The other day I was looking through the Haynes Klingon Bird-of-prey Owners’ Workshop Manual by Sternbach and Robinson pages 64 and 65 talks about the warp drive and it is a in the wings of the ship not so much embedded as the Defiant has. This bothered me so I generated the following to add to the variation of the Warp Nacelles that I have already generated for Spacedock.
While I was doing so I realized that the Talarian ship had wings and I decided to use them as a version of the nacelles for their species. I could not find any other species that used anything that I could see any where similar other than the Yaridian’s but I had them figured as sensor sails for espionage.
Talarian and Klingon Warp Drive Plates (a.k.a. Nacelles, wing nacelles)
The variation of the Klingon warp plates are much like the nacelles and are deployed to the either side of the ship’s hull. The warp plates are individual and act much like the Standard Nacelles. These are not many other species by any other species known to be in the Alpha and Beta quadrants. Another species is Talarian and used in their warships and Observation ships.
• Costs 85% of SU’s for that of a standard twin-nacelle system.
• Reduction of warp speed -0.1/0.2/0.3 and addition of one hour of warp speed.
• The shields get a bonus of 75 additional protection and 7 additional protection to threshold as it is considered to be partly embedded nacelles.
• The Klingon wings that the plates are constructed into are variable geometry allowing the vessel to swing into a flight position, landing position, and attack position and cost an additional ten SU’s to the nacelles.
• The wings have half the resistance on the interior and the same as on the outer hull. The unique designs allows these plates to cool quickly before landing on a planet, if there is landing capability.
• There is little known about the origins of the formation of these kinds of nacelles.
• The additional nacelles follow the rules for multiple nacelles after initial generation of the first two nacelles. Once the basic generation is completed the additional plates can be generated see example
* Additional notes the ship with fixed nacelle plates can have a covering that looks like a solar panel which they are and generate power that the ship can use. The Talarian use the solar panels as an additional power to power systems other than the warp systems.
Klingon Twin Warp Drive Nacelle Plates/Swing Wings: Type 6D <(105 x 85% = 90) + 10 = 100>
Speed: 5.9/9.0/9.3 [1 power/.2 warp speed]
Special configuration: Standard two nacelles
PIS: Type G (11 hours of Maximum warp) <14>
Talarian Quad Warp Drive Fixed Nacelle Plates: Type 6D <(105 x 85% = 90 + (25%) 23 + 23) = 136>
Speed: 6.2/9.2/9.4 [1 power/.2 warp speed]
Special configuration: Standard two nacelles
PIS: Type G (11 hours of Maximum warp) <14>
Like most of my designs they are open for everyone to use or toss to the side. I usually post the ships in the basic Spacedock but the ships we end up using we use the expanded ship notes here.
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