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Post by trynda1701 on Apr 11, 2022 7:39:42 GMT -7
A million congratulations! No pun intended, but I am over the moon happy for you that this is either completed or near-completed! Klingon blood wine for the toast, if you don't mind!  Hopefully people like what I came up with. Feel free to comment on it on the ship page.  It completes a trio for the three main power blocks, and I personally don't think others would end up with their own versions. In my games, Orion vessels have their stealth hull coatings, and they're raiding vessels, some with cloaks. If anyone else want to perhaps design other races' ships, feel free. I suppose the Gorn might come up with a variant (this idea did start from the discussion of dinosaur tail spikes!) which reminded brickwall of from the FASA Intelligence cover ship pic I had created stats for, but that's Terran metagaming bias! We'll see if I can modify the schematic well enough to post! I'll try some cut and paste when I get back to my Android tablet. Until then, hopefully the backstory gives a good enough description of the modified hullform. |
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Post by brickwall on Apr 12, 2022 7:58:33 GMT -7
A million congratulations! No pun intended, but I am over the moon happy for you that this is either completed or near-completed! Klingon blood wine for the toast, if you don't mind!  Hopefully people like what I came up with. Feel free to comment on it on the ship page.  It completes a trio for the three main power blocks, and I personally don't think others would end up with their own versions. In my games, Orion vessels have their stealth hull coatings, and they're raiding vessels, some with cloaks. If anyone else want to perhaps design other races' ships, feel free. I suppose the Gorn might come up with a variant (this idea did start from the discussion of dinosaur tail spikes!) which reminded brickwall of from the FASA Intelligence cover ship pic I had created stats for, but that's Terran metagaming bias! We'll see if I can modify the schematic well enough to post! I'll try some cut and paste when I get back to my Android tablet. Until then, hopefully the backstory gives a good enough description of the modified hullform. Okay, a chalice of blood wine for you then.
Personal opinion only, nothing more. I'd still like to see if ANY D-67s of any models were destroyed, sold, traded or scrapped. That small a ship class couldn't have none of them wrecked or zapped at all. Even if it was in a "civil war" scenario long before the TOS Era dawned. Are they THAT invincible?
It would be in the same range as the Little Seeker, a Class V ship. The model started popping up in 2262, so it's in the TOS Era. Their sensor sails would be shorter and spikier, more as a poor quality copy of the Fed's Carerra class. Perhaps rushed into production even to keep tabs on the Romulans sneaking around their space with their cloaking devices. Cheaper to produce and experiment on than any of their scouts.
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Post by trynda1701 on Apr 14, 2022 13:47:51 GMT -7
Klingon blood wine for the toast, if you don't mind! Hopefully people like what I came up with. Feel free to comment on it on the ship page. It completes a trio for the three main power blocks, and I personally don't think others would end up with their own versions. In my games, Orion vessels have their stealth hull coatings, and they're raiding vessels, some with cloaks. If anyone else want to perhaps design other races' ships, feel free. I suppose the Gorn might come up with a variant (this idea did start from the discussion of dinosaur tail spikes!) which reminded brickwall of from the FASA Intelligence cover ship pic I had created stats for, but that's Terran metagaming bias! We'll see if I can modify the schematic well enough to post! I'll try some cut and paste when I get back to my Android tablet. Until then, hopefully the backstory gives a good enough description of the modified hullform. Okay, a chalice of blood wine for you then. Personal opinion only, nothing more. I'd still like to see if ANY D-67s of any models were destroyed, sold, traded or scrapped. That small a ship class couldn't have none of them wrecked or zapped at all. Even if it was in a "civil war" scenario long before the TOS Era dawned. Are they THAT invincible?
It would be in the same range as the Little Seeker, a Class V ship. The model started popping up in 2262, so it's in the TOS Era. Their sensor sails would be shorter and spikier, more as a poor quality copy of the Fed's Carerra class. Perhaps rushed into production even to keep tabs on the Romulans sneaking around their space with their cloaking devices. Cheaper to produce and experiment on than any of their scouts.
