New Fed ship ideas

posted on August 13th, 2011, 7:32 pm

So, in the wake of looking at the "Most Anticipated Vessel" thread, I was looking at the Northhampton-class ship that I linked to from Planetside

Planetside - Ships of the Fleet

I saw at the bottom the message: "This ship is included in the "Ships of the Fleet: United Federation of Planets" Ship Archive", and it was a link, so I clicked on it. It was a folder full of ship specs on various Fed ships, and I found a few that I think are interesting. I acknowledge that they probably aren't the right fit/type for Flops, but it's still food for thought I guess, and who knows, maybe something will come of it.

From the file, the ones I found are:

Chimera-class Frigate
Raging Queen-class Cruiser
Trident-class Attack Scout
Northhampton-class Frigate
Scorpio-class Corvettes
Antares-class Freighter (When Trading gets reintoduced - if it gets reintroduced - this might be a good ship to use for that function. Unless, it was the Fed trading ship already in stock A2.)
Apollo-class Cruiser (Based off the Vulcan T'Pau)
Chandley-class (It looks, at least from the overhead view, like an Rommie BoP. It could be the Fed-Rom mixed-tech ship)

Half of the above (Chimera, Raging Queen, Trident, Apollo) were, according to the spec info, in service in the 2300's, so I figure that, given the timeframe of Flops, and the fact that some are around the same age as the Ambassador, or the Steamrunner, or the Galaxy, that they would at least be warp-ins. As for the other half (Northhampton, Antares, Chandley, Scorpio), I'm not exactly sure. Maybe TOS/TMP-era map objects along with the Commie and Miranda.

Besides those, from Demon Renegade Studios, I'm interested in the Tiburon-class (which was linked to me by someone; I can't remember), the Akyazi-class (which I kept mistakenly referring to as the Akula all this time, because it was given such name in Legacy), and the Firestorm-class, all of which were made for Bridge Commander.
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From the SFC side, you have The Carolina- and Midway-classes.
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I didn't mean for this to turn into an "I like these ships" kind-of thread, so I'm sorry. But, amidst all of that, what do you guys think? Is there any hope for these vessels?

posted on August 13th, 2011, 9:40 pm

The only other fed ship im really interested in seeing in FO is the Achilles and maybe a Zeich-styled Defiant/Valiant type ship.