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Immediate Plans...

So I've just finished a major rebuild of the Constitution class... What next?  The next step is to knock out a couple variations on the same essential hull configuration.  Those include the
Andromeda, Apollo, Kirov, Slava, maybe one or two others.
Visual references here: Jaynz.trekships.com

Edit: So lets see...
1. Add the upper Nacelle to make an Andromeda
2. Lower the side Nacelles to make the Slava.
3. Remove the upper Nacelle to make a Kirov
4. Remove the secondary hull from the Slava to make a Carlson
5.  Something like that.  I may be tired of this series by then...

I also have some TMP era Miranda  variants that are about 90% complete.  None of these are new projects, but a squadron of new ships for the effort of a few nacelles is hard to pass up.

Constitution Class: Refit, Rebuilt, Retextured

This is my third rework of the Movie era Constitution class star ship from the Star Trek Universe.  I've been working on it for weeks, and it is a labor of love.

Design Features:

• Fully re-modeled with Starmade V0.1 blocks
• Similarly redesigned Shuttlecraft based on those from the movies
• Core-lance AMC Meta-arrays
• High mass-efficiency power arrays
• High mass-efficiency thrust using new .04 engine algorithms
• Modeled Bridge, Engine room, Medical bay, Shuttle Bay.
• Decks on all sections.
• More detailed paint work
• 25 Recessed turrets defend your aft while preserving the aesthetics
• All external doors are airlocked
• Airlocks contain Gravity controls
• Jump tubes to easily move between decks.
• Full 1:1 scale
• Hand-built from blueprints

How to Voxelate Vectors Like a Boss... Part 2

OK, I'm starting to set up for my build of Intrepid, and this seems like a great time to finish my Voxel Tutorial
See Part 1 (here)

Public Service Announcement: As a reminder,  Voxel imports can be abused.  If you see someone flying a glob of hull masquerading as a ship, be a good friend, and talk to them about voxel abuse.  The fleet you save from ridicule might be your own.

In Honor of the Equinox

Nova Class:  A mid-range explorer and planetary survey craft.  Not for deep-range exploration... Like to the delta quadrant.  No, really.  Don't do it.

Nova Refit: Interdictor.  A later refit model of the nova, replaces the fore-sensor array and auxiliary deflector dish with an energy drain beam.  This is a light pt-boat, not a major combat craft.  If you have a smuggler problem, great.  If you have a military incursion, flee.

Nova Carrier:  A variant of the Nova with down-swept nacelles, and a large outboard docking frame capable of supporting a single modular mission plate.

(VZZWARP!)

(VZZWARP!)  HA! Have at thee Romulan skum! (clicky clicky of empty guns) DAMMIT!

...That awkward moment, when your ship suddenly has so much thrust that it sucks your capacitors dry, and your guns won't fire.

OK.  Ship-releases are on hold until I figure out the new coil thruster equation.

Bug Report: Ghost Engines and Power

No engines, plenty of thrust.

Not a crash:
Observation: Under pre-0.133, removal of thrusters or power core blocks does remove the block, and reduces the mass, but the removal is not reflected in group calculations. 

I am remodeling one of my ships, and completely removed the engines. All engine blocks are gone, but the ship still reports 54232.6 in thrust.   Mass decrements as normal.

Here's where it gets weird  If I add a thruster where one has previously been,   There is no increase in thrust.  If I add a thruster where one had NOT previously been, thrust increases.

2001: A Quick Space Build

So thinking in purely practical terms I created a simple utilitarian EVA and cargo management pod for the Rickover class that I published earlier today.  As I finished, I realized that the thing looked familiar.  OF COURSE! I had recreated another simple utilitarian EVA and utility pod.  Only difference was that mine was yellow.   So a quick coat of white paint and Voila!  An EVA pod from 2001: A Space Oddyssey.  Now all our Daves can feel right at home.

Soyuz

Based on the Miranda, The Soyuz adds a large extension to the rear of the hull, and  four outboard non-engine nacelles.  Whether those are sensor pods or large fixed canon emplacements seems to vary with the source.

Rickover Class: Tactical Logistics Carrier

The Rickover tactical logistics carrier is an automated materiel delivery system.  These ships are meant to function with minimal or no crew, freeing ships of the line from the mundane work of logistical support. More than just a freighter, the Rickover is designed to be a military asset.  12 of her docking ports are powered and articulated to accept the same turrets installed on federation warships.  This allowed the Rickover to deliver even valuable supplies without a destroyer escort.

The class is named for Hyman G Rickover, a Terran wet-navy admiral of the 20th century.

“Bitter experience in war has taught the maxim that the art of war is the art of the logistically feasible.”  -- Admiral Hyman Rickover, USN

Turrets, Large and Larger

Two turret systems designed as upgrade/replacements for any of  my current compatible federation ships

Both incorporate "Core-lance" meta-arrays, designed to burn efficiently through to an enemy core, while doing minimal peripheral damage. This leaves you with a defeated enemy vessel that is more valuable to salvage, or more easily recovered and repaired.

U.S.S Peregrine (fully loaded)

The U.S.S Peregrine is wildly non-canon, but she has such a plausible backstory, and beautiful lines that she needed to be made.

The premise is that Starfleet engineers tried and failed to adapt Romulan cloaking technology to Federation ships.  They could get it working briefly.. as Montgomery Scott did with a stolen cloaking device in "The Enterprise Incident" (TOS), but federation power systems simply couldn't adapt to the demands of the device.    In one of the attempts, it was postulated that perhaps the shape of the Romulan ships made cloaking easier.  The U.S.S Peregrine was constructed in order to test that Hypothesis.   The shape didn't help with cloaking, although the ship itself was a complete success in all other respects.  The fact that only one of the type was ever constructed has nothing to do with any design flaw, but may have more to do with a reluctance on the part of Starfleet to pay the Romulans so obvious and sincere a compliment as to imitate their signature cruiser design.