Star Trek for Mekton Zeta

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2003-11-20 12:07pm

How would you go about desining ships for Mekton Zeta for a Star Trek game???

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2003-11-21 08:30am

Use Wings to simulate the warp nacelles, a Torso for the primary hull and a smaller Torso for the secondary hull. The lion's share of the ship's habitable volume appears to be concentrated in the saucer (most graphically demonstrated in the Galaxy-class's swollen, oversized saucer which appears to make up nearly three-fourths of the volume of the ship).

Ships without a secondary hull are even easier: A torso for the hull, two wings for the warp nacelles and a pod if it's got a rollbar pod.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2003-11-23 12:10am

hmmm can you use two Torsos ???

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2003-11-23 11:30am

Typhonis 1 wrote:hmmm can you use two Torsos ???

<Palpatine>I will make it legal.</Palpatine>

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2003-11-23 01:01pm

Mecha Trek possibly the only way to decently revive the series...though it could be argued that the origional was animeish.

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2003-11-23 02:09pm

Yeah, the cardinal rule of Mekton has always been, "If you don't like a rule, change it." There are times - such as when designing ships - that you may need multiple torsos, and in those instances you should have multiple torsos (a prime example of this is the SDF-1 Macross, which properly speaking has THREE torsos - the main hull of the ship, and the main hulls of Daedalus and Prometheus).

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2003-11-23 02:29pm

Ahhh thanky

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2003-11-25 03:12pm

hmmm already working on one ship a small Klingon ship ((Striker hull space hydraulics w/ monoque frame))

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2003-11-25 04:56pm

Generally, very few Trek full-on ships will have standard hydraulics - only ones that come immediately to mind are the Intrepid-class and various Klingon Birds of Prey.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2003-11-26 01:39am

hmm use the projectile weapons for the torpedoes?? they sure don`t act like missle from MKZ

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-11-26 02:03am

This has more to do with Star Trek than it does with mecha.

Thread moved to Pure Star Trek.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2003-11-29 03:15am

Main body Srtiker 10 sp 600K str armor 30sp
boom Light weight 7 sp 400k str 30sp
l wing striker 5 sp 300K str 30sp
R wing striker 5 sp 300K str 30 sp

ok weapons

5 light beam guns aka Light disruptors 100 k range 20km/8000 km +1 wa 1 port/forward (r wing) 1 starbord forward ( l wing) 1 port aft(main body) 1 stbd aft (main body) 1 Aft (main body)

2 medium beam guns aka medium disruptors 300 k range 35 km/24500km +1 Wa 1 forward port( r wing ) 1 Starbord port( l wing)

1 medium cannon aka photon torpedo tube 600k range 35km/24500km 0wa 1 forward((boom)) 40 shots

medieum screen 2000 sp ablative
MA16 crew decide quality -2 mv space hydraulics ,monoque frame crew 90 900 tons supplies 2 shuttles a small Klingon warship

cost not counting crew quality 89,585 cp

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2003-11-30 10:51am

Now that I think about it, it actually does make more sense to model a photon torpedo tube (or any torpedo tube, really) as a cannon with warm-up time than as a missile launcher (since missile launchers in Mekton Z are intended to model things like missile pods or VLS).