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Although I appreciate your write-ups, anyone could write down specs and history and call it a new class. If you were to include images, depictions of them in any way, it would be a whole lot more clear you'd put effort in them and as such the design would be more recognizable. Though this tactic might help if you'd post the images later, not to focus on aesthetical problems.

Not everyone has a good drawing ability though. (I sure as hell haven't! )

Trust me, posting write-ups, specs and history only can be very aanoying in the end, especially if these ar not tought well out (I am NOT saying it is the case out here). ON another board it annoyed people a lot, and I can tell you, it will make things look bad. You see, write ups can be very interesting, but they can also be written by inserting certain 'keywords' into a 'machine' so you can churn out dozens of ships a day, without having images of them. THAT is not artwork.

However, this is a young board, not yet being overrun by n00bz, numbskulls or anything like them. Therefore, I leave this to rest, knowing I have said everything I wanted about this particular case.

And Judgeking, making specs, write-ups and history can be considered an art too. So far, you're doing just fine. however, remember that there is nothing wrong with trial and error.

http://scn.nov-net.com/index.php?topic=14.0 this might help you out quite a bit. loads of advice on starship designing. Look at the rest of the forum as well, if you wish. It should prove quite interesting to see the diversity.

I for one don't mind imagining what these ships might look like.

I don't have any problems with people giving data on the ships. As long as it makes sense and isn't over the top I'm happy.

Rochey wrote:I don't have any problems with people giving data on the ships. As long as it makes sense and isn't over the top I'm happy.

How about six nacelles, (each one with a quantum torpedo turret), four of those big phaser cannon thingies, a few dozen pulse phasers, and another four or so torpedo launchers (armed with transphasic torpedoes of course)? By the way, the ship carries fifty "fighters" (each one a runabout with four nacelles and three tactical pods), and the ship has multi-vector assault mode..........

I call it the UB3R1337 class!

Ok, when people make ships like that with a straight face then you'll have a point.

Unfortunately, I don't have any modelling and drawing programs on my computer.

MS Paint is available on nearly every computer. Although it is very basic, you can achieve quite some things. In fact, when you know where to get the right ingredients you can make some very nice designs. You see, this one was done by importing various colors from shipkits and a lot of patience. This is a WIP (Work In progress) which I am likely not to ever complete, but it shows what you can do with a basic program as paint.



Also, there are several free 3d programs to try and are more than sufficient to create a decent amount of quality.

Anim8or is located at www.anim8or.com

Blender is located at www.blender3d.com

POV_Ray is located at www.pov-ray.org

All of these programs are free and can be learned, in time. I have seen people going from 'mere kitbashers' to decent 3d artists.

Galaxy Class(2nd Refit)
Role: Battleship
Builders/Owners: Federation Starfleet
Crew: 1,200
Commissioned: 2379-

Dimensions
Length: 642m
Width: 470m
Heigth: 150m
Decks: 42

Armaments
16 Type X Phaser Arrays: 80,000 TW
2 Type IV Burst Fire Photon Torpedo Tubes: 400 rounds
2 Pulse Fire Quantum Torpedo Tubes: 200 rounds

Defenses
Regenerative Shield System: 6,325,000 TJ
14cm thick Albative Armor
High Power SIF
Duranium/Tritanium Double Hull

Warp Speeds
Normal Cruise: 8
Max Cruise: 9.8
Max Rated: 9.92

Unit Run
USS Galaxy NCC-70637
USS Venture NCC-71854
USS Dauntless NCC-71879
USS Magellan NCC-71636
USS Onimaru NCC-76890
USS Challenger NCC-71099
USS San Fransisco NCC-74780
USS Trident NCC-71356
USS Triniculo NCC-71867
USS Discovery NCC-80103
USS Columbia NCC-79102
USS New Horizons NCC-78551

History: The Galaxy Class was refitted again in 2382 to make it more powerful in terms of speed, firepower, and scientific capabilities so Starfleet Corps of Engineers started with the Tactical systems. They then increased the top speed to 9.92 and increased the sensor capabilities to be on par with the Sovereign class sensors. Like the 2nd Sovereign refit, the Galaxy class got new Helium-3 Fusion Reactors which boosted power outpost 40%. The first ship of this refit was the USS Onimaru NCC-76890. The refit was dubbed a Battleship in terms of abilities and was quickly tested against a fleet of remote controlled Constellations. The Onimaru quickly decimated the test fleet. Many more Galaxies were refitted including the USS Galaxy, USS Venture, USS Challenger, USS San Fransisco, and USS Magellan.

