Hey everybody,
I had this idea for a Daedalus-class design rattling aound in my head, and I finally got it down on paper the other day.
I had the idea that it would be a
lot smaller than the "real" Daedalus -- say, about 90 metres long, with around 15-20 crewmembers.
I was also thinking that the earliest warp reactors would probably have as much shielding as a nuclear powerplant does today, so I made it that all the living space is in the sphere, and the engineering hull is taken up completely by the warp core and fuel tanks (It would also be easier to jettison if anything went wrong).
Main Engineering is in this little section at the other end of the neck, overlooking the warp core:
Let me know what you think -- It's just a start, and I'm very open to shifting things around...
Thanks to Aethernaut, Evil_genius_180, and Vektor for inspiration.