I am impressed u have put alot of thought into this ship. I was wondering, have u settled on a weaps arrangement yet for her cause i can see her housed 4 fore phaser pulse cannons 2 lateral phaser arrays port and starboard. torp launchers
Thank you! Right now I have fore and aft twin torpedo launchers, four pulse canons, three dorsal phaser arrays and two ventral arrays. I don't know if I want to add more, since that seems like a fair amount for such a small ship. I know the Defiant had more pulse phasers, but it always seemed to me that in-game the Defiant was firing just too much stuff! And since this is a stripped-down version, I thought I'd keep the count low.
Originally, I had a sort of turret system on the bottom of the ship, such as in the third image. It was intended to fire micro-torpedoes and pulse phasers, much as the
turrets built for DS9 did. I scrapped it initially because I didn't think I had the necessary programming ability to accomplish what I wanted out of this. But perhaps I can get it working for a variant version of the Sentinel.
Hellsgate: I went ahead and tried out what you suggested, and it worked well. I like the "shielded" look it has now at the front. I guess the cover will rotate under the nose when time for docking. I also put a docking collar at the rear of the bridge assembly. It looks a bit funny right now, but I think I can fix that with an actual "collar" surrounding the hatch.
