30 March 2009
The Vanguard
The USS Vanguard (NCC-91000) is the ship featured in the last Star Trek role playing game, in which I was involved. For the purposes of that campaign, she was the lead ship of a new class of strike cruisers known as the Vanguard-class (or V-class for short). Observant Trekkers will note the image we selected is that of the Achilles-class featured in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars computer game (Gizmo Games, and published by Simon & Schuster Interactive). The game master who developed our role playing campaign, chose the look of this class as that best suited to his concept of a class of purpose built, combat oriented vessels based on the experiences Starfleet suffered at the hands of the Borg and later the Dominion in the period 2367 and 2375. As such we wanted a ship that at first glance fit into established Starfleet design parameters and yet was clearly meant to be a warship. The adapted design fit our needs precisely and we humbly thank the original developers of the class for this brilliant look. Along with the ship itself, is the feel our narrator (game master) intended for the campaign, and I shall discuss this in future posts.
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When I first saw this design, it stood out from other designs. It just looked right. Mike did a fine job of sprucing it up. One of the most interesting features is that there is no longer a "bridge bump" on the top of the vessel. In fact it is no longer called a bridge but rather rather C4 (combat control and command center) and is buried in the center of the Vanguard under layers of ablative armor.
ReplyDeleteI didn't really do much sprucing, to be honest. Mostly, I just switched around some tags on a three view blueprint I had stumbled across online for our private use. Since the basic blueprint is someone else's effort, I won't be posting it here.
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