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Ported to OBJ from the model created by Kreeargh for the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. Based on the original design by David Schmidt as published in his fanon book Starship Prototype (SSP). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Starship Prototype (SSP) ... what a can of worms that particular fanon Trek book opened back in the day when it was first published! (chuckle). I remember it well. (shakes head) Anyway, that was decades ago and this is now, so let's leave all that back there and focus on the present. You see, and despite all of that back then, SSP still had and has its uses and eventually found its way into that elite set of must-have classic Trek fanon reference works all the same. It was the only fanon work at the time that gave us good line drawings of the TMP era upgraded Saladin and Hermes classes, for example, as well as making its own unique contributions to the Gagarin/Greer family of Class II TMP era starships. It also had write-ups and illustrations on a bunch of other Feddie starships -- some cool, some okay, some derived from other sources without permission (hence the stink back then), some rather questionable (to me, anyway) and a few that were ... well ... out there, if you know what I'm saying. Dupliex in my book falls into the questionable category. All the same, apparently enough people liked it for Kreeargh to make his CG model for the SFC series, even if it's a rather basic one, so what do I know? (chuckle).

Dupliex, which was apparently named for the old French destroyer class but also perhaps for its dual warp engines, was intended as a fast destroyer sized perimeter action ship or PA ship (the term is from the Gunther/Sofia fanon school) that SSP states was going to be built in the late TMP era as a supplement to the smaller PA ships either already in service or building at that time, such as the Akyazi family (Guenther, SoSF2). These were full hull ships instead of fractional hull ones like the Akyazi family and followed the classic "panhandle" design for Feddie destroyers; however, they were given two warp engines instead of one in an unusual edge-stacked staggered arrangement intended primarily for the maximum speed possible on that particular hull form. The idea was that these would be initial response interdiction vessels, rapidly sallying out to meet any threat at either the edges of their assigned patrol area (if acting alone) or to the edges of a battle fleet to meet and deal with any potential threat on its flanks. Their abnormally high warp speed would also allow them to serve as fast escorts for the various Feddie three-warp-engined dreadnought classes or other larger major multi-engine Feddie capital ships, such as Missouri and Yamato from the KA/SFC series. To further enhance its weapons loadout for its role Dupliex was given twin megaphaser cannon mounts, which SSP states was inspired by the Knox class fast frigate (Guenther, SoSF1). These were located at the joint between the warp engines (one dual mount on each side) so they could draw directly on them for power just as with Knox, Miranda/Avenger, and other similarly fitted Feddie starship classes. Buried in the SSP data is also a notation that Dupliex was fitted with an auxiliary power reactor (APR, this is from SFB/SFC) to help handle the power draw load of her beefed-up weapons battery. Initial space trial results were pretty much as expected per the SSP data, with Dupliex being abnormally fast in a straight line but losing some of the natural "panhandle" hull form maneuverability due to her abnormal warp engine setup, with weapons testing data pretty much as good as had been predicted. I have no data on whether or not Dupliex actually did enter Feddie Starfleet service or for how long their service lasted if it did. I guess that's up to you and what you want or need in your own stuff, fellow Trek fans.

As I said I personally am not crazy about Dupliex, as it looks too goofy to me (see ASIDE) and I honestly don't see a real need for it given everything else available to the Feddies in the TMP era, but I know there are fans of it out there in Trek fandom. I also concede that this is one of the better thought-out SSP designs, especially that bit about needing the added APR due to the addition of the dual megaphaser battery. Are you listening, you Feddie fan overgunners? Of course if you add an extra APR every time you add a set of dual megaphasers and you add three, four, up to a half-dozen or more dual mounts like the overgunners tend to do then you're going to need a bigger hull to house the extra APRs, which in turn adds size and mass and will slow you down, which in turn will require more engine power to drive that bigger and more massive hull - say, adding another warp engine - which in turn adds even more size and mass and you're right back where you started with loss of speed, and .... You see, folks? The eternal equation of speed, firepower, and protection works on fictional starships just like it does with real life warships. I may not be crazy about Schmidt's Dupliex, but I'll give it points for playing by the rules AND for enough folks thinking well about it in the past for Kreeargh to make his model. Those are reasons enough to give it a place in my online edition of Mandel's.

This is unquestionably fanon. What you do with it in your own thread(s) of the Trek multiverse is up to you.

Live long and prosper.

