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YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE CUBE!!!
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Federation Cube Ship
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[Jack Nicholson voice]
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE CUBE!!!
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Lorna
Lieutenant Commander
My Federation cube ship would have one power source and it would be centrally located and will be massive. Engineering will be located around the centre of it and the bridge located at the top.
The hull will be comprised of ablative armour and a shield generator.
The cube edges will be rounded and not to a point.
Each side of the cube will comprise of 9 phaser arrays and 4 torpedo launchers.
The majority of the cube internally will comprise power systems, shield generators and weapons systems and is built specifically to take on multiple targets such as a Dominion battle fleet.
The hull will be comprised of ablative armour and a shield generator.
The cube edges will be rounded and not to a point.
Each side of the cube will comprise of 9 phaser arrays and 4 torpedo launchers.
The majority of the cube internally will comprise power systems, shield generators and weapons systems and is built specifically to take on multiple targets such as a Dominion battle fleet.
Lorna
Lieutenant Commander
Why go mega huge?
Death does come in a thousand cuts, does it not?
Death does come in a thousand cuts, does it not?
Lorna
Lieutenant Commander
My personal design for the cube has got to be capable of taking on a fleet of ships or a Borg cube, it will therefore need many weapons emitters and torpedo tubes and along with that a powerful warp core to power it all along with shields. The majority of it's size is therefore required to make the ship massively powerful.
Being cube shaped, if it takes on another ship, it can keep just one side facing the enemy and thus divert the majority of shield power to that one square face.
Why not make one that is shaped like a doublewide trailer home?
Lorna
Lieutenant Commander
A cube looks better.
A matter of opinion.
Lorna
Lieutenant Commander
It's a logical shape and looks better in a logical sense. It's not designed for aesthetics, it's designed to get the job done and that job is to overwhelm an enemy fleet and blast them to oblivion.
1) Logic and aesthetics are often contradictory.
2) If it's not aesthetically pleasing, it's not going to fly as a viable option.
3) If you want something to overwhelm an enemy fleet, why not create a black hole ship or an asteroid ship or a moon ship. It would have the same effect.
There is no logical reason why a cube would be tactically superior to a sphere.
Lorna
Lieutenant Commander
Did I not just say that it's not designed for aesthetics?
That makes no sense at all. It's built to do a specific job, looks are irrelevant.
because it would be easier and less resource and time consuming to just build a large cube rather than mine out a moon or asteroid and trying to fit things together.
Also using black holes as weapons isn't something Starfleet would approve of.
Now we are trying to argue what Starfleet would approve of... Starfleet doesn't approve of your plan in general as it's a weapon instead of a tool.
There's only one problem with this logic... the fact that enemy ships won't really choose to stay in one place, as evidenced by how our ships were zipping 'round the big bad Borg Cube in First Contact...
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJZbCNexctc[/yt]
Lorna
Lieutenant Commander
Yeh because they're either equally matched or outgunned so they use evasive maneuvers. An super powered Federation cube ship will only need to sit there and knock the crap out of the smaller ships. Let's use a bit of common sense shall we.
Besides all that, did I say the cube would sit there? I said it would keep one side facing the enemy ship, so if the smaller enemy ship is moving all over the place so will the cube ship, it is after all trying to keep one side facing the enemy to keep shield requirement to a minimum.
So Starfleet does not use orbital weapons to defend planets? they're weapons and not tools.
Starfleet will do whatever it takes to defend the Federation from the Borg or another enemy like the Dominion and if that means building a cube ship they'd do it.
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