User:Kimagurena/Constellation-B 2327 Refit Proposal

Initially, as I had been looking at possibilities for the Constellation-B, I rather favored designs that maximized D, as I saw a vessel that could achieve par with the Kepler-G for event response, with a modest reduction in resolution capability.

However, truly maximizing D involves excessively expensive nacelle replacement (further disfavored by the loss of the distinctive Stella quad-nacelle design), reaching the point where the refits could basically cost as much SR as scrapping the entire ship and new building a replacement, as only a few fairly cheap components remained of the prior design. This level of expensive retrofit ran somewhat counter to the initial intention for the Constellation-B to act as a cheap, somewhat lesser, alternative to the Kepler; having two Constellation-Bs wasn't so obviously superior to having two Constellation-As and a fresh Kepler-G although the latter requires rather more crew.

But in cutting a point of D, and playing around further with the design, it became clear that we can actually achieve a fifth point of presence, to match the fifth point of science, at little additional cost, if only we had just slightly more room. I don't know if a modest further technological advancement would enable a Constellation-B to reach 5P without compromising elsewhere, but I present designs sacrificing a point of C (main design in sidebar) and a somewhat more expensive alternative 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sacrificing a point of L]. The former runs 25 BR 25 SR for the refit (only 5 SR more than SWB's design, for a relative change of +1P +1D -1C), while the latter increases this to 30 BR 30 SR.

Between the modestly cheaper cost and the relative fragility of Stellas to begin with, I favor the firepower reduction over the lower shields.

For posterity, I also provide designs that go ahead and maximize D (that is, replace the nacelles and raise it to 7) while keeping their respective tradeoffs to make room for a fifth point of presence. Doing so raises each design's refit cost by 5 BR 10 SR from their respective D6 counterpart. That is, the refit costs 30 BR 35 SR for the 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C2 D7 design], and 35 BR 40 SR for the 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L2 D7 design]. Both designs also raise the new build cost to 90 BR 70 SR.

Full credit for doing the overwhelming majority of the work of course goes to Sunrise for both creating the Constellation-A base design and the idea of a significant crew-reducing refit.

Some Further Alternates
It is possible, setting aside any reasonably budgetary sense, to further improve on the above design. For an extra 10 BR 10 SR and a third enlisted crew on the 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refit], C can be kept at 3 rather than dropping to 2. Given that the ship should be seeing little or no combat, this seems excessively expensive.

Somewhat less excessively, L can instead be raised to 4, with a 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refit cost of 30 BR 35 SR]. Given that this raises the new build cost to 70 SR, however, this still qualifies as excessive as the refit costs fully half of the SR of a new vessel. This also rather cheesily uses only secondary phasers as weapons (which may or may not be permitted).