You meant a KEG of bloodwine, didn't you? Anyone else want to have a go at this? I do have a basic idea in mind, involving the design coming into service because of the developing planets in the Outback region between Gorn and Romulan space... fasaststcs.com/index.php/2017/05/22/adventure-in-the-outback/...but don't want to be seen as hogging the intelligence scout designs. I'd like to hear other people's thoughts on this. Feel free to chip in on this. |
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Post by trynda1701 on May 12, 2022 15:21:26 GMT -7
I'm slowly (as if that's news ) coming up with an idea for a Gorn scout, but as I've said, if anyone else has an idea, feel free to try and come up with one. My basic idea might not use the GD_4 Cutter brickwall proposed, but perhaps an adaption of the CD-2 Gravsu Class V Scout... fasaststcs.com/index.php/thefleets/gorn-hegemony/cd-2-gravsu-class-v-scout/...with bigger engines. My problem is I think there might only be one model, but it would have more primitive sensor spikes, between four and six! I think this would look better on a similar needle like hullform to the CD-2. Perhaps call it the CD-3? I have a few ideas for weapons load out, with arcs different than the sensor sail vessels, but do I make them shorter ranged like the Carerra Class, or longer like the S-14 Little Seeker and D-68 Rogue classes. The Gorns would probably like their little scout to have BIG guns, after all, the armour (read superstructure) won't be too high. Or would it? The backstory is beginning to form up, based on brickwall suggestions, so we'll see where I get with this. But what are people's thoughts on this, I'd really like to hear from folks. |
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Post by Gorn on Aug 10, 2022 19:48:40 GMT -7
I named one of the Gorn ships "Thagomizer".
There was some thought the spikes might have been mounted sidewards (180 from its counterpart). I went searching: "Discoveries of articulated stegosaur armour show that, at least in some species, these spikes protruded horizontally from the tail, not vertically as is often depicted." Carpenter, Kenneth (1998). "Armor of Stegosaurus stenops, and the taphonomic history of a new specimen from Garden Park, Colorado". Modern Geology. 23: 127–44
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Post by starcruiser on Aug 11, 2022 16:14:38 GMT -7
Ah yes - the classic Thagomizer. Proof, beyond doubt, that Paleontologists have a sense of humor too...  |
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Post by Gorn on Aug 21, 2022 6:48:57 GMT -7
I don't follow published fleet construction rules; they seemed too restrictive on original readthrough. I put together something realistic, taking care not to OP it.
Seems to me the Gorn would setup on non-descript asteroids and monitor from there. Given that the Gorn typically display wicked intellect; I'd have them scout by proxy - never before seen alien "hirelings" or slaves. Possibly contracting Orions.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2022 11:53:24 GMT -7
I don't follow published fleet construction rules; they seemed too restrictive on original readthrough. I put together something realistic, taking care not to OP it. Seems to me the Gorn would setup on non-descript asteroids and monitor from there. Given that the Gorn typically display wicked intellect; I'd have them scout by proxy - never before seen alien "hirelings" or slaves. Possibly contracting Orions. Unfortunately "Strange New Worlds" has turned the Gorn into pseudo-Xenomorphs from the Alien franchise. Not much intellect on display yet... |
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Post by Gorn on Sept 9, 2022 6:48:39 GMT -7
Not much intellect in Stupid Hideout's story group. With their "returning to formula" I can just tolerate watching Soap Opera fee fees in space. Copying Xenomorphs is trite and amateur; but that's what alex turdsman makes.
Looking forward alot more to The Orville S3. Wonder what they'll do with Yaphit.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2022 14:06:05 GMT -7
Not much intellect in Stupid Hideout's story group. With their "returning to formula" I can just tolerate watching Soap Opera fee fees in space. Copying Xenomorphs is trite and amateur; but that's what alex turdsman makes. Looking forward alot more to The Orville S3. Wonder what they'll do with Yaphit. I watched the last episode in season 3, and Yaphit has some lines. They either had some recordings lying around, or found a guy who sounds like Norm. It turned out to be the high point of the episode. It was a bad one... |
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Post by trynda1701 on Oct 6, 2022 17:05:31 GMT -7
I'm slowly (as if that's news ) coming up with an idea for a Gorn scout, but as I've said, if anyone else has an idea, feel free to try and come up with one. My basic idea might not use the GD_4 Cutter brickwall proposed, but perhaps an adaption of the CD-2 Gravsu Class V Scout... fasaststcs.com/index.php/thefleets/gorn-hegemony/cd-2-gravsu-class-v-scout/...with bigger engines. My problem is I think there might only be one model, but it would have more primitive sensor spikes, between four and six! I think this would look better on a similar needle like hullform to the CD-2. Perhaps call it the CD-3? I have a few ideas for weapons load out, with arcs different than the sensor sail vessels, but do I make them shorter ranged like the Carerra Class, or longer like the S-14 Little Seeker and D-68 Rogue classes. The Gorns would probably like their little scout to have BIG guns, after all, the armour (read superstructure) won't be too high. Or would it? The backstory is beginning to form up, based on brickwall suggestions, so we'll see where I get with this. But what are people's thoughts on this, I'd really like to hear from folks. Pssst, it's here! ststcsolda.proboards.com/post/21662/thread |
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Post by trynda1701 on Oct 8, 2022 15:54:20 GMT -7
Or perhaps the Gorns might make such a ship with the Fed designation "Stegosaurus" tacked on. Just a thought. Atolm, if you're reading this, see what you come up with. Well, the link above shows what atolm came up with for the Gorn design. Awesome!  |
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