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Published: 2011-06-16 01:18:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 3872; Favourites: 63; Downloads: 441
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No offense to y'all, but I wanted to do a space combat pic in the Romulam War Era that was a little more.... "feasible". Engagements would be at VERY long ranges (you'd probably never see your adversary as anything more than a moving spec on the starry background) and ships would not cluster as a well placed nuke could easily take out an entire task force. If anything these ships are STILL too close for combat conditions.One of the reasons the SFM Romulan War Era designs appeal to me is that they