Original Starship Design Thread

[benjaminism]

The updated Slider with shield and hyperdrive as a single seater.

Spoiler:

Name: Slider
Type: Single Seater Strike Craft
Technology Base: Tau'ri/Asgard/Goa'uld
Dimensions: length 25m, wingspan 18m
Construction: Titanium/Trinium alloy, reinforced with Naquada
Crew: 1

Power-plant: Two Mark II Naquada Generators (see notes)
One Mark I Naquada Generator (Hub)

Propulsion: One hyperspace window generator (using Asgard technology)
Two ion-based sublight engines (multi-purpose)
One mini-ion-based sublight engine (Hub)

Weapons: 12x Naquada injected warhead AIM-120 AMRAAMs (8 mounted on wings)
Two Energy Cannons (mounted on wings)
One Railgun Cannon (mounted front center)

Defences: Asgard Shield

Other technology: Asgard technology – sensors, part user integrated AI.
Updated targeting computer for space
Inertial dampener
Homing Beacon (Hub)

Notes:
Two Mark II Naquada reactors are incorporated into the glider, one reactor running the ships main functions including shields and the other to run the offensive capability.

Hub:
The Hub is partly the cockpit of the craft. Designed as a secondary craft for emergency ejection situations it contains a Mark I Naquada generator and a mini-ion-based sublight engine. If a critical system failure of the glider occurs, the hub can be separated in a manor like that of an ejection from a standard fighter aircraft, the Hub once separated will activate its generator, sublight engine and the all important homing beacon for swift retrieval.

History:
After the failure of the F-302 in combat situations against the Ori and Wraith a new strike craft was needed.
Built purely from scratch using Asgard, Goa'uld and Earth based technology, with new advanced user based AI integration, the craft had limitless capability.

First was the creation of the Hub, using technology from the Asgard, the hub was designed for better protection and to reduce the loss of life. Next the propulsion was redesigned, starting with the replacement of the three separate sublight engines with two combined multi-purpose sublight. Then there was the addition of a stable hyper-drive allowing the Slider more freedom. This had never been successfully completed and with the updated guidance system work better than expected.

The weapons system was redesigned allow faster fire rate of the Railguns and a new energy cannon was added using Goa’uld technology incorporated into existing Asgard systems allowing more powerful and faster firing cannons.

[aAnubiSs]

I would have two versions. One with hyperdrive for an opening move, dropping in and disabling escorts, and then jump in with a carrier of some sort and launch an alpha strike, where shields would result in fewer casualties. I'd probably have a 75-80% with shields and the rest with hyperdrives.

Ofc you could make the strike craft a one seater and have the entire second seat removed and place a large reactor there.

[Davidtourniquet]

Just one question: why are you using carbon fibre in the material. While carbon fibre is strong and can absorb a lot of energy, it is very brittle. Look for example are Formula 1 cars that are made completely of carbon fibre. Protect the driver, but break very easily. Hence why they have to be replaced every race weekend.

[benjaminism]

I would have two versions. One with hyperdrive for an opening move, dropping in and disabling escorts, and then jump in with a carrier of some sort and launch an alpha strike, where shields would result in fewer casualties. I'd probably have a 75-80% with shields and the rest with hyperdrives.

Ofc you could make the strike craft a one seater and have the entire second seat removed and place a large reactor there.

Got them both, got rid of seat and extended out abit and made wings able to fly.

[Wraith Scientist]

For craft too small to posess a hyperdrive, I proposed the idea of a gatejump drive on my SkyEcho as a substitute:

A gatejump drive would be a mini-hyperdrive capable of 'piggybacking' on an outgoing wormhole, hopping from a location near an active stargate to the vicinity of the stargate on the other end. This system is ideal for small aircraft to large to fit through a stargate, but too small to carry a full hyperdrive.

What do you think of that as a solution?

[immhotep]

It would need serious explaining but i think in theroy it would work, you would need to develop a way of detecting subspace wormholes create by aliened gate FROM normal space, which would mean some serious research and development...something the ancients might have considered but i think its a bit out of our league.

[benjaminism]

I like the idea, but it relies to heavily on predicting the nature of the wormhole it is backing on. If it collapses too soon, the craft will be thrown off putting it anywhere.

