What i would like to see is a torpedo turret just like what was on the sovvy class. If i remember correctly you could never see the torp launchers on the defiant, they just seemed to appear.
What i would like to see is a torpedo turret just like what was on the sovvy class. If i remember correctly you could never see the torp launchers on the defiant, they just seemed to appear.
True. I think what I will do is make those blocky things in the front open and reveal torpedo launchers. Some more updates. Started to remodel the ship. Most of the ship was a mess so I started redoing it. Looks better and more Defianty.
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The nose of the Defiant never made sense to me. It's supposedly a supplemental craft, the deflector housing, AND the primary docking port to DS9.
It wasn't really a craft. According to some info I found it could be fired with warheads in it as a last ditch effort weapon. I never watched DS9 so I never knew how it docked.
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If this is a Mark II you could make it bigger, perhaps by extending the wings backwards? make it a bit more triangle shaped to make it look like a faster ship? I'm not really a Star Trek fan, so I dunno how this conflicts with the universe
I'd make a Defiant variant with 3 (Y-positioned) or 4 (X-positioned) swept back nacelles on their own pylons rather than those huge batwing nacelles with scaled down torpedo launchers on each pylon like the one embedded in the neck of the Enterprise-A or on the rollbar of the Reliant.
Capable of its own "Death Blossom" (see "The Last Starfighter") when/if cornered.
If this is a Mark II you could make it bigger, perhaps by extending the wings backwards? make it a bit more triangle shaped to make it look like a faster ship? I'm not really a Star Trek fan, so I dunno how this conflicts with the universe
I've tried that before and it doesn't work as well.
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She'd still be a Defiant but she needs to be able to evolve as mission-specific purposes dictate. She'd also carry a small cache of tricobalt missiles for really nasty messes. Two of the nacelles would be strictly slaved to warp flight and main weapons, the other two would be slaved to the cloaking device, infinity modulator, shields, life support, and other tactical back-up options such as blow-away plates that allows the forward missile section to release and take out resistance as the escape pods / shuttlepods get clear.
I have to say that this looks more like an ancestor of the Defiant rather than a descendant. As a concept, it strikes me as a step back rather than a step forwards.
On a side note, those wings would make it a bigger target in a firefight. Personally, I'd either shrink 'em and bring the engines much farther inboard, or ditch them entirely and mount the warp drives inside the main hull.
I have to say that this looks more like an ancestor of the Defiant rather than a descendant. As a concept, it strikes me as a step back rather than a step forwards.
On a side note, those wings would make it a bigger target in a firefight. Personally, I'd either shrink 'em and bring the engines much farther inboard, or ditch them entirely and mount the warp drives inside the main hull.
yeha the defiant is the first step to the warp nessels being built in to the ship like the future time traveln style ships or w/e
I have to say that this looks more like an ancestor of the Defiant rather than a descendant. As a concept, it strikes me as a step back rather than a step forwards.
On a side note, those wings would make it a bigger target in a firefight. Personally, I'd either shrink 'em and bring the engines much farther inboard, or ditch them entirely and mount the warp drives inside the main hull.
I'm keeping them the same way the Defiant had them. No more talk about external nacelles. Those will be on a variant when I get around to it.
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True. I think what I will do is make those blocky things in the front open and reveal torpedo launchers. Some more updates. Started to remodel the ship. Most of the ship was a mess so I started redoing it. Looks better and more Defianty.
Yea I know but I wanted to make it one with the ship.
It wasn't really a craft. According to some info I found it could be fired with warheads in it as a last ditch effort weapon. I never watched DS9 so I never knew how it docked.
Or "OH S--T!" button. :P
Capable of its own "Death Blossom" (see "The Last Starfighter") when/if cornered.
I've tried that before and it doesn't work as well.
Then it wouldn't be really a Defiant. The Defiant has her nacelles built into the ship. Giving her 3 or 4 nacelles would be pointless.
Inspired by the Serenity:
On a side note, those wings would make it a bigger target in a firefight. Personally, I'd either shrink 'em and bring the engines much farther inboard, or ditch them entirely and mount the warp drives inside the main hull.
yeha the defiant is the first step to the warp nessels being built in to the ship like the future time traveln style ships or w/e
I'm keeping them the same way the Defiant had them. No more talk about external nacelles. Those will be on a variant when I get around to it.
I forgot about that armor. Don't know how I would do that though.
Chechnya-Class Destroyer
Damascus-Class Destroyer
Egypt-Class Destroyer
But I was thinking along the lines of re-examining Jim Martin's under-developed "Defiant-Class" concept art.
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Pretty ugly designs. Glad they went the way they did
Because that looks like a Sabre-class.
Look it up, there are various verions for BC, Armada, everything...