Original Starship Design Thread

[boberth2o]

ok, in the rail department I was thinking something like an upside down 'T' on the bottom of the gun, like this

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And here is another view

Anyhting?

[ZakeD]

Anyhting?

Did you make that in blender?

[boberth2o]

Did you make that in blender?

yeah, I don't like the why the cannon part rendered though.

[Daryl Froggy]

Does anyone know if you can semi-"glue" several objects to a track? I want to try and make a curving track for my I/CP gun and I wanted to make it work fairly easily for anyone who wanted to use the model.

[ManiacMike]

Been working on some side fluff.

[boberth2o]

Does anyone know if you can semi-"glue" several objects to a track? I want to try and make a curving track for my I/CP gun and I wanted to make it work fairly easily for anyone who wanted to use the model.

Why not put a moving part of the track so when the gun gets to the corner of the ship, the piece moves 90 degrees to the direction of the next track

[boberth2o]

Been working on some side fluff.

What the thing in Asia?

[ManiacMike]

What the thing in Asia?

ummm...great wall of china?? I dunno, it was from a map photo of the world I compositied.

[immhotep]

The Himmalaya mountain range...Everest, K2..the biggie.

[Daryl Froggy]

Why not put a moving part of the track so when the gun gets to the corner of the ship, the piece moves 90 degrees to the direction of the next track

Yeah, how? I don't know how to make something like that in sketch-up or if it is even possible.

[boberth2o]

Yeah, how? I don't know how to make something like that in sketch-up or if it is even possible.

You dont have to, the track is already on the ship. There is a hinge on the corner of the ship that will rotate 90 degrees out to become part of the track around the corner.The one rail with the gun will swing out to be perpendicular to the rail it was on before making it parallel and exact to the new one

[Daryl Froggy]

Okay I have no clue what you are talking about anymore.

[Extrenix]

I had nothing to do during lunch break

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[immhotep]

Wow very cool, i love the futuristic space ports. they look very cool. THe ship looks great too. nice texturing.

[ZakeD]

I had nothing to do during lunch break

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Love the 3ds render, though I don't really think it looks like a stargate ship. I really like it though.

[Extrenix]

I didnt think stargate when I did it. Just thought Id try a space boeing

[CouchPotator]

I want some opinions for my dragon-carrier design.

Spoiler:

as you can, only half is being worked on


Does it looks like a dragon neck and head?






The other side hasn't been started.

Any Ideas on how to make it better?

Here are the specs

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Dragon class carrier

~Designation: DSFC
~Type: Deep Space Fleet Carrier
~Role: fighter and troop transport,
~Users: Tauri
~Technology Base: Tauri, Asgard
~Builders: Tauri
~Dimensions:

Length: 1096m
Beam: 370m
Draft: 85m
Displacement: tons normal Earth gravity

~Capacity:

Crew: 1000
-Minimum: 100
-Pilots: 800
-Support Crew: 2800
-Troops: 5000
-Maximum Capacity: 25000

~Powerplant: 2 Mark 5 generators

~Propulsion:
2 Large drives
4 Medium drives
Asgard Hyperdrive
~Other craft:
Fighters: 500
Tel’Teks or Puddle Jumpers: 50
A.T.S. Drop ships: 100
Alkesh: 4

~Armament:
2 600mm triple barreled coil-gun turrets
200 nuclear weapons of various yields
2 forward firing electromagnetic launchers
8 300mm rail guns
~Defenses:
Asgard shields
100 doubled-barreled point-defense coil guns
~Additional Technology:
Electromagnetic catapults
Advanced environmental systems

Operational life span: 75+ years

Production Run: 10
1.Chrysophylax (finished 2038)
2.Cawthorne (finished 2044)
3.Drachenstein (finished 2046)
4.Ancalagon (the Black) (finished 2048)
5.Glaurung (finished 2050)\
6.Tintaglia (finished 2052)
7.Icefyre (finished 2054)
8.Uwibami (finished 2056)
9.Nithhogr (finished 2058)
10.Sirrush (finished 2060)

~Technical and Historical Notes~

The Dragons are the Tauri’s most important ships; capable of bringing everything needed for war to anywhere in the galaxy. One Dragon contains enough troops, support, and supplies to conquer planets. With its vast swarms of fighters, it provides essential support to any fleet engagement.

