[Commander Zane]

That is a beautiful brick.

[Su-tehp]

Lucy awaits its completion..

Ooh, a new Lucy would always be nice.

That is a beautiful brick.

Agreed. There are many beautiful things and there are many bricks, but so few beautiful bricks.

[Nyctaeus]

Lucy awaits its completion..

Oddgrim expressed will to take care about Lucy. I reserved Ravana.

[Nightmare]

Oh I meant that the current Lucifer would like to have a new Orion to play with

[Pnakotus]

Moloch, the perpetual wallflower: no love. 

[Nyctaeus]

Moloch, the perpetual wallflower: no love. 

Also somewhere in my queue if I manage to recover RGA_Norris' mesh.

[Nyctaeus]

First texture done :]

[Nightmare]

 

[manwiththemachinegun]

Chargin mah lazer. That's one nice ship!
Other than the Demon and Moloch, probably the only other Shivan ship that could use an update is the Ravana. The Cain and Liliths still look great, as do the Shivan freighters and fighters.

[Su-tehp]

Something just occurred to me while looking at this new Orion: just where the heck is the Bridge/CIC?

[Pnakotus]

Something just occurred to me while looking at this new Orion: just where the heck is the Bridge/CIC?

It always looked like a carrier conversion to me, so probably in the core of the main hull?

Moloch, the perpetual wallflower: no love. 

Also somewhere in my queue if I manage to recover RGA_Norris' mesh.

You guys have kept up a ridiculous pace already, so it’s almost the last large ship left!  It’s barely used in the campaign, so I guess it’s low priority anyway.

[0rph3u5]

Something just occurred to me while looking at this new Orion: just where the heck is the Bridge/CIC?

Bridge and CIC are two completely different facilites; Bridge is used mostly for navigation, while CIC is the centre of all combat related tasks. As such CIC would be in the most armoured part of the ship, probably deep within the structure. Considering you can't maneuver a ship of this size by sight alone (that's what Watch Stations are for), locating the Bridge might be very difficult.

[Colonol Dekker]

By the time this game happens it will be all telemetry from external sensors anyway.   It could be anywhere on an orion, for all we know.

[Solatar]

Damn, that thing is awesome.

[manwiththemachinegun]

You can't really go by realistic design principles, since the Fenris and other ships all have clearly visible bridges like Earth ships do. I think it's more likely they just forgot to design one!

[Colonol Dekker]

You can't really go by realistic design principles, since the Fenris and other ships all have clearly visible bridges like Earth ships do. I think it's more likely they just forgot to design one!

QFT everything in games should be taken with a spoon of salt.  👍👍

[0rph3u5]

By the time this game happens it will be all telemetry from external sensors anyway.   It could be anywhere on an orion, for all we know.

Commercial sea travel and air travel run through the automation of most standard procedures today already. It is the procedures that have no standard conditions (i.e. there are too many variables involved) that don't get automated, such take-off and landing or docking at a port.

Complete navigation by instruments hits a snag when you have account for the possible failure of instruments and/or referrence data - that's why you still supplement satellite navigation at sea with methods using every tool you have at your disposal - that includes eye sight and set squares.

[Iain Baker]

Damn that looks good :-)

[Nyctaeus]

The bridge is actually located behind the two radars on top. Secondary bridge is on the bottom side of the ship, behind the radar cluster. CIC is located deep in the hull and is not represented by any surface detail.

[Nyctaeus]

This thing will happen.

You know I wasn't joking... Right :]?