Well, I was at it again, doodling during breaks.
This is more text than anything else, with me brainstorming what would be good as far as ship-size torpedo countermeasures could be useful... as well as fleshing out the Matter Collection System that I discussed a couple of posts up.
The sketch at the bottom is a sideways simplified view of how I imagined the thing would be like. Of course, side cutaways can only show so much when there's stuff I want to have on the same deck. ~_~
Here I start trying to detail the engine components of the ship. Up is just external partial sketches of the region involved. The lower some simplified part layout with ship outlines, in the center a backview of the ship, and to the right just me trying to picture the conenctions between the gravimetric drive, the engine room and the main STL thruster.
Immediately down, you see some tentative details on the gravimetric drive. This one's pretty hard for me, since there's really not much in the way of scientific theory on what creates gravity and how to generate it in ways other than centrifugal force. CFS-like gyroscopes and turbine-like elements might support sci-fi technobabble some if I desire to stay away from detail-lacking 'box of components that flies the ship'.
Then some very rough outlines about how I tohught to wset up the aetheric tap and generator assembly, the work area around it, and a preliminary top view of the engine room proper with the section to the side extending to the main STL thruster, and the other to the aft having most of the fold drive systems.
Here lies more meaty stuff, where I really got into it, though it's hardly finalized.
First, I tackled my aether generator and - following on Wes' ideas of two flower-like assemblies coming together and aether coming to be in a field generated inbetween them, with a circular casing enveloping it all with scalar shielding materials, cooling lines, and so on.
Directly below is a side view of the aether core chamber... It's spaced on 3 decks and I wanted to have people ascend/descend from the main floor to attend to the peripheral components of the ship's main source of power.
Immediately to the right is a larger top-view drawing of the starboard engineering section. More refined, with ties to the workshop I mentioned before in relation to the power armor containers. Aft is the fold drives and other components from hyperspace comm system to thruster assemblies, the fusion fuel cell supporting it, some sensors, the walkways for the techs working around there, and some rear-lateral sensor placement.
There are other pictures, including a sideview and rear view. Those show one of the landing gear - not something you see illustrated in SARP ships often - and to the top you might also notice heat exchangers leading to coolant lines and heatsinks right next to the top of the hull.
I had another try of the engineering section's top view below, trying some elements differently and trying to get it all to come together better.
I'll admit to some inspiration coming from Mass Effect's Normandy SR-2 in regard to the drive core/aether generator... though I'm trying to get a distinct look of my own. The fold drive assembly is strongly inspired from a piece of unused
Star Trek (2009 movie) concept art.
Next is a partial side view of the ship, with a cutaway below. I was feeling I lacked details as far as where some of the ships sensors were, so, I started positioning some.
You should be able to see precursor locations for torpedo and probe launchers which are pretty close together (the boxes below are containers tied to the matter collection system). Further to the front of the curve as some sensors, such as a neutrino telescope and a bunch of fixed assemblies such as an Infrared Spectrometer, Subspace Sensor Array and Ionized Radiation Sensors.
Right at the nosetip is a fore reinforcement of the ship's shields which will serve to deflect debris to protect the ship when she goes to high speeds.