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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Gamma_Draconis on February 24, 2010, 03:09:08 am

Title: Orion Interiors
Post by: Gamma_Draconis on February 24, 2010, 03:09:08 am
Between the two hanger bay menu on FS1, the Galetea's and the Bastion's, there's significant difference. For one, the Galetea looks older while the Bastion looked clean and sharp. Is Alpha 1 just on different portions of the ships or did the two Orion destroyers really had a face lift in between versions? If the destroyers could vary that much, does that mean there's different versions of the Orion?

Does anyone else think the way Volition handled the menu was ingenius? It adds so much more to the atmosphere.
Title: Re: Orion Interiors
Post by: Colonol Dekker on February 24, 2010, 03:20:42 am
I always loved the mainhalls in FS1 more than FS2.
 
Regarding the layout issue. There's quite a bit of obstruction in the Bastions one that could be hiding a similar layout to the Galateas. Under the gangwalk at the bottom left for instance. I just don't know :)
 
Title: Re: Orion Interiors
Post by: Black Wolf on February 24, 2010, 03:26:52 am
As far as I can tell, the Bastion and Galatea mainha;;s are the same model from different angles, just with more dirt and crappier lighting on the Galatea.
Title: Re: Orion Interiors
Post by: Gamma_Draconis on February 24, 2010, 03:34:31 am
Well then, the Bastion must be several years newer than the Galatea. I always had the impression that when Alpha 1 gets assigned to the Bastion, he or she had just transferred to a ship that was commissioned very recently. Didn't GTI had control of the Bastion for a while as well? There were a bunch of special missions assigned when on the Bastion. I guess they get first dips on all the new stuff.
Title: Re: Orion Interiors
Post by: headdie on February 24, 2010, 03:38:35 am
Thats possible i belive they date back to before the t-v war so would have gone through refit as resources were available, possibly the bastion took a torp to the fighter bay requiring a rebuild, bastion could also have been built to a later internal spec than the galatae
Title: Re: Orion Interiors
Post by: -Norbert- on February 24, 2010, 03:53:30 am
Or maybe the Bastions CO simply put more personel on cleaning duty than the Galateas CO...
Title: Re: Orion Interiors
Post by: Colonol Dekker on February 24, 2010, 06:46:41 am
Officers like that are arseholes.
Title: Re: Orion Interiors
Post by: Hades on February 24, 2010, 05:24:20 pm
Thats possible i belive they date back to before the t-v war so would have gone through refit as resources were available, possibly the bastion took a torp to the fighter bay requiring a rebuild, bastion could also have been built to a later internal spec than the galatae
I believe that it was said somewhere in FreeSpace canon (in game) that the Orions were first developed in the Terran-Vasudan war. I think it was an early command brief about the Galatea, but I'm not sure.