Watsong wrote:
"there is no reason to keep them separated"
You can put the Missile Control modules into any little nook and cranny that you can find. Because they are small. Just like you can do with EEV modules. A longer Missile Bay would present a more difficult to place module that is required to exist entirely on the same floor.
In addition, there is no specific linkage between Missile Control and Missile Bays (Interchangability). Only the necessary count needs to be functioning. Therefore, a destroyed Missile Bay would free up a Missile Control for another Missile Bay and vice-versa (Module Redundancy).
Missile Bays cannot be protected by armour, due to their external firing port requirement. Missile Control can be put where armour protects them.
Split crew requirements. Protects from greater loss of crew from destruction of a Missile Bay.
Hmm. I kind of see where you're coming from, but I still think it would make more sense if a control room controlled more than one missile bay. It's just more logical. If the requirement for a one square space between the Missile Control and the Missile Bay was removed then we could view it more as an L-shaped room rather than as two separate rooms and that would make sense.
Aestuo you misunderstood what I meant above.