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Star Trek Nova Class 1.1

Hello,

Before you continue consider to rate this build after trying it out which helps me a lot identifying what can be done different. I would also appreciate any comments. Your opinion matters to me.

! ! ! UPDATE 1.1 – info below ! ! !
Description Update

The Nova Class is a little Science / Recon Vessel from Star Trek Universe featured as U.S.S. Equinox in Voyager series. I took the liberty to choose 222m as reference size and I followed the floor plans from the comments section of the link below. I also included now screenshots from all decks.

Although the ship is tiny in ST terms it became a huge build in Empyrion terms. And that is what made me do this project to have the immersion of size, being able to appreciate the setup and features.

Alpha Canon: (link below)
“The Nova-class was designed as a science and scout vessel, intended for short-term planetary research and analysis. It is not typically suitable for combat operations. […]
The Nova-class had a design similar to that of an Intrepid-class starship, though smaller in size. It consisted of a saucer section with a curved triangular shape. The secondary hull was directly attached to the underside of the saucer with two warp nacelles. […]
Unlike some starship designs, the Nova-class only featured one impulse drive, located at the aft end of deck 2 aligned center to the ship. […]
Though a small ship, the Nova-class was able to accommodate the needs of the crew. This class of starship had eight decks. […]”


Star Trek Features: (all items can be found in my NOVA class collection)

- 2 Hangar big enough to fit Shuttles (Type 8 , Type 9, Valkyrie, WorkBee) in them
- 1 Waverider Hangar on the Ventral Saucer which can fit the Waverider Shuttle
- Ship Identification Tag - you name the ship like you want
- Full accessible Warp Nacelles
- 15 Science Labs to explore
- Auxiliary Bridge on Deck 3
- 2 Sickbays
- Tons of Bays for all different things in Star Trek world
- Planetary Landing Boarding Ramp
- Oxygen Supply – I purposefully have chosen to not sacrifice Oxygen supplies to reduce device count to be able to walk through a damaged ship (just immersion)
- Explosive destruction leave skeleton structure behind since the base grid in the ship Hull is Hardened Steel, the outside is full Combat steel. All the rest is just Carbon for weight reduction.

Ingame Features: (BP details in the screenshot)


Size 32 CV
Unlock Level: 25
118x226x42m
2 Advanced Constructors
2 Small Constructors
6 Fridges
5 Food processors
5 Medic Stations
4 Oxygen Stations
T2 Shield
Warp Drive
T4 Core

Gravity up to 4g possible, though keep her horizontal else she will dive 😊
- supply points on all necessary positions
- Hangar Deck 3 and 4 feature light guidance for egress and ingress flights
- Hangar Deck 4 elevator features light support if going down or up, depending where you start
- All Hangar guidance gets only triggered by SVs, players (which are only 1 block in size) do not trigger those – that was intended to prevent opening and closing hangar gates all the time as well as unnecessary lights getting triggered, when not needed
- Ambient Lighting on Warp Core and Deflectors (can be disabled)
- automatic lights everywhere


-Signals in Main Ship menu:
Red Alert - Triggers all Weapons to deploy, Shield to activate and illuminates every Deck with Red flash Lights
Yellow alert - same like Red Alert just w/o weapons and only Bridge Alarm light
Deflector Lights switch - in case you get annoyed that some light gets into the rooms you can switch it off while being there
Warp Light switch - for power savings
NAV Lights - to deactivate all exterior NAV lights and Beacons
AUX Power - In case you need that little extra juice w/o using the Alarm switches - it also accelerates Warp Core Lights
EVACUATE - will open all 20 Escape Pod Hatches as well as their internal Corridor doors to access the Escape Pods which I also built and which fit into the Slots

Update 1.1
- I figured out this was an illegal build so I removed the Personnel Cargo Boxes in exchange with blocks looking like lockers instead.
- There were to many (14) Sentry guns – reduced to 6 now.
- More Plant pots – D2 Bio Lab got redesigned to fit some more pot blocks
- I removed some Dancers on D1 VIP Lounge since they found their way out to the Hull.
- Repair Station and Armor Locker added to D5 Maintenance Bay for easier ingame access
- 2x Repair stations from D5 Damage Control Compartment removed
- Removal of Cargo Boxes on different locations. There were just too many and it doesn’t help ingame to choose the right one. D6 Main Cargo Hold A, B and C can be easily extended by removing “crates” blocks and extend capacity to them to your needs. Same for D5 and D3 Cargo Controllers.
- Plenty Texture fixing. There were some inconsistencies on Corridor D4 towards the Torpedo Bays
- no more Ammo Boxes, only Controllers in the Torpedo Bays

Hope you enjoy it!


References:

NOVA Class floor plans:
https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/sd-uss-nova-nx-72228.php

Alpha Canon information:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nova_class