Original Starship Design Thread

[Wraith Scientist]

What's all of the extra space for then? There's only the weapon the shields, what else, extra ammo. How about an auto loading mechanism for MAC gun?

There was actually quite a lot of space to begin with

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You might find this useful: that metalic, welded-together starship surface texture (it's from the Pillar of Autumn)



A little better than plain grey, no?

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Here's a specialised unmanned missile platform:

Unmanned Missile Drone



Completely unmanned and cheap to produce

Used to bombard enemy forces with a deadly stream of missiles

If all else fails can be used to ram enemy ships at great speed to cause massive damage

[Daryl Froggy]

Thanks for the surface texture I'll be sure to look into it for some of my ships.

Ok I have an interior for my Matinee gunship that I posted earlier in this thread. Though I'm thinking of upgrading its designation.




Those smaller rectangles are seats, the one size fits all kind. the lighter rectangle is the ramp to get into the vessel.

the three circular rooms are the gunners stations. they have their own gravity in there too.

Sorry about the crudity but my mind was elswhere when I did this. I'm also working on an interior for my Carter-class carrier. I'll have my own cheap battleship design up within the next few days(I have to move out of the dorms).

[Jimbo-DR]

You know for the record here, a lot of you added how much these would cost, and your WAY low of the mark. To put things in perspective:

Manufacture and production of 1, count em, one, 1, B2 American Bomber costs 1 Billion American Dollars. 1 billion.

So for some of the ships you guys have designed here, I'm guessing there ranging anywhere from 50 Billion to 500 Billion American Dollars a piece.

[mburrows]

BC-326


ship class: Friggate-class(sorry, dunno designation for friggate so i just did bc)

Purpose: to take down enemy fighters

Prulposion: very fast ion engines

Protection: asgard sheilds, thick hull plating composed of trinium

Weapons: 2 high powered felgar cannons(mainly to help a lil bit vs capital ships); 8 small, fast firing, felgar cannons for taking down fighters(4 on top, 4 on bottom); 4 naqudah enhanced mk IV tactical nuclear missile launch bays

other: ecm, eccm, small cargo bay; "fighter bay" equiped with only 2 puddle jumpers to evactuate; asgard transporters

crew: 30 people, not big because it is a small friggate



ok, this idea definatly came from the corellian corvette from star wars lol...so yeah, not the same design, just make it about the size of a corellian corvette, just with a tauri design=)

[Wraith Scientist]

I'm rather fond of my hexagonal ship design

Here's a perspectively textured one

I've skewed the PoA textures to give the impression of depth

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And here's my idea for a magnetic cannon

A railgun-coilgun hybrid

Best of both worlds:
- Minimum air gap
- Minimal power usage



The projectile conducts electricity perpendicular to the magnetic field of the permanent magnets and so accelerates the projectile

The direction of the shot is directly towards you

Essentially a linear coilgun

Requires much less power than a railgun

Has the performance of a coilgun, but due to the reduced air gap, much, much higher efficiency rather than the usual 10% of regular coilguns

[Daryl Froggy]

I'm rather fond of my hexagonal ship design

Here's a perspectively textured one

I've skewed the PoA textures to give the impression of depth

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And here's my idea for a magnetic cannon

A railgun-coilgun hybrid

Best of both worlds:
- Minimum air gap
- Minimal power usage



The projectile conducts electricity perpendicular to the magnetic field of the permanent magnets and so accelerates the projectile

The direction of the shot is directly towards you

Essentially a linear coilgun

Requires much less power than a railgun

Has the performance of a coilgun, but due to the reduced air gap, much, much higher efficiency rather than the usual 10% of regular coilguns

While that sounds interesting to me I really have no idea whether or not that would work.


Oh I'm still working on my battleship design but I seem to be making it a little to big with too many weapons. I'm also borrowing the geometric hull shape you guys have been using for this contract(I'm using an octagon) as well as the bridge that's buried deep within it.

Right now all I have is this;

Weapons:
76x point defense coilguns(on turrets)
12x main coil-cannons(on turrets)
###x wild weasle EMAM's(ElectroMagnetically Accelerated Missiles)

Propulsion:
4x primary drives
8x hyperspace flash drives

Defense:
asgard shield generator
titanium/trinium alloy hull and superstructure.

What do you think? A bit much?

[Harekin]

Uber ship!

[Daryl Froggy]

Uber ship!

I'm not sure if that is a bad thing or a good thing. Should I have fewer guns and missile firing points or should I just continue with this design?

[Harekin]

Continue but remember it must be weak at something.