[mburrows]

also take into consideration that sometimes wormholes go straight threw suns lol, would we want a fighter to do that? unless, you are saying the fighter is actually going into the wormhole and exiting it above the planet or something, then yes, it would work, just be very hard


this type of thing could also be a big advantage if they are assaulting an enemy world and there are ships in orbit, so with this, you go a bunch of fighter coming out of no where and ground troops securing the planet itself=D



btw, 50th page of this thread W00t

[m-16 a2]

Is this where I put my design? I have a frigate that might not even be worth mentioning, but it is:

Inevitable class frigate

Size:

Length: 340 meters
Width: 120
Height: 140

Weapons:
18 medium anti-ship Naquadah enhanced nuclear missle silos
12 heavy strategic Naquadah enhanced nuclear missle silos
8 railguns, anti fighter
4 dual 18 inch anti-ship railguns

Crew:
420 standard but can be run with only 220

Passengers:
Normally carries 80 marines, but can hold up to 280 for short trips.

Armor:
24 foot thick trinium

Sheilds:
Basic asgard design

Propulsion systems:

2 large Human designed engines
4 small auxiliary engines
12 maneuvering thrusters

Transporation:
Rings
Asgard beaming technology
4 F-302’s for emergency use

The frigate’s design is for smaller, more numerous ships capable of engaging larger ships in battle. It requires less resources than a full sized battleship and its designed so there can be more ships so if one is destroyed, it won’t damage the fleet as much and so that more areas can be patrolled than there could be with only a few lager ships. And though it is less powerful than other designs, it is still capable of such battles such as taking on a Ha’tac, or possibly even two or more. It holds 4 F-302’s for escorting and scouting purposes.

[cooky]

I like that ship. One suggestion, I'd make it alot smaller. Right now, it's about 2 times larger than the Daedalus.

On another note, an update on my 308 cruiser. I modified the drive pods to differentiate it more from the Daedalus class.

[NoDot]

That's the weapon arnament of a small Destroyer, and the size of a Battleship or a Carrier (go for Carrier)! That's no Frigate! OTOH, you can retrofit it into a Carrier for little cost to arnament or size...

[edit] Don't be so nice, Cooky. We shouldn't coddle here!

Also, for a proper Frigate size, look at my Nimrod-class Frigate a little bit back.

[edit 2] Hm... post 1,000 in here. Nice!

Also, Cooky, I'd get rid of those useless pods and enlarge the size of the main two.

[freyr's mother]

Cooky your ships are so awesome! It's probably becoming cliche for you though huh?

Do we have a designation for your Henry H. Arnold Class Cruiser __-308 cruiser by cooky. What I mean by that is, do you have anything you want to fill that blank in with?

[Col. Shadow Quinn]

We don't have drone systems!

We already dealt with a high relatistic speed earlier in the thread. Go look back a bit.

Um... by the calculations most people are doing, that's actually rather slow... I think.

I pronounce it FANWANK... weak FANWANK.

[edit] OK, working the math on the Hyperdrive figure, unless someone quotes Asguard hyperdrive speeds at over 1 trillion c, I think your drive is about 400 times faster than an Asgard drive. (Or 400k, if Asgard drives are at millions rather than billions.) Quite definitly FANWANK.

Also, if that was even possible, then it would be a Battleship, not a BC (which is Bomber/Carrier, Battle Cruiser, or something else).

Well actually 800,000 light years a minute is quite fast. In 5 minutes, it would've gotten to Ida Galaxy which is 4,000,000 light years away. Notice he said a minute.

[Aroura-Gate]

Here

[cooky]

Cooky your ships are so awesome! It's probably becoming cliche for you though huh?

Thanks. It isn't cliche, its welcome. Always nice to be apreciated.

Do we have a designation for your Henry H. Arnold Class Cruiser __-308 cruiser by cooky. What I mean by that is, do you have anything you want to fill that blank in with?

Nope. We don't even know the Daedalus class's designation yet. If it conformes to naval designation it'll be easy to look up. But untill I know how the show is designating its capital ships, I'm leaving them blank. Plus, the design isn't complete, so It's category may change to destroyer or frigate. Probly won't, but I want to keep my options open.