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Adrasil — Whorfin Class
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Published: 2019-01-10 23:13:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 944; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 64
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Original design by Timo Saloniemi.
For a history of this vessel see... www.deviantart.com/revancherm/…
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Interesting design by Timo, Cheers for producing this.
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Not mine, but thanks anyway.
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If I may ask, are those rocket-thrusters underneath the aft section?! I don't see any impulse engines, so maybe those are in place of impulse engines?!?
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They are impulse engines, yes. My rationalization for their size is that they are intended to provide high combat thrust. Some of the later variants will have smaller and more numerous impulse engines.
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OK. Got it. I do kinda like that idea for your reasoning. On the 1701, on both the TV version and on the refit model, they had two small impulse engines and I always thought how could two small engines propel such a huge ship?! I know they had thrusters but to escape from Khan they just cruised on along using just those two small impulse engines. They, at that point, had no warp drive capability, so those impulse engines were the only momentum they had and yet they moved forward rather fast. Maybe they are mightier than their size would indicate.
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> Maybe they are mightier than their size would indicate.
I agree with you. Much more efficient in the 24th c. than in the late 22nd/early 23rd c. Early Star Fleet would have to make it larger to get more "push".
But, this is just inference. Timo provided images with his write-up. This is verbatim all he had to say about these two large engines: "The Scarbak GPM impulse engines cowled onto the lower secondary hull produced almost three times as much thrust as the contemporary Caracal impulse units, and avoided all the complications and compromises of the two-stage Enterprise arrangement."
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www.collective-evolution.com/2…
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Interesting. Are you familiar with the Real-life EM Engine that NASA has built?! It converts microwaves sent into a copper shell into thrust and is being referred to as a real-life Impulse Engine. It provides massive Thrust without any true fuel BUT NASA admits that they have no idea WHY it works. The Scientist who invented it (theoretically) died a long time ago and eventually some NASA engineer built it according to specs and was shocked it actually worked! Again, they have no idea WHY it works as the claim it defies normal laws of physics. Its called an EM Engine or sometimes an EMP Engine (Electro-Magnetic Pulse). It was a fascinating read. I will try to find the link to the story for you.
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Thank you...yes, I had heard of it a few years back, and just as you described, but haven't followed up recently to see how the research/answers are progressing.
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NP...we do our thang. I answer historical and some technical questions, you look pretty. Or is that just Lithgow?
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With enough hairspray, you could have that look too.
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