Originally posted by jds1982
I have a starship idea, it's not a human ship, and not particularly original, but here goes. It's an Asgard light cruiser. It uses the same hull configuration as an O'Neill class, but is only about a quarter the size of an O'Neill, so around the size of a Daedalus class ship. Because it is so much smaller it only uses one neutrino-ion generator. Obviously the weapons and shields are not quite up to the power of an O'Neill class, but are sufficient for most engagements. And like most Asgard ships it has fancy doohickeys and gizmoes.
With the Beliskner class reaching its operational age limit and the defeat of the replicators, the Asgard high command realized that a new type of ship would be needed to patrol their territory. Obviously most conflicts could be resolved without the enormous firepower an O'Neill could bring to bear, in fact usually the Asgard simply needed to make an appearance and resistance ended. So the Asgard decided to go small (but not too small, we all know the Asgard need their legroom). Being the pragmatists they are, and also a rather uncreative bunch, the Asgard simply took the specs for an O'Neill and sized them down, the design process took all of 30 seconds. Thus the Walter Harriman class light cruiser was born. Why name a ship after Walter you ask, well why the hell not?
Not taking the threat of the Ori seriously, and being otherwise engaged in fixing their pesky reproduction problems (of course it's a problem, how do you tell a male Asgard from a female Asgard? They have no idea either!), but still needing to offer token assisstance to their Tau'ri allies, the Asgard high command dispatched a Walter to take part in the battle at the supergate. Having not told anyone of the Tau'ri that they had designed a new starship class, the Asgard commander of the ship had to field fairly annoying queries from both humans and Jaffa. Questions like, "why is your ship so small?", or "Isn't an O'Neill class ship supposed to be like five times the size of a Hatak?" Unfortunately before the Asgard commander could answer these queries the supergate opened, and ..well you know the rest.
With the Beliskner class reaching its operational age limit and the defeat of the replicators, the Asgard high command realized that a new type of ship would be needed to patrol their territory. Obviously most conflicts could be resolved without the enormous firepower an O'Neill could bring to bear, in fact usually the Asgard simply needed to make an appearance and resistance ended. So the Asgard decided to go small (but not too small, we all know the Asgard need their legroom). Being the pragmatists they are, and also a rather uncreative bunch, the Asgard simply took the specs for an O'Neill and sized them down, the design process took all of 30 seconds. Thus the Walter Harriman class light cruiser was born. Why name a ship after Walter you ask, well why the hell not?
Not taking the threat of the Ori seriously, and being otherwise engaged in fixing their pesky reproduction problems (of course it's a problem, how do you tell a male Asgard from a female Asgard? They have no idea either!), but still needing to offer token assisstance to their Tau'ri allies, the Asgard high command dispatched a Walter to take part in the battle at the supergate. Having not told anyone of the Tau'ri that they had designed a new starship class, the Asgard commander of the ship had to field fairly annoying queries from both humans and Jaffa. Questions like, "why is your ship so small?", or "Isn't an O'Neill class ship supposed to be like five times the size of a Hatak?" Unfortunately before the Asgard commander could answer these queries the supergate opened, and ..well you know the rest.
daryl you got the honour of the OSDT 2000th post! you deserve it, edit in something AMAZING 
I know you shouldn't be able to see the shields like that, but that's the only way I could do it. And it looks pretty cool.
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