Man, now I really wanna hear what Nathan has to say…Ĭoncerning my original post about the cutoff between Scale 2 and Scale 3, my original estimate of 100 meters was slightly off as I forgot to take into account the Jem’Hadar Fighter, which is 95 meters long and is rated as Scale 3. Would such an in-universe change be represented in the STA rules by modifying a space station’s Scale and/or additional refits? Then, a few seasons later, DS9 was suddenly able to take on a whole fleet of Klingon ships and win. At the start of the show, DS9, being just an abandonded mining station, could barely hold off a single ship in combat. I’m hoping I’m following in Modiphius’ footsteps as I stumble in the dark.īut if Nathan can add to our discussion, I’m eager to hear what he has to say.ĮDIT: I remember during the show (was it in Season 3?), DS9 actually got upgraded significantly. I’m just trying to do the same thing with the most canon-accurate source we could have ever hoped for. STA players have been doing that sort of fan made tweaking since the game began. Without a common yardstick, how would the rules of an RPG even function?Īnd most of what I’m doing is using the published ship stats in previous STA books to extrapolate at least the Scale stats of ships that haven’t been published yet. So now I’m thinking that the border between Scale 2 and Scale 3 is closer to 100 meters given that the largest Scale 2 ship I know of is 68.5 meters and the smallest Scale 3 ship I know of (the Daedalus-class) is 140 meters.Īre there published stats for any other Scale 2 ships in any of the STA books that I can use as a better base of comparison?Īre there other factors besides size that Modiphius uses to determine Scale for starships/starbases/space stations? (I’m still having trouble reconciling DS9 being officially Scale 12 when it’s dwarfed by both a Scale 13 Borg Cube and the Scale 12 “Doomsday Machine” Planet Killer, see here.)Īt which particular Scale should the Colossal trait apply?īut even estimates need some basis of comparison, Jim. I originally thought that 40 meters was the border between Scale 2 and Scale 3 before I found out about the Maquis Raider being Scale 2 at 68 meters. The difference between Scale 1 and Scale 2 is apparently about 20 meters since the runabout is 23 meters long and is the smallest Scale 2 ship I have official stats for. I’m trying to determine just exactly what length separates Scale 2 from Scale 3. That’s not an unfortunate situation having more ships to detail my article is what I call a “good problem.” But as far as I am aware, the only two Scale 2 ships I have seen published stats for are the Danube-class runabout and the Maquis Raider (and I only became aware that the Raider is Scale 2 just a day ago). With the addition of the new ships, I have to rewrite the article to include them. I was about to publish the article over at Continuing Mission just a few days from now when I found out two things: 1) Wixiban/Eaglemoss just put out updated images of their starship size pictures with additional ships from Discovery, STO and ST: Picard and 2) the Klingon Corebook states the Maquis Raider (canon length 68.5 meters) is Scale 2 instead of Scale 3 as I originally thought. Ok, so a few months ago, after seeing Eaglemoss’ in-scale canon pictures of most of Star Trek’s starships, I decided to take it upon myself to make a fanmade work of determining every starship’s Scale as according to its length and/or size/mass/volume.
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