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Malcontent1692 — UNMC Avignon-class Battlecruiser
Published: 2012-04-18 08:51:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 2083; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 47
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Got around to drawing the UNMC battlecruiser, the third biggest type of ship in the UNMC fleet. The battlecruiser is designed to be powerful, heavily armored, resilient, and reasonably nimble. For this reason, I made the overall silhouette of the ship thinner than I originally planned, but also the ship is loaded with weaponry. It is the smallest UN vessel capable of arming itself with a Tier 3 Shock Cannon, and also sports two Tier 2 cannons. In fleet engagements, battlecruisers lead initial charges with destroyers and frigates, as more fragile, less maneuverable or more important ships like carriers battleships and cruisers stay farther away.Related content
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Even the dinosaur in your pic looks surprised at it!
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If you're into gaming or not, you should check out 0x10c. People would kill to make this ship!
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Hmmm I took a look at the site, if they could actually make something like my design in a game that would be amazing 
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Oh well that's the great part, Notch is making the game (creator of Minecraft) aaannnnd we can make our own ships.
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Ahh Minecraft, that game has taken over the world as far as I could tell lol, but thank you for showing me this though, I might have to take you up on that offer and see how I can get my ships into this game. Battling with your own ship designs sounds super cool to be able to do.
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Looks nice, familiar too. If you're going for a unique look, how about some smaller thrusters in different points along the ship?
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I was actually thinking that exact thing, a few of the ships might benefit from some extra thrusters for a little more design.
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A craft like that could probably bring frontal weapons to bear against weaker or critical points on larger craft patterned after conventional aircraft long before they can react or evade. Something the size of the Normandy SR-1 could outmaneuver a larger ship and cut right through the main gun or blast apart the bridge if its exposed.
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Exactly, that's why the UN ships are so effective in my story. Even the larger ones can react and maneuver surprisingly well, although obviously a frigate would be better at it compared to a ship like this. I don't have the design for the F.A.W. ships up yet, but they fight basically as you described, outmaneuver and stay out of the range of main guns to hit vital points on the target ship.
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Cool. I was thinking different directions for the thrust.
People often design spacecraft like atmospheric craft concentrating all the thrusters at the "back" of the ship with the result that it pretty much has to turn around slowly and change heading to face an enemy and control surfaces being useless without air this is harder than it sounds.
But that also means unlike planes, spacecraft can change orientation without changing heading or losing momentum simply by using thrusters located at the right places along the craft's structure. Just my two cents.
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That's a good point,you know what's funny is that I had thought of that I began designing these ships too, like what you said about only having thrusters at the back of the ship. Like I want my designs to be realistic as possible so every ship actually has many secondary thrusters planted all over the hull for changing direction in a vacuum and in-atmosphere. So if a ship wanted to stop moving forward in space it will cut power to its rear thrusters and direct all power to the bow thrusters to slow the ship down to either a slow drift or a complete stop. I surprisingly put a lot of thought into little details like that, I guess I'm a nerd like that for my own universe and lore lol.
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very impressive cruiser, my friend; drop me a line with the game or website this is for, please!
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Thank you! I'm happy you like the design
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send me a link to it when you can, and will look at it when I can, much obliged for it in the future
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Sure no problem, the previews to the comic themselves are here [link] and the wiki page is here [link] that's just a link to all of the pages currently on the site, haven't had much time for it lately unfortunately. But thank you, and I appreciate the interest
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Not a problem at all
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Haha It stands for United Nations Military Coalition, it's the protagonist faction of my comic.
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Delicious battlecruisers. Heavy hitters with agility. Usually I prefer a more flat, horizontal style of capital ships (basically the Hiigaran battlecruiser, Homeworld 2) but I don't mind this at all.
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Haha thanks man glad you like the design. I thought about making a flat kind of ship at first but I took my chance with this style and I definitely prefer it.
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It's nice in that I don't know many space games that have this style of capital ship, maybe some designs like in Freespace 2, the Orion battleships.
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Me neither really, with my designs I'm trying pretty hard to make them look unique. I hope I'm succeeding
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I think so, it's a catamaran so a little like the human/turian ships of Mass Effect, but then again not. Unique enough.
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True that's exactly where I got some of the influence for the general designs, the human cruisers in ME kind of started the whole look. But they look different enough that its not a complete copy or anything which I really tried to avoid.
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I think your design have a lot more going for them in terms of height, they get the seize across rather well, better than the purely horizontal design could.
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I can definitely see that, size wise they would be closer to the human ships in Halo than in Mass Effect. I want them to look big and intimidating but very interesting and artistic even if they're just drawings you know? If I'm getting the idea across to you then I know its working out pretty well
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Well if you look at the newest Sins of a Solar Empire, the Loyalist Titan is kind of like your designs but I think it severely lacks in the interesting design department. [link] It's very much just shapes, so your design would probably have worked better.
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Hmm that's an interesting design too, Its definitely different than most ships you see. But I can see what you mean too, like its mostly just three straight lines with the outer 2 being a little curved. It does have a small similarity to the overall design style of my ships though.
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But that cannot be avoided with the just about 80 years of sci fi history.
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Oh definitely not, those kinds of things will be in sci fi probably as long as it exists, or at least for a good while longer I'd say.
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I would assume once we are in space more permanently, the ship designs will change a little, but I don't see why it would change that drastically. Science doesn't stop either.
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Probably a little bit will change but I think the way sci fi is now has just been engraved into our minds to be a certain way, like most of it has a lot of the same elements to it. I really want to make my universe different though and not have all those cliches.
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And you can bet that just about everything today has been done by Perry Rhodan before. Largest, longest-running sci fi series ever.
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Oh if anyone has done everything that can be done in sci fi its that series without a doubt. Now its all mostly the same ideas in different form but people still come up with interesting stuff.
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Good to know you actually recognize it. Have been met with lots of "what?" responses when bringing it up.
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Then those people should have been slapped! Every fan of sci fi should at least know what that is, i've read a couple of them a while ago.
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Exactly. It's not like they've been running for five billion issues, produced 2 movies, half a dozen games, spin-off audiobooks and books and probably influenced everything in science fiction today.
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Nahh not at all, no contributions whatsoever, should we even call it real sci fi at all?
(glaring eyes to all who don't know what it was in the first place)
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Death to the non-believers!
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Is that a laser chainsaw?
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Of course! Nothing else would be appropriate for this situation... except 2 laser chainsaws
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A shark... on fire! Oh wait, ocean, fire wouldn't really work too well.
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In an ocean of NAPALM!
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If that was a video game, everyone playing it would just die from the sheer amount of awesomeness, brain overloads would be happening everywhere.
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More death than could be fathomed.
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