USS Scorpii MSD and deck plans WIPs
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I started working on the MSD for our Nova-class ship, and figured since it was small enough I would make deck plans as well. These are initial Works-In-Progress; I was in the process of making better versions (focusing on redoing the deck layout based on a better understanding of the exterior of the ship) when the game ended (this was 3-ish years ago, in 2019). I recall that I had a lot more filled out in the actual decks than is here—I'll maybe update this if that's the case. I may finish now that I have access to various programs other than Inkscape, but we'll see. I think I did have a more complete MSD than is on the website, but this just what's here.
A few notes:
- It has a Runabout because the ship took the extensive shuttlebays talent. The runabout played an important role in our first mission. I recall suggesting that the runabout be dropped in lieu of the waverider only before the game started, but that didn't happen, so we got both. I statted out a waverider based on the captain's yacht, but with a special-rule–type thing that granted it reduced difficulty piloting rolls in atmosphere.
- I used the scale provided by Rick Sternbach (221.74 meters/727.5 feet) because that's as close to official as we can get, and the Eaglemoss model used that. The actual scale seen on screen is a bit smaller, most likely, and of course the canon MSD is used on Ex Astris Scientia as an example of why MSDs are problematic for scaling ships. The official size also allowed the ship to actually accommodate a runabout in the back (even if I did add a runabout-length's worth of hull to actually get it in, but that's what refits are for, right?).
- You can see my process in figuring out the shuttlebays. The rear of the ship ended up using the same curve direction as the regular ship (seen in the image with the canon MSD and final preliminary MSD). That ventral curve is seen on pretty much every ship in Star Trek that has a design based on the saucer/engineering section split that the original Enterprise pioneered, so I thought I'd better keep it (beta canon also mentions it has something to do with warp field geometry or making the ship "aerodynamic" in a warp field as I recall). Plus, the Excelsior class demonstrated to me that a shuttlebay door could work on that curved section of the ship.
- I used Falke2009's renders for several room layouts, because they're high quality and made sense, and were used by the GM. I think they're scaled based on the smaller Nova, but it was still useful. https://www.deviantart.com/falke2009
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MSD and miscellaneous process images
Decks
Turbolifts