[Davidtourniquet]

I think Daryl, yours could work. How many coilguns you having per turret?

Anyway new one from me

STCX-409 (Strike Cruiser Prototype) Instigator Class



Specs:
Dimensions:

Length: 550m
Width: Foreward Section: 120m
Mid-Section: 75m
Wingspan: 120m
Height: 55m

Material:
RATT

Power:
3x Mark IX Naquadah Generators

Engines:
2x Asgard hyperspace generators
6x Ion sub-light engines
8x Fusion thrusters
4x Manouvering Thrusters

Defensive weaponry:
40x Mark VIII Naquadah Enhanced Nuclear Torpedoes (8 launchers, 4 fore, 2 side, 2 aft)
6x Laser Cannons (2 fore, 2 side, 2 aft)
3x Deuterium-Deuterium Point-Particle Cannons (2 fore, 1 aft)

Offensive Weaponry:
12x Mark X Naquadah Enhanced Nuclear Torpedoes (2 launchers, 1 fore, 1 vertical)
24x Mark IX Naquadah Enhanced Nuclear Torpedoes (4 Launchers, 2 fore, 1 vertical, 1 aft)
4x Deuterium-Tritium Beam-Particle Cannons (3 fore, 1 aft)
2x Railguns
1x Railgun using Wraith Dart Energy Weapons

Shields:
1x Asgard Shield Generator
1x Asgard/Human/Jaffa Hybrid Shield Generator.

Armour:
16m IRATT hull armour

Fighters:
30x F-302cs or 18x FIX-403s

Stealth:
Stealth Material
Active Camoflague

Other
Asgard Sensors
Rings
Asgard Beaming Tech

History of the X409

New Prototype design by the British and Americans. The first ship to use a shield designed by the Asgard/Tauri and Jaffa races.
Also uses the new particle cannon design using deuterium-tritium fusion, with a greater energy output. The biggest beam so far with this weapon is 1 metre in width, but can fire out to a distance of 10000km, making this a very useful weapon.
3 have be ordered so far, with the french buying their first big ship
Instigator - Britain, built at the new shipyard in the pennines.
Zeus - America, built at area 51
Pascal - France, built somewhere in the fields of the Country.
Ori ship damage: 8.5%
Due date: late 2007- early 2008
Time to build: 22 months.

[freyr's mother]

Fighters:
30x F-302cs or 18x FIX-403s

What is an F-302cs and a FIX-403?

I thought you said it was a strike cruiser?

[Daryl Froggy]

I think Daryl, yours could work. How many coilguns you having per turret?

Just one. I could have had two but I figured this would probably be more realistic. But I think that I'm going to take off a bunch of point defense turrets, at least two main turrets, and quite a few missile launchers that way it will seem less like a fan-wank and more like a cheap but still powerful warship.

[Davidtourniquet]

What is an F-302cs and a FIX-403?

I thought you said it was a strike cruiser?

If you look back through my ships, you will find the FIX-403, F-302c is just an F-302 variant.

It is a strike cruiser, but it still needs it's own fighter capabilities. What's a ship gonna do if it's got darts or other fighters coming towards it. The railguns cant be expected to do all the work. Hence fighters for any ship I make.

[Daryl Froggy]

Alright here's the first incarnation of my "cheap" Battleship. Sorry the Pic was a little big so I just have to link here.

Spoiler:

Gilgamesh

Type: Simplified long range Battleship.

Technology Base: Earth/Asgard/Goa’uld/Orbanian

Crew: 90(subject to alteration)
1x commanding officer
4x pilots (only one is on duty)
4x navigators (see pilot)
20x engine technicians (see above)
16x gunners (see above again)
45x Miscellaneous (those other people essential for the ships up keep that I forgot to mention)

Dimensions:
Length: 420 m
Width: 93 m
Height: 93 m

Propulsion:
4x standard drives
8x Hyperspace flash drives
3x gravity wave generators

Speed: 45% c

Generator(s)
2x G-type Naquadah generators
10x Mk. V naquadah generators

Weapons:
8x main coil-cannons
64x point defense coil-guns
48x Wild Weasel EM missile launchers (each one with a payload of five Lance missiles)

Defenses:
½ foot Trinium outer hull
Asgard shields

Limitations:

It has significantly reduced maneuverability due to its simple tube-like design.



So what do you guys think now?

[immhotep]

in space their is no friction, so the shape shouldnt be an issue, unless it was planning to land, which im guessing its not, other than that, i think theres too many missile launchers 192 per ship would make its costs less cheap...other than that...yeah great design.