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[ ] Full Saucer with Inline Deflector [Total Mass: 100,000 Tons]

Imagine a flying saucer catching up to you and asking you to pull over for boarding. It's just too funny.
 
I would say secondary hull with saucer simply because that allows the design to be more aesthetically balanced by putting the secondary hull opposite the nacelle, ala Kelvin type.
 
Tank man said:
Ah, yeah, that's a good point.

Well, if we can get a mini-Kelvin out of the full saucer design I'm all for it - though it would have worked better with a shuttlebay.
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Being fair, the back end of the secondary hull would actually be a decent place to put a tractor emitter, for towing impounded vessels - and having a tractor emitter on the fore of the saucer section would allow for slowing down fleeing vessels as well.
Carcer said:
Why automatically a saucer? Why not a sphere, a cube or a cylinder, or even a more elaborate shape?
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My guess would be phaser firing arcs, as well as trying to minimize profile when approaching a suspect vessel, at least to some extent.
 
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I think with this vote we're all just going to chose our personal design preferences
because it won't effect the ship's capabilities.
I know that is how I'm going to be making my vote for this choice.

[X] Half-Saucer [Primary Hull Mass: 50,000 Tons] (Secondary Hull - 50,000)
 
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Carcer said:
Why automatically a saucer? Why not a sphere, a cube or a cylinder, or even a more elaborate shape?
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Because it's a relatively simple thing to build and we've got a ton of experience working with such designs, for something that's meant to be cheap and cheerful like a police cutter we want to be sticking with what we know works and what we're good at.
 
[JK] No-Saucer [Primary Hull Mass: 0 Tons] (Secondary Hull - 100,000)

With these constraints, why bother with a saucer at all? :V
 
The pirates shall learn to fear the half-saucer!

Or I hope so at least. I'm not sure why but the half-saucer shape gives a more 'policey' vibe to me.
 
Well to help decide we should ask "is this supposed to count as a warship"?
If so we use a half-saucer, clearly.
 
[ ] Full Saucer with Inline Deflector [Total Mass: 100,000 Tons]

I don't like the idea of a secondary hull with a lone nacelle. Yes, no secondary and one nacelle will look goofy, but the secondary is likely to look even worse. One nacelle designs always look stupid, there's just no getting around it, but I just don't like any of the ways a secondary hull could generate the layout.
 
The Half-Saucer + Secondary Hull appeals to me due to the Klingon logic of keeping the prisoners away from the bridge via a choke-point full of disruptor phaser-armed officers.
 
I guess an argument could be made that the full inline design might have a less large profile from some angles, which might help it tactically. Though there it's not brought up as an actual advantage in story, not sure it matters to much. Internal security potentially don't have that much active battle anyway I suppose.
 
I'd go for either the saucer and secondary or the half saucher for the balanced look.
 
[ ] Full Saucer [Primary Hull Mass: 70,000 Tons] (Secondary Hull - 30,000)

Never really liked the flat designs. It looks like someone stepped on the ship and squashed it.
 
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