- Location
- Lake Wobegon
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- He/Him/His
There's more ship in the hole. It's just still cloaked.You're going to love working for the Romulan Starship Bureau.
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One justification I could see is if the split deflectors acted like a single massive deflector and somehow gave a huge performance boost. I don't expect redundancy for other engineering components would make up for the usual efficiency gains from building one larger stuff. Plus getting around from one secondary hull to another might be annoying unless they just throw a ton of transporter pads at each side. But who knows, sci-fi ties "logic" into pretzels.
Edit: a low high nacelle config would also be interesting. Bracket wants to left align so ignore the periods.
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LunaMoth
Wings of Kynareth is my comfort song...
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The D'deridex is awesome tbh, also an example of the double secondary hull I think. In lore the thing was produced exclusively as ship to match the galaxy class in combat (which is a Mary-sue of ship tbh considering its the hero ship). I think the reason for the large amount of missing hull is to make it cheaper somehow. It still manages to look massive, the actual hull doesnt look thin at all.
Anyways when I see this, []-(o)-[]-(o)-[], it just brings to mind the ship briefly seen in the ENT intro.
You're going to love working for the Romulan Starship Bureau.
The D'deridex is awesome tbh, also an example of the double secondary hull I think. In lore the thing was produced exclusively as ship to match the galaxy class in combat (which is a Mary-sue of ship tbh considering its the hero ship). I think the reason for the large amount of missing hull is to make it cheaper somehow. It still manages to look massive, the actual hull doesnt look thin at all.
Anyways when I see this, []-(o)-[]-(o)-[], it just brings to mind the ship briefly seen in the ENT intro.
- Location
- his hidden lair
[X] Small Saucer (100 Meters)
[X] Duratanium-Enhanced Hull Plating [Theoretical] (Three Success Rolls: Cost -> Defense -> Implementation)
Medium hull just seems less interesting than doing something wacky like double engineering or (regretfully dismissed) no engineering section.
[X] Duratanium-Enhanced Hull Plating [Theoretical] (Three Success Rolls: Cost -> Defense -> Implementation)
Medium hull just seems less interesting than doing something wacky like double engineering or (regretfully dismissed) no engineering section.
- Location
- Seattle, Washington
vote closed a few hours ago
I think the holes in the D'deridex come more from having the nacelles double strutted rather than having a double engineering section.
The double hull connected by engines kind of conceptually reminds me of the Stratolaunch air-launched rocket carrier plane.
The double hull connected by engines kind of conceptually reminds me of the Stratolaunch air-launched rocket carrier plane.
- Location
- USA
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You never answered the question on whether the medium hull had economic benefits, and a lot of people voted medium assuming they existed.
Strunkriidiisk
THE LEGEND
- Location
- Canada
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- He/Him
Well, you know what they say about assumptions.
You're going to love working for the Romulan Starship Bureau.
Lol.
Notably, the Romulans have lost every on-screen war they've been in, so funny as this is, I think OPs point about it being a bad idea still stands.
Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
- Location
- USoA
Off-screen Romulans are somehow wizards I swear.
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WilyMachineKing1
Executive Manager of Limbus Company
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- Reno Nevada
So they only can do anything off-screen.
Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
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- USoA
Take for example the Drone weapon in ENT. Invincible until we learn it's Romulan.
UbeOne
Daydreaming CPU
- Location
- Philippines
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- She/Her
It's why they rely so much on plots, sneakiness and cloaks. It's so that they can be offscreen.
LunaMoth
Wings of Kynareth is my comfort song...
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Yup very competent until the moment they are shown on screen, its why the early federation-Romulan war was conducted without any viewscreens and the only communication was done via subspace radio.
Art: NY-Stingray and NZ-Thunderchild
WilyMachineKing1
Executive Manager of Limbus Company
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- Reno Nevada
How dangerous....
Arimai
Curmudgeon
I've hated that design style since I first saw it decades ago. They've also lost every war so my point stands.You're going to love working for the Romulan Starship Bureau.
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WilyMachineKing1
Executive Manager of Limbus Company
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- Reno Nevada
I mean, you do you bud.
- Location
- madison
I could be remembering this wrong, but I believe romulan ships are built like that to accommodate the singularity reactors they use instead of conventional warp cores.
LunaMoth
Wings of Kynareth is my comfort song...
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Security? When a Romulan ship blows up in STO it gets sucked into the now uncontained singularity.
Arimai
Curmudgeon
Those wings are supposedly a sort of particle accelerator type containment system. Supposedly. But that was a retcon reason for the odd shape. So I think what happened is its like that because the showrunner thought it looked great and later on they came up with the containment function as a justification.
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- Location
- Australia
Brought to you by Vectary Is Being A Tit Productions:
(I HAD a Skate ready, very nearly, but Vectary farted and lost EVERYTHING except the first hull bit. Which was extremely frustrating, because I saved before starting to do the texture mapping. Grargh.)
Love them! Out of curiosity, are they to scale? Like, if you put one next to the other in a single image, would it show their comparative size?
Also that poor skate, being hunted down by those trying to save the original time line. It didn't deserve non-existence.
Endorfinator
Awkwardly Social
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Changed my vote to small Saucer, I want to do some funky designs and push the envelope more.
