Whats this? A StarTrek Warship!?

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2005-04-20 11:48am

Oh, up untill today, I had never heard of this thing.. But evidently the following Fan Creation is the COOLEST Trek ship I have Ever seen!
The SS Typhon Carrier Is a modular Fortress class Carrier that looks as if it can kick serious ass! ((for a Trek ship)) plus it's not some God awful kitbash, it's New! Fresh! Different! It certainly takes the cake as the most advanced Fan Ship I have ever seen. Thoughts?

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2005-04-20 11:59am

Looks like a homeworld heavy cruiser to be honest, looks nice, but a little too homeworld from front and back. And you have to wonder how much space would be wasted by having a retractable mode on it, why not just invest in a heavier shield grid or armour the damn thing as much as possible.

The sovereign deployment thing also seems like a crap idea, it might make it able to go faster, but then why bother putting nacelles on it in the first place if it's going to be totally dependent on another ship to get it to the battlefield on time before everyone gives up and goes home for dinner?

Looks pretty though.

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2005-04-20 12:04pm

From what I've read, the Sovereign deployment is for emergancy situations, to get into a Battlefield fast. Otherwise it's just fine on its own.

Also it seems it's "Transformation" thing doesn't wast much space as much of it appears to be really heavy armour that tightens up, that pulls back to open up all it's weapon systems.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-04-20 01:11pm

what the fuck is a phased mass holographic masking system? is that some fancy fanwanking technobabble for a cloaking device?

Junghalli · Post by **Junghalli** » 2005-04-20 01:30pm

Darth_Zod wrote:what the fuck is a phased mass holographic masking system? is that some fancy fanwanking technobabble for a cloaking device?

Now, now, we can't have them calling it a cloaking device. That would make it a violation of the Treaty of Algeron.

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2005-04-20 01:41pm

Darth_Zod wrote:what the fuck is a phased mass holographic masking system? is that some fancy fanwanking technobabble for a cloaking device?

I think that's more like the holographic camo from Starfleet Armada II and Starfleet Command III that the Federation had developed. (instead of hiding your ship from view, it makes your ship look like whatever you want it to.)

CJvR · Post by **CJvR** » 2005-04-20 01:49pm

Looks rather nice, a good solid battleship feel to it. But the idea to compress the ship is stupid, you gain nothing but lose plenty - like Prometheus moronic MVAM. Retracting the nacelles into armored slots during combat is perhaps a good idea and being able to retract the flight deck perhaps also but that is the limit. He have seen to much transformers or something.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2005-04-20 02:05pm

Someone reskinned the Kushan 'Avatar' Heavy Cruiser from Homeworld.

Mobiboros · Post by **Mobiboros** » 2005-04-20 02:19pm

It's pretty nice looking. But isn't that just a slight mod on a Zentradi ship from Robotech?

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2005-04-20 04:47pm

For a carrier it uses extremely little space for hangars I'd say. Visually rather appealing, though. The fortress mode is terminally stupid.

I think that's more like the holographic camo from Starfleet Armada II and Starfleet Command III that the Federation had developed. (instead of hiding your ship from view, it makes your ship look like whatever you want it to.)

Affirmative. The Incursion the creator refers to is from the computer game 'Star Trek Away Team' where the ship had a system thad did exactly that.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » 2005-04-20 04:54pm

Actually I think that appeared in a PS1 game I played... Star Trek: Invasion

Vanas · Post by **Vanas** » 2005-04-20 04:56pm

It's an Avatar with a Mimic system.
With some mysterious blue 'warp' engine-things. They should have left the Hyperspace core in, that'd give it a decent FTL speed.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2005-04-20 06:29pm

I don't think it's an Avatar. Someone care to post a pic for comparison purposes?

And, while I think the aesthetics are quite nice, it's quite the fanwank ship inside. Bleh. Can't a carrier just be a carrier? =P

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2005-04-20 07:00pm

*reads above posts*
Well... Considering the way MOST StarTrek ships looks, I thought this one was a welcome change...

