[StratComm]

I swear, I'll finish some of this stuff one day

This thing is fairly self explanitory I hope, seeing as it looks like a porcupine from hell.  The front should be a dead giveaway as to what race it's for.  Textures are in progress, but they are still a mess and only serve to make it harder to see what's going on.   It looks even better in 3d.

[Trivial Psychic]

Class?

[StratComm]

Not a destroyer, but either a cruiser or corvette.  It's got some Rakshasa elements in the front, but may wind up too short if I scale it to decent proportions for a cruiser.  Depends on how I arm it more than anything else I guess.

[Black Wolf]

It's too short and stumpy to be a Capship IMO. Have a look at the shivan fleet. They don't have a single canon ship in that sort of configuration. It'd maybe work as a sort of uberfighter or bomber, or possibly as a nightmare cap, but not a shivan cap.

The uberfighter might be the most interesting of all actually. A wing of these show up, with hitpoints and shield values greater than that of a seraphim, but with the speed and manoeuvrability of a Manticore. The ultimate Shivan vessel. You'd balance it through scarcity and storyline rather than making balance intrinsinc to the mod itself

[aldo_14]

Not as a Nightmare cap, though.  Engine structure is wrong for one thing.  Other structural differences & whatnot.  Namely that NM ships are long, 'bladed' ships, or flat & wide.  Plus the Nightmare design was moving towards a 'flowing' organic ship, rather than a spiky one (something akin to an evil jellyfish crossed with a xenomorph).

(you'll have to take my word on this.... )

Those spines might make it hard to turret, but IMO it's quite an interesting design.

[Aspa]

If you look at the front as if it's the back, it looks like a shivan-vasudan hybrid strike bomber.

If you look at the back as if it's the front, it looks like a vasudan-shivan hybrid remote beam cannon.

It should be called the SVPABRBC (Shivan Vasudan Parliamentary Alliance Bomber Remote Beam Cannon) Schizophrenomenal!  

But seriously... the engine section looks too much like a Mjolnir for my taste. What about making it more asymmetrical, and having five smaller engines instead of the six?

[Lightspeed]

This is not shivan.

[Mad Bomber]

A Shivan Erinyes.

Imposing.

[Lightspeed]

Erinyes?!

[aldo_14]

The forward arcs are a wee bit reminiscent of the rear sweep of the Erinyes pods.  Just a wee bit, though.

[Mad Bomber]

No, not that.

I thought the spiky part was the front, and each spike was a primary...

[Taristin]

Originally posted by aldo_14
(something akin to an evil jellyfish crossed with a xenomorph).

(you'll have to take my word on this.... )

I can vouch for that.

[aldo_14]

You can?

*raises eyebrow*

[Mongoose]

I'm with Aspa.  The first thing I thought of was a Shivan RBC.

[Mad Bomber]

Originally posted by Mongoose
I'm with Aspa.  The first thing I thought of was a Shivan RBC.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was, now that I think about it... I just have no point of reference so I can't tell which end is the front.

Tho to be honest I already have a Shivan RBC -- it's a Rahu derivative -- but this looks much more original.

Whatever the hell it is, it looks quite menacing

[aldo_14]

Te spikes point towards the frontl.  The flat (central) angled front is similar to several other shivan ships.

[NGTM-1R]

Frigate/pocket destroyer with ungodly number of anti-fighter beams on those spikes?

[magatsu1]

my first thought was bomber...

[Kie99]

Looks like the Sekhmet from the back.

[Cyker]

One thing you could try is making it less symmetrical; One of the hallmarks of Shivan design it isn't all that big on symmetry.