Original Starship Design Thread

[freyr's mother]

CANNONBALL!

[immhotep]

you were bound to find out sooner or later, we're all terrorfied of you

Power lol!

Hallowed are the children of the Ori

[Buba uognarf]

Power lol!

Hallowed are the children of the Ori

lol, Hallowed are the Ori

[Publius Aemilius Aper]

Im done !
7 screenshots just below.

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OMG OMG OMG this is AWESOME lol. Clearly I'm spazing out over this amazing station...but can anyone blame me? This is probabbly the single greatest bit of art i've seen on this thread/forum. When i started this thing....i had noo idea people would come out with designs this good. Extrenix deserves a paton the back the size of China lol.

ok i'll stop being weird now lol

[immhotep]

Hey PAA, its godo to see you about! the model is truely awesome, id put it on screen its so gd. Youve provided us with a major playground so eventually thered be something this good in it What would life be like without this thread?! I wouldnt be on GW, no chance...

[Buba uognarf]

Hear Hear

[Publius Aemilius Aper]

Yes it's good to be back-these exams have really desytoyed my free time lol but I hope I will be able to come up with some ship specs sooner rather than later and have someone draw them.

[An-Alteran]

I am working on a Combat Puddle Jumper right now.

[AtlantisRising]

Please forgive me if I am posting in the wrong thread, but it seems logical to post it here. Its not an earth-ship, in fact its derelict space station built by the ancients. I designed it last night while bored out of my skull, so I really dont know what to write about it...

My general ideas for it are as follows;

Docking Ports: 16
Drone Launchers: 4
Beam Weapons: 4
Power Systems:
1 ZPM
3 (Unknown) Generators
3 Emergency Power Nahquada Generators
Shields: Ancient "City Shields"
Engines:
16 Manuvering Thrusters (Dorsal & Ventral)
4 Sublight Engines
2 Hyperdrive Engines

Spoiler:

I wrapped spoiler tags around if to (hopefully) keep it from stretching the page, Im still new to attachments on gateworld. lol

Edit: Yeah, my file was apparently too big to upload anyway... so.. yeah...

[Extrenix]

kick ass design

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

For the Gateworld Virtual Fleet, a nice, simple frigate design:

Spoiler:

Arcturus-class starship

Type: Small long-range hyperspace capable warship
Designation: SFG-399
Technology base: Earth/Asgard
User/s: United States Navy, United States Air Force,
Royal Navy/Air Force, Russian Space Service, Japanese Space Self Defense Force.
Builder(s): Electric Boat
Construction: Trinium/Composite
Naval Classification: Stealth Guided missile frigate
Dimensions:
~Length: 134m
~Width: 58m
~Height: 27m
Displacement: 120,000 tons
Crew: 45
~Troops: 70-100
~Craft: Two Tel'tac cargo/scout ships, two CV-309 Pegasus support craft, or two Puddlejumpers.
~Vehicles: 4 light armored vehicles
Powerplant: 1 x Mk. III Naquada Fusion Reactor; 1 x Mk. II Naquada Fusion Reactor
Engines:
~-Two x Pratt and Whitney LIPD-32F Medium Linear Ion Propulsion Drives
~Two x Lockheed Martin/Mitsubishi HWG-5 Hyperspace Window Generators
~Area 51 Anti-gravity wave generator network
Weapons (Standard configuration):
~One x 6.8" (155mm) Guass rifle x 5,000 rounds
~Two 40mm rail guns x 10,000 rounds each
~Two x Mk. 46a Peripheral Vertical Missile Launch Systems x 10 twin-missile cells
~One x defensive missile launcher x 42 rounds
Defenses:
~Asgard shields
~Sodan cloaking device
~Reactive armor plating
Other Technology:
~AEGIS Combat System Mk. 10
~Asgard transporters
~Asgard sensors
~Gou'ald Rings
~Four Multi-Mission Modules
Hull Life Expectancy: 30 years


Technical and Historical Notes:

By 2040, a variety of small combat starships were in service with the various Tau'ri space navies. Some were indigenious, many were built by the United States, and still others had been built under contract by the Tau'ri allies. However, every space-faring nation on Earth had one ship above all else serving in their frigate and patrol boat category, and that was the Arcturus-class starship.

Easily constructed thanks to it's small size and sea-based ship-like design, the Arcturus entered service with the US Navy in 2027 after stating a requirement for a small-sized capital ship to patrol Tau'ri trade routes and holdings. The ship was to wield sufficient armament to defeat vessels in it's weight class, be fast and maneuverable enough to escape from larger threats, and be able to keep up with fleets in hyperspace. Unfortunately, due to cost limitations the vessel was restricted to one Mark III naquada fusion reactor, and one Mark II reactor, for power.

