So we need to re-create the entire fleet of existing Starfleet ships. Here are the principles we will use.
Our targets are, in order of priority:
1. General role. Can the new design perform the same duties the old one could, or was intended to?
2. Costs. Are the SR and crew costs close, and if not why not? (Note: Don't mind BR, build time and SP can be fuzzier too.)
3. Technology year. I have created a listing in the
third post of the thread. If you need a couple parts from future years go ahead, noting which ones. In particular I suspect the Centaur-A, Renaissance, and Excelsior-A will be the troublesome ships to keep on tech-year. For the Centaur-A we could go up to Miri-A parts, or you could just ignore its existence and build the Centaur-B more directly. For the Rennie, maybe +1 year to 2313.
4. Flavor. Try a Modular Hull on the Miri-A. Try Sprint Nacelles on the Constellation. Try to make the Comet the fastest ship in the quadrant. For the most part this should hopefully naturally follow from point 1.
5. Size. Feel free to break the original's size by 100kt here or there. More than 100kt for explorers.
6. Refit progression. Feel free to break the half-parts refit rule as you need to. Feel free to design the current ship without designing the refits the came before it if you want to.
The GMs will pick the design we feel best fits the most important criteria, and we may even suggest designs. If we feel that multiple designs fit the spirit of the ship we may go to the main thread for a vote.
In order to do the basic system conversion we need designs for the following:
Ambassador
Excelsior-A
Renaissance
Renaissance-A
Envoy
Constellation-A
Comet
Centaur-B
Kepler
Miranda-A
Patrol Cruiser-A
Bird of Paradise-A (Patroller-A) - don't break your brains on this one I have a design already
It would be interesting to have our obsolete ships but definitely not necessary:
Excelsior
Constellation
Centaur-A
Centaur
Miranda
Oberth
Patrol Cruiser
Bird of Paradise (Patroller)
As we go we may make some requests for non-Starfleet ships.
I would also like to take a moment to acknowledge the people who worked hard to develop the ships and applications we used up to this point.
OneirosTheWriter, lbmaian, Nix, Vebyast, Gravitas Hunt, Goat, and likely some people I've missed did an incredible amount of work on all the various ship builders we've used. All the current GMs are involved behind the scenes. And all the people who sunk time into the old thread and in discord... tryrar, UbeOne, AlphaDelta, Jenny, aledeth, Katsuragi, Void Stalker, sunrise, Alliterate, aeqnai, SuperSonicSound, Simon_Jester, Briefvoice, Wootius, shard, ClawClawBite, Forgothrax, Kaze, DarknessSmiles, Night, chriswriter90, Shadows, Godwinson, UberJJK, MS-21H 'Hawke', The Sandman, Ato, CeBrudas, Oksbad, Enerael, Gnarker, Kolar, Zerohour, Hazard, Thebigpieman, Derpmind, fasquardon, Steven Kodaly, Himmelhand, Raw90, Ash19526, kimagurena, AntiSanity, CommotionSocks, LaggPlaguedDuke, and everyone else. I look forward to what you'll create in the coming months.
