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Alright excalibur, Here is one you requested. I did something similar to my first ship aswell. This is made from Aad's Miranda and Excelsior 2, so the excelsior parts look a bit different than a regular centaur, but since Aad is consistent with his textures(which is awesome) It looks like the parts were made to fit together. This one turned out very well IMO. Makes a good Miranda refit.
Looks like I can do your Orion class as well, but I need a picture so I know how the naclles go, and I need to know if you want the naclles to illuminated on both sides, or blue on one and dark on the other. look at the various miranda classes to see what I mean.
So I tried to check on STO, but I found out that by stargazer, you meant stargazer class, not constellation class. Unfortunately, I will not be able to make that one either because there is no existing stargazer model. Sorry to get your hopes up.
Thanks maj! I actually Emailed Aad today, and got a responce only an hour or two later. Hes pretty awesome imo. He gave me full permission to do whatever I need and is obviously still very active.
Thanks man. I think it was like 10k, but I didn't really try to save any. There are quite a few places where I had unnecessary or hidden detail, but I wan't planing on ever using it so I didn't care too much.
Hello
I know it has been a long time since I ever spoke. I mostly just come here to see if there is something that can reignite my desire to mod Armada II. And I figured that if at all possible I could propose a concept to you.
I was thinking that I would like a version of the Excelsior Class that would have some of the flavor of the JJ Star Trek Universe. I do have some mental images of what it would look like so I'll try my best to describe it.
Because of the fact that Captain Nero's vessel that interfered in the timeline had some Borg Technology. I figured that the "TMP" era of the JJ-verse would probably be very much reshaped. As Klingons have had encounters with the Narada. Chances favor the potential that debris from battles against Nero and his crew could have been recovered giving them access to Borg-oriented technology. Combined with the fact that Starfleet had acquired the Transwarp equation from Scott. Both sides of the war could easily have the potential of successfully integrating Transwarp drive into their starships by the time the Excelsior class would be developed. Keeping this in mind, I would think that the Excelsior class would be the first Mass-production vessel that has the Transwarp technology as its core feature. Because of this there would be significant differences to the original universe Excelsior.
In the Voyager Series; 7 of 9 made a remark when with Holographic Barkley that the Borg project their structural integrity field ahead of the actual ship (like the plow in front of a truck pushing through snow). Keeping this in mind Starfleet would have likely come across this problem when testing Transwarp prototypes. Hence they needed stronger deflector technology. So I would imagine that the Excelsior might possibly have Two deflectors. One on the Stardrive section and one on the Saucer sort of imitating the concept of the Norway Class. Also they would likely take some of the concepts of the Constitution type. So the Excelsior would probably have smaller but similar ranscoops as the Constitution. But would also have the dorsal intercoolers of the original Excelsior nacelle (in case you are unaware what an intercooler is... its the blue part of the nacelle that the warp plasma is often vented from).
With a war with the Klingons almost unavoidable in the future of the JJ verse, they would make the Excelsior class a combat oriented design by arming it with additional torpedo tubes including some that would be facing the Starboard and Port quarters of the ship. Additional Phaser turrets on the saucer would also be likely as well. So instead of five on the dorsal side and three (i think) on the bottom of the saucer. I was thinking there would be seven on top and five below and they would be more centered between the bridge and the outer rim of the saucer. They would also have phaser turrets on the nacelle pylons to help their aft flank.
A final note is that instead of two impulse thrusters it would be one wide one. As I noticed that in the end of the Sequel. The impulse thrusters was merged from two into one. So they would likely favor a single big engine over two smaller ones.