ASIDE - If you think Dupliex as it is looks goofy, you should see Kreeargh's Dupliex upgrade. I'm not even going to bother with that one. Oh, and this would probably look better if someone out there would be willing to make an improved texture set for it. The model's still out there, folks. All you have to do is hunt it down.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the model created by Kreeargh for the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. Based on the original design by David Schmidt as published in his fanon book Starship Prototype (SSP). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Starship Prototype (SSP) ... what a can of worms that particular fanon Trek book opened back in the day when it was first published! (chuckle). I remember it well. (shakes head) Anyway, that was decades ago and this is now, so let's leave all that back there and focus on the present. You see, and despite all of that back then, SSP still had and has its uses and eventually found its way into that elite set of must-have classic Trek fanon reference works all the same. It was the only fanon work at the time that gave us good line drawings of the TMP era upgraded Saladin and Hermes classes, for example, as well as making its own unique contributions to the Gagarin/Greer family of Class II TMP era starships. It also had write-ups and illustrations on a bunch of other Feddie starships -- some cool, some okay, some derived from other sources without permission (hence the stink back then), some rather questionable (to me, anyway) and a few that were ... well ... out there, if you know what I'm saying. Dupliex in my book falls into the questionable category. All the same, apparently enough people liked it for Kreeargh to make his CG model for the SFC series, even if it's a rather basic one, so what do I know? (chuckle).

Dupliex, which was apparently named for the old French destroyer class but also perhaps for its dual warp engines, was intended as a fast destroyer sized perimeter action ship or PA ship (the term is from the Gunther/Sofia fanon school) that SSP states was going to be built in the late TMP era as a supplement to the smaller PA ships either already in service or building at that time, such as the Akyazi family (Guenther, SoSF2). These were full hull ships instead of fractional hull ones like the Akyazi family and followed the classic "panhandle" design for Feddie destroyers; however, they were given two warp engines instead of one in an unusual edge-stacked staggered arrangement intended primarily for the maximum speed possible on that particular hull form. The idea was that these would be initial response interdiction vessels, rapidly sallying out to meet any threat at either the edges of their assigned patrol area (if acting alone) or to the edges of a battle fleet to meet and deal with any potential threat on its flanks. Their abnormally high warp speed would also allow them to serve as fast escorts for the various Feddie three-warp-engined dreadnought classes or other larger major multi-engine Feddie capital ships, such as Missouri and Yamato from the KA/SFC series. To further enhance its weapons loadout for its role Dupliex was given twin megaphaser cannon mounts, which SSP states was inspired by the Knox class fast frigate (Guenther, SoSF1). These were located at the joint between the warp engines (one dual mount on each side) so they could draw directly on them for power just as with Knox, Miranda/Avenger, and other similarly fitted Feddie starship classes. Buried in the SSP data is also a notation that Dupliex was fitted with an auxiliary power reactor (APR, this is from SFB/SFC) to help handle the power draw load of her beefed-up weapons battery. Initial space trial results were pretty much as expected per the SSP data, with Dupliex being abnormally fast in a straight line but losing some of the natural "panhandle" hull form maneuverability due to her abnormal warp engine setup, with weapons testing data pretty much as good as had been predicted. I have no data on whether or not Dupliex actually did enter Feddie Starfleet service or for how long their service lasted if it did. I guess that's up to you and what you want or need in your own stuff, fellow Trek fans.

As I said I personally am not crazy about Dupliex, as it looks too goofy to me (see ASIDE) and I honestly don't see a real need for it given everything else available to the Feddies in the TMP era, but I know there are fans of it out there in Trek fandom. I also concede that this is one of the better thought-out SSP designs, especially that bit about needing the added APR due to the addition of the dual megaphaser battery. Are you listening, you Feddie fan overgunners? Of course if you add an extra APR every time you add a set of dual megaphasers and you add three, four, up to a half-dozen or more dual mounts like the overgunners tend to do then you're going to need a bigger hull to house the extra APRs, which in turn adds size and mass and will slow you down, which in turn will require more engine power to drive that bigger and more massive hull - say, adding another warp engine - which in turn adds even more size and mass and you're right back where you started with loss of speed, and .... You see, folks? The eternal equation of speed, firepower, and protection works on fictional starships just like it does with real life warships. I may not be crazy about Schmidt's Dupliex, but I'll give it points for playing by the rules AND for enough folks thinking well about it in the past for Kreeargh to make his model. Those are reasons enough to give it a place in my online edition of Mandel's.

This is unquestionably fanon. What you do with it in your own thread(s) of the Trek multiverse is up to you.

Live long and prosper.

ASIDE - If you think Dupliex as it is looks goofy, you should see Kreeargh's Dupliex upgrade. I'm not even going to bother with that one. Oh, and this would probably look better if someone out there would be willing to make an improved texture set for it. The model's still out there, folks. All you have to do is hunt it down.