Electric Boat devised an ingenious solution to what other companies saw as a serious obstacle to their own designs for the frigate. The Arcturus was built with an Advanced Power Management System (APMS), allowing the ship to cut and restore power to any of it's systems instantly with the push of a button or a verbal command. This was vital, as the ship's main armament, a 155mm guass rifle, required significant amounts of power to fire at it's standard rate. The Arcturus could cut power to it's hyperdrive and divert it to fire it's weapons in less than a tenth of a second, and could do the same even while under fire in the same time.

While some saw this as a dangerous limitation, it granted the Arturus nearly a twentieth the firepower of an Ori battleship, and in groups the frigates would deal massive damage to threat forces. It also made them more than a match for Wraith cruisers and Gou'ald Al'kesh and other small capital ships.

It's Multi-mission modules (borrowed from the Columbia-class assault carriers), along with it's modular weapon and sensor packages, allowed the Arcturus the ability to become a different ship for every mission. Some of the modules included extra sensors for patrol, reconaissance, and survey missions. Others included provisions for special forces and their infiltration craft, as well as unmanned spacecraft and satellites. Her missile launchers could be replaced with mine-deploying systems, while the ship's guass rifle could be removed and replaced with a heavy-duty directed energy cannon. This immense flexibility, combined with the vessel's good speed and manueverability, soon had an Arcturus in every major Tau'ri-held system, and patrolling every trade route.

Arcturus-class vessels often worked in groups of three, all with different modules to support the others in combat. In concert, few enemy vessels could match their might. They fought in every major engagement the Tau'ri Alliance faced after 2030 to the current day, and only a dozen of the seventy-two built have been lost. More are under construction at the time of this writing.



I have no talent with Google Sketchit, so I went with what I'm best at, plain-old MS Paint

[An-Alteran]

Please forgive me if I am posting in the wrong thread, but it seems logical to post it here. Its not an earth-ship, in fact its derelict space station built by the ancients. I designed it last night while bored out of my skull, so I really dont know what to write about it...

My general ideas for it are as follows;

Docking Ports: 16
Drone Launchers: 4
Beam Weapons: 4
Power Systems:
1 ZPM
3 (Unknown) Generators
3 Emergency Power Nahquada Generators
Shields: Ancient "City Shields"
Engines:
16 Manuvering Thrusters (Dorsal & Ventral)
4 Sublight Engines
2 Hyperdrive Engines

Spoiler:

I wrapped spoiler tags around if to (hopefully) keep it from stretching the page, Im still new to attachments on gateworld. lol

Edit: Yeah, my file was apparently too big to upload anyway... so.. yeah...

Very nice design. But why would there be a hyperdrive engine, let alone TWO on a SPACE STATION!
And why would there be sublight Engines on it?

I also recomend removing the naquada generators and just having a bunch of power cells like the Jumpers use.

And speaking of jumpers, are there any on this station?

Hey Andrew Joshua:
Could you review my Ancient ship please and tell me what you think of it?
In detail.
And if you could give me any tips about it and making it better, please do so.

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

An-Alteran, excellent work on your ships! It seems like the Ancients took a more Tau'rish approach to the ship than others, heh. Good work on this and your other designs. I have no complaints and no real suggestions on how to improve them. They just fit. Though it would be interesting if the Atlantis-style transporter "closets" made an appearance in an Alteran ship.

[AtlantisRising]

Very nice design. But why would there be a hyperdrive engine, let alone TWO on a SPACE STATION!
And why would there be sublight Engines on it?

I also recomend removing the naquada generators and just having a bunch of power cells like the Jumpers use.

And speaking of jumpers, are there any on this station?

Hey Andrew Joshua:
Could you review my Ancient ship please and tell me what you think of it?
In detail.
And if you could give me any tips about it and making it better, please do so.

Because the station is similar to Atlantis, Its mobile. I was thinking of a station that can be moved when necessary. Though I was going to put a limit on that capability, like, so many light-years before they have to shut down. etc etc etc.

Yeah, I suppose I could do the power cell thing, never thought about it. Thanks!

Never thought about jumpers either, mainly 'cause I did this when I was bored... haha.

[An-Alteran]

An-Alteran, excellent work on your ships! It seems like the Ancients took a more Tau'rish approach to the ship than others, heh. Good work on this and your other designs. I have no complaints and no real suggestions on how to improve them. They just fit.

Cool.
Thanks.
When you say the Ancients took a Tau'riish approech, do you mean my Ancients?

Though it would be interesting if the Atlantis-style transporter "closets" made an appearance in an Alteran ship.

I didn't put them in there?
They were supposed to be... shoot.
Anyway, I have been updating them and will be reposting ALL of my Ancient and Tau'ri ships soon anyway.

My Wraith ships are going to be totally finished sometime in my life time... but they will be... they will be...