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GJD
January 15, 2008 - 8:17pm
Refer to: GJD CGI Imgaes 8 - Sabre Class advanced Assault Scout.

what it says up there...
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Corjay (not verified)
January 15, 2008 - 9:18pm
I like that. The downsloaped head makes it very intimidating, like it's ready to pounce.

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w00t (not verified)
January 16, 2008 - 7:17am
nice job GJD.

PHENOMINAL ENGINE POWER! itty bitty lasery battery

Wink



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GJD
January 16, 2008 - 10:13am

Hey, it's not the size of your emmitter, it's the power of your fast-discharge homopolar capacitor array that matters ;)

I was going to leave the laser battery off all together, but it bubgged me that there was no visible turret on the SFKH Assault Scout design. Then i was going to go for one of the fancy remote ball-optic designs, like the one in the nose of th 747 ABL: http://www.st.northropgrumman.com/capabilities/laser/products/abl.html

But, in the end, a traditional turret won out. It could even be a mock-up for the flight tests fopr the prototype, like dummy bombs used on modern jet fighters during fly-offs.

I'll probaly whip up the PGC, Wartech and Streel designs at some point as well. Suggestions for styling are always welcome :)

G.


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w00t (not verified)
January 16, 2008 - 11:00am
GJD wrote:
I'll probaly whip up the PGC, Wartech and Streel designs at some point as well. Suggestions for styling are always welcome :)


Streel - grayish steel color, sleek and not-to-expensive-looking. more for exploration type jobs.

PGC - stylish, suave (can a ship look suave Undecided) anyway they got cash, ships should reflect that. maybe the latest gear

Wartech - bad looking. like, maybe weapon looking. this ship says, "DON'T YOU EVEN LOOK THIS WAY BUDDY!"

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Corjay (not verified)
January 16, 2008 - 6:48pm
GJD wrote:
Hey, it's not the size of your emmitter, it's the power of your fast-discharge homopolar capacitor array that matters ;)
Homo-what?! Surprised

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GJD
January 17, 2008 - 6:10am
Lol

Homopolar. It's a type of generator that can release lots of energy in a short time. It's been suggested that a slow dischsrge generator can "pump" a flywheel to store kinetic energy, which is then used to trigger the homopolar generator to release lots of energy in a very short space of time, something batteries and conventional generators can't do. You use your standard generator to "charge up" the flywheel, then convert all the stored kinetic energy to electrical energy using the homopolar generator. This kind of setup, flywheel storage and HP generator, is known as a homopolar capacitor array.

Here endeth the lesson.

G.

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GJD
January 18, 2008 - 8:53pm

... and updated with the other ships. Couldn't be bothered to write the blurb for them.

G.


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Full Bleed
February 2, 2008 - 12:25am
Man, these great ships would be infinitely more useful for online gaming is you gave us some top-down shots so we could create tokens out of them.  ;)