>>>As I can't stand the Saladin (no offense Gryphon - tis a good ship,
>>>especially her Starfleet battles counterpart, but its a personal
>>>dislike of the look), can I suggest this instead if you decide to
>>>continue with an older style design in that other story?
>>
>>You may not, sir! Why, the damned impertinence! The cheek!
>
>Designed by Gil Hibben.

Harrumph.

Anyway, going back over the draft, it turns out the ship I was thinking of is not a Saladin-class starship, as offered in the old Franz Joseph Star Fleet Technical Manual; it's a variant of same that I think I came up with myself, called the Saracen class, which has two warp engines (one above the primary hull, the other below).

Battletech fans will spot the pattern there - the Saracen and Saladin tanks were very similar-looking, variations on the same theme - and the circle will be completed when I mention that the specific Saracen-class destroyer I had lined up an appearance for was WDF Scimitar.

--G.
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