kostmayer wrote:I like it. Larger Engineering and Engines proportionate to the rest of the ship when compared with later designs - as it should be in the early years of Warp Drive.
Hows the Mass Driver canon work?
They come out of ports on various sides of the ship. There are eight on the aft and starboard that rise out of the edge of the hull (four on top, four on bottom), two that are dropped out of the bottom of the engineering hull, and two that are 'rolled out' right on the front of the engineering hull. The Lasers, three on top, three on bottom, are where the phaser cannons be on a Constitution-class. Torpedo tubes are two on the bottom of the primary hull, and two under the shuttle bay.
The Mass Driver Cannons/Mass Accelerator Cannons, affectionaly called MAC Guns by their crews launch shells of depleted uranium at speeds of near c at an enemy. Depending on the barrel size (the Enterprise has 18 inch, the same as the IJN Yamato's gun size), it can inflict massive amount of damage. Also for shells are 'nuke shells', which are basically a shell with a nuclear warhead at the tip.