Ra · Post by Ra » 2005-04-20 07:11pm

Uraniun235 wrote:I don't think it's an Avatar. Someone care to post a pic for comparison purposes?

And, while I think the aesthetics are quite nice, it's quite the fanwank ship inside. Bleh. Can't a carrier just be a carrier? =P

Oh! Homeworld freak at his best! Here's THIS!
+http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y108/S ... ota082.jpg

That's one of my own HW1 screenies from the Karos Graveyard mission, BTW.
- Ra

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2005-04-20 07:27pm

Well shit, it is an Avatar all dressed up.

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2005-04-20 07:32pm

Uraniun235 wrote:Well shit, it is an Avatar all dressed up.

So THATS Why it seemed like such a good Design! I KNEW It was too good to be a true Federation designed ship

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-04-20 07:52pm

Crossroads Inc. wrote:
Uraniun235 wrote:Well shit, it is an Avatar all dressed up.
So THATS Why it seemed like such a good Design! I KNEW It was too good to be a true Federation designed ship

well. the feds -did- manage to get the Defiant designed properly. as to everything else. . . .*shrug*

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » 2005-04-20 07:58pm

Darth_Zod wrote:well. the feds -did- manage to get the Defiant designed properly. as to everything else. . . .*shrug*

Wait, wasn't Defiant partially crippled when Kira jury-rigged her room's replicator unit in "Defiant"?

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-04-20 08:26pm

Firefox wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:well. the feds -did- manage to get the Defiant designed properly. as to everything else. . . .*shrug*
Wait, wasn't Defiant partially crippled when Kira jury-rigged her room's replicator unit in "Defiant"?

i'll take a slightly buggy replicator over warp cores that go boom when you sneeze at them wrong any day.

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2005-04-20 08:30pm

Darth_Zod wrote:
Firefox wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:well. the feds -did- manage to get the Defiant designed properly. as to everything else. . . .*shrug*
Wait, wasn't Defiant partially crippled when Kira jury-rigged her room's replicator unit in "Defiant"?
i'll take a slightly buggy replicator over warp cores that go boom when you sneeze at them wrong any day.

That issue was fixed in the War-Galaxy, and wasn't even there at all for the Sovereign.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-04-20 08:31pm

Matt Huang wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:
Firefox wrote: Wait, wasn't Defiant partially crippled when Kira jury-rigged her room's replicator unit in "Defiant"?
i'll take a slightly buggy replicator over warp cores that go boom when you sneeze at them wrong any day.
That issue was fixed in the War-Galaxy.

your sarcasm meter needs working.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2005-04-20 08:31pm

Darth_Zod wrote:
Firefox wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:well. the feds -did- manage to get the Defiant designed properly. as to everything else. . . .*shrug*
Wait, wasn't Defiant partially crippled when Kira jury-rigged her room's replicator unit in "Defiant"?
i'll take a slightly buggy replicator over warp cores that go boom when you sneeze at them wrong any day.

No doubt but a crewmember playing with the 24rd century equivalent of her stateroom's microwave crippling the ship DOES raise some questions...

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2005-04-20 08:35pm

Darth_Zod wrote:
Matt Huang wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote: i'll take a slightly buggy replicator over warp cores that go boom when you sneeze at them wrong any day.
That issue was fixed in the War-Galaxy.
your sarcasm meter needs working.

I'm pretty bad about that.

Junghalli · Post by **Junghalli** » 2005-04-20 08:54pm

It looks cool but the actual read-up of what it's supposed to do doesn't impress me. They should have left it as a light warship. When I saw it immediately screamed in my mind "destroyer". It doesn't look like a carrier very much to me. A carrier should be a lot bigger.
Oh yeah, and the fortress mode, Sovereign piggyback mode etc. is just Trektarded.