The Dragon was designed primarily for carrying vast numbers of fighters in the war with the wraith. With the war over, the designed grew to acuminate troops. All the people needed to run the ship and fly the fighters would over tax any environmental system currently in use. So a new system was created that could create oxygen at a phenomenal rate, but at a cost. The system was so power hungry that there was little power left for weapons. The benefit, the ship could support up to 25000 people.

Do to the power drain; the Dragon has only a couple of offensive weapons. To make that up, over a 100 point-defense coil-guns are placed around the ship, creating a near impenetrable grid. The 600mm guns can fire 3 different round types; high explosive, flak-burst, and armor-piercing-high-explosive. The high-explosive rounds each have a 200mt k-naq warhead. Flak-burst explode and release thousands of tiny 1 kt k-naq bombs. Armor-piercing-high-explosive, or APHE, rounds have trinium tips. On contact, the tips dig into the armor, followed by a stream of plasma, allowing the 100mt war head to detonate farther into the ship.

The ship has 14 launch bays; 6 for fighters, located along the hangers; 4 for drop ships, located beneath the ship; and 4 for other crafts including space for 4 Alkesh (though the ships aren’t carried standard), located on top of the ship. Each one is equipped with electromagnetic launchers and breaks. This allows for quick launching: just 14 minutes to launch all fighters. In the case of the drop ships, the launchers can catapult them out in less then a minute. The launchers are also used to slow down docking ships, allowing them to fly in at full speed if need be.

The ship’s 200 nuclear weapons are designed to be fired in a number of ways. The first way is the tradition missile, the second way is launched by the forward launchers, and the third way is by small craft.

Construction of the first Dragon, the Chrysophylax had started in 2031, but production shut down during the Wraith attack on Earth. Improvements were added to the design before construction restarted in 2036. The Chrysophylax was finished in 2038. The second one, The Cawthorne was finished 6 years later. Since then, a new Carrier was finished every two years, each taking 5 years to make. Each new ship had minor improvements and design changes.

Dragon carriers never operate alone; they are at all time flanked by at leas 5 ships during peace time and 10 ships during war, though in battle, more are used.

In an early battle in the Aschen war, the Chrysophylax with 5 Arcturus, 3 Thor-class starship, and 2 Phoenixes captured an Ashen controlled planet guarded by 6 Virtus-carriers, 4 Gladiator battleships and 20 Peramen battlecruisers. (Battle coming soon)

[Daryl Froggy]

I want some opinions for my dragon-carrier design.

Spoiler:

as you can, only half is being worked on


Does it looks like a dragon neck and head?






The other side hasn't been started.

Any Ideas on how to make it better?

Here are the specs

Spoiler:

Dragon class carrier

~Designation: DSFC
~Type: Deep Space Fleet Carrier
~Role: fighter and troop transport,
~Users: Tauri
~Technology Base: Tauri, Asgard
~Builders: Tauri
~Dimensions:

Length: 1096m
Beam: 370m
Draft: 85m
Displacement: tons normal Earth gravity

~Capacity:

Crew: 1000
-Minimum: 100
-Pilots: 800
-Support Crew: 2800
-Troops: 5000
-Maximum Capacity: 25000

~Powerplant: 2 Mark 5 generators

~Propulsion:
2 Large drives
4 Medium drives
Asgard Hyperdrive
~Other craft:
Fighters: 500
Tel’Teks or Puddle Jumpers: 50
A.T.S. Drop ships: 100
Alkesh: 4

