Hehe, I just had a bit of a creativity overload a few weeks ago and developed a new ship for my series which in turn spawned ANOTHER spin-off. Yeah, you all might not understand but I already have 1 original and 3 spin-offs of that one now. Ok, this here is the HAS/HC Fire Fox (Homeworld Alliance Ship/ Heavy Crusier). The F-F is an evolution of my Hurricane series of heavy cruisers. Now, this new spin off takes place 1150 years after the last, making the year 6200 CE or something around that. In that time, my heavily B5 inspired ship technologies became heavily inspired by Star Trek and stuff like that
. No, there isn't REALLY dogfighting cap ships, just really fast and maneuverable ones... The firefox can move at 300+ meters per second and rotate a full 360 in 10 seconds. The single beam turret can basicly gut and cut and slice entire space stations apart :
. I was thinking of making a fan video depicting the power of this weapon: It cut a Death Star 2 in half
Yeah yeah, sounds overkill but we are talking some serious tech way beyond our understanding so I am being very liberal on what these babies can do
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Ok, back to my ship: The name motif of naming ships after weather conditions died off because there weren't enough cool terms and nobody wanted a cap ship to be named "Breeze" or "Trinkle" or "Increase in tide!" so they changed the naming convention to
of different stuff. So the Hurricane series died off and spawned new ones. The Firefox's most dastardly weapon (aside from the turret) are the terrifying subspace missiles. I saw something in the Wiki that talked about these, missiles that jump into subspace and exit near the target. If this works out, then what happens is that when these missiles are fired, they reapear under capital ship shields and damage the ship directly. That is where the Pierce Shield flag comes in. The missiles are fast firing and have a huge payload so even the most advanced alien ship will eventually get obliterated unless they can stop those missiles.
Lastly, this is where I have to wait for the SCP to complete their work on fully functional bump maps. I may have missed it so don't kill me for that. The images will tell the rest:
Profile image: The Fire Fox is half the size of the older Hurricane models but hundreds of times stronger, and 5 times faster (350m/s) and turns much faster.
Closer image: This is a close up of the current skin. Nice huh?
Lastly: For this model to truly become what it was imagined to be, it requires bump maps. The difference is absurdly huge so this is a must!
