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Sayle said:
For the cost of one ship and six hundred lives, the Century destroyed five Jem'hadar attack ships, a Cardassian Galor, and three top-of-the-line battleships that together outmassed her by six times over. By occupying a substantial part of Gul Dukat's ambush of the charging Federation Fleet, the Century allowed the fleets to fully engage and minimise the Dominion's advantages in numbers. The arrival of Klingon reinforcements around twenty minutes later would signal the end of the engagement and a general disintegration of the Dominion battleline.
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Our girl showed the Dominion why the Federation made the Cardassians a bunch of bitches.
 
Step two, don't let Archer take his ship out of drydock until it's actually finished.

Step three, replace Archer with someone sane.
 
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LunaMoth said:
If we're doing enterprise era ships next, what does that mean if we make a ship that has a massive impact, is this an opportunity to derail the timeline?
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I'm still firmly of the belief that the nuTrek Kelvin timeline is a primarily branch off pre-ENT where they managed to salvage the Borg Sphere wreckage left after the events of First Contact. Without triggering a full-blown assimilation of the survey team and the Borg rapidly bootstrapping the equivalent of a university shuttle bus into the match of a major purpose-built starship. :V
 
Also, in case anyone's interested, Drach and a dedicated Trek Youtuber briefly talking about OTL!Galaxy-Refits going a-viking all over the Dominion Fleet in A Sacrifice of Angels (should be timestamped, if not starts at pretty much exactly the hour mark). When you consider that this is what we replaced with the Century-class cos they're two generations old...


View: https://youtu.be/v77BhPwWZ-M?si=mEVins64j2nECEK0&t=3600
 
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Sayle said:
The second tranche of production standardising prototype systems and the subsequent refit of more ablative armor to the design turned the Century into one of Starfleet's main heavy cruiser designs in the New Fleet Program of 2384, with over thirty ships being constructed over the next twenty-five years. Much of this can be attributed to the performance of the class's namesake in Operation Return, which left an indelible mark on the psyche of Starfleet Command and incentivised them to push past its initial flaws and see the ship for what it could be.
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Well. This thing certainly made an impact- the class was flawed in its initial production run, but performed well enough despite that to get the problems fixed and a huge run of ships produced. The Century might not have matched the Excelsior in number, but in terms of pure mass we probably at least equalled their production.
 
A thought for the next quest: maybe we could have an upgrade portion in between ship designs? Where we can argue and vote over building up Star Fleet facilities to help with the designs or rolls?
 
KNakamura said:
Step Four, convince Starfleet Command to create more small scale experimental tests for various technologies...
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Nonsense. Sticking prototypes on full ships to test them out is a wonderful tradition with no drawbacks!

(Or more realistically, they are tested in small scale first, but the problems we ran into are the sorts that can only be uncovered in full builds.)
 
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Tylonius said:
Nonsense. Sticking prototypes of full ships to test them out is a wonderful tradition with no drawbacks!

(Or more realistically, they are tested in small scale first, but the problems we ran into are the sorts that can only be uncovered in full builds.)
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I mean, yes, but the Enterprise writers seemed to think you didn't need small scale testing. :D
 
I'm kinda curious what sort of reputation the Century ended up getting, tbh. It's just such an over-engineered monstrosity of a ship, I can't imagine the other species in Trek not having strong opinions on it.
 
NSMS said:
I'm kinda curious what sort of reputation the Century ended up getting, tbh. It's just such an over-engineered monstrosity of a ship, I can't imagine the other species in Trek not having strong opinions on it.
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Cardassians clenched their cheeks while the Romulans tried to act like they figured out all it's weaknesses.
 
NSMS said:
I'm kinda curious what sort of reputation the Century ended up getting, tbh. It's just such an over-engineered monstrosity of a ship, I can't imagine the other species in Trek not having strong opinions on it.
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Literally everyone else: You're taking the piss, right? You Feddies still claim you 'don't build dedicated warships', and that the Defiant was 'an emergency response to the Borg that won't happen again', but the Galaxy was already a (deity-or-cultural-equivalent)-damned battleship that you had the sheer unmitigated gall to call a 'heavy exploration cruiser', and then you build this?
 
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RecklessPrudence said:
Literally everyone else: You're taking the piss, right? You Feddies still claim you 'don't build dedicated warships', and that the Defiant was 'an emergency response to the Borg that won't happen again' but the Galaxy was already a (deity)-damned battleship that you had the sheer unmitigated gall to call a 'heavy exploration cruiser', and then you build this?
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'Sounds like a skill issue to me!'
- Every Federation Starfleet Personnel ever
 
RecklessPrudence said:
Literally everyone else: You're taking the piss, right? You Feddies still claim you 'don't build dedicated warships', and that the Defiant was 'an emergency response to the Borg that won't happen again', but the Galaxy was already a (deity)-damned battleship that you had the sheer unmitigated gall to call a 'heavy exploration cruiser', and then you build this?
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"Yes. Now, would you like a glass of root beer?"
 
Tylonius said:
This quest is ending and being replaced by one set during the era of Star Trek: Enterprise. The Sphere Builders are enemies from that show's third season who are capable of some level of time travel.
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Theunderbolt said:
The main antagonists of Enterprise were the sphere builders who were being supported by a faction far in the future to ensure the Federation never becomes a threat to them in the future.
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Ohhhh, thanks!

Is this gonna be a new thread?

MysteryCPU said:
A thought for the next quest: maybe we could have an upgrade portion in between ship designs? Where we can argue and vote over building up Star Fleet facilities to help with the designs or rolls?
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An upgrade/refit section would be great, I think.
 
RecklessPrudence said:
Literally everyone else: You're taking the piss, right? You Feddies still claim you 'don't build dedicated warships', and that the Defiant was 'an emergency response to the Borg that won't happen again' but the Galaxy was already a (deity)-damned battleship that you had the sheer unmitigated gall to call a 'heavy exploration cruiser', and then you build this?
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Quark to Sisko: You're telling me Star-Fleet spent fifty million bars of latinum on a battleship that can turn corners with Birds of Prey and then spent 10 million MORE to make it a better science ship then most of quadrant has?

*takes a drink*

I'm not even surprised anymore. At least it has a crew large enough to make me some money, wouldn't be surprised if star-fleet just started replacing all the people with holograms one day..
 
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Being able to draw against multiple times your tonnage while still having impressive range and science facilities and being able to build a colony more or less solo means the Century class should operate for at least a hundred years, I just hope that when they finally decide to decommission the class they give an appropriate send off by battle or spatial anomaly.
 
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