Kelso323 In reply to Jon-Bluestone [2023-10-30 18:11:06 +0000 UTC]

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Kelso323 In reply to shag4fun [2019-12-17 16:28:04 +0000 UTC]

It would be ludicrous for me to ignore suggestions; I was a grunt, so I can write as a grunt, but being a grunt doesn’t mean I have intimate knowledge of the thousands of other aspects of military operations, especially airwing, logistics, maintenance, etc. If I want realism, which I do, I have to listen to those perspectives otherwise I’m nothing but a hack. There are already far too many hack writers.

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shag4fun In reply to Kelso323 [2019-12-21 00:05:43 +0000 UTC]

I remember one writer who told me in a response that if someone changed one a to an in his entire story that it was no longer his story.  If my 20 years in Air Force maintenance can give a writer advice to not change his story but to enhance the reading experience I will gladly give it. Most writers I have given advice to have accepted it gladly and included my suggestions in their stories.

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Kelso323 In reply to shag4fun [2019-12-27 07:29:29 +0000 UTC]

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Kelso323 In reply to Emilion-3 [2019-11-24 00:17:22 +0000 UTC]

Honestly, I deliberately avoided delving into that subject when writing the story.

In the series, the Colonials are shown, quite explicitly using the Latin Alphabet and Arabic numerals; hardly surprising considering it was produced here in the United States.

If I were to try and ameliorate that 'anomaly', I would hypothesize that the written form of the Colonial languages is as much of an amalgam of visual characters, Greek, Latin, Persian, Hebrew, etc, as the actual spoken language is depicted as being.

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Emilion-3 In reply to Kelso323 [2019-11-24 01:18:52 +0000 UTC]

Hmm. Most interesting.

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Kelso323 In reply to mfederico4484 [2019-09-10 15:20:41 +0000 UTC]

SAAB holds a special place in my heart, a series which had incredible potential but died far too quickly.

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Kelso323 In reply to aliboy357 [2019-04-02 13:49:11 +0000 UTC]

Hopefully without sounding too cliché, the tale surrounding it being taken down is... complicated.  I'm humbled that you enjoy the story I've written, and regret that I have not been able to return to complete the tale in far too long a time.  I will be reuploading it to Fanfiction.net as well as posting it here on DeviantArt.  I would consider it a significant favor if you would let me know of any spelling or other errors, or even parts of the narrative that are not as clear as they should be.

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aliboy357 In reply to Kelso323 [2019-04-02 15:16:31 +0000 UTC]

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Kelso323 In reply to aliboy357 [2019-04-03 11:32:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, it is truly my one labor of love, I hate how events have kept me from concluding the story.

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Kelso323 In reply to GAT-X139 [2019-01-18 19:14:24 +0000 UTC]

Ooh, some very interesting design updates in that video, really liking the dual impulse drives; good speed and maneuverability choice for a destroyer.

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GAT-X139 In reply to Kelso323 [2019-01-19 01:13:18 +0000 UTC]

Don't forget about the positioning of the torpedo launchers or the larger engineering section.

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Kelso323 In reply to Mana-C-E [2019-01-15 06:00:06 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for sharing your work, superb skill capturing the photo of the Raptor, very much looking forward to having more time to browse your other images.

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Mana-C-E In reply to Kelso323 [2019-01-16 05:06:42 +0000 UTC]

You are very welcome!

I really enjoy airshows! Always a fun place to have the camera out! Plus this year the weather was terrible, so I got to shoot from anywhere I wanted!

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Kelso323 In reply to nichodo [2018-12-29 15:01:43 +0000 UTC]

You did such a fabulous job, I can't see myself avoiding using your work at some point, the only caveat being that I'm more or less concentrating on getting the Corps back onto its feet, a task made interminably more difficult due to this maddening 10 submissions global limit.

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nichodo In reply to Kelso323 [2018-12-29 15:44:48 +0000 UTC]

Yeah

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Kelso323 In reply to 2kuhl4you [2018-06-06 11:52:22 +0000 UTC]

Permission heartily granted, there’s far too little work out there for SAAB. I invite you to take a moment to look at the dedicated SAAB group I belong to as well, you may find some more interesting ideas there too.

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2kuhl4you In reply to Kelso323 [2018-06-06 16:55:43 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much. I will credit you in my postings.

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Kelso323 In reply to nichodo [2018-04-09 07:57:27 +0000 UTC]

It could take a bit of time, but I'll see what I can do, though having investigated the matter, I'd honestly be more inclined to utilize the other nacelles  morgandonovan experimented with.

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nichodo In reply to Kelso323 [2018-04-09 18:00:07 +0000 UTC]

BTW The ship design came from Mystic Spenny who has videos on youtube under the name Mystic107

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nichodo In reply to Kelso323 [2018-04-09 12:35:11 +0000 UTC]

Alright

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Kelso323 In reply to Hardcorev20 [2017-11-11 03:00:02 +0000 UTC]

I know of two designs which might fill such a niche; the Lexington Class and/or NX-1701-A (sometimes known as the Solaris Class)

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Hardcorev20 In reply to Kelso323 [2017-11-11 16:44:14 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, the Lexington class Starship is clearly something you would expect the Federation to build to either supplement the aging Constitution class Cruisers, which by the time of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the second ship in the Constitution-class USS Enterprise was twenty-five years old and the majority of her systems were very much outdated or on the cusp of becoming outdated. Thus the Lexington class, although it's going to be named something different because the Ninth ship in the Constitution class was named USS Lexington, would be that supplement being more heavily armed with twelve phaser banks in the saucer, six phaser banks on the dorsal and ventral sides of the saucer, with two phaser banks apiece covering fore on the dorsal and ventral side of the saucer, with the same configuration to port and starboard in the saucer. plus there are eight broadside phaser banks in the stardrive section with four to port and four to starboard, plus two chase phaser banks, plus two forward torpedo tubes each capable of firing three torpedoes apiece before needing to be reloaded and two aft tubes capable of the same thing. Plus the phasers were tied into the warp core, a lot of the technology that went into the Lexington-class -or whatever I am going to call it, although I am leaning towards either Mirai-class or Turbinia-class- went into the Connie Refits.

They are more heavily armed than the refit Connie's which had six broadside phaser banks in the stardrive section.


One of the things I love about writing Star Trek fan fiction is that you aren't limited by something like a Special Effects budget, according to dialogue and what was seen in The Original Series, the Enterprise pre-refit had eight forward phaser banks and six photon torpedo tubes although they could only fire a single photon torpedo before needing to be reloaded. Which means that if Enterprise or a Pre-refit Connie fires an Alpha Strike, it's going to be interesting because of all the phaser beams and torpedoes.  

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Kelso323 In reply to nichodo [2017-09-14 03:08:02 +0000 UTC]

I am, but the last year has been...difficult...a lot of unforeseeable disasters.  I apologize to you and everyone else for not having had the time I wish to devote to my projects.

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nichodo In reply to Kelso323 [2017-09-14 03:15:05 +0000 UTC]

ah okay oh and you live in Florida? because they just got hit with Hurricane Irma and are now recovering...

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Kelso323 In reply to nichodo [2017-09-14 03:18:05 +0000 UTC]

Goodness, no, my disasters have been of the much more personal nature; deaths in the family, job losses, financial, etc...

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nichodo In reply to Kelso323 [2017-09-14 03:18:54 +0000 UTC]

ah.

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