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Ported to OBJ from the models created by Atrahasis (Napoleon TOS), DestyNova (Zhukov TOS), and me (Julius Ceaser TMP CVA+SCS versions). Atrahasis and DestyNova models originally created for use with the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Both of my Julius Caesar models were made using parts originally created by others for my personal use when I was writing Mandel's Fighting Starships 1: Federation Fleet Review 2300-01 (FFR) and were based largely on the conjectured TMP era Napoleon CVA and SCS refits as created by Neale "Pixel Saga" Davison. Napoleon class in both original CVA and later SCS forms created by Stephen V. Cole and the Amarillo Design Bureau (ADB) for the Star Fleet Battles (SFB) tabletop sci-fi war game. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Preview image above shows from top to bottom the TOS era Napoleon (Atrahasis), the TOS era Zhukov (DestyNova), the TMP era refitted Julius Ceasar in her original dual warp engine CVA form (me), and the final late TMP version of Julius Caesar refitted yet again and with a third warp engine added dreadnought style for use as a space control ship or SCS (again me).

As you might recall from my writeup on the TOS era Napoleon class super shuttlecarrier, and here's a link for those of you who missed it ...

... this was the first Federation Starfleet class of shuttlecarriers of this size and small craft carrying capacity. Hence my use of the term super shuttlecarrier (CVA in SFB, as opposed to just CV) and this is analagous to the super aircraft carriers or supercarriers we've had in our time ever since the USN's Forrestal class of the 1950s. In my particular thread of the Trek multiverse as expressed in FFR there were two different schools of shuttlecarrier design thought late in the TOS era battling it out for who would get to decide the future of Starfleet shuttlecarrier and especially super shuttlecarrier design. Those backing what eventually became the massive Ariel and Fredrickstad classes (Gunther/Sofia school of classic Trek fan tech) had to use every trick in the book and pull every political deal they could to ensure that their preferred design children won out for the TMP era rollover. As for the three Napoleons, the class ship herself had been lost in a secret mission against the Romulans (NOTE - modified from the original SFB materials) leaving only Julius Ceasar and Zhukov, and Zhukov was so worn out by the end of the TMP era that she was quietly retired with little fanfare and and arrangements were made by the Ariel backers in Starfleet, who were now in the virtual catbird seat, for her to be scrapped as soon as possible (NOTE - compare with what the USN did with the old "Rosie" in our time, but I digress - go look it up). This left Julius Caesar, which was still in pretty good shape, as the sole surviving Napoleon class super shuttlecarrier in the early TMP era. She was denied a TMP era refit at the time and demoted to secondary duties (with her foes hoping she'd hurry up and wear out too) while the brand new Ariel and subsequent Fredrickstad classes got to bask in the glory of being Starfleet's top tier premiere super shuttle carriers ... for a while, that its. Unfortunately both classes failed in service in living up to the high expectations that their ardent backers had preached about them for various and sundry reasons, which left Starfleet with a mess of white elephants, more or less. That's when the old school of Starfleet carrier design came back with a vengeance and subsequently produced the Midway class (KA series), which did live up to its expectations and became Starfleet's premier super shuttlecarrier class of the late TMP era and beyond. Along the way the old Julius Ceasar, now the sole surviving member of her class, was taken into dock and finally given the TMP era refit she and her sisters had in the eyes of many deserved all along, and it was justified for stopgap purposes until the first of the Midways could enter service. She came out the other side a far better ship for it, and it wasn't long after the even better Midways started rolling out before Julius Ceasar was taken back in again for conversion into a space control ship, carrying both combat shuttles and fast patrol craft (PFs) in performance of her duties. This made her an even more capable combat starship than before, and upon her return to service she was sent straight into action helping to hold the Federation line against the increasingly belligerent Klingons near the end of the 23rd century. By the time all the dust had settled and peace came to the stars once again Julius Ceasar, the oldest ship of her type and size still in Starfleet service, had proven that her TMP era refit and subsequent SCS upgrade were well worth every penny Starfleet had spent on them. It is with irony that this author notes Julius Ceasar remained in Starfleet service well beyond the end of the TMP era and even well past the premature retirements of all surviving members of the once mighty Ariel and Fredrickstad classes before she too was finally sent to the barn -- not to be scrapped, but to be preserved as a museum ship thanks to a special proclamation by the Federation Council. Julius Caesar still exists in the TNG/DS9/VOY era as a disarmed museum ship, in her final SCS form and with her warp cores removed decades before, although I'll let you fellow Trek fans decide where her final berth was located.

This is how I make SFB's Napoleon work with almost everything else everyone else has done and in both its original TOS and later TMP forms in my thread of the Trek multiverse -- as a Trek-ish take on the former U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Midway (CV-41), after which Trek's Midway class shuttlecarriers were named. Of course, how you make Julius Caesar work in yours, or even if you use it at all in any way or form, is strictly up to you.

Live long and prosper!

