Quote:*grumbles about how much effort is it to read the older pages of the thread, anyway, when he goes through them at least once a week*
BTW: Regarding SDF-1 redesigns, I'm a bit curious to know what all has been decided on so far, as far as looks, features, and technology are concerned. After all, can't exactly submit my own ideas without knowing what's already been decided on.
Er, I mean, Drogn and I both came up with proposals, and we seem to be going with mine... which means that the SDF-1 is somewhere between exactly nine kilometers and exactly six miles long, a bit over a fifth that much across the beam, and about a fifth as 'tall' as it is wide. My early concept sketches are at the very top of the third page of the thread, and except for the number of engines (now four) and a number of refinements in the main hull's contours and ventral detailing, hasn't changed much since then. The overall 'look' of not only the SDF-1 but all of the EDTO's new construction warships seems to be working out rather like a cross between the movie versions of the Meltrandi, at least as I've gleaned them to look from online sources, and the Narn - lots of straight lines, long clean planes, arranged in an overall sort of dart or arrowhead look, for a very sleek exterior array of armored panels wrapped around a surprisingly humdrum and practical interior. The SDF-1 in particular bears a resemblance to a rather scaled-up version of the Meltrandi Gunship.
An inertial canceller and structural integrity booster seem to be unavoidable parts of the SDF-1's handwavium complement, but I have a deep-seated, almost neurotic aversion to the idea of making one's entire mission and survival dependant on an active system. So, while the ship does have the canceller and does posess an SIF, the fundamental structure underneath, the bones of the ship if you will, are rated to withstand up to 12 mps^2 from any direction.
Ja, -n
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