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Been Better
- Location
- A Rising Tide of Horrors
- Pronouns
- She/Her
A useful quote:
We will need to redefine some profiles.
Btw, do we have a name for the HC project?
Isn't this the one I keep begging people to call the "Athena class"?
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A useful quote:
We will need to redefine some profiles.
Btw, do we have a name for the HC project?
Wouldnt know, wasnt reading anything that wasnt threadmarked back then.Isn't this the one I keep begging people to call the "Athena class"?
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well played. quite literally.Well I could solve two of those areas with Humanocentric yet non-European deities/beasts.
Guan Yu
Amaterasu
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Frankly, Athena is painfully, hm, basic. Overplayed, even. Only Artemis for a torpedo heavy ship would be more of an 'obvious' choice.
In particular, it hits three areas that bug me:
I mean if we're going to do a dive on human mythology could we at least try to avoid Europe?
- Humanocentric (We already have a Miranda!)
- Western Centric (We already have a Constitution!)
- Drawing from the overplayed well of Greek mythology (We already have a Centaur!)
I'd be more for something like Wisdom class since that essentially distills what Athena is supposed to be for, which would allow a USS Athena alongside USS [String of syllables that we all accept is an Andorian Mythological figure of wisdom]. Or a USS [Trendy Philosopher], maybe. But I'll admit Wisdom isn't as immediately evocative to most readers of the quest like Athena is. But that's an issue of running through a dictionary or thesaurus.
By being totally badass, that's how.How else are we supposed to honour the woman who was the catalyst for SV's formation.
..Call it the Athene class?> : <
How else are we supposed to honour the woman who was the catalyst for SV's formation.
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We've already got a USS Reason (Renaissance), so that's a no-go for now.
Article: Maat or Ma'at refers to the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice. Maat was also the goddess who personified these concepts, and regulated the stars, seasons, and the actions of mortals and the deities who had brought order from chaos at the moment of creation.
S>C makes a techship. We really should get some S based doctrine bonuses soon, S magic is a big part of Starfleet operations, and it would compliment the PA changes very well.As I understand it, the rule to use Starfleet PA version is going to be S >= C.
Not exactly. In ship design, C generally trades off with L (since their primary components are both in the tactical subframe), which is why SWB could pump up shields to compensate. But shields are SR-expensive, so it bumped up the SR costs. So it doesn't necessarily make the ships more generalist - it just typically makes them tankier and more SR-expensive.Also, ouch. I dont like the PA changes much. Tying them to S makes sense, but forcing them to be equal? Pacifists might love, but it forces our... (almost) everything combat capable to be a generalist.
Granted, we already design our ships that way, but it can get tiresome for everything to be more or less the same, just stronger/weaker, and being forced into it stings (me at least).
We already build our combat ships with C=S+2, which I dont think many do. I would prefer that for PAs then C=S.
Are we replacing the existing shields during the excelsior refit or adding more shields of the same tier?Not exactly. In ship design, C generally trades off with L (since their primary components are both in the tactical subframe), which is why SWB could pump up shields to compensate. But shields are SR-expensive, so it bumped up the SR costs. So it doesn't necessarily make the ships more generalist - it just typically makes them tankier and more SR-expensive.
It's really the Amarki and STO that get screwed over by the phaser array changes though. With their C>S battleships, they can't take advantage of phaser arrays. That said, clearly the STO has some special sauce for their photon lances. They're definitely not as efficient as phaser arrays, at least in terms of crew, but it also doesn't share the C=S restriction. I imagine that the next-gen Amarki and STO battleships (and refits) will use the photon lance line of weaponry.
Uncoquered huh? I like the sound of it, but too military. A combat HC/explorer or a generalist heavy explorer woud fit it well though. HC isnt quite powerful enough to fit the name.I once more put forth Invictus-class, with a theme of famous poems and plays
But they aren't actually something we can do with a refit, I thought?