~Armament:
2 600mm triple barreled coil-gun turrets
200 nuclear weapons of various yields
2 forward firing electromagnetic launchers
8 300mm rail guns
~Defenses:
Asgard shields
100 doubled-barreled point-defense coil guns
~Additional Technology:
Electromagnetic catapults
Advanced environmental systems

Operational life span: 75+ years

Production Run: 10
1.Chrysophylax (finished 2038)
2.Cawthorne (finished 2044)
3.Drachenstein (finished 2046)
4.Ancalagon (the Black) (finished 2048)
5.Glaurung (finished 2050)\
6.Tintaglia (finished 2052)
7.Icefyre (finished 2054)
8.Uwibami (finished 2056)
9.Nithhogr (finished 2058)
10.Sirrush (finished 2060)

~Technical and Historical Notes~

The Dragons are the Tauri’s most important ships; capable of bringing everything needed for war to anywhere in the galaxy. One Dragon contains enough troops, support, and supplies to conquer planets. With its vast swarms of fighters, it provides essential support to any fleet engagement.

The Dragon was designed primarily for carrying vast numbers of fighters in the war with the wraith. With the war over, the designed grew to acuminate troops. All the people needed to run the ship and fly the fighters would over tax any environmental system currently in use. So a new system was created that could create oxygen at a phenomenal rate, but at a cost. The system was so power hungry that there was little power left for weapons. The benefit, the ship could support up to 25000 people.

Do to the power drain; the Dragon has only a couple of offensive weapons. To make that up, over a 100 point-defense coil-guns are placed around the ship, creating a near impenetrable grid. The 600mm guns can fire 3 different round types; high explosive, flak-burst, and armor-piercing-high-explosive. The high-explosive rounds each have a 200mt k-naq warhead. Flak-burst explode and release thousands of tiny 1 kt k-naq bombs. Armor-piercing-high-explosive, or APHE, rounds have trinium tips. On contact, the tips dig into the armor, followed by a stream of plasma, allowing the 100mt war head to detonate farther into the ship.

The ship has 14 launch bays; 6 for fighters, located along the hangers; 4 for drop ships, located beneath the ship; and 4 for other crafts including space for 4 Alkesh (though the ships aren’t carried standard), located on top of the ship. Each one is equipped with electromagnetic launchers and breaks. This allows for quick launching: just 14 minutes to launch all fighters. In the case of the drop ships, the launchers can catapult them out in less then a minute. The launchers are also used to slow down docking ships, allowing them to fly in at full speed if need be.

The ship’s 200 nuclear weapons are designed to be fired in a number of ways. The first way is the tradition missile, the second way is launched by the forward launchers, and the third way is by small craft.

Construction of the first Dragon, the Chrysophylax had started in 2031, but production shut down during the Wraith attack on Earth. Improvements were added to the design before construction restarted in 2036. The Chrysophylax was finished in 2038. The second one, The Cawthorne was finished 6 years later. Since then, a new Carrier was finished every two years, each taking 5 years to make. Each new ship had minor improvements and design changes.

Dragon carriers never operate alone; they are at all time flanked by at leas 5 ships during peace time and 10 ships during war, though in battle, more are used.

In an early battle in the Aschen war, the Chrysophylax with 5 Arcturus, 3 Thor-class starship, and 2 Phoenixes captured an Ashen controlled planet guarded by 6 Virtus-carriers, 4 Gladiator battleships and 20 Peramen battlecruisers. (Battle coming soon)

Seems a bit overpowered in the armament arena for a carrier to me. Why are EM Catapults listed under armament? Aren't they used for launching fighters?

[CouchPotator]

Those are seperate launchers for firing nukes. On teh model, they are those cylinders in the front. What part of the armament is too much? the nukes? (on the model, there is space 386 or 384 nukes, but I only listed 200)

[Daryl Froggy]

I just don't know why you'd want a dedicated carrier to have an arsenal that could be compared to a corvette.

You know it has been a while since anyone has bothered to make a contract for us... I'm not going to attempt to do so anymore.