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Originally Posted by bbelt  The underside needs a little something. Hhhhmmmm.....do you think it may be possible for the ship to land on planets? Maybe some landing gear accesses. Or maybe some escape pods or auxillary craft of some sort. Don't really know how big the ship is.
Like it anyways. Keep up the good work. |
The underside needs a lot of something! LOL Don't know if it can land, though. I'd have to be able to mount really long struts, or put them in the engines. I don't think there's enough room in the engines and the hull itself looks pretty compact.
The original measurements were
L 120m; W 72m; H 24m, 5-6 decks. And an average crew of 40. from the first post I made. IIRC, about a third of Ent-A total size.
The length has changed with the positioning of the engines. They don't appear as long as the original line art (since removed from the thread). There are plans for 4 more pods on the underside and possibly 4 more directly above them on the top.
I might be able to build an auxiliary craft below. It'll be a tight fit if I want to have it conform to the shape of the hull. There's no shuttle bay. Something like Voyager's Aeroshuttle or something the size of Ent-D Captian's Yacht. Some sort of small dropship. Or it could be attached somehow. Not sure how this works in ST.
Good idea! I like it!
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Originally Posted by traq the MSDs contradict this, but I always thought what we see on the ship's exterior was a hatch, not the pod itself. that's how Voyager's pods were. it largely solves the pod orientation problem. |
Just going by what I remember on ST: First Contact. Triangular vessels that eject from the hull. I'll let someone else figure out how it works. Besides, it breaks up the monotony of the surface and makes it interesting to look at.