Sun Tzu Class - USS Athena

[mckinneyc]

To be honest I like all of them.

Personally I'd go with the second option but have them like two small grills as shown in option 1.

[Billz]

sorry,  but clean is better...

Makes no sense.

 :shock:

[Villain]

Makes plenty sense. Aesthetically it looks neat, maybe, but think about the amount of space it'd have to take up to house... You're cutting right into several decks, not to mention housing the piping and such to deliver everything to engineering.

[FarShot]

The saucer section could have a micro-engineering.

[Villain]

Still need to direct the stuff from micro engineering to main engineering or directly to the nacelles and systems. It's not really viable. If it were on the sides of a single section ship, maybe. But this has an engineering hull too..

[adama2]

ok, I think without the changes sees it better. all ships from DJ are very discreetly and graceful.

[adama2]

The design of the voyager like me very well. what do you because it?

[GavinStCloud]

Also, update.  The blue field glowers are for the "enhanced warp field forward projection system," designed to lower the ship's peak transition threshold and allow for greater efficiency at all warp speeds, thus reaching higher maximum velocities..... I think.

Makes good sense.  If you're just looking to project a the ship's warp field forward you don't need a bussard on the saucer.  You would need augmented coils to project the field, but unless you're looking to collect interstellar hydrogen for use as energy, you wouldn't need a bussard.

The only reason I could see the for adding a bussard or two was if this projection system was also going to serve as the primary warp drive for the saucer section in separated flight mode.

[Billz]

The design of the voyager like me very well. what do you because it?

 :?

Eh?

[Technerd89]

they all kindof leave a bad taste, but the first one is the only one thats viable. the 2nd one seems like it could interfere with the secondary deflector hardware, and the 3rd one could prove disastrous in a head on collision, which for a ship this heavily armored, would be considered a last resort combat tactic.

[FourChan]

One thing that'd work good for that ship is also if you have the Saucer Nacelles imbedded a bit inside the hull, like under it some.

[Hellsgate]

OOOOO! Sweet!! More, please!

[Bigkap]

You could also try adding some red into the front of the ventral impulse engines and call them the bussards: just an idea

[adama2]

The design of the voyager like me very well. what do you because it?

 :?

Eh?

I wanted to say,
that i very like the upper front section of the voyager and what are you thinking about it...? perhaps it would look good if the free secondary and primary systems on those
sun tzu class transferred...

[Darran]

TBH, I'm drawing out the MSD for this thing and i'm finding it hard to make those new coils fit in nicely let alone bussards, from the outside this is a very beautiful ship but because of exterior elements such as the saucer coils and the placement of the stardrive impulse, theres going to be very little in the way of deck design on it

[Billz]

The design of the voyager like me very well. what do you because it?

 :?

Eh?

I wanted to say,
that i very like the upper front section of the voyager and what are you thinking about it...? perhaps it would look good if the free secondary and primary systems on those
sun tzu class transferred...

English is not your first language is it.

 8)

[ZERO]

The design of the voyager like me very well. what do you because it?

 :?

Eh?

I wanted to say,
that i very like the upper front section of the voyager and what are you thinking about it...? perhaps it would look good if the free secondary and primary systems on those
sun tzu class transferred...

English is not your first language is it.

 8)

It does not take allot to realise that, let alone point it out..   lets move on, @ Darran, i hope ou manage the MSD i look forward to seeing it, as im sure its a pain in the butt lol...     

[Nebula]

You could also try adding some red into the front of the ventral impulse engines and call them the bussards: just an idea

I like that idea

[DJ Curtis]

sorry no posts for a while.  TBH, I really don't think a bussard collector on the saucer is necessary.

[Nighthawk]

seeing those red "bussards" (or whatever) in the front, I wonder, is this going to have MVAM?
looks like those red bits can easily be the bussards of two warp engines for the saucer.