New Ship Design: USS Aquila (3D)

[Mark Henson]

Hey guys - just thought I'd update you all, I've revisited my original Aquila design and I'm current producing a 1080p full HD cinematic version of the ship, (with various refinements of course!) and plan to produce some stunning animations of the ship in action, along with her own musical 'score' too! - Stay tuned! And thanks for all your comments.

 

[Kaiser]

Lovely ship design there cant wait to see a better more HD version

 

[Epsilon IX]

Hi

Aquila Class Cruiser - USS Aquila - (Latin for Eagle)

Any comments obviously welcome - more images and animations to come very soon!

^Neat design! I wonder if it only responds to commands in Latin.

(for those who don't get my obscure reference, here's a link to it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquila_(TV_series). From what I remember it was quite a fun series back in the golden years of CBBC, before we had all this dumming down silliness!)

 

[publiusr]

The recessed saucer top could be a great deflector for an even larger ship as detailed as it is, or having the bridge top sensor be the feed horn when scanning a planet 'above' while beaming the data back with the pod's dish...

A spy ship...

 

[Wingsley]

This is a great design and 3D rendering exercise. Very unique shape.

Usually, four-nacelle, saucer-centric "Constellation-style" starships orient their nacelle pylons to reach topside and underside, as opposed to port and starboard. I have often wondered if twin deflector dishes could have been incorporated into the "Y" between the "top" and "underside" pairs of nacelles. That could be done with this design as well, and it would re-emphasize the saucer.

I would love to see all the Aquila's design elements used on more "traditional" ship configurations, like a Jefferies-inspired cruiser (like a Connie or Soveriegn) and the Miranda.

 

[Trelane]

Yeah, I'd have designed her with a primary NX-Class type nose-tip style embedded oval deflector and maybe chosen the following kinds of AWACS pod:

- The Ronin-Class type set of dorsally-mounted phaser canons; or,
- Upgraded Soyuz-Class pods, located both above and below the secondary hull; or,
- Appropriately (somewhat) scaled-down Oberth-Class style extended-range sensor pod docked directly to the ventral side of the primary/secondary hulls (just like the set-up of the three sections of the Prometheus-Class) rather than separate it from the main hulls by any kind of support-arm, with deployable-retractable landing feet/legs.

The two holes in front shouldn't be there. If anything, add the concealed weapons bays like the front triangular spots on the shoulders of the Defiant. I'd pull the nacelle pylons & nacelles themselves far closer to the body of the ship, a-la the "Star Trek: Online" quad-nacelled 'Dakota-Class'.

There's no visible shuttlebays / drop-pod doors for scout vessels for observation missions. Perhaps deploying / recovering sophisticated probes or building & launching their own modern-day subspace amplifiers as they'll be out of reach of their normal "roaming area" of subspace radio for weeks/months.

 

[Epsilon IX]

Idea for the motto on the ship's dedication plaque:

"Licat volare si super tergum aquila volat".

Translation: "A man can fly where he will, if he rides on the back of an eagle."

 

[Solarbaby]

Nice design, ver pleasing to look at at. But the pylons look too thin for support and withstanding attack. Also the support struts for the deflector are very vulnerable. It would have looked good with a solid neck and more sturdy for combat

 

[Santaman]

Nice looking vessel. I actually like the deflector pod a lot.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I like it!