Monarch Class WIP

[BorgMan]

Hey Madeinjapan, nice bridge and ship! You can check out SketchUp if you want to dabble in 3D modelling a bit. It's free, and if you like it enough youcan always buy the Pro version or start using 3DSMax or the likes...

[madeinjapan1988]

Originally Posted by Aresius

The ship looks like an alternative version of the Sovereign and the bridge looks like a version of the Galaxy-bridge..

I was actually going for a more intrepid, sovereign cross. I hope that is more evident in the other views I do (which are in progress as we speak, but as I mentioned are slow coming)

Anyways, thank you all for the comments, as for a 3D program, I may pick it up down the road but for now I am more a 2D kind of guy, its my forte.

-Josh

[FrostRaptor]

A wee bit big for my tastes, but she wears it well; graceful with nice lines. Looking forward to a three-view!

[PokemonFleet]

Cool ship madeinjapan1988! Can you give us the specs for this ship? I wonder if this is the ship designed to explore the Delta Quadrant? Do you think this ship should be named the Enterprise-F?

[captainkirk]

Originally Posted by madeinjapan1988

I was actually going for a more intrepid, sovereign cross. I hope that is more evident in the other views I do (which are in progress as we speak, but as I mentioned are slow coming)

Anyways, thank you all for the comments, as for a 3D program, I may pick it up down the road but for now I am more a 2D kind of guy, its my forte.

-Josh

Maybe once you finish designing the ship some talented modeler will make it. I like the ship but the bridge looks like all the unimportant TNG bridges. I think the nose of the ship could be more pointy.

[madeinjapan1988]

Originally Posted by PokemonFleet

Cool ship madeinjapan1988! Can you give us the specs for this ship? I wonder if this is the ship designed to explore the Delta Quadrant? Do you think this ship should be named the Enterprise-F?

Some of the specs are on the bottom of the original image. She is 900m long, beam is 400m, and height 135m. She is crewed by 1,200 personnel and is powered by an advanced 28 deck tall primary reactor with a working slipstream drive. She is the first ship of the line to abandon an isolinear computer system completely (for anything other than a back up) and is powered by a semi-intelligent bio-neural gel based computer core. The ships is part of a project to explore the delta quadrant as well as...get this...the Andromeda galaxy, using her slipstream drive (intense calculations made possible by the extremely fast bio-neural gel based computer core) to travel to both locations. The ship's of the line are yet to be determined, but I would be honored if she was chosen to be the Enterprise F (or G)

As of now, the two ships of the line are as follows:

NX-83282 U.S.S. Monarch
NCC-71832-B U.S.S. Odyssey

I presumed that the federation would do a 12 ship run, so the others will be assigned registries and names as time goes by. More write ups on the ships technology, features, and such to come.

Originally Posted by captainkirk

Maybe once you finish designing the ship some talented modeler will make it. I like the ship but the bridge looks like all the unimportant TNG bridges. I think the nose of the ship could be more pointy.

I avoided the pointed nose and gave her a more rounded look as to separate her more from the sovereign and give her the graceful and un-imposing look of a deep space explorer. As for the bridge, I personally like it but any changes you had thoughts on would be happily received.

AS A NOTE: This ship is being designed for a Star Trek text based Sim called Star Trek: Andromeda. The first ship of a proposed fleet for the sim is the Odyssey and we are recruiting now. If anyone is interested, please visit the link below.

Star Trek Andromeda

[Hellsgate]

I'm hoping you gave her more of a Legacy-Class / Intrepid-Class ovular design saucer section.

[madeinjapan1988]

Below is a link to all that I have done on the top, I know it isn't much but it gives you a general idea of the saucer shape.

Monarch Class Top WIP by ~madeinjapan1988 on deviantART

[PokemonFleet]

Well, since the Federation is exploring the Gamma/Delta Quadrants and Andromeda/Triangulum Galaxies, have you thought about having Captain La Forge's Starship Challenger sent on a mission to the Andromeda Galaxy? If so, why not use Dark Saber's USS Challenger bridge either the original or the one with Sovy consoles(just pick one). Since I'm now the member of your ST: Andromeda RPG as Lamhirh_of_Abh, I was thinking about commanding a Monarch-class Enterprise-F as Captain Naomi Wildman(yes, I'm a guy, but Kuro-chan of KuroRPG is one too and he uses a purple hair girl as his character). My first officer is a decendant of Ambassador Spock and Saavik named Science Officer Lt. Sarek(named after Spock's father).
Btw, have you ever thought about posting the RPG info on Star Trek Expanded Universe Fanfic/RPG Wiki?

[Major Diarrhia]

It's a great looking design, it really fits right into the post TNG era of ships. I really like the steeper angle of the saucer, since I've never been a fan of the skylight style of windows that the flatter hull produces, except at the edges, which are what we always saw in TNG. It also makes the ship look more robust and heavy. The double stack of the saucer is interesting and it looks like the saucer's shuttle bay will be notably large. The deflector has a nice rake and the lines of the engineering section are strong and attractive. The aft shuttlebay doors are steep but pleasing.

If this is really the successor to the Galaxy Class, then you should consider giving it a well thought out saucer separation ability. The Sovereign was made with this ability in mind but it was never executed properly because, I think, it was never made final. As such, the ship looks like it should have saucer separation but doesn't look like it could pull off in a way that makes sense. Also, if you could figure out how to incorporate a secondary hull flair, like the Enterprise-C and Galaxy Class, and make it look good, I would be impressed. I would also like to see the sensors go around the entire edge of the saucer and mid-line of the engineering section, such as on the Galaxy Class.

I think the nacelles and pylons don't fit the idea of it being a slip stream ship since even with a strong enough ability to make calculations, instabilities could still happen to the quantum slipstream conduit, causing damage to the ship, or even throwing the ship out of control. Problems like that are bound to happen since it's a very new technology to Starfleet. Better to make the ship more structurally robust just in case by moving the nacelles right up to the hull. You should also consider a new style of deflector, unless you already have, since it's the deflector that allows quantum slipstream travel and not the nacelles. I greatly dislike the phaser arrangement, it appears completely haphazard and weak, while the arrays themselves appear too thin. It also looks like it has about five more decks, they should be counted from the very bottom of the ship, not the bottom most line of windows.

Blackbird17: A Nimitz is 340 m long and 78 m wide, not 900 m long.