Revealing the Deckhouse and Other Secrets
This is Steven Petrick Posting:
Almost every Klingon SSD in Star Fleet Battles has a square block on the back. This usually includes the shuttle boxes among other systems. The existence of this block goes back to the original depictions of Klingon ships in the Original series of Star Trek.
We call this block "The Deckhouse", and it is represented on virtually every Klingon miniature.
No one knows what function it was intended to have in the Original Series, it was just something to make the ship look like a ship. We have generally interpreted it to be the location of shuttle bay on the ship (leading to stacked deck houses for some Klingon carriers), and usually assume the APRs are there, or at least parts of the APR system are there.
Most Klingon ships also have their drone racks (if any, and not necessarily all of them) in the deck house.
But just because a system is shown "in the deckhouse" that does not mean it is there. SSDs are representations of things, and the deckhouse is not the whole thickness of the hull. So while a Klingon D5 has its ADD racks in the deck house, the actual launching ports for the ADDs are BELOW the deckhouse on the miniature.
The real point to all of this is while we hear at ADB, inc., know that the feature represented by that square is the deckhouse, many people are not aware of it, and are surprised to learn that the feature is actually a visual representation of something on the miniature.
This does not mean that we do not try to have things on the SSDs appear to be where they should be (for example, the Fed CA has its shuttles near the back of the Engineering/Secondary hull, while the Fed DN has them near the front of the Engineering/Secondary hull, in both cases in accordance with where Franz Joseph Designs placed the shuttle bays on those ship classes).
Almost every Klingon SSD in Star Fleet Battles has a square block on the back. This usually includes the shuttle boxes among other systems. The existence of this block goes back to the original depictions of Klingon ships in the Original series of Star Trek.
We call this block "The Deckhouse", and it is represented on virtually every Klingon miniature.
No one knows what function it was intended to have in the Original Series, it was just something to make the ship look like a ship. We have generally interpreted it to be the location of shuttle bay on the ship (leading to stacked deck houses for some Klingon carriers), and usually assume the APRs are there, or at least parts of the APR system are there.
Most Klingon ships also have their drone racks (if any, and not necessarily all of them) in the deck house.
But just because a system is shown "in the deckhouse" that does not mean it is there. SSDs are representations of things, and the deckhouse is not the whole thickness of the hull. So while a Klingon D5 has its ADD racks in the deck house, the actual launching ports for the ADDs are BELOW the deckhouse on the miniature.
The real point to all of this is while we hear at ADB, inc., know that the feature represented by that square is the deckhouse, many people are not aware of it, and are surprised to learn that the feature is actually a visual representation of something on the miniature.
This does not mean that we do not try to have things on the SSDs appear to be where they should be (for example, the Fed CA has its shuttles near the back of the Engineering/Secondary hull, while the Fed DN has them near the front of the Engineering/Secondary hull, in both cases in accordance with where Franz Joseph Designs placed the shuttle bays on those ship classes).
posted by Federation Commander at 7:39 PM
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