>>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. One technology we would have added
>>to the class beyond the original canon spec would be a shield
>>generator, simply because we think it's stupid to build a ship without
>>one.
>
>True enough; but that was only because Shielding wasn't available in
>the 'source material' universe. I have a feeling that if they'd had
>some available, they would have added it to the class. And there was
>at least one case where they basicly MADE shields for themselves.

Oh, I figure that any culture that can make a reasonable shield technology will deploy it on their top-line warships. I meant that we would have been stupid not to deploy it, not that the original canon builders were stupid not to deploy it. They didn't deploy it because it didn't exist for them.

We've been putting full shields on all WDF cap ships ever since Zoner got complaints of carpal tunnel syndrome from the pinpoint defense crew on the SDF-17 from overusing the trackballs.

--rR