KnightDisciple
Brotherhood. Unity. Peace.
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[X] 3 Type-2 Thrusters (Maneuverability: Medium) [Experimental] [Two Success Rolls: Cost/Performance] (+Cost)
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[X] 3 Type-2 Thrusters (Maneuverability: Medium) [Experimental] [Two Success Rolls: Cost/Performance] (+Cost)
Gonna be real with ya'll, I saw the word "Experimental" and was like 'yesssss'
The line between genius and retarded is measured by success.
Gonna be real with ya'll, I saw the word "Experimental" and was like 'yesssss'
The line between genius and retarded is measured by success.
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[X] 3 Type-2 Thrusters (Maneuverability: Medium) [Experimental] [Two Success Rolls: Cost/Performance] (+Cost)
Tactically, this makes sense, as she's going to need to move it if responding to a crisis or moving towards a distress call, moving away from an anomaly, etc.
Strategically, this makes sense, as having a big fast, powerful ship coming by and saying hello is going to gain us respect, maybe even get us potential Federation members who never joined up in canon.
Logistically, this makes sense, because it's a ship working out all the kinks of the next generation of Starship like the Excelsior("The Great Experiment" as Kirk called it) a generation later. Like the Excelsior, if all our experiments don't work, it's still a solid design that can maybe become the model for the main ship of the line and later model workhorse as our capabilities increase to be able to build better and bigger and it becomes an old fossil.
The only potential problem is politically, this might take too much resources to make, and hinder Starfleet's position in the newly formed Federation if she turns out to be a Sproose Goose. Still, we'll have gathered a lot of data on how to make a better ship to accomplish our mission.
Also, I really want to see, if we can impress them, just how many races join us due to all the shines.
Tactically, this makes sense, as she's going to need to move it if responding to a crisis or moving towards a distress call, moving away from an anomaly, etc.
Strategically, this makes sense, as having a big fast, powerful ship coming by and saying hello is going to gain us respect, maybe even get us potential Federation members who never joined up in canon.
Logistically, this makes sense, because it's a ship working out all the kinks of the next generation of Starship like the Excelsior("The Great Experiment" as Kirk called it) a generation later. Like the Excelsior, if all our experiments don't work, it's still a solid design that can maybe become the model for the main ship of the line and later model workhorse as our capabilities increase to be able to build better and bigger and it becomes an old fossil.
The only potential problem is politically, this might take too much resources to make, and hinder Starfleet's position in the newly formed Federation if she turns out to be a Sproose Goose. Still, we'll have gathered a lot of data on how to make a better ship to accomplish our mission.
Also, I really want to see, if we can impress them, just how many races join us due to all the shines.
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Speaking of representation, what the hell are we going to name these beasts?
Cornuthaum
Be kind to each other.
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- Austria
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ay dios mio this is why we need to stick to dual nacellesI assure you I went through several much more hideous designs before surrendering to the least-bad option. And that's just the struts, not even the nacelle placement.
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- France
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- USA
I would like to suggest the Jupiter class.
Subsequent names being either the principle gas giant of each races home star, or simply Saturn, Neptune, Uranus if QM doesn't feel like coming up with names.
I dont think we will be building enough to exhaust either list.
Subsequent names being either the principle gas giant of each races home star, or simply Saturn, Neptune, Uranus if QM doesn't feel like coming up with names.
I dont think we will be building enough to exhaust either list.
Shard
One and Many
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- Malaysia
It would be pretty funny if Cost was critically successful, Performance flopped, and the arguments of cost vs performance were retroactively pointless.
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I object, if only because the Jupiter class is the behemoth carrier from Star Trek Online, and our own chunky ship is nowhere near that size. Our ship is big, but nowhere near big enough to say, have an NX-01 park inside if it wanted to.
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Potential Vulcan names:
Kerkhov - be similar to naming a ship Bermuda Triangle
Syrran- leader of the movement that reshaped Vulcan society and paved the way for them becoming Federation members
IDIC- Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. I kind of like the idea of an IDIC-class, as it shows what the Federation is about and our attempt to find those infinite combinations.
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Issue is, Star Trek almost never gives us enough alien lore to do that.
Off the top of my head, the only alien named ship that is not simply named after a Starfleet officer is the USS Shi'kar.
Almost every single ship and class in the entirety of Starfleet not named after a concept or an object is named after something from Earth, and the vast majority of those are named in english as well.
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Vulcans have their own ship building tradition and while part of starfleet technically they maintain their own science corp and avoid getting too involved for a long time.
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- Australia
Ambit
Help me
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- Third Circle of Hell
There's other options, technically. Currently, the Federation also includes Andoria, Tellar, and Denobula. We could do something with that too, hopefully preexisting worldbuilding being available...
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Maybe the main reason Starfleet keeps the mostly human names is simply that most of its member races in the early years kept their pre-Fed fleets around and wanted the names for themselves, so Starfleet kept using human names to not step on toes.
And this just kept going on until it was a tradition noone felt like getting rid of.
And Earth is decidedly First Among Equals in the Federation, and an outright dominant majority of those actually serving in Starfleet.
And this just kept going on until it was a tradition noone felt like getting rid of.
And Earth is decidedly First Among Equals in the Federation, and an outright dominant majority of those actually serving in Starfleet.
You know what would ALSO be a really funny answer?
Everyone is using universal translators. Ever species gives starfleet ships a name in their specific language and the translators automatically fill in based on what language the listener wants to hear. We hear the human names because we watch the show in a human language.
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MordredRaal
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[X] 3 Type-2 Thrusters (Maneuverability: Medium) [Experimental] [Two Success Rolls: Cost/Performance] (+Cost)
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Help me
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- Third Circle of Hell
A few contenders in Vulcan that I liked:
Sochya: Peace
Alam'ak: Fanon Vulcan name for 40 Eridani A, AKA Vulcan's main sun
Gad-keshtan: Fanon word for dawn or sunrise
Seems like a lot of the Vulcan Dictionary has been filled out by fans over the decades in their attempt to expand the language themselves. I'm personally fine with taking from that, not sure about everyone else here.
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