[IPAndrews]

if you did fail (for now, that is)

Forever. Just so we're under no illusions.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Why do you even need the planet killer itself?  There was so much going on at the same time during that battle.  Unless you want the player to fly one of the bluestars then you just have the planet killer as a background planet.  Have the player doing something else like protecting some other ships in the fleet.  Add a cut scene of the planet killer being destroyed.  Next mission try to intercept the shuttles dropping the bio weapon. 

[terran_emperor]

Well, i was planning on doing that for my crusade campaign, with the dialogue from the Victory and Excaliber being comms feeds. from the back ground. But then this thread showed up and i was thinking if someone could model it, then it would be great to do the missions as they are in the film. Oh well, if i wait for that to happen, the campaign will never get done...So i moght as well stick to my original planns.

But could someone do the cuscene for me?

[maje]

**** this planet killer nonsense!  Does anyone know what Xa'dam (the legendary Shadow base that builds the planet killers as described in Armies of Light and Dark) looks like?  I'm sure that'd be a real beast. 

[terran_emperor]

again that would be on the Moon Surface Scale, with lots and lots of buildings

[starlord]

Why the heck are those things so big? Because of this, we can't model them

[terran_emperor]

I'll just do it as the moon surface, with lots of shadow vessels and a few league bases sticking out of it.

[IPAndrews]

Why the heck are those things so big? Because of this, we can't model them

Yes the Vorlon "big elephant of doom" is a far better design for a planet killer. The SPK is a silly design. I can't think of any reason for it to be planet sized itself. Aside from psychological impact.

[starlord]

Or make another non cannon shadow planet killer (smaller, of course).

[IPAndrews]

Starlord you are full of good ideas. Why don't you learn how to model?

[starlord]

It seems I'll have too at some point for the renegade legion MOD, once I finish my science thesis, that is. besides, I don't think my ideas are that great: they are just proposals, no more.

Or else simply do the LAST part where you blow up the core (skip all the entry and segments stuff). Simply make a core (not very big) in a dark nebula with a few turrets (under 100), get inside and blow up the center. Much like this test mission actually but into a nebula: It would still be very satisfactory. http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=OygmDbTrrr8

This will be the last time I bother you IPandrews, I promise.

[Flipside]

As an aside, the thing about the SPK is that I get the feeling it 'unfolds' for attack and is normally much smaller, probably as far as mass is concerned, it's not much more than the Mammoth of Doom,

[IPAndrews]

I always imagined it opening up to swallow the planet like a gigantic planet sized mesh Pacman.

[Flipside]

Yup, that's exactly the image I get, the worlds most deadly mechano set....

[starlord]

From what I recall, after seeing the "call to arms" episode, it DID open up, no?

[Flipside]

It's never really shown clearly to be honest, so it's mostly guesswork, it certainly seems like the sensible thing to do.

[starlord]

I thought that after the core was blown up, it would close around the victory (at least, that's the feeling I got from it).

[Flipside]

Yup, in Call to Arms it sort of starts off as a big 'net' that wraps around the planet, so we know it is capable of morphing shape, but we never really see what form it takes for transport

[terran_emperor]

Thats my opinion

[starlord]

Do we manage to see the core? I mean, what are it's dimensions, etc... Is the "webbing" structure connected to it or just around it?