[Fineus]

You've all seen it in the FS2 "concept" drawings, some of you have fallen in love with it, and now - coming soon from Apothess, who asked me to post this...

Drumroll...

   

She's a beauty all right, Enjoy!

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[Apothess]

With the help of others of course eg Setekh & who ever can help with the turrets etc. I'e had this model for months and just have done anything on it until now.

P.S have you passed this model onto anyone else Setekh?

[Woomeister]

Cool  

[Unidan]

Hey Apothess would you mind sending it to me? I may be able to help! [email protected]
Thanks      

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[Nico]

this one have nice curves   How many polys?

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venom2506
Member of the Robotech mod for FS2

and of Hidden Terror, the Shivan campaign

and My own page

[Sushi]

Sweeet.  

How big is that sucker? What's the official history?



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[Ace]

Sweeet  

Could I ask to use it in the planned Twilight sequel? (another six mission campaign of greater length, I hope to have a new Vasudan capital ship as the flagship)

As for history... hmmm... something off the bat here:

GVD Semnai

Fielded towards the end of the engagement in Regulus, the Semnai is the answer of Emporer Khonsu II to advanced Shivan capital ship classes.

Featuring a spinal mounted photon beam cannon array, augmented by an internal radial Meson generation chamber, the Semnai features more firepower than any other vessel currently within the alliance fleets.

With a low crew of only 2,000, but a compliment of over 300 fighter spacecraft, these vessels are designed for maximum compatability with Terran and Vasudan systems , allowing for fielding the craft of both engineering paradigms efficiently and effectively.

Over a dozen Semnai class vessels are in service, two of which are flagships of Terran fleets.

(side note: The Semnai is Khonsu's answers to the rumors of project Golgotha, though it fields less primary canon firepower than the Golgotha, it is less vunrible to resupply issues as the experimental Terran destroyer is)


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Ace
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[IceFire]

And with Ace saying what he has (since Twilight seems to fit with BWO fairly well)....perhaps we might have need for such a vessel in BWO as well (we will have quite a bit of Vasudan involvement).

[Nico]

Rahhh... why do you always want to put super weapons in capships? This one is a carrier, so just make it a carrier! If it uses no big weapons, so it must relies on it's fighter cover and other capships to defend it, so it involves some strategy to take it down (3 following strikes, one to lessen the fihgter cover, one to lessen capship covers ( to secure a bit bombers attack), and the last one to shoot down the capship itself). Why 3 missions? because it makes the ship more impressive in a storyline if you can't destroy it in one single strike, and this kind of strategies, I think, is fun. My personal opinion is that each class of capship should have its own purpose, not a varied ranged of possibilities (anti fighter ships, anti capships, carrier, long ranged attacks and so on).
That's what I'll do in my mod anyway (if I get to finish it one day...).

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venom2506
Member of the Robotech mod for FS2

and of Hidden Terror, the Shivan campaign

and My own page

[IceFire]

You might like what we've done with the Sol ships in BWO.

Yeah, this one doesn't really need a big gun, just the standard Vasudan beam cannons which are pretty darn good.

Speaking from a design and strategic standpoint however, you want a capital ship that can go toe to toe with Shivan ones.

[PSYCHO]

  nice job looks real Vasudan

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[Turnsky]

Very nice, err, how long is it? and from what icefire has said, i've just this to say........ PUT IT IN BWO! PUT IT IN BWO! PUT IT IN BWO!!!!   it's just sweet to look at. and by the way anyone here familar with the warhammer 40k universe? particularly battlefleet gothic? just take a look at the Eldar ships and then look at vasudan ones.

[Ace]

The only reason why I even mentioned the idea for a main gun for the ship is due to it's design which clearly is built around a forward cannon.

By no means would it be like the Golgotha, it would be a heavier standard Vasudan beam.

The strength for the Semnai would be in it's fighter compliment and numbers.

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[Darkage]

Sweeeeeeeeet!!

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[Apothess]

OKAY To amny questions!!! Got on major hang over so i'll do my bset. You do not wnat to know how many polys are in that ship!! i don't have a progarm to reduce them. Unidan i will send it to you if Setekh hasn't already passed it on to any one. Aargh who cares i'll send you it anyway!

[Apothess]

Oooh yeah nearly forgot Ace sure you can use it your campaign yes Ice you can use it as well when it gets finished and whenever Setekh will tell me how far done this ship is.

I'm afraid if you did use it Ace you would have to call it the GVHD Imhotep cos thats wot i was going to name it. Your right about it being the Vasudan version of the Golgotha but i need the stats on the Golgotha to do a proper history Hint hint Icefire. I waz going to add 2 figther bays to the model but i no longer have any version of Truespace and i'm not and can't shell out £300 for a new copy & i can't get TS2 for 40 quid because the ship was made TS3 Aaaaaaaaargh nuts!!!!! Right i'm going back to bed!!!!

[IceFire]

GVHD Imhotep - I'd get rid of the H (since the Lucifer had the same SD designation that every other destroyer had).  The name is good.

Stats eh.  Well basically take an Orion, double the hitpoints, make the speed 20 and put some guns on it.  As far as big weapons goes, a BGreen on each side and two MGreen's (a new beam inbetween SGreen and BGreen).

Vasudan beams are quite powerful however.

How many polys are we talking?  Thats a major issue.

[IceFire]

Look, if we don't put it in BWO, I'll at least make a mission with it in there for fun if you want me to  

[Ace]

Imhotep? Someone's been watching a wee too bit of the Mummy...  

Overall as for history, what I wrote would fit well into the BWO timeline. (making it an answer to ships such as the Ravanna, and it's being mainly a fighter carrier as opposed to the Golgotha which is highly dependent on deuterium to supply it's reactors for it's weaponry)

Overall, the Golgotha is modern-day terms is an FFE. (fosil fuel e-liminat0r!)

The GVD Imhotep, Semnai, or whatever you'll call it, is definately a carrier.

If the front of the ship is not fitted with a main cannon, it can always be turned into a sensor subsystem.

However I would suggest the front being a high-powered "Vslash" modification that makes it on par with the heavier beam turrets on the Orion. (i.e. the ship can take out light Shivan cruiser formations with one hit)

I'd also make most of it's firepower in fighter defense beams, I'd work out a new anti-fighter beam for the ship that has a lessened recharge rate as well as an orange-white instead of blue-white beam.

Finally a custom "Vasudan flak" designed for heavy dispersal and rapid fire, though light damage. (i.e. designed to intercept bombs)

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Ace
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[IceFire]

Golgotha uses primarily a Meson Reactor to power its main gun.  The rest of the ships power needs are similar to that of a Hecate (efficient reactor and power grid design).