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Mike DiCenso wrote:Let's see, shields on impulse power only should be considerably weaker than warp core powered ones, so they should be down a considerable amount, probably between 40-60%, with individual shields in danger of collapsing altogether.
IMO, shields as a rule are powered off the impulse power grid normally, at least in the TNG+ era - see "Hero Worship," where warp power to shields is the last resort. Key line in that episode:
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LAFORGE: Fusion reactors four through nine into the shield array. That should double the shield strength.
"Elaan of Troyius" might seem ungenerous to ships lacking warp power, but still, we have this line:
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Our shields will hold for a few passes,
but without the matter- anti-matter reactor,
we've no chance.
It might be that system redundancy has improved from TOS to TNG; we're looking at an
Ambassador class here in the "Yesterday's Enterprise" era between those two. There's also a line in "Yesterday's Enterprise" regarding the Ambassador class and the Galaxy class:
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TASHA YAR: Deflector shield technology has advanced considerably during the war. Our heat dissipation rates are probably double those of the Enterprise-C, which means we can hang in a firefight a lot longer.
It's an alternate timeline, granted, but that's probably the only canon bit of data we have regarding the shields of the
Ambassador within the period this story is set.
Is the tac officer human or other? As for the Klingon, howabout something like "Klaarg"?
-Mike
Tac officer's species is not specified. We did establish earlier that most of the crew is human and exactly how many alien crewmembers are aboard the
Cheron, but we haven't run out of alien crewmembers yet (so far, we have Mr. Hoq, Crewman Slar, Lieutenant Mzz'kiti, Commander Shovas, and an as-yet unnamed commissioned Andorian officer, out of seventy-five alien crewmembers).
Praeothmin wrote:-The Phasers of course will destroy the fighters, and the Torpedoes' damage will depend on how many Torpedoes there are per volley: 50% shields if 4-5 Torpedoes per volley, no shields if Galaxy like volley of 8-10 Torpedoes...
Well, it's an
Ambassador class. I'm frankly not sure how many torpedoes should be in each full spread, we don't see
Ambassadors shooting very often. We're going to have to guess.