Ideas for new classes of starships

[Mikey]

Two engineering hulls? Are they completely redundant, or do they act in concert?

can seperate for space station movement

I don't follow you.

[Sionnach Glic]

And that's what I mean by "needlessly complicated". Could you not just have one secondary hull, with a magnetic clamp of some kind to hold cargo crates along it?

[Lt. Staplic]

okay let me try one more time.

The ship doesn't have a saucer and drive section like traditonal ships. The Saucer and the two struts leading off the Saucer compise the main parts of the ship. The struts aren't self sustaining, but they don't seperate from the saucer either. Outside the two struts, are the nacells. Between the struts is what i've called the Cargo Hull. It's mostly cargo space and is basicly what gives the ship the majority of the cargo space it needs to be a fraightor. Now the Cargo hull can be seperated from the ship, and in it's place if it's necessary. The ship would be able to haul spacestatons, and move them at warp speeds, rather than havig them move at 1/4 or 1/2 impulse to get wherever they're going.

And yes it is a little complex, but i liked the design.

P.S. If you all think this one's confusing, i can't wait to put up my next one.

[Mark]

[Sionnach Glic]

The ship doesn't have a saucer and drive section like traditonal ships. The Saucer and the two struts leading off the Saucer compise the main parts of the ship. The struts aren't self sustaining, but they don't seperate from the saucer either. Outside the two struts, are the nacells. Between the struts is what i've called the Cargo Hull. It's mostly cargo space and is basicly what gives the ship the majority of the cargo space it needs to be a fraightor. Now the Cargo hull can be seperated from the ship, and in it's place if it's necessary. The ship would be able to haul spacestatons, and move them at warp speeds, rather than havig them move at 1/4 or 1/2 impulse to get wherever they're going.

Okay, I see what you're saying now. I still think it needlessly complex, though.

[Lt. Staplic]

I'm not argueing that it isn't, I'm just saying that I thought it looked pretty cool.

[Sionnach Glic]

Ah, I see.

[Grundig]

I'm impressed with your skill at imagining AND drawing these from multiple angles.

[Lt. Staplic]

thanks, but it isn't all free hand, i get help with scaling from some grided paper

[Sionnach Glic]

Hey, it's still better than anything I could do.

[bob]

protostar-

finally got it (e-mailed myself the pic, right-clicked, clicked copy image url, and boom)

[Mikey]

You e-mailed yourself a picture of a red "x?"

[bob]

You e-mailed yourself a picture of a red "x?"

sorry, I can see the image fine

[Captain Seafort]

Red X here.

[Mark]

Red X here as well