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And if we're using Defiant style cores, those will take up less physical space as well

BigJKU316 wrote:I think space will be at a huge premium once you get done stuffing everything into a ship like this. The hanger alone will be huge, not to mention facilities for handling nearly 1,000 armored vehicles and maintaining all of the above while underway. You lose a ton of internal volume just to hallways and internal sub-division as well, not to mention crew quarters and medical facilities dictated in the initial specs.

And I agree you would want to use bigger cores, though I think two new designs that are very big would be far more space efficient than 8 cores with all the associated equipment that would need to go with them and could likely be more well protected than 8. If someone breaches this hull enough to get to a warp core it won't matter if you how big they are you are likely in a lot of trouble. The only real advantage I can see to having 8 warp cores is you could eject a few and not be crippled but given the level of armor on this ship I don't see ejection as being much of an option with a dual layered armor system and a void in between.

Mark wrote:....


What do you guys think? I suppose we COULD have two quad sized warp cores in the back of the ship. I'd still go with four double sized ones if we do that though, but I'm not sure about that idea. Thoughts?

Mark wrote:BTW, can I get a volunteer to go back to the weapons and shields and spend some time on the calculator and calculate DITL scores for our weapons, shields, range, and such? Your contribution with be dually credited when we unveil the final version of this beast.