Author Topic: Sun Tzu Class - USS Athena (Read 51557 times)

MarkyD · « **Reply #80 on:** January 20, 2009, 04:40:56 PM »

Nice work mate, at this rate their either going to have to make the MOTM award a smaller image, or im going to need a bigger monitor

nicely done. :arms:

FarShot · « **Reply #81 on:** January 20, 2009, 04:43:38 PM »

With the saucer's impulse engines on the bottom, it looks imbalanced. Maybe you could add a third one behind the bridge?

DJ Curtis · « **Reply #82 on:** January 20, 2009, 06:06:53 PM »

The thrust is vectored to compensate. ;)

FarShot · « **Reply #83 on:** January 20, 2009, 06:21:05 PM »

Ooh, thrust vectoring!

Image of a Harrier's vector nozzles. Kinda looks like the engines on the stardrive... :mrgreen: :king:

EDIT - Lol, just noticed. This thing looks a lot like the Protector from Galaxy Quest. :lol:
Regarding the pylons, btw.

WileyCoyote · « **Reply #84 on:** January 20, 2009, 06:32:55 PM »

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Ooh, thrust vectoring!

It almost sounds like that this ship could land on planets like Voyager.

DJ Curtis · « **Reply #85 on:** January 20, 2009, 10:15:36 PM »

I'm going to go with...

Sun Tzu Class
USS Athena

I've always wanted to name a ship Athena.

Shadowknight1 · « **Reply #86 on:** January 20, 2009, 10:41:11 PM »

Sounds cool to me

Darran · « **Reply #87 on:** January 21, 2009, 03:57:21 AM »

woo my name suggestion wins, happy days DJ could I get a side on view of the separated hulls, so i know where to draw the line on the MSD

DJ Curtis · « **Reply #88 on:** January 21, 2009, 08:48:44 AM »

sorry Darran. Didn't get home till 11pm from work and went almost straight to bed.

Cmdr. Madden · « **Reply #89 on:** January 21, 2009, 11:00:07 AM »

Quote from: DJ Curtis on January 20, 2009, 06:06:53 PM

The thrust is vectored to compensate. ;)

what would that exactly entail? what would that even do? would it just make the ship able to turn and roll faster than normal? not to mention if it is thrust vectored like you say, would the impulse engines actually move around ingame?

also if you look at that schematic pic that you released a couple of pages back, the nacelle pylons, where they join the nacelles, there's that little support thing that juts down from the nacelle, i think it kinda breaks flow a little bit, i realize that it's something that just about every starship has but on this one it seems off. beautiful though, i came back from a weekend away and i am just amazed at how fast you had this thing out, keep it up!

Darran · « **Reply #90 on:** January 21, 2009, 11:59:25 AM »

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sorry Darran. Didn't get home till 11pm from work and went almost straight to bed.

No worries mate, i've had a busy time of it too, exams, house hunting, being a first year law student is no fun, this MSD is serving as my procrastination, thanks for the images, when i get that line in place I can start fleshing out the decks

Dalek · « **Reply #91 on:** January 21, 2009, 01:34:10 PM »

Ahha! Athena, Greek god of wisdom, war, industry, the arts, justice and skill.

Adonis · « **Reply #92 on:** January 21, 2009, 01:55:59 PM »

DJ dude, watch the triangulation at the phaser strips, thrusters and escape pods. Those areas are actually mesh errors, but they don't show...yet.

tannerwaterbury · « **Reply #93 on:** January 21, 2009, 04:44:50 PM »

Ooh you know what would be kick @$$? If you could armor the front end of the ship and use it as a ramship, basically the ship being a weapon itself. Think about it, all your weapons are disabled and theres no chance of them coming back online, you have no alternative but to ram your ship right down the enemys throat with minimal damage to yourself. Hell you might even pack the saucer with warheads just in case.

Arvis Taljik · « **Reply #94 on:** January 21, 2009, 04:56:24 PM »

That is definitely not a Starfleet tactic, nor do I think it would ever be (Picard's out-of-the-box thinking aside... lol). However, on the armor subject, seeing some deployable ablative armor on this bad boy would be VERY cool!

tannerwaterbury · « **Reply #95 on:** January 21, 2009, 05:33:42 PM »

Quote from: Arvis Taljik on January 21, 2009, 04:56:24 PM

That is definitely not a Starfleet tactic, nor do I think it would ever be (Picard's out-of-the-box thinking aside... lol). However, on the armor subject, seeing some deployable ablative armor on this bad boy would be VERY cool!

True its not a STARFLEET tactic, but who knows. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Plus it would be freaking cool!

yanlou · « **Reply #96 on:** January 21, 2009, 07:04:33 PM »

love the class name, DJ, glad you picked it as it suits it well, plus the ship name works well as your ship is beautiful but deadly.
will you be doing your textures in the usual 2048x2048?

Barihawk · « **Reply #97 on:** January 22, 2009, 06:01:19 PM »

What bridge model were you thinking of for the Athena? I could probably hash something together in the style of what I was doing for MarkyD's Olympic. Just throwing my name in the pot, at least.

Darkthunder · « **Reply #98 on:** January 22, 2009, 08:47:41 PM »

Regarding the shipname 'USS Athena', and the description of it being "Beautiful, but deadly". Any chance you had the character of Athena from BSG in mind? Aka 'Sharon' aka Grace Park... She's a beauty as well, AND she's a cylon... "beautiful but deadly"

Darran · « **Reply #99 on:** January 22, 2009, 11:10:46 PM »

Small update:- decked her our, using the bridge module as a size guide, DJ this thing works out at 20 decks, got a few things in place, the bridges, computer cores, massive 2 storey shuttle bay, all the torp launchers and caches and the deflectors

What you think?

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Author Topic: Sun Tzu Class - USS Athena (Read 51557 times)

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