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Time for building

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I was thinking, just how long does it take to build the ships in star trek? I think together we could come to a reasonable conclusion. I would like to start us off with some complete guesses:

#Galaxy - 3 years
#Intrepid - 2 years
#Defiant - 2 months
#Akira - 2 years
#Ambassador - 2 years
#Danube - 2 weeks
#Nebula - 3 years
#Nova - 1 year
#Prometheus - 2 years
#Sovereign - 2.5 years

These are all probably way off but they will do as a starting point. What do you guys think?

#EDIT Revised times.
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The only one I can remember having a specific time was the NX... first one took 5 or so years (I think) and the second took 2.
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Next to impossible to figure out, methinks.
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The E-D was brand new in 2364, Stardate 41000 or so, and yet apparently according to Booby Trap they were still fiddling with the design of the power systems as late as 40174, less than a year or so earlier. I'd guess that building one took no more than 3 or 4 years.
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I revised the times, please comment on what you think of them.
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About the ballpark I'd have picked.
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I put the Sovereign as shorter than the Galaxy as I think there would have been advances in ship building methods.
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Sovereigns are also a fair bit smaller.
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I thought they were around the same size?
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alexmann wrote:I thought they were around the same size?
About the same length, but the Sov has less than half the volume of the GCS.
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OK, its still pretty damn big though.
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Assuming unlimited supply of parts ect I think they could build any capital ship in under ayear.

I think the issue really is that it takes lot of time and highly skilled labor to build the large warp reactors and nacelles.

BuIdling the hull and body with automated systems helping would be dead quick and easy.

It's the systems that slow them down.
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But that is the main part of it.
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Building the main hull of any ship really doesn't take that long. It's the fitting out and training the crew for that ship that takes the longest.

That holodeck program in Booby Trap showed presumably the E-D still in a state of construction. So building the ship may not be an issue.
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Considering that the crew training is done completely seperately, with enough people working on it, you would probably be able to build any one of these in less than a year.
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