Has anyone out there designed a Runabout class ship? If so would you share you design?
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Has anyone out there designed a Runabout class ship? If so would you share you design?
The mission-class, perhaps?
The Mission-class is way too big, the Scorpio out of the SRM is more like a Runabout, or one of the Warp shuttles in the back.
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Originally Posted by Phoenix
I disagree. With the tech involved and with a crew of nine, i believe the mission class is the perfect equivelant. It has very similar mission parameters but without the versatility of the swappale pallets that the runabout uses.
The Mission class deckplans are 31.5m long & 12m high.(well actuall 9m given the 1.5m squares.)The Danube Class I beleive was listed in the DS9 Tech Book as 25m.If you actually go according to the drawning of the Mission it would probably be only 25m in the hull & 31.5 with the warp pods.(making it only 2 decks)I'm trying to work up a new set of plans for the Mission,trying to fit into the hull shown.
The Danube class from DS9 is what I was thinking of.
Given the envelope of the Mission class as shown in the FASA books, it can't work. Sure, you could cram a two-deck version into the envelope, but most of the forward hull would be too low for any habitable space, giving you one deck about half the size of the three(!!!) shown, and a teeny, tiny attic above it. Not enough space to fulfil the mission as described.
I did a revised set of deck plans keeping the three decks. The ship had to be enlarged to fit them in, with the middle deck being the same size as the original: http://www.coldnorth.com/owen/game/s...ps/mission.htm
I also gave the Chameleon class the same treatment: http://www.coldnorth.com/owen/game/s...cas/lucas2.htm
The only ship the FASA people ever did that actually worked as a 3D object was the Tavares class. Here's my version of the basic ship, with a link to the "Q-ship" version used in the original FASA adventure: http://www.coldnorth.com/owen/game/s...s/tavares1.htm
Unfortunately, FASA had some of the worst-ever graphics people in the entire gaming industry doing their deck plans. Hell, they made the GDW ship plans look like paragons of realism... :(
http://home.comcast.net/~sub-odeon/ststcsolda/
Is your best source for FASA designs. Seems he hasn't posted a runabouts stats yet but he does have some other TNG/DS9 ers ships.