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I'm back.

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Interesting design, very visually different from the usual deathwedges.
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@CetaMan: Well, it's an Old Republic ship and not an Imperial one, so that's likely why.

@Fractal: Welcome back. Hope all is well IRL.
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Abacus wrote: @Fractal: Welcome back. Hope all is well IRL.
IIRC he's a teacher or something of the sort, and the US just went into summer break season. So that's probably why he's back :)
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I'm a professor. My lectures for the year just got done. So, good guess :)
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Comment still stands. :P

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Wow. What type is that?
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Rhadamantus wrote:Wow. What type is that?
Page or two back he mentioned it's an Old Republic ship TOR game era, IIRC.
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Oh, it's that. Wow. Intimidating looking, though I wonder what is up with its firing arcs.
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Man, great work there, Hsiao. I know it's from The Old Republic, but if I didn't know better, I would have assumed it was a ship from the Metroid Prime series.
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Yes :D Finally there is an update

Type: Inexpugnable-class tactical command ship
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Rhadamantus wrote: 2017-07-06 03:48pm Oh, it's that. Wow. Intimidating looking, though I wonder what is up with its firing arcs.
It's weird but actually pretty good... full armament coverage forward and aft, and across pretty much the entire ventral hemisphere. I'm putting a dorsal battery on it as well when I get there.
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For some reason, I think the lighting and angles, I get a much more intimidating sense of scale than I do with most of your posts.
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Pretty much done. Need name!

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Flounder. Halibut. Stingray?

(I dunno, it's making me think of flatfish for some reason...)

I forget, do you have some kind of naming convention for your Imperial ships?

Ooh, if you want a Star Wars style fish... Aiwha? Opee?
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Batoid, as the superorder for rays is batoidea. It just needs a tail stinger :-)

Nice one, did you post the data for that one yet ? The two ventral heavy guns look impressive on a corvette-sized vessel.

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Elheru Aran wrote: 2017-07-12 03:31pm Aiwha?
This might be a winner.
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No top views?
Also...
This has to be the first ship I can think of that has a FIXED weapon and not something on a turret... Don't see that often in star wars
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Crossroads Inc. wrote: 2017-07-13 11:42am No top views?
Also...
This has to be the first ship I can think of that has a FIXED weapon and not something on a turret... Don't see that often in star wars
Top views from a while back - rendering final gallery now.

The ventral ions (light MTL class) are gimballed - limited traverse to be sure but not fixed. The idea is that they'd be used on large targets or targets being pursued. So for the former the ship would maneuver, turn to bear, burst fire ion and turn away, and for the latter the ion would naturally be in arc for the pursuit.
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That certainly makes sense. And do not get me wrong, I actually quite like the look of it.
Would work very well for a pursuit vessel then to have weapons like that.
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A very large zerstoerer TIE. Two light turbolasers as primary armament. It's big and thus heavy, but enormously energetic to feed the turbolasers, so probably a little under Avenger performance. The name is a SWTOR reference, because I loved flying the Mangler and this is a similar concept. I was originally going to make this a StarWing chassis (like the Mangler's design ancestry), but I felt like a TIE series would be more thematically appropriate.

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Oh WOW! I like it! That looks plant big and beefy, odd shape to it, with an outward bend instead on an inward bend.
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Aiwha-class Star Corvette gallery up:
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