Re: FT-Fighters and launch bays

At 11:26 AM -0700 6/6/01, David Griffin wrote:
>
>Ah yes, the Delta Fryer. Well, if we look at
>data from the Last Unicorn game (the only one
>who was in the position of trying to spec out
>voyager stuff) I'd say they would have some
>low power phasers and microtorpedoes. Anyway,
>the Flyer also seems like at least a corvette
>sized ship. Seems to have roughly the capability

Geeze, what do you consider a Corvette? The delta flyer fits in the 
shuttle bay of the Voyager, ostensibly a small vessel in and of 
itself. Corvettes are small destroyers and vessels in their own 
right...

>of a Danube class runabout on a slightly smaller
>spaceframe (but not much smaller). It is, in
>short a BIG shuttle.
>
>Voyager isn't the biggest ship in the world,
>so I doubt it can handle too many of these
>little ships. Of course Voyager seemed to have
>an endless supply of destroyable shuttlecraft
>so perhaps reality doesn't play a big part
>in their shuttlebay floorspace.

Its that Star Trek axiom of, 'destroy all you want, we'll replicate
more...'

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