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12th Anniversary Terrran Bundle: Cygnus class, 2ndary deflector?

jrl13#0801 jrl13
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edited July 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Hello All,

Is there a reason why the cygnus class is not slotted/equipped with what visually looks like a 2ndary deflector?

Thanks!
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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,693 Arc User
    edited February 2022
    In general, only science ships get a secondary deflector. The Cygnus is a cruiser.

    https://sto.fandom.com/wiki/Terran_Cygnus_Battlecruiser

    The Trailblazer is the science ship

    https://sto.fandom.com/wiki/Terran_Trailblazer_Science_Warship
  • jrl13#0801 jrl13
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    Thanks!
  • gaevsmangaevsman Member Posts: 3,190 Arc User
    Under the lore of the Cygnus, the saucer can go to warp, so it have a bigger deflector, but is still a ship of the Andromeda family, so its a cruiser.
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  • evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,951 Arc User
    Per last week's stream the reason the model has a deflector on the saucer is because Thomas thought it looked cool, it wasn't intended to indicate additional functionality.
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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,693 Arc User
    evilmark444 wrote: »
    Per last week's stream the reason the model has a deflector on the saucer is because Thomas thought it looked cool, it wasn't intended to indicate additional functionality.

    Ah, it's an Evil Terran Agony Deflector not a real secondary deflector :)

  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
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    edited February 2022
    The TOS Enterprise had an emergency deflector on the front of the saucer for use in case the saucer had to be separated for its lifeboat function (those three big circles on the front of the saucer are the armored hatch covers for that emergency deflector, not windows like the Ent-D's Ten Forward had). Deflectors are not just for warp, they are needed for impulse at anything higher than a crawl to keep dust from chewing up the hull and tiny rocks blasting through it like railguns (the higher impulse speeds are a lot faster than railgun projectile speeds in games like HALO and Mass Effect for instance).

    Starting with the movie era ship design seems to have moved to a thin-skinned-for-speed paradigm and eliminating the project-through covers over those emergency saucer-sep deflectors on later-era ships makes sense in light of that, especially for the Terran Empire with their more ruthless and pragmatic worldview compared to the Federation.
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