Kjc733 thanks for taking the time to look over my drawings. Its nice to have someone that actually appreciates my work. Your right in that my first nova was heavily based on the THG TM, plus I was like 14 and heavy into cannon ideas. So with a year or so wrapped up in the first drawings I came to the same conclusions. I hated the nacelles and wanted sleek ones, I want to add some lines to the engineering section to mimic the Excelsior II, I needed a larger saucer to incorporate an internal warp drive and deflector dish, and I want to update the hole design to be sleeker.
As to your point of the modular section I did incorporate them but I guess they didn't show up well. I'll have to do a better job this time around so thanks for the heads up.
I soooo agree with you that movable pylons and nacelles are a REALLY BAD idea! I didn't have them in my first design and the N2 won't either. Besides if you want to modulate warp fields having the internal warp coils move would be a better idea imo
Again thanks and I hope to have new drawing soon.
Update
I think I'm going to change the name of my ship to Phoenix Class since the nova is a "cannon" ship. The updated file should show up better now. I also add some specs. I need some help on the Type of fighters and shuttles I should spec out. Comments are welcome.
Class: Phoenix Class
Type: Multipurpose Tactical Cruiser/Long-term Explorer
Production Base: Classified
First commissioned:
Length: 675 meters
Beam: 400 meters (saucer dia.)
Height: 126 meters
Battle Section Length: 490 meters
Nacelle Pylon Width: 600 meters
Decks: 40
Mass: 3,015,000 metric tons
Accommodation: 250 Officers, 250 Enlisted, 200 Civilian; 4,000 personal evacuation limit
Saucer Section:
LCARS: 2 FTL Computer Cores
Warp Power Plant: OR-400 Series Mark V Warp Drive consisting of one 3,000+ Cochrane warp core feeding two IL-74 Advanced Linear Warp Drive Units
Warp Performance: Warp 6 (standard cruising), Warp 9 (maximum cruising), Warp 9.6 for 12 hours (maximum top speed)
Impulse Engines: two FIG-5 Subatomic Unified Energy Impulse Unit
Sublight speed: 0.25c (cruising), and 0.8c (max.)
Deflector Dish: Dual redundant
Armament: 6 type-XII phaser arrays
4 pulse-firing torpedo tubes + 500 torpedoes (Photon, Quantum, and other types)
Defense: High capacity Auto-modulating regenerative shield system, 20cm ablative armour plating, heavy duranium/tritanium hull
Modular Mission Interchangeable Segments: 8
Shuttlebays: 2
Embarked craft: 4 warp 6 fighters "need help on types"
6 warp 6, 20 person longrange shuttlecraft
6 warp 6, 8 person midrange shuttlecraft
3 warp 4, 6 person shortrange shuttlecraft
3 Workbees
Transporters: 6 Personnel
6 Emergency
4 Cargo
Battlesection:
LCARS: 2 FTL Computer Cores
Warp Power Plant: OR-400 Series Mark V Warp Drive consisting of one 4,000+ Cochrane warp core feeding two LF-74 Advanced Linear Warp Drive Nacelles
Warp Performance: Warp 12 (standard cruising), Warp 14 (maximum cruising), Warp 15 for 12 hours (maximum top speed)
Warp factors given on the recalibrated scale for the warp XV engine
Compared to the previous scale, warp 12 is approx. warp 9.95, warp 14 is approx. warp 9.985+ and warp 15 is approx. warp 9.99+.
Impulse Engines: four FIG-5 Subatomic Unified Energy Impulse Unit (2 at the aft of spaceframe & 1 under each nacelle)
Sublight speed: 0.25c (cruising), and 0.8c (max.)
Deflector Dish: Dual redundant Main Dish
2 Secondary Dishes
Armament: 12 type-XII phaser arrays
5 pulse-firing torpedo tubes + 800 torpedoes (Photon, Quantum, and other types)
Defense: High capacity Auto-modulating regenerative shield system, 20cm ablative armour plating, heavy duranium/tritanium hull
Shuttlebays: 5
Embarked craft: 20 warp 6 fighters "need help on types"
12 warp 6, 20 person longrange shuttlecraft
12 warp 6, 8 person midrange shuttlecraft
6 warp 4, 6 person shortrange shuttlecraft
6 Workbees
Transporters: 6 Personnel
6 Emergency
4 Cargo
