Starting up an Akira

[Capt. Ares]

Originally posted by Cmdr Powers:
I presume your history is from your ongoing campaign, right?

Right. I tried to follow the most logical chain of events regarding the aftermath of the war. The increase in RR troops is pure speculation, of course...

Rick Berman has already promised the Romulans will be the enemy in the next film.

Let's see, you have an opposing force of 4 Jem-Hadar attack ships. You fire the CRP at the first one. The beam jumps to 400. It hits the second ship and jumps to 800. It hits the third ship and jumps to 1600. It hits the fourth ship, which only has 1200 point shields, and blasts on through, doing 400 points to the Attack Ship.

The effect would also diminish the shields of each ship it hit to build up power. Therefore, each ship's shield rating would be diminished by 200 pts until they re-charge.

This would make the Starfleet Attack Fighter around the same size as a Danube class Runabout. This is based on the size of the cockpit and the stated crew of 2.

That's how I think of it. Imagine a Runabout with its rear comparments taken up with weaponry and shielding components. It also has planetfall and atmospheric capability (hence the wings).

[Cmdr Powers]

Yeah, that's how a CRP would work, but I really don't want one in my ship. Its just a little bit too gimmicky for my tastes, and I really doubt that Starfleet would make one, if they could. Star Trek: Armada is fun and all, but its not canon Trek.

OTOH, for those of you who want a high-powered, anime-style, combat-oriented game with lots of buckles to swash- why not?

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"The best diplomat I know is a fully charged phaser bank" -Montgomery Scott

[Capt. Ares]

I don't know, I could see a Reginald Barkley type coming up with the CRP during the Dominion War. Although they would have only built one. It would have drained the ship's power, or something like that, and burnt out after only a couple of battles...

I'll stick with my standard 7 quantum torpedo launchers pod and cloaking pod modules (swapped out at Starbase 1, depending on the mission).

What is the "DWS" Steve's writing?

[Cmdr Powers]

I meant the Dominion War Sourcebook.

Cloaking Modules!!! You treaty breaker you!

Got to go to work now. Damn, just as this was getting interesting.

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"The best diplomat I know is a fully charged phaser bank" -Montgomery Scott

[Steve Long]

Steve! Help us out here.

Ummm... what do you need? I'm not familiar with the game or weapon you mention. Or were you asking about something else?

Steve Long

[Cmdr Powers]

This is about the USS Jupiter's Chain Reaction Pulsar weapon in Star Trek: Armada. Each ship in the game has a special weapon. The Chain Reaction Pulsar is a hellacious energy blast fired from the weapon module of the Akira class Jupiter. The blast ricochets off the shields of its first target, drawing even more energy from it and hits the next nearest enemy vessel, gaining more energy with each bounce until it hits the final target.

My guess would be that the Tac officer sets up a shot just like a billiards shot, with the intention of using enemy vessels as billiards to reach his intended target. The initial shot might have 200 energy, but gain at least 200 from each shield it richochets off of until it accumulates enough to blow through one of those ship's shields.

Let's see, you have an opposing force of 4 Jem-Hadar attack ships. You fire the CRP at the first one. The beam jumps to 400. It hits the second ship and jumps to 800. It hits the third ship and jumps to 1600. It hits the fourth ship, which only has 1200 point shields, and blasts on through, doing 400 points to the Attack Ship.

Well, Captain Ares, Steve, what do you think?

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"The best diplomat I know is a fully charged phaser bank" -Montgomery Scott

[toadkiller]

So how big is a tactical fighter? I remember them from DS9 of course but how do they compare in size to a runabout?

I've been running alot of non-combat related sessions of late and need to bring in some conflict.
TK

[Cmdr Powers]

The easy answer is size 2.

The more correct answer is around 20-30 meters. About the size of a large modern interceptor like the F-22 or maybe even the SR-71. This would make the Starfleet Attack Fighter around the same size as a Danube class Runabout. This is based on the size of the cockpit and the stated crew of 2.

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"The best diplomat I know is a fully charged phaser bank" -Montgomery Scott

[This message has been edited by Cmdr Powers (edited 12-12-2000).]

[Capt. Ares]

Originally posted by Cmdr Powers:
Cloaking Modules!!! You treaty breaker you!

It's modular... it's not an integral part of the ship's system... yeah, that's it.

Actually, in my post Dominion War history, the Federation and the(Romulan)Empire modified the treaty of Algernon agreements to allow the Federation to develop cloaking modules for its new modular ships like the Akira, as it provided the whole of the allied front (as the Klingons already had cloaking technology) a tactical advantage.

I built this out from some instances when the DS9 series had Starfleet using cloaking technology whenever it wanted to. Sure they made a big deal about the Romulans installing the cloaking device on the Defiant for their first recon mission into the Gamma Quadrant, but they didn't remove it once the mission was over. The mines at the Wormhole were all cloaked (not to mention swarming and self replicating )and I don't recall any Romulans showing up to install the cloaks on the mines.

[Steve Long]

The self-replicating mines blocking the wormhole were not cloaked. They're clearly visible in quite a few scenes in various episodes.

There were some Klingon cloaked mines used in DS9, "Return To Grace," though.

Steve Long