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Published: 2008-01-07 03:51:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 2339; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 44
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(MAJOR EDIT) over the past few days i have revisited my temporarily abandoned efforts to redesign the Dauntless, to make a more original model, and now i have completed it, the "Dauntless" II has only a handful of elements retained from the original "Carrier 2" model made by "Extrenix".the "Dauntless I" model was adapted from the "Carrier 2" model made by "Extrenix".
the "Dauntless" I was one of the oldest and largest ships in the Chrono Forces, measuring nearly 17 kilometers (16,825 meters) in length, she is easily four and a half times longer than the "Regent" class Battleship, and thus she was more properly categorized as a Super Carrier.
the "Dauntless" I was crippled during the "Theta Fortress Incident", after the ensuing chaos had died down, plans where submitted to the "Battle forge" shipyard of the alpha Fortress Construct, all resources of the facility where redirected to speed completion of the project, as CF High command recognized the need for an operational command ship to rally the fragmented remains of the fleet.
thus the "Dauntless" II was completed just two months later, measuring in at twelve kilometers (7.5 miles) in length, the "Dauntless" II is smaller than its predecessor, but more than makes up for it with access to the latest advances in Mobile Shipyard technologies.
the Dauntless is able to custom manufacture ship components ranging from frigate engines, to space fighter combat computers, within the micro factory housed just beneath the bridge. and an on board mining refinery along with a compliment of combat mining corvettes allows the dauntless to acquire needed building materials even in the midst of battle.
the Dauntless has a total of eight fighter launch bays along its middle, two corvette launch bays on the front, and a capital ship manufacturing pod, able to produce destroyers, and small battle cruisers, or multiple frigates at a time.
the Dauntless II also sports upgraded Point defense weaponry, two medium caliber frontal particle cannons, and the quirky Tesla Arch Hull coil Weapons system has been replaced with a triple layer redundant shielding system, that is able to open small windows over the launch bays, allowing ships to launch and dock without having to completely drop shields.
like its predecessor the Dauntless II retains the on board command tower just behind the Capital ship production pod, which complimented by the Strategic command center at the very back in the side of the ship makes the Dauntless II the mobile headquarters of Chrono Forces Division 4 Fleet operations.
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good to see more google sketchup warships 
despite the lack of detail that the program gives even the most intricate models, you've given this a very clear depth of scale, all I would say is that it needs a few markings here and there, not neccesarily class, name or factions either (up to you really, unless you're going for the star destroyer look)
I'm quite impressed by your skill with this simple program, either way after a while you may find sketchup a bit limiting, I've been using it for over a year a found a lot of limitations. Try getting something like an older version of autocad or even the free 3d program Blender.
Keep up the good work
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Very good-looking ship... I like that design and that gray, metallic color fits perfectly with the ship's real-life supercarrier/ultratech scifi ship looks... The only downside is the lack of any bigger cannons (I like big cannons), but it's understandable for a carrier-ship.
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thats one aspect of "Chrono Forces" ships, if you can actually see the large weapons on it, then it means one of three things, either its a design from the old CF military Battle Doctrine, that called for large scale weapons, like the Regent Class Battleship, which currently exists as a drawing in my sketchbook, which is absolutely bristling with weapons.
or its a specialized/custom ordered design, or three the main weapon is so large that it cant be concealed no matter how hard one tried.
on this design, you cant actually see the anti-fighter point defense turrets. and no matter how close you could look, you definitely cant see the primary weapon system, of this ship.
and thats because its whats known as a "Tesla Arch" hull coil. the collection of cylinders affixed to the right rear hangar pod is the only obvious component of the system, it polarizes the hull with massive amounts of Particle energy.
which then jumps onto an Energy line laser, which can be emitted from any one of ten dozen micro sphere turrets, each about six inches wide, and scattered evenly across the ships 17 kilometer length.
when one of those emitters makes its tiny beam touch the hull or energy shield of another ship, the charge on the hull jumps to the beam, and surges to the ship, as a massive lightning bolt.
in essence the ships hull IS the big cannon. of course systems like these are rare in the Chrono Forces, and only a select few capital ships are outfitted with it, since it requires the ship to have an eye popping amount of non conductive materials, and heavily shielded power lines. it doesn't affect the electronics, since their mostly optical based.
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Hmmm... A ship with its entire hull working as a weapon. Interesting idea, really.
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it does have its drawbacks, such as that the hull has to neutralize its polarity whenever ships are coming and going, otherwise they could cause a short circuit which would kill the crew of the ship trying to leave the hangar bays.
and friendly fire is always a concern, this weapon cant be discharged through a formation of allied fighters, or else the resulting lightning bolt will destroy all of the fighters in its path,which is why as i said, this kind of system is rarely incorporated into Chrono Forces Ships.
for this ship the system serves its purpose of allowing the ship to appear mostly unarmed except for point defense weaponry, and when it needs anti-capital ship fire power it simply polarizes the hull and activates the energy beam micro turrets.
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