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SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
Hi!

I am wondering, for what reason could the Horizon class ship have the blue energy field around its ball shaped saucer? I mean no other federation ship has something like that and it does not look very useful. Whatever could that thing be for?


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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Noone has an idea? :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    No clue, but I think its the best bubble of the three. Wish I didn't have to have a bubble at all, but at least it looks cool?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Maybe it's a glorified fishtank? Who knows? 't is a mystery!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    It's not a bubble, it's ribbing.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    dhaise wrote: »
    It's not a bubble, it's ribbing.

    for your pleasure?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I think that it, its a fish tank.

    The little thing in the front is the bridge, and the huge bubble is the fish tank connected to the captains ready room.

    Then behind the tank is engineering.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    For her pleasure...


    EDIT: Wow you perverts were quicker than me with that joke LOL ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    It's a trap!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I'd guess it would be for research or experiments involving the external elements (solar radiation, etc) while being able to filter out the harmful or unwanted stuff. Unfortunately the graphics make it look like nothing is behind the force fields. But the pattern looks the same as what is used for the terraform shielding on planets in the game.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    it looks like the devs couldnt be bothered figuring out a non ball shaped hull for the 3rd ship if you ask me, and doesnt actually signify anything
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    At least you can make out the individual polygons that make up the shielding. Thats pretty sweet.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Ohh, of course!

    Remember the Star Trek movie where they rescue the whales? Well now they can't let the whales go extinct again so every captain of a science vessel of the Horizon class gets their own fishtank with a few whales in it. So if there is another alien probe coming to look for whales they have them ready for presentation.


    p.s.

    That shielding graphic is lifted directly from CO where they used it for one of their powersets. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    technotica wrote: »
    Ohh, of course!

    Remember the Star Trek movie where they rescue the whales? Well now they can't let the whales go extinct again so every captain of a science vessel of the Horizon class gets their own fishtank with a few whales in it. So if there is another alien probe coming to look for whales they have them ready for presentation.

    ROFL, I agree with this statement. Save the whales! Send them to SPACE!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    ROFL, I agree with this statement. Save the whales! Send them to SPACE!

    this reminds me of a south park episode..
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    My best guess would be that if you've watched many space faring shows . These Glass like chambers usually have something to do with Terraforming / Plant growth / Animal habits . But it is just a guess.... Maybe its just for the view .:D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    The bubble design looks like some of the early sketches for the craft to be used in TOS (It did not have the name USS Enterprise yet)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I'm surprised at the 'fanatical keepers of the canon' not getting their knickers twisted about this one.
    The 'Horizon class' in STO is nothing of the sort.
    The Horizon class was from TOS timeline and was a light cruiser ( if memory serves ) and the USS Constellation started out life as an Horizon class before being re-fitted as a Constitution heavy cruiser.

    The ship in STO named 'Horizon class' appears to be based upon the USS Horizon, which was not an Horizon class at all but a Daedelus class explorer/patrol vessel

    Surely there should be some nerdrage over this?

    remember kids, it's not real


    I have no idea what the bubble is for, it makes no appearance in any of the starfleet technical manuals.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    'The mystery of the bubble!'

    It would be really nice of cryptic if they put some background information somewhere about the ships they designed. The history of the design, technical aspects, number of decks and such. And why the horizon class has a blue bubble :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    It's a water tank for whales in case you run into the whale probe and need to tell it to **** off.
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