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Rochey wrote:You don't need to bank or swoop in space, either, but try telling the Feds that.

Of course you do! It looks much cooler to the TV audience.

I don't seem much need for the larger SF ships to worry about turning since no one ever misses anyways.

Better to just put tougher shields and weapons on.

Deepcrush wrote:I don't seem much need for the larger SF ships to worry about turning since no one ever misses anyways.

Oh yeah?

I love that music, I have a thought that the writers were dancing to that while thinking up the scripts....

Best to guestimate from what we know of Romulan design. Assuming that those ships are the predecessor of the D'D class Warbird, the Romulans already started on their campain of "bigger is better", but wasn't there yet. I belive that the manuverability would be higher than than a D'D class, but not so great as the E-D. So, I'm just guessing they'd be somewhere in the 800 ballpark, better than E-C undamaged, but not as good as E-D.

Again, this is just a guess. Feel free to attack it.

Mikey wrote:

Rochey wrote:You don't need to bank or swoop in space, either, but try telling the Feds that.

Of course you do! It looks much cooler to the TV audience.

In the DS9 pilot, where they show Wolf 359, theres a couple of shots of ships that turn 180 without banking (well, not banking much ) . Looks nifty

Mikey wrote:

Rochey wrote:You don't need to bank or swoop in space, either, but try telling the Feds that.

Of course you do! It looks much cooler to the TV audience.

I also may put les strain on the inertial dampeners and SIF. Thats just a guess.

Strickly speaking all of those fancy manuvers SHOULD be ripping ships apart under combat conditions, where they get damaged, and there is only so much power for engines, weapons, and shields. Only so power.

That depends, we don't know the condition of the ships in question.

Nor do we know the properties of what the ships are constructed from, which would play a big part in how much stress they could take.

Mark wrote:Best to guestimate

Please dont use that word, it makes me want to hurt you.

What? It's not even a Bush-ism. Would you prefer estimatified???