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Published: 2019-05-10 07:04:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 709; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 10
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The Loknar Class MK V, the pride of the Andorian shipbuilders, their races contribution to the Star Fleet, built in Andorian staffed shipyards on both Andoria and on Mars. The USS Phobos launched in roughly 2270 (Stardate and ref date screw me up) just before or about the same time as the refit Enterprise left dry dock after it's previous five year mission. Being designed by Andorians, there are features on this class of ships that Andorians prefer, like Andorian sensible environmental controls, and many ships were crewed entirely by Andorians. Rhiss got her promotion and assignment in the same orders, this ship is so new it doesn't even have it's insignia patch designed yet.Those antenna are amongst my very first successful 3d props and the only geograft that I have gotten to work. The Loknar/Phobos prop is a conversion from TrekkieGal on Foundation3D. #bucketweekend2019 for kb7rky
Edit: Corrected credits.
Daz 4.10 Iray ---> GIMP 2.10.2 ---> Comic Life 3.5.9
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Is there a story with this great picture?
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No, not yet, that's first concept, sometimes I think visually, sort of like taking notes to weld concepts in my head. The story is there slowly growing, but I don't know when I will find time to tell it. Thanks! 
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Awesome, you've got to enjoy Loknar class and Andorian ladies.
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Great character and image, dear thom! You have this so special way to create characers and images
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We don't often see Andorians. Great choice, and this character is a keeper.
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Thank you sir, she's one of my on deck models for a comic that was planned and never got traction or inertia.
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Thank you very much sir!
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That's the Original Texture by Kevin Riley. The best solution is to replace it with Mattymanx Starship Font but it's kind of advance.
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Thank you for clearing that up!
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...a bucket week, for me?
You are all too kind 
Thanks!
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Trent thinks you seem to deserve it, and it's true that you've been good to me.
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Well...I am genuinely humbled.
Thank you so much!
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Greatly appreciate this, good sir!
And, thanks for the watch!
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I just realized that I wasn't, sorry it took me so long!
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Not a problem...as long as you rectified it.
I confess...I'm not as prolific as most, since I do A LOT of lurking.
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Very cool Thom.
Was the next ship in the line the U.S.S. Deimos?
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USS Deimos was a Miranda Class about 30 years older.
Thanks bro!
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Well damn, there go my hopes for a matching set...
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Tut tut... You know Starfleet rules. We have to call it an Escort or a light Frigate until the war starts!
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I still feel that FASA had Frigate and Destroyer backwards. Made all the more glaring since they have them right in Battletech. Loknar (and its excellent successor the Chandley) should be classed as Destroyers.
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Now that I think of it, I can never remember which is supposed to be bigger... that may be why...
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Did a quick Wikipedia research:
In the age of sail, Frigates were large, massing, and armed just under a Cruiser. Destroyers came about in the transitionary period to ironclads and self-powered, and were relatively small. At this point, Frigates fall out of favor for a bit. Destroyers become bigger, heavier, and carry more guns/torpedoes. Then Frigates make a comeback as a smaller craft.
Destroyers are intended as a long-range support ship for battle groups, fleets, and convoys - their job is to defend against light short-range enemy vessels.
17th Century Frigates was a design type - how their masts, forecastle, etc. was built, rather than a size or armament. Modern Frigates also serve as escorts, with anti-submarine and air defense being common. The new Littoral Combat Ships are viewed as Corvettes or Frigates. And those are generally intended for amphibious landings.
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Way to do the research!
So by function, the Miranda is closer to a frigate or Light Cruiser (hence the dual shuttle bays and heavy armament) and Thoms Phobos would be more akin to a destroyer... That works for me (assuming that I got that right)
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Its listed in the FASA SRM as a Research Cruiser - which is an LC with a lot of science labs and extra sensors.
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Ah, which I guess would differentiate it from it's original intended class name of Avenger Class...
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Worth noting the torpedo launcher and phaser complement in the movies fits that name more.
It clearly has two more fairly potent phaser emitters in the aft superstructure, just below the rollbar, and the torps appear to fire two fore and two aft.
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Indeed, when I was younger I always thought Reliant was over armed for a smaller, older, less powerful ship class (relative to the Enterprise Class or Constitution Mk2)
I have to assume that her saucer mounted main emitters are an older less potent design then the Enterprise (though assuming they upgraded torpedoes fleet wide around the same time
she'd still pack a hell of a punch as a torpedo ship...)
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FASA stats put the emitters and torps as the same model.
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I have to admit I'm not at all familiar with FASA stats (I kind of know what they are) but my main source of reference where the Technical Manuals, the ST Encyclopedia and the Tech articles in ST: Magazine since they were supposed to be canon. I do think I remember reading that the Miranda was supposed to have older model phasers then the refit Enterprise (owing to it being and older and smaller class) but since I can't remember where I read it... (It does make me curious, even if they were the same model, whether they would pack the same punch mounted to a ship with a smaller warp core... but that's just nitpicking)
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I found the FASA books before I found my copy of the Franz Josef Tech Manual.
Pick those nits. I always do.
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I started with the TNG Technical Manual, then Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise, THEN the Franz Josef Manual, the ST: Chronology, ST: Encyclopedia (1st and 2nd Editions), TNG Blueprints, and finally the DS9 Tech Manual... I guess it depends either on when you grew up or in what order you found the books... LOL
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