Good point...and we don't have to be NX-03...6 is a nice number because by then it's an established class and all the "new" toys should be reliable and worked into the spaceframe.ChakatBlackstar wrote:If the shuttle naming convention-thingy was followed has the NX-03 through the NX-05 being named after the remaining US shuttles then the Buran would probably be NX-06
There's something else we should consider: Phase Cannons/lasers? Spatial Atomic Torpedoes/"Photonic" Torpedoes....I think we could argue that the phase cannons and photonics were to expenseive/complicated for mass production so the remaining NX ships stuck with the tried and true?
(we do what we can to clean up continuity )