Just a lil silliness about the Eagle on this fine Friday.

mudhut

I was playing with the Terran Eagle and I really like the ship but the whole time I was thinking “where do we store all those torpedoes? In my mind now I picture a large replicator rolling a torpedo down a shoot into the tube and two old guys slam it in followed by a bag of some sort of powder with a big q-tip. Like In that movie Battleship. Lol!

Like I said, just some silliness.

leemwatson

mudhut#3231 wrote: »

I was playing with the Terran Eagle and I really like the ship but the whole time I was thinking “where do we store all those torpedoes? In my mind now I picture a large replicator rolling a torpedo down a shoot into the tube and two old guys slam it in followed by a bag of some sort of powder with a big q-tip. Like In that movie Battleship. Lol!

Like I said, just some silliness.

In theory, we have two canon explanations from DS9 and Voyager. The replicator is likely the source, as per DS9 (self-replicating mines) whilst it's probable that Voyager employed the same trick once they located the resources they needed as they had limited torps when they arrived in the DQ. The only issue is materials required, which will need storage space.

spiritborn

To be fair ships in STO have infinite munitions something that ships in canon don't so one possible explanation is that the Eagle has only handful of volleys after which it's out of torps.

nixie50

Star Trek 5, It was definitely stated that there was a torpedo inventory.

spiritborn

nixie50 wrote: »

Star Trek 5, It was definitely stated that there was a torpedo inventory.

It's mentioned several times that ships have finite number of torps, it was even suppose to be a plot point in VOY though that was quickly forgotten/dropped, but since the Eagle is STO original we don't know what canon munition count for it it is, as I suspect different ships have different amounts of torpedoes onboard.

captainkoltar

I can't remember where I got this info from, so it might be non canon, but I think the problem is the antimatter in the torpedoes? Doesn't it get siphoned from the warp core - so away from a Starbase/refuelling station, it's a finite resource.

The other bits can be replicated, but the antimatter can't...

inferiority

shoot

Chute.

But perhaps Starfleet are using Rom's Self-Replicating trick?

phoenixc

It is not just the fuel that is used for the warhead, there are also other exotic-material parts in torpedoes that cannot be replicated, they have to be fabricated conventionally. Voyager was able to get a few small batches of torpedoes made along the way, but they could never quite make a deal for larger lots that did not fall through.

The antimatter was not a problem, the rotgut fuel the scoops produced would work fine in a torpedo warhead, it is the extremely finicky but fast engines that had the problem. The fact that the Voyager's engines had trouble with it was a reference to its realworld counterpart, today's Arleigh Burke class, which has direct-burn turbines that cannot take poor quality fuel like the "bunker fuel" that a lot of older ships run on.