USS Courageous

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		USS Courageous V1.0
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Ship:		USS Courageous 
Filename:	Courageous 
Version:		1.0
Date:		20th February 2005
Author:		Queball / MayhemUK
E-mail:		[email protected] / [email protected]

 It is 12 years since the end of the Federation / Dominion War. 
Starfleet and the Klingon Empire, even with their newest allies – the Romulans, had realised that if any further threat were to emerge against their infant alliance, that only a mere fraction of vessels present during the previous struggle, could possibly mount any opposition.While manufacturing efforts were still thrown into rebuilding the next generation of combat vessels, heavy weapons construction and major planetary defences, all parties were privy to the fact that smaller, more compact vessels were needed during this time to fill the short-fall of their respective fleets. With this in mind, all three powers were invited to participate in a practical exercise to produce a cheap design that would only require a small compliment of crew but that could equal, and repel the firepower of some of the remaining large battleships still in service.

The Klingons presented their newest additon to their fleet – the K’Voragan – a vessel of considerable power – measuring some 420mtrs – but was quickly deemed as too expensive crew-wise to mass produce.  The Romulans, while producing an smaller ship was later discovered to be too heavily overpowered and less effective than the existing Defiant-class

Relying on the hugely successful Defiant class that had proved such strong opposition against Dominion forces, Starfleet pursued a similar concept but even more ferociously powerful than its predecessor. A line that the Federation and Starfleet had normally abstained from due to diplomatic reasons.
The Courageous-class starship - the first being the USS Courageous NX- 92413 (later re-registered NCC after trials) was a vessel that quickly impressed all observers during trial runs. Her shear aggressiveness and devastating firepower in such a compact design was once commented as being ‘obscene’ according to a renowned diplomat of Vulcan origin…..

Consisting of four heavy forward pulse phasers, 2 four and 2 aft photon / quantum torpedo launchers and 360 degree coverage type XII phaser arrays, the Courageous was awarded the contract. The Klingon Empire, however, still produced the K’Voragan in limited numbers, while the Romulans abandoned their ill-fated design in favour of the new Type-C class warbird.

The weapons fit is as follows:
2 forward Quantum / Photon launchers
2 aft Quantum / Photon lanuchers
12 Type XII burst phaser arrays
Cloaking Device

Installation:
//Latest Foundation plug-in needed
//NanoFX2 needed for running lights
1.Unzip contents into a new folder and copy the 'Data', 'Scripts' & 'sfx' folders into your Bridge Commander root directory. If asked to overwrite files, click yes to all. 
2.Use Bridge Commander Mod Packager to import the ship.
3.Enjoy.

Bugs:
None I know of

Credits:
-Design - MayhemUK
-Mesh - Queball
-Textures - Queball
-Hardpoint - Elminster
-Beta testers - MayhemUK and Darkthunder
-Special thanks to Sneaker98, Durandal & Wes Janson for the torpedoes
-Thanks to all the people who commented on the work-in-progress on BCU froums
-(If you feel you have been left out of these credits & should be included, please let me know.)

By downloading this You agree that I will not be held responsible if this file causes any problems to your machine, game, life and/or your state of mind.
So there.

[Copyright]

THIS MODEL(S) IS NOT MADE, DISTRIBUTED, OR SUPPORTED BY Activision TM & (C) INTERPLAY & PARAMOUNT PICTURES.

Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager
and related properties are Registered Trademarks of Paramount Pictures
registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
All original designs are copyright © Paramount Pictures.
No infringement of Paramount's copyrights is intended.

[Distribution]

All files in this zip are for personal use only and cannot be bought or sold. 

Permission must be sought from both MayhemUK and myself (Queball) before modification and subsequent publication of the Courageous model, texture sets and any other  related file in the archive.
They can be uploaded in any site but credits MUST be given.