Whitewing
Builders/Owners: Romulan Star Empire
Crew: 412
Commissioned: 2272-2298
Role: Attack Cruiser

Dimensions
Length: 328m
Width: 586m
Height: 147m

Armament
3 Medium Power Disruptor Cannons: 20,000 TW
2 Standard Photon Torpedo Tubes: 96 rounds
1 Plasma Torpedo Launcher: 50 rounds

Defenses
Standard Shield System: 700,000 TJ
Standard Duranium Double Hull
Medium Power SIF
Cloaking Device

Warp Speeds(TOS)
Normal Cruise: 6
Max Cruise: 7.2
Max Rated: 8.8

History: The Whitewing was built to be a modern counter to the refitted Constitution class and to keep up with other powers. The Whitewings did well in simulations against the Constitution and KT'Inga class ships easily destroying them both. Tal' Shiar spies later informed the Romulan govt. about the capabilities of the Constitution from the Khitomer Crisis and how its new sensor could track cloaked ships(of the time using the scientific instruments installed to record gaseous anomolies). These ships also fought the Enterprise at the Tomed Incident in 2311 confirming what the Tal'Shiar said. The Whitewing class was deccommissioned in 2332 with the Ambassador class tipping the scales in the Federations favor.
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Icarus Class
Role: Assault Shuttle
Crew: 10
Builders/Owners: Federation Starfleet
Commissioned: 2378-

Dimensions
Length: 26m
Width: 15m
Height: 6.8m

Armaments
6 Type V Phaser Arrays: 6750 TW
22 Mini Tri-Colbalt Mines
2 Micro Quantum Torpedo Launchers: 36

Defenses
Standard Shield System: 77,860 TJ
Ablative Armor: 10cm thick
Medium Power SIF
Tritanium/Duranium Double Hull

Warp Speeds(TNG)
Normal Cruise: 5
Max Cruise: 5.8
Max Rates: 6.4

History: The Icarus class assault shuttle was a design created by Starfleet to give ships and stations support against attacks. The Icarus was assigned to the Enterprise E and Sovereign class ships at first because the relative lack of them at the time in 2380. Icarus class shuttles also serve other roles like transport of delegates, etc... Overall the Icarus class assault shuttle has had a relatively indistinguishable service life right now except for the Laderas incident in which the Defiant was captured by terrorists and then later recaptured using an Icarus class.

Hutet
Owners/Builders: Cardassian Union
Role: Battleship
Commissioned: 2371-
Crew: 900

Dimensions
Length: 1200m
Width:516m
Height:300m

Armament
24 High Power Spiral Wave Disruptors: 64,000 TW
12 High Power Phaser Banks: 56,000 TW
5 Model 3 Quantum Torpedo Launchers: 800 rounds
8 Model 2 Photon Torpedo Tubes: 800 rounds

Defenses
Standard Shield System: 7,438,000 TJ
Heavy Kelindide Double Hull
20cm High Density Armor

Warp Speeds
Normal Cruise: 8.6
Max Cruise: 9.7
Max Cruise: 9.9

History: The Hutet was designed to be a battleship that could be used to take on Heavy ships such as the Galaxy, Negh'var, D'deridex, and Sovereign. Research into Quantum Torpedo technology was quite successful to that end and by the end of 2370, they had a prototype ready for testing. In 2371, the 1st Hutet rolled off the line and went into service. In 2373, the Cardassian Union joined the Dominion and Hutet production went faster to help in the war. During the Dominion War, these ships easily defeated Klingon ships up untill the Battle of Betazed in which a few Hutets were destroyed by the Starfleet task force to liberate the planet from Dominion hands. By the end of the Dominion War, 9 of these ships had been destroyed out of 28 total. After the Dominion War, all Hutet production stopped and resources were sent to rebuilding planets in Cardassian borders. It will be some time before the Cardassians will be able to build these ships again.

Rochey wrote:True, but what are they?

They're stronger phasers that use Zero Point Energy in very miniscule amounts.

Does the Federation have ZPE tech?

i've never seen a Galaxy Class i liked.

until now.

i'm sorry i didn't read this thread earlier.