugaGreen
Constantly out of the loop
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And then we use those dilithium crystals to supply bajorian insurgent groups?
Only if they name themselves after obscure Earth resistance groups.
Probably less efficient than letting actual medical production facilities do it before using the Federation to ship them over. You can only fit so much stuff onto a ship of this size.
Gul Dukat: who the fuck are the IRA!?
KlavoHunter
THOU SHALT WORSHIP NO GODS ABOVE ENTERPRISE!
Efficiency can go to hell when it's a time-sensitive matter. Not having to double back to Starbase 123 for brand-new cutting-edge antiviral drugs saves time, when you can synthesize them yourselves when en-route to plague-stricken Bumfuckulus IV.
O'Brian after a bad night of troubleshooting Cardasian hardware and drinking a little too much Romulan Ale of questionable providence from Quark
If the equipment to manufacture those drugs are small and cheap enough that we can actually afford to outfit potentially dozens of heavy cruisers with them, sure?
I kind of doubt that you can just manufacture significant quantities of cutting edge pharmaceuticals on like, a single deck's worth of space on a ship though.
Sure, but developing the drug on board and then the colonies making more using their replicators would work gangbusters.