Talk:Starfleet/@comment-10905876-20150102181151/@comment-10905876-20150102193109

OOC: sorry, was cleaning dishes from the Chinchilla cage.

IC:

Kensworth: "Yes admiral, I've been observing the way other navies and politicians behave these days. The world we seem to live in is a rather violent one, and I have a ship designed more for combat than exploration like our other ships. She's to be at least 600 meters long like the Mt. Everest, but have a far heavier armament."

He pulls out some rolled up blueprints (OOC: in Star Trek VI Scotty has some paper blueprints that he looks over in the wardroom) with plans for a starship bearing a resemblance to the K't'inga class battlecruiser. It has a smaller than normal primary hull with photon tubes in the front, virtually no neck pylon, and a long and flat secondary hull with a bulge forward for the navigation deflector (not a shield, just a thing to prevent meteor strikes, very very weak), and two low slung nacelles aft.

Kensworth: "The warp core will be horizontal to reduce the frontal cross section, and to keep it to only a single deck in height. I plan for broadside photon tubes along the secondary hull to increase firepower, with a forward tube to allow the ship to 'strafe' an enemy."