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Ported to OBJ from the model included with the video game Star Trek: Armada (STA or STA1). My copy came from the Project Armada mod for Starfleet Command 3 (SFC3). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

The terms defense platform and battle satellite are largely interchangeable in most science fiction and both mean the same thing: a space-based construct, usually but not always automated (some larger designs are crewed), that is used to defend a given point in space. The difference between the two is where they're located. Battle satellites are usually found only in orbit around a large spatial body such as a planet, moon, or large asteroid and are used to defend it against enemy attack, or they can be turned inward to deal with surface-based threats. Defense platforms in the Trek multiverse, on the other hand, can be anywhere. They can be used as standard battle satellites, they can be used to defend important interstellar assets such as large space stations and starship yards, they can be seeded in an asteroid field as a nasty surprise for any enemies that have to pass through it, they can be used to defend interstellar borders without any major spatial body nearby, and so on. Again, the difference between the two is in how and where they're used, with the defense platform having a broader range of uses than a mere battle satellite in the Trek multiverse.

As the title says. This is the phasers-only older version of the combined phaser-and-photons defense platform I presented earlier, per the link below:

The preview piccy is a placeholder image, given that I was in the process of porting a bunch of older STA1 models from the Project Armada mod for SFC3 and it happened to be in there with them. FYI I already have a copy of the better-looking STA2 version of this from another source (a BC port) and hope to replace this image with one of that version as soon as I find the time to port the later one for XPS use.

While this is intended for this era, you can probably get away with using it as early as the late post-TMP era (Ambassador generation of starships) in many Trek multiverse threads. It will also still be in service as the 24th century rolls over into the 25th (PIC).

This is semi-canon, given its inclusion in a Franchise licensed video game.

Live long and prosper.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the model included with the video game Star Trek: Armada (STA or STA1). My copy came from the Project Armada mod for Starfleet Command 3 (SFC3). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

The terms defense platform and battle satellite are largely interchangeable in most science fiction and both mean the same thing: a space-based construct, usually but not always automated (some larger designs are crewed), that is used to defend a given point in space. The difference between the two is where they're located. Battle satellites are usually found only in orbit around a large spatial body such as a planet, moon, or large asteroid and are used to defend it against enemy attack, or they can be turned inward to deal with surface-based threats. Defense platforms in the Trek multiverse, on the other hand, can be anywhere. They can be used as standard battle satellites, they can be used to defend important interstellar assets such as large space stations and starship yards, they can be seeded in an asteroid field as a nasty surprise for any enemies that have to pass through it, they can be used to defend interstellar borders without any major spatial body nearby, and so on. Again, the difference between the two is in how and where they're used, with the defense platform having a broader range of uses than a mere battle satellite in the Trek multiverse.

As the title says. This is the phasers-only older version of the combined phaser-and-photons defense platform I presented earlier, per the link below:

The preview piccy is a placeholder image, given that I was in the process of porting a bunch of older STA1 models from the Project Armada mod for SFC3 and it happened to be in there with them. FYI I already have a copy of the better-looking STA2 version of this from another source (a BC port) and hope to replace this image with one of that version as soon as I find the time to port the later one for XPS use.

While this is intended for this era, you can probably get away with using it as early as the late post-TMP era (Ambassador generation of starships) in many Trek multiverse threads. It will also still be in service as the 24th century rolls over into the 25th (PIC).

This is semi-canon, given its inclusion in a Franchise licensed video game.

Live long and prosper.