[Kryton]

Hallo.

I was jst wondering if any one had every noticed that the apollo there, think its called the apollo bomber varient, has a gun mount under the cockpit.
Sorta like a "Chin" turret.
Sorry if this has been brought up before.

Kryton.

[Solatar]

Well, it is an Apollo bomber varient. Since I'm the head of the Terran-Vasudan War Project, I guess i can fill you in.

Originally the Apollo was going to be a bomber by . If you look closely in the second LOD, instead of gun mounts, you see missile slots.

For the TVWP, that bomber is the Apollyon. It is a standard bomber, sort of a predecessor to the Medusa.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

...and many people have tried their hand at making it, notably myself.

[Kryton]

I was just wondering if people making these had seen the "Turret" type thingy under the cockpit, i got a pic if u want to see what i mean.
(Though i cant post it, no webspace, can email it though)

[Solatar]

We've seen it. Muhahahaha!! Be afraid!!!

















No, actually, there is a few pics of the Apollyon at Descent-Network.com.

[Anaz]

ooookay....now then....

[Killfrenzy]

Am I the only one who thinks that 'Apollyon' is a totally ****e name?

[Sesquipedalian]

Yes.

Apollyon

[Knight Templar]

I thought he was just trying to be clever and have it be like apollo, but still be a real god.. the name is.. meh.

Abbadon = better, but more Shivan (like the ship name)

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Kryton
Hallo.

I was jst wondering if any one had every noticed that the apollo there, think its called the apollo bomber varient, has a gun mount under the cockpit.
Sorta like a "Chin" turret.
Sorry if this has been brought up before.

Kryton.

It also has a back-seater

[Eishtmo]

Originally posted by Setekh


It also has a back-seater

Wouldn't it be great if the backseater could talk to you, or your wingman?

*wingman rams player*

Backseater:  Watch where you're going pal!

Ah, finally a voice in the game.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

It'd be like StarLancer, then. With your co-pilot shouting at you, and taking over the controls iif you fire on friendly ships.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Eishtmo


Wouldn't it be great if the backseater could talk to you, or your wingman?

*wingman rams player*

Backseater:  Watch where you're going pal!

Ah, finally a voice in the game.

Yes, that is a nice concept.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Eishtmo


Wouldn't it be great if the backseater could talk to you, or your wingman?

Yes, then we could all have an excuse to rip the speakers/headphones from our computer from the SAME FSCKING THREE PHRASES UTTERED MILLIONS OF TIMES BECAUSE THERE AREN'T ENOUGH SOUNDBITES.

Oh yeah.

[Eishtmo]

Originally posted by mikhael
Yes, then we could all have an excuse to rip the speakers/headphones from our computer from the SAME FSCKING THREE PHRASES UTTERED MILLIONS OF TIMES BECAUSE THERE AREN'T ENOUGH SOUNDBITES.
Oh yeah.

Thank you for being so postive.  And considering WE ALREADY HAVE THAT PROBLEM AND IT'S CALLED COMMAND, I can understand your concern.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

"Incoming jump signature, hostile configuration."
"Incoming jump signature, hostile configuration."
"Incoming jump signature, hostile configuration."
"Incoming jump signature, hostile configuration."
"Incoming jump signature, hostile configuration."

and so on until you run screaming outside, stark naked.

[GT-Keravnos]

As a Greek myself and actually quite good at ancient Greek, well apollyon means "the destroyer" or to be more to the point, "the one who absolves from bondage".

So basically Apollyon means "liberator".

If spelled correctly (tone on -y-) it sounds good too.

Brought to you by the resident Greek!

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Eishtmo


Thank you for being so postive.  And considering WE ALREADY HAVE THAT PROBLEM AND IT'S CALLED COMMAND, I can understand your concern.

I'm always positive. And yes, Command is just as bad. Why make it worse?

[Tar-Palantir]

Surely if you did it right, the back seater wouldn't dupilicate Command. For instance:

Shivan Cruiser X jumps in and starts attacking the diabled Fenris H with it's beam cannons. The backseater is gunner/weapons-type person.

Command: The X has arrived, it's attacking the H!
Backseat: Okay flight-leader, lets take down those beam cannon's before you lose the H.
Alpha 2: We're with you Alpha 1.

How maybe with this admittly poor piece of dialogue I may have just disproved the point I was trying to make. However a backseater wouild be used just as a regular wingman rather than a second Command. It'd also be good for those admittly rare times when you're out of communications with Command.