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Ported to OBJ and further modified by me from the fan-created model included with the fan mod A New Dawn for the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

This is what inspired me to come up with my post-TMP Aeneas class dreadnought study in the first place. It's a very interesting take on an early post-TMP era Feddie heavy dreadnought or pocket battleship, as it were, based on the KA/SFC Lexington of all things (!) but using Jackill's style SY-71 improved warp engines in place of the game stock ones. (see his Kodiak class battleship, Starfleet Reference Manual Volume 3, pp. 52-55). It's also armed with no less than three assault phasers, one on each side of and one right in the middle of its split dorsal for its secondary hull. It's called a battleship in the original and is certainly eye-catching, possibly with an eye towards being a successor to Missouri from KA/SFC, although I would consider it a heavy dreadnought or pocket battleship in my own stuff and an overgunned one at that, given all of those assault phasers. I also seem to recall this got used in a couple of other old SFC fan mods as well. That said, the original had a major design flaw in that it didn't allow enough clearance for the center warp engine, given the placement and height of the Ulysses style roll bar and its quad double-ender phototorp module. I tried to fix this as best as I could (see top of preview piccy) but that resulted in lowering the phototorp module as close as I dared to the bridge and other upper decks on the primary hull. I also made a version without it, as to me it looks better (see bottom of preview piccy), although I have yet to figure out where I'm going to re-add those deleted phototorp systems (perhaps replace those assault phasers with them?).

In my thread of the Trek universe, this was a cool idea but resulted in some bad issues in simulation form, and that's why it never got beyond a design study. Efforts to fix it would eventually lead Starfleet's designers to tone it back somewhat and resulted in my own Aeneas (see separate entry). As for those new SY-71 warp engines, they were eventually bumped over to replace the Excelsior type engines originally planned for Odyssey (see separate entry) because they were smaller and lighter, and that's how they wound up as being part of the never-built Odyssey's final form.

This is fanon, although as I've said already I personally find it interesting. Imperfect, yes, but still interesting. What you do with it in your own Trek multiverse thread(s) is of course up to you.

Live long and prosper.

Description

Ported to OBJ and further modified by me from the fan-created model included with the fan mod A New Dawn for the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

This is what inspired me to come up with my post-TMP Aeneas class dreadnought study in the first place. It's a very interesting take on an early post-TMP era Feddie heavy dreadnought or pocket battleship, as it were, based on the KA/SFC Lexington of all things (!) but using Jackill's style SY-71 improved warp engines in place of the game stock ones. (see his Kodiak class battleship, Starfleet Reference Manual Volume 3, pp. 52-55). It's also armed with no less than three assault phasers, one on each side of and one right in the middle of its split dorsal for its secondary hull. It's called a battleship in the original and is certainly eye-catching, possibly with an eye towards being a successor to Missouri from KA/SFC, although I would consider it a heavy dreadnought or pocket battleship in my own stuff and an overgunned one at that, given all of those assault phasers. I also seem to recall this got used in a couple of other old SFC fan mods as well. That said, the original had a major design flaw in that it didn't allow enough clearance for the center warp engine, given the placement and height of the Ulysses style roll bar and its quad double-ender phototorp module. I tried to fix this as best as I could (see top of preview piccy) but that resulted in lowering the phototorp module as close as I dared to the bridge and other upper decks on the primary hull. I also made a version without it, as to me it looks better (see bottom of preview piccy), although I have yet to figure out where I'm going to re-add those deleted phototorp systems (perhaps replace those assault phasers with them?).

In my thread of the Trek universe, this was a cool idea but resulted in some bad issues in simulation form, and that's why it never got beyond a design study. Efforts to fix it would eventually lead Starfleet's designers to tone it back somewhat and resulted in my own Aeneas (see separate entry). As for those new SY-71 warp engines, they were eventually bumped over to replace the Excelsior type engines originally planned for Odyssey (see separate entry) because they were smaller and lighter, and that's how they wound up as being part of the never-built Odyssey's final form.

This is fanon, although as I've said already I personally find it interesting. Imperfect, yes, but still interesting. What you do with it in your own Trek multiverse thread(s) is of course up to you.

Live long and prosper.