[Major Diarrhia]

Originally Posted by Jonny Boy

Wow, okay, where to start...First off, I'm glad someone was paying more attention than me. For the life of me, I could not remember the length I'd come up with. Thanks Major D!

No problem, I just happen to be nuts.

On you MSD, by the way, it looks good, the distance between the verticle turbo lift tubes from the bridge toward that central cargo bay, it's about half the length of Voyager. I think you need more turbolift shafts

Now onto your suggestions... The warp nacelles are connected that way because I like the way the profile looks. I was a little worried about the way they are connected, as well, especially when it comes to structural integrity at warp speeds. But I figure that if Starfleet could build this thing, then they could probably take care of those issues.

I don't doubt they could build it, especially considering how thin the pylons for warp nacelles generally are. It speaks of huge structural strength, whether it's because of structural integrity fields or not. But I was referring to the landing bay nacelles, not the warp nacelles, I like the warp nacelles placement because it looks so sturdy and fits well with the nBSG. Even though I like how the angled pylons look, I think there should be some substantial horizontal connections to simplify movement of material and people to and from the landing bay nacelles. That way, wouldn't need cargo bay doors in the after of the ship either, you could just have cargo brought into the landing bays and carried through the ship. Then again, dedicated magazine loading bays would probably be best and why would you want those right near the main engines.

I'm guessing by landing gear you mean the hatches on the bottom of the ship. The two round ones aft of the docking bay doors are the warp core ejection hatches (two warp cores, one for each Nacelle, which are like two Nacelles in one.) The rectangular ones are hatches for the weapon turrets. The spec sheets are in a previous post, and have a few made-up details about the ship.

I didn't even realise the ship would have two warp cores, it's something I never really liked, if making a ST ship in a strict way, I always felt it would create a warp field that can't be controlled properly because the warp core it self actually produces certain fields, maybe even the warp field it self. But it's your design and I've always thought that multiple warp cores are, at least, amusing. The more the merrier.

I don't see why the weapons turrets shouldn't just always be exposed.

As for the impulse engines, I wanted something reminiscent of the thrusters on the back of the "real" Galactica, but still fit in with the trek tech. Low and behold, I was inspired by the impulse engines on the NX-01. They look blue like the Galactica's thrusters, but are impulse engines from Trek.

Well, there was one of the pre-NX ships in Enterprise that had its impulse engines at the rear of the warp engine nacelles. The original BSG and, I think, the Prometheus had white sublight engines. Of course, blue goes with the nBSG and, as you pointed out, the NX. I just remembered that I put impulse engines on the back of the nacelles in a design I made a few years ago.

As far as the fighters go, that idea hadn't really crossed my mind. You just opened up some more options to me. I'll think about it while I'm working on the vipers. Thanks!

You're Galactica is about two times larger than the originals, so you might as well make the fighters larger too. The Vipers are about 9 meters long, and the Federation Fighter and Scout are about 14 and 24 meters long, respectively. I would go with the latter.