Star Ranger4 Wrote:Oh, Fred? Did you ever have a definate mental image of how the type one's looked? cause while I'm finding a lot of data; it isn't exactly organized informationThe primary dimensions are in Part 35:
Length Overall: 1072 metres (3,517 feet)
Width Overall: 374 metres (1,227 feet)
Height:
Overall (from top of mainmast to tip of keelmast) 260 metres (853 feet)
Superstructure/Understructure Height 155 metres (508.5 feet)
Displacement: 6,220,407 tonnes (6,856,754.63 short tons) in Earth gravity
In Part 32, in the narrative for the scene where the people of the 2nd/10th Dragoons are informed they are once more an active regiment in the Canadian Army, it is said that the flight deck bulges on the sides of the main hull extend out an extra 30 metres (98.4 feet) beyond the sides of the main hull, thus:
Main Hull Width: 314 metres (1,030 feet)
Given that the flight decks have to be tall enough to allow space fighters like the Starfire room to land like a Viper would land on the Galactica, it would be safe to have the main flight deck to have at least a 10 metre (32.8 foot) clearance; I imagine the F-96S/CSF-196 to be the same height as an F/A-18F Super Hornet (height of 4.88 metres [16 feet]). Since the Starfire is launched from individual launch tubes above and below the flight decks, we can then tack on an extra 6 metres (19.7 feet) above and below for the hangar decks/launch bays. And since the flight decks have been said to extend at least half the ship's overall length, we get this:
Number of Launch Tubes: 100 tubes per side, 50 tubes above flight deck, 50 tubes below flight deck
Flight Tube Dimensions: Flattened half-hexagon shape, 11 metres (36 feet) wide by 5 metres (16.4 feet) high
Flight Pod Bulge Length: 650 metres (2,132.5 feet)
Flight Pod Bulge Height: 28 metres (91.9 feet)
As stated in Part 32, Hakaru Ayami (Jun'iku Bunjaku) put in a tonne of safety systems to allow fighters to be drawn into the flight decks via tractor arrays to prevent any sort of bolting that would see a Starfire crash into the ship's hull.
There are thirty-nine decks overall on the Type Ones. Thirteen decks are in the upper superstructure, numbered from Deck 1 up through Deck A1 to Deck A12. The main hull has fourteen decks, numbering from Deck 2 down to Deck 15. The lower superstructure has twelve decks, numbering from Deck B1 to B12. With an average four metres (13 feet) between decks (with one metre on average taken to contain power lines, life support mechanisms and the like, we get this:
Main Hull Height: 56 metres (183.7 feet)
Upper Superstructure Height: 52 metres (170.6 feet)
Lower Superstructure Height: 48 metres (157.4 feet)
As towards general looks of these ships, think of them as having flat and wide cigar-shaped main hulls that taper at the bow to a dual sensor-head prow similar to the Starfighters that appeared in the 1980s version of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. The main hull reaches full height around the area the flight deck pods grow out of the sides of the hull, then stays relatively even until well aft of the fantails of the flight deck pods, where they collapse slightly into two quite large main engine exhausts; again, it would look like the main exhaust drives of a EDD Starfighter. Because of the mail hull dimensions, we can say this now:
Main Exhaust Diameter: 55 metres (180.4 feet)
Main Exhaust Cone Length: 42 metres (137.8 feet)
As the main engines are put close together, the stern of the ship - when viewed from above - gently curves inward to the ship's centreline once clear of the flight pods.
Superstructure-wise, the Type Ones are modelled strongly on surface ships. The upper superstructure is in two parts, a forward second and an aft section. The forward section is where the main operations spaces are. The aft section holds the flag officer quarters and the hangar bays for the V-94S/CSV-194 Star Flare heavy cargo shuttles; there are four carried on these ships. Each of these - as described in Part 14 of Long Way Home - are as follows:
Length OA: 79.24 metres (260 feet)
Wingspan OA: 60.96 metres (200 feet)
Displacement: 367,740 kilograms (810,866.7 pounds) in Earth gravity
However, I patterned the Star Flare pretty much on the Lambda-class shuttle from Star Wars, so the wings can fold up and then rotate forward for easy storage. Hence, the hull width of each Star Flare could be cut down to about 22 metres (72 feet). This would allow plenty of room to have four line-abreast hangars on the upper aft superstructure with a big enough flight deck for launch and recovery. Given the provisioning of upper aft-of-athwartships main gun mounts to either flank of the hangar, we'd get this:
Upper Hangar Size: 90 metres (295.2 feet) long, 113 metres (370.7 feet) wide, 24 metres (78.7 feet) high
Upper Flight Deck Size: 120 metres (393.7 feet) long, 205 metres (672.6 feet) wide
The upper flight deck and upper hangar deck would be on Deck A3 Aft. The hangar itself is built right into the aft superstructure.
The lower superstructure is one whole structure. The four impulse drive exhausts are built right into the aft end of the lower superstructure.
The main gun turrets are inserted onto the top and bottom of the main hull. They're positioned as follows:
Upper Forward: Turret A with Turret B superfiring
Upper Port Forward: Turret D
Upper Starboard Forward: Turret E
Lower Forward: Turret C
Lower Port Forward: Turret F with Turret G superfiring
Lower Starboard Forward: Turret H with Turret J superfiring
Upper Port Aft: Turret S with Turret R superfiring
Upper Starboard Aft: Turret W with Turret V superfiring
Upper Aft: Turret X
Lower Port Aft: Turret T
Lower Starboard Aft: Turret U
Lower Aft: Turret Z with Turret Y superfiring
Each main gun turret is a half-sphere in shape, mounting three 520 millimetre (20 inch) rifled cannons in a triangular formation when viewed muzzle-on; the centre gun is at the top of the turret with the flank guns by the turret base. The cannons are 55 calibre, which makes the whole gun 28.6 metres (91.6 feet) from muzzle to breechblock. The breechblocks themselves are fitted right into the turret surface at the widest point. The turret casing itself is 14 metres (45.9 feet) in diametre and 7 metres (23 feet) tall.
All main guns are mounted on Deck 1 (upper main hull surface) and slung under Deck 15 (lower main hull surface). The superfiring guns are mounted on Deck A2 (upper superstructure) and under Deck B2 (lower superstructure). The casemates for the superfiring turrets are built right into extensions of various superstructure decks as one would see on an Iowa-class battleship when it comes to the 5 inch secondary armament and the superfiring forward main 16 inch three-gun turret.
This is pretty well all I can think of right now, Ranger. But if you have more questions, we can certainly brainstorm further details.
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