NOTE - The Napoleon class in all forms is about as big as Excelsior. That's a damn big Feddie starship for the TOS era! XD

ASIDE - My hack-and-slack low poly CG model is not entirely accurate to the Neale Davison schematics, which is one of the reasons why I never released it. It was the best I could do at the time given my limited CG skills. I suggest you go by his schematics if you plan on creating your own more accurate TMP era Napoleon class CVA or SCS CG models.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the models created by Atrahasis (Napoleon TOS), DestyNova (Zhukov TOS), and me (Julius Ceaser TMP CVA+SCS versions). Atrahasis and DestyNova models originally created for use with the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Both of my Julius Caesar models were made using parts originally created by others for my personal use when I was writing Mandel's Fighting Starships 1: Federation Fleet Review 2300-01 (FFR) and were based largely on the conjectured TMP era Napoleon CVA and SCS refits as created by Neale "Pixel Saga" Davison. Napoleon class in both original CVA and later SCS forms created by Stephen V. Cole and the Amarillo Design Bureau (ADB) for the Star Fleet Battles (SFB) tabletop sci-fi war game. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Preview image above shows from top to bottom the TOS era Napoleon (Atrahasis), the TOS era Zhukov (DestyNova), the TMP era refitted Julius Ceasar in her original dual warp engine CVA form (me), and the final late TMP version of Julius Caesar refitted yet again and with a third warp engine added dreadnought style for use as a space control ship or SCS (again me).

As you might recall from my writeup on the TOS era Napoleon class super shuttlecarrier, and here's a link for those of you who missed it ...

... this was the first Federation Starfleet class of shuttlecarriers of this size and small craft carrying capacity. Hence my use of the term super shuttlecarrier (CVA in SFB, as opposed to just CV) and this is analagous to the super aircraft carriers or supercarriers we've had in our time ever since the USN's Forrestal class of the 1950s. In my particular thread of the Trek multiverse as expressed in FFR there were two different schools of shuttlecarrier design thought late in the TOS era battling it out for who would get to decide the future of Starfleet shuttlecarrier and especially super shuttlecarrier design. Those backing what eventually became the massive Ariel and Fredrickstad classes (Gunther/Sofia school of classic Trek fan tech) had to use every trick in the book and pull every political deal they could to ensure that their preferred design children won out for the TMP era rollover. As for the three Napoleons, the class ship herself had been lost in a secret mission against the Romulans (NOTE - modified from the original SFB materials) leaving only Julius Ceasar and Zhukov, and Zhukov was so worn out by the end of the TMP era that she was quietly retired with little fanfare and and arrangements were made by the Ariel backers in Starfleet, who were now in the virtual catbird seat, for her to be scrapped as soon as possible (NOTE - compare with what the USN did with the old "Rosie" in our time, but I digress - go look it up). This left Julius Caesar, which was still in pretty good shape, as the sole surviving Napoleon class super shuttlecarrier in the early TMP era. She was denied a TMP era refit at the time and demoted to secondary duties (with her foes hoping she'd hurry up and wear out too) while the brand new Ariel and subsequent Fredrickstad classes got to bask in the glory of being Starfleet's top tier premiere super shuttle carriers ... for a while, that its. Unfortunately both classes failed in service in living up to the high expectations that their ardent backers had preached about them for various and sundry reasons, which left Starfleet with a mess of white elephants, more or less. That's when the old school of Starfleet carrier design came back with a vengeance and subsequently produced the Midway class (KA series), which did live up to its expectations and became Starfleet's premier super shuttlecarrier class of the late TMP era and beyond. Along the way the old Julius Ceasar, now the sole surviving member of her class, was taken into dock and finally given the TMP era refit she and her sisters had in the eyes of many deserved all along, and it was justified for stopgap purposes until the first of the Midways could enter service. She came out the other side a far better ship for it, and it wasn't long after the even better Midways started rolling out before Julius Ceasar was taken back in again for conversion into a space control ship, carrying both combat shuttles and fast patrol craft (PFs) in performance of her duties. This made her an even more capable combat starship than before, and upon her return to service she was sent straight into action helping to hold the Federation line against the increasingly belligerent Klingons near the end of the 23rd century. By the time all the dust had settled and peace came to the stars once again Julius Ceasar, the oldest ship of her type and size still in Starfleet service, had proven that her TMP era refit and subsequent SCS upgrade were well worth every penny Starfleet had spent on them. It is with irony that this author notes Julius Ceasar remained in Starfleet service well beyond the end of the TMP era and even well past the premature retirements of all surviving members of the once mighty Ariel and Fredrickstad classes before she too was finally sent to the barn -- not to be scrapped, but to be preserved as a museum ship thanks to a special proclamation by the Federation Council. Julius Caesar still exists in the TNG/DS9/VOY era as a disarmed museum ship, in her final SCS form and with her warp cores removed decades before, although I'll let you fellow Trek fans decide where her final berth was located.

This is how I make SFB's Napoleon work with almost everything else everyone else has done and in both its original TOS and later TMP forms in my thread of the Trek multiverse -- as a Trek-ish take on the former U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Midway (CV-41), after which Trek's Midway class shuttlecarriers were named. Of course, how you make Julius Caesar work in yours, or even if you use it at all in any way or form, is strictly up to you.

Live long and prosper!

NOTE - The Napoleon class in all forms is about as big as Excelsior. That's a damn big Feddie starship for the TOS era! XD

ASIDE - My hack-and-slack low poly CG model is not entirely accurate to the Neale Davison schematics, which is one of the reasons why I never released it. It was the best I could do at the time given my limited CG skills. I suggest you go by his schematics if you plan on creating your own more accurate TMP era Napoleon class CVA or SCS CG models.