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Ported to OBJ from the SketchUp model posted in the 3D Warehouse account of Marian87. Based on the original designs 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. You can download the original SketchUp model at the link below, although you'll have to port it yourself (and it's a pain, although it can be done):

3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model…

While Napoleon isn't the Trek multiverse's first shuttlecarrier or even its first super supercarrier, with both of those awards probably going to the Gunther/Sofia school of classic Trek fan techdom with Coronado and Ariel respectively, it nonetheless is one of those that had considerable staying power over the decades since its debut thanks to its introduction in and continued popularity with the SFB gaming continuity and its various derivatives and spinoffs. Perhaps the best example of its influence in Trek gaming is the Midway class shuttlecarrier from the various Interplay video games, such as KA and the SFC series -- which as Taldren Studios has admitted itself is essentially a "Taldernized" TMP era revamp of the original Napoleon concept. While this started as strictly a SFB continuity thing, it is possible to make a place for Napoleon in both its original super shuttlecarrier (previe piccy top) and later space control ship forms (preview piccy bottom) in other more mainstream threads of the Trek universe and I've shown you one way of doing that in my own musings (Federation Fleet Review pp. 58-59). In brief, I did it in such a manner than it has its own place in the later half of the TOS/TAS era as predecessor to Midway, with the TMP-ized version of Julius Caesar (the only one surviving long enough per FFR) serving alongside the Taldren Midway class as a TMP era contemporary -- just like the real life aircraft carrier USS Midway did for so many decades with its own successor classes in the U.S. Navy. In that sense Julius Caesar becomes "Trek's Midway" analog during the TMP era in FFR. Of course I known a lot of you have your own ideas about Napoleon and there's plenty of room for them in the Trek multiverse too. I also have custom TMP era CG models of both of these that I made for illustration purposes back when I was writing FFR, and I'll be posting images of those too at the appropriate time.

BTW there's all kinds of places you can go to for looking up the official stats on both the original dual warp engined Napoleon class shuttlecarrier and its triple warp engined USS Julius Caesar space control ship spinoff, and I'll let you do just that.

Before I close, let me share something. Back in the day there was this sort of rivalry going on between various camps of classic Trek fandom with regards to shuttlecarriers and their proper place within the TOS/TAS and TMP eras. There was the camp that favored the Gunther/Sofia progression - Coronado (and its Jackill's Oriskany spinoff), Ariel/Fredrickstad, and so on - and then there was the camp that favored the SFB/SFC classes - Nimitz, Napoleon, Midway, and so on. It got kinda touchy at times and being the writer that I am I reflected this in FFR, with two different schools of carrier construction philosophy fighting it out during the TMP era as to who was going to control the future of Starfleet shuttlecarrier design. Midway eventually won that fight but it was a long and hard-fought one between the two design camps ... and then of course there was a third design line that kinda came out of nowhere while these two camps were fighting each other (Santee, Jenshahan, Chosin, Youngblood, and you might even want to add Illustrious to that if you like that one) that proved their own worth and also got built. All of this is fanon, of course, which means it doesn't mean a hill of beans should the Franchise ever decide to officially weigh in on the Feddie shuttlecarrier issue. There's also the fact that a lot of you have your own ideas about Feddie shuttlecarriers, as I said before. You can take my approach to the issue or leave it and come up with your own ideas on how Feddie shuttlecarriers evolved during these periods in the Trek multiverse. You get to do that in a multiverse, you know. (grin-and-wink)

Live long and propser.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the SketchUp model posted in the 3D Warehouse account of Marian87. Based on the original designs 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. You can download the original SketchUp model at the link below, although you'll have to port it yourself (and it's a pain, although it can be done):

3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model…

While Napoleon isn't the Trek multiverse's first shuttlecarrier or even its first super supercarrier, with both of those awards probably going to the Gunther/Sofia school of classic Trek fan techdom with Coronado and Ariel respectively, it nonetheless is one of those that had considerable staying power over the decades since its debut thanks to its introduction in and continued popularity with the SFB gaming continuity and its various derivatives and spinoffs. Perhaps the best example of its influence in Trek gaming is the Midway class shuttlecarrier from the various Interplay video games, such as KA and the SFC series -- which as Taldren Studios has admitted itself is essentially a "Taldernized" TMP era revamp of the original Napoleon concept. While this started as strictly a SFB continuity thing, it is possible to make a place for Napoleon in both its original super shuttlecarrier (previe piccy top) and later space control ship forms (preview piccy bottom) in other more mainstream threads of the Trek universe and I've shown you one way of doing that in my own musings (Federation Fleet Review pp. 58-59). In brief, I did it in such a manner than it has its own place in the later half of the TOS/TAS era as predecessor to Midway, with the TMP-ized version of Julius Caesar (the only one surviving long enough per FFR) serving alongside the Taldren Midway class as a TMP era contemporary -- just like the real life aircraft carrier USS Midway did for so many decades with its own successor classes in the U.S. Navy. In that sense Julius Caesar becomes "Trek's Midway" analog during the TMP era in FFR. Of course I known a lot of you have your own ideas about Napoleon and there's plenty of room for them in the Trek multiverse too. I also have custom TMP era CG models of both of these that I made for illustration purposes back when I was writing FFR, and I'll be posting images of those too at the appropriate time.

BTW there's all kinds of places you can go to for looking up the official stats on both the original dual warp engined Napoleon class shuttlecarrier and its triple warp engined USS Julius Caesar space control ship spinoff, and I'll let you do just that.

Before I close, let me share something. Back in the day there was this sort of rivalry going on between various camps of classic Trek fandom with regards to shuttlecarriers and their proper place within the TOS/TAS and TMP eras. There was the camp that favored the Gunther/Sofia progression - Coronado (and its Jackill's Oriskany spinoff), Ariel/Fredrickstad, and so on - and then there was the camp that favored the SFB/SFC classes - Nimitz, Napoleon, Midway, and so on. It got kinda touchy at times and being the writer that I am I reflected this in FFR, with two different schools of carrier construction philosophy fighting it out during the TMP era as to who was going to control the future of Starfleet shuttlecarrier design. Midway eventually won that fight but it was a long and hard-fought one between the two design camps ... and then of course there was a third design line that kinda came out of nowhere while these two camps were fighting each other (Santee, Jenshahan, Chosin, Youngblood, and you might even want to add Illustrious to that if you like that one) that proved their own worth and also got built. All of this is fanon, of course, which means it doesn't mean a hill of beans should the Franchise ever decide to officially weigh in on the Feddie shuttlecarrier issue. There's also the fact that a lot of you have your own ideas about Feddie shuttlecarriers, as I said before. You can take my approach to the issue or leave it and come up with your own ideas on how Feddie shuttlecarriers evolved during these periods in the Trek multiverse. You get to do that in a multiverse, you know. (grin-and-wink)

Live long and propser.