I have soma problems with Akira class!

[Andy]

I have some problems with Akira class. My players want it as their spaceship, but I'd like to give them some plans of her decks. So, is there anybody out there who can help me ? Where can I find same Akira plans or some decks of akira like class ship ?
thank you !

PS. sorry for my bad English!

[Steve Long]

Actually, your English is pretty good. Certainly, it's better than my Italian, which pretty much consists of the names of food and the words "molto bene."

There aren't any canon or officially prepared deck plans or interior illos of the Akira. Nor am I aware of any fan-created ones on the Net, though I'm sure if there are any out there, someone will point 'em out to you.

Steve Long

[JALU3]

See the Ver2 of the Akira on the Utopia Planatia Section of this site. Furthermore, there are several strings on this well liked class . . . see those.

[JALU3]

YES!!!!

<jumps for Joy>{just found out he got member status}

[Cmdr Powers]

Congratulations JALU3! OTOH, I've seen you in your Halloween costume...LOL

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

[Cmdr Powers]

We're working on them, promise! It just takes forever to get past pencil sketch concept drawings to finished stuff.

As JALU3 said, check out some of the other Akira threads for more info...

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

[JALU3]

Hey, NP. That's me, and I'm not afraid to hide it.

So how is the schematics going? Have you used any of my ideas?

Is there anything I can do to help out?

The Akira is a fine class with many possible field potential variants; both as permanant as a Carrier Varient to others which use already open spaces for expanded facilities for exploration to emergany transportation.

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[Cmdr Powers]

I dress up pretty good as 'Scotty' so I have no business complaining about your costume

I'm going to send you one of our pencils to show you we're serious about the Akira deckplan project, but please understand this is at the very beginning stages.

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

[JALU3]

Recieved . . . interesting take on the entire thing. You say your Prior Service Air Force correct? Hmmmm . . . won't hold that against you j/k.

I like what you have come up with so far, however, there are a couple things that I'm curious about. The location where you have shuttle fueling . . . is that where you would store the shuttle fuel, or an actual hanger type arrangement where the shuttle would go to refuel? Furthermore, why would you need a "Passanger Lounge?"

What do you think about the idea of a Hanger Bay below the flight deck? It would save room on the Flight Deck for more aircraft to be stored, and maintanance on the aircraft would be out of the way.

Not to critical, but I see areas where things can be improved, you know what I mean.

[Cmdr Powers]

Like I said before, its just pencil sketch, and part of a huge pile of sketches. The revetment would be where the shuttle goes to be refueled. The passenger lounge is there because they have such things on other starships. You gotta think Trek before you think military- unfortunately as the case may be. You don't think there's plenty of space on that deck, and the two above it, for all the hangar functions you can think of? Why add the complication of elevators and such if you don't have to? While the Akira is just about as wide as the Sovereign's saucer, its not all that deep. That secondary engineering hull lies pretty much right under the flight deck, so I thought I would put the deuterium tankage aft and below the flight deck. Support engineering, like life support, recycling, main deflector, etc. are forward of the tankage. Most crew spaces are at the rim of the saucer, above the flight deck and in the booms. Damn,I'm rambling again!

Okay, in between composing orders for your shiny new Starfleet Attack Fighters, send me some of your ideas...

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

[JALU3]

Well I was thinking military and carrier sorry . . . not trek. And I can see where your coming from. Furthermore . . . if there is going to be two Warp Cores, which you suggest, you'd need room for a Port and Starboard Engineering Rooms. As far as a Hanger bay is concerned, I was thinking of supporting a Large Air Wing. But you do have a point about the dueterium that needs to be stored and what not. However, it would be helpful if the Akira Carrier could handle instead of only 12 SAFs, 28 SAFs, which would be possible with a hanger bay, not to mention maybe another Danube class Runabout and all the normally carried shuttles and shuttlepods.

A solution therefore that I was using was using sparce crew quarters. Maybe still carry some normal crew quarters but for few (Captain, XO, CAG, CMO, CEO, you know the senior staff), and maybe leave some nice quarters for Diplomatic purposes.

I haven't really used Spacedock yet, but it should work in all practical purposes if you keep only two or three platoons of Marines/RRTs (80-120). Furthermore, the Marines/RRTs could take over the responsibility of the Security contingence short of Tactical Duties.

Maybe for the Hanger Bay, have most of it surrounded by the dueterium tanks, for the main purpose of the Hanger Bay is for storage of extra spacecraft and complex maintanance.

So what do you think?

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[Cmdr Powers]

There's no reason we can't do that. All of what you suggest there's certainly room for.

In our battle scenario, I deliberately reduced the number of fighters carried by half. You would probably carry a full 28 to 30 SAF's under war conditions- and there's plenty of room for them!

(Glad to see you're up. I just got home and I need a guinea pig to try to access the map sketch I tried to upload to starship battles.)

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

[Cmdr Powers]

Originally posted by JALU3:
if there is going to be two Warp Cores, which you suggest, you'd need room for a Port and Starboard Engineering Rooms.

That deck sketch only shows the base deck of the saucer. Three decks above, there is an 'engineering corridor' that links the two MARAs. A plasma conduit runs through the middle of corridor to cross-connect the cores. You have Engineering A in the Port Boom and Engineering B in the Starboard Boom, connected by the Engineering corridor. Blast doors slam down to isolate the corridor in the event that one or both MARAs have to be ejected. One MARA can run the whole ship at reduced power through rerouted plasma conduits.

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

[JALU3]

Really? I thought that the SAF was bigger . . . 28 total with only a flight deck? Hmm . . . interesting. I guess I need to look at the SAFs schematics again.

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