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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 162
Message ID: 6
#6, RE: What if...
Posted by Gryphon on Oct-23-01 at 09:50 PM
In response to message #5
>I'll defer to Ben as to the FTL technology on the UF Yamato;
>if we built them to original canon spec, they'd have fold drives. If
>not, I'd suspect that they had hyperdrives, simply because warp
>nacelles would look silly on them.

Ships don't have to have nacelles to have warp drive (see most Cardassian designs, and the warp retrofits to the Colonial Battlestars and Star Destroyers in WDF service), but it's a pain to build 'em fully integrated. The Yamato class does have fold drive, and also hyperdrive backup. Almost everything has hyperdrive backup. It's too cheap and easy not to bother with.

--G.
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