All Seeing Eye
Admiral
I don't have the software like other people have to do something so detailed.
Nibiru Class Starship
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Well, given your response... I'm going to say to scrap the design. There already IS a new ship class to deal with what you're suggestion, it's called the Sovereign. You may have heard of it.
"More powerful than the most powerful thing evar" isn't going to garner you a lot of respect for a design, particularly when you couple it with a decidedly lazy cut-and-paste job of several existing ships with neither an eye for aesthetics or for the capabilities of what you're lifting anyway.
I strongly recommend you hit the ADSB web site and read the articles on Starship design, then come back.
"More powerful than the most powerful thing evar" isn't going to garner you a lot of respect for a design, particularly when you couple it with a decidedly lazy cut-and-paste job of several existing ships with neither an eye for aesthetics or for the capabilities of what you're lifting anyway.
I strongly recommend you hit the ADSB web site and read the articles on Starship design, then come back.
This is the new Nibiru Fighter Shuttle:
The shuttle comprises of a single warp nacelle to the aft of the craft which is protect on each side from weapons fire. In the case of shield and armour failure the shuttle can use this single warp nacelle to make a quick get away from the main battle scene allowing the craft to survive the battle for later retrieval.
On the port and Starboard of the shuttle are Torpedo launchers which are capable of storing several torpedoes at a time. Within the main hull of the shuttle between these launchers are torpedo storage bays.
On top of this storage section is a large phaser array capable of multiple directional firing including forward firing and is the most powerful emitter on the craft.
There is also a phaser array to the front of the craft and two to the rear and all these phaser arrays are mirrored on the underside of the shuttle. These other arrays are smaller than the two main arrays.
These shuttle are heavily armoured with ablative armour.
not a bad idea. i was wondering if your open to a couple of ideas on your design?
the way i read your description the pods each side of the shuttle are launchers with multiple torpedoes? what about resizing the pods to have them as maybe a single torpedo each on under slung 'wings' similar to how the modern day fighters have their missiles. well ones like the F-15 eagle and the like maybe the interior of the shuttle can e used for targeting systems or extra fuel.
that way the shuttle can be a fighter that perhaps gets in close while the capital ships keep thier targets busy.
by the way on your larger ships. if you want to scale your windows down how about highlighting them in paint then shrinking them down a bit if thats what you want to do. I used to do that when i first started doing ship designs before i discovered someone had down some ship tool kits that helped a lot.
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
Are you normally this aggressive towards people who are having a bit of fun attempting to design a ship??
I guess i've failed my Starfleet Entrance exam, whatever shall I do now!!
Methinks Tacky is just pulling people's leg to get a response. As usual.
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
I've designed a ship and this means i'm pulling peoples legs to get a response? so when other people design ships what does that mean? that they're trying to pull peoples legs too?
No, but they usually think about what they are doing a little, not scrap a copy-and-paste job with MS Paint and think it's the best ship evah.
to be fair, i don't think its been put forth as "the best ship evah", except perhaps in mockery by others.
Are you normally this aggressive towards people who are having a bit of fun attempting to design a ship??
Yes.
I guess i've failed my Starfleet Entrance exam, whatever shall I do now!!
Retake it. And learn how to handle criticism. Maybe there's a reason for how the overwhelming majorty of people responded to your design... It's not like I didn't point you in a direction to improve your skills in an area that you've shown some interest within.
You haven't designed anything... you merely threw bits and pieces of other ships together... badly, I might add. There... THAT was aggressive.
I understand where you are coming from, Iargo, but I suppose you are not familiar with other fora of the board, where Tacky (or I Am Legend, as he humbly rechristened himself recently) is not new to this kind of jokes. Maybe he was honest in his attempt at design, but I will not be surprised if he did it just to see the reactions to his, ehm, original design.
PS: But we still love you, Tacky! The S&T forum is not the same anymore without you!
Some of you guys are being less than fair here. You've all seen ship concepts WAY more over the top than this one (I know I have)...
At first glance, the description and purpose sound a lot like an early draft of the Defiant. The top view looks like it's decended from the Defiant as well...
This kind of reminds me of the Excalibur from Crusade (the Babylon 5 spinoff). The design concept of that ship was a White Star uprated to the size of a major capital ship. I could see the Nibiru as a battlecruiser loosely based on the Defiant in a similar manner...
Vektor's USS Grandeur is essentially a more militarized upgrade of the Sovereign, and everybody LOVES that design (myself included)...
Really? Do you have any idea how many ship designs started out as badly thrown together bits and pieces of other ships and wound up ON SCREEN in Star Trek episodes and movies...?
then i'll thank you to not give away the punchline.
Fanwanks are always ridiculed.
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
The description of the vessel and it's systems is more or less irrelevant. The art section of this forum is for the design and art part.
Even though I threw it together with copy and paste it's still of my own design and in future I can always improve on it especially if I get some better design software.
At least as of right now the ship design exists in some fashion even if it's just cut and paste.
Oh yeh, and I see my loyal fans have arrived on cue to destroy my thread, mock me and make accusations as per usual. I wonder how many of them even frequent the Trek Art section.
Sure I'm open to suggestions but I'm not sure having torpedoes attached like on a fighter would work due to the size difference between this fighter shuttle and current era fighter aircraft and would mean having to make them self propelled missiles rather than torpedoes. Torpedoes as seen in Trek are at least the same size as a person possibly slightly smaller by TNG time and therefore scale wise would be tiny compared to the rest of the shuttle.
The two torpedo launches on either side of the shuttle I would say can hold up to 4 torpedoes each at a time with the rest of it holding the torpedo firing mechanism. As soon as one torpedo fires another one slots into place from the storage compartment.
I think I might have a go at doing a front and side view of the fighter shuttle.
EDIT:
Here is the shuttle with new side view and front view and I made a modification to the size of the nacelle: The impulse engines and thrusters are located at the back of each torpedo launcher to give greater manoeuvrability during combat in order to fire torpedoes and evade incoming weapons fire more quickly.
Even though I threw it together with copy and paste it's still of my own design and in future I can always improve on it especially if I get some better design software.
At least as of right now the ship design exists in some fashion even if it's just cut and paste.
Oh yeh, and I see my loyal fans have arrived on cue to destroy my thread, mock me and make accusations as per usual.
I wonder how many of them even frequent the Trek Art section. Sure I'm open to suggestions but I'm not sure having torpedoes attached like on a fighter would work due to the size difference between this fighter shuttle and current era fighter aircraft and would mean having to make them self propelled missiles rather than torpedoes. Torpedoes as seen in Trek are at least the same size as a person possibly slightly smaller by TNG time and therefore scale wise would be tiny compared to the rest of the shuttle.
The two torpedo launches on either side of the shuttle I would say can hold up to 4 torpedoes each at a time with the rest of it holding the torpedo firing mechanism. As soon as one torpedo fires another one slots into place from the storage compartment.
I think I might have a go at doing a front and side view of the fighter shuttle.
EDIT:
Here is the shuttle with new side view and front view and I made a modification to the size of the nacelle: The impulse engines and thrusters are located at the back of each torpedo launcher to give greater manoeuvrability during combat in order to fire torpedoes and evade incoming weapons fire more quickly.
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