[0rph3u5]

I know that tyrannos is ancient Greek Tyrant, but first - it's an agressive name fitting for attack ship like destroyer or corvette,  and second, I can help to thin T-rex, or tyrannosaurus rex when I heard tyrannos, even if it's completely wrong parallel, it still sounds agerssive.

Actually "tyrannos" was a rather neutral term to the ancient greek (in Plato's Politeia the "tyrannic constitution" is a simple follow up of a "democracy" becoming defective); most monarchic rulers held the title of "tyrannos" until the hellenistic period (then commonly used title became "basileus")

the aggressive contotation is a (mostly) modern addition promoted by authors of the Reinissance and Romatic Periods

[Mobius]

What Orpheus said. The term has been used until 1300 I think, and the negative connotation is relatively recent. FYI, "basileus" is pretty much the equivalent of "king", though its root is related to the Greek word for "noble", and that's not a surprise because the two titles were connected. These terms may have even been synonims.

Back on topic, I consider Tyrannos a good name for a command ship, a role that is somehow played in battle by the EA carrier.

[mr.WHO]

I haven't thought about it from ancient Greek perspective, but yeah, this way Tyrannos sounds more neutral.

However I think that roman naming would fit EA rather well.

GTA -> greek naming, science, exploration, common protection against Persia....I mean Zods

Then EA -> replace GTA just like Romans replaced Greeks, plus power, order, militaristic, preparation for total war against evil from beyond know space.

[Mobius]

Naming conventions will probably be discussed somehow, somewhere in the future (IMO there are too many Greek names at the moment). INFASA follows a different naming convention (most names are in Latin), intentionally meant to be classic... in the literary sense.

[Rampage]

Concept (by Axel of the Relic Community)


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[Rodo]

looks quite nice

[rscaper1070]

Looks really cool. Is it a civilian transport of some kind? Like a space liner?

[PsychoLandlord]

In most of the Homeworld 2 mods it saw use in, it was generally covered in more guns than the AI knew what to do with.

I was never a fan of that particular model when it was still seeing use in HW, but that was usually because it looked out of place next to the stock ships. Hope you guys do it more justice.

[Droid803]

Medical ship.

[T-LoW]

I like the fins. But I would prefer 3 or 4 of them

Overall design and texturing is

[Commander Zane]

Never liked the model, but it would make a good medical ship for that design.

[mr.WHO]

With such number of windows it look more like civilian cruise liner.

EDIT:
I took a look at ModDb site and saw new screenshots. Do they mean that INF:Gateway is more than an early WIP? Do you cooperate with Ancient-Shivan war team?

[Woomeister]

Damnit Mobius

No, what hes leaked there is a simple port of the INF SCP based Ancients campaign table testing, it was extremely early prototype and will have to be redone for the new modpack build. What I was testing there was incorrporating the upgraded versions of the publically released ASW ships (we donated some of their current fleet to them) and some of our ships that they upgraded for ASW, plus some of our unused leftovers which they didn't use.

If we do build it it'll be after the main modpack release, though we are leaving enough hooks in the tables to allow it to easily slot in without a major overhaul (species support etc)

[Mobius]

In the Inferno 10th Anniversary Edition FAQ (which is also on ModDB, by the way) it's clearly stated that the Ancients will not be included in the main INFR1U release, so consider those as samples of raw testing, not actual shots from INFR1U. I'm editing the descriptions to clarify that.

Speaking of the mentioned collaboration with the ASW Team, this is not news. They helped us upgrade the SI Arachnas, for example.

[Woomeister]

Yes but I'm not even guaranteeing that Gateways was going to be made, so posting prototype shots publically makes everyone assume it will be made.
Especially with screenshot titles 'Ancient fleet returns'

[Mobius]

For the record, ModDB descriptions have been changed.

[BrotherBryon]

Noticed that the Ennead got posted there as well, I've made a few minor changes to the mesh since posting those pics on the internal. Wasn't expecting it to be made public so fast. Do we have a policy on that or can anything be posted publicly? I don't have any issues with WIP pics being posted just would like a heads up first. Who knows I may have a better pic you could use

[Woomeister]

I posted a thread earlier in the internal about this that you may want to look at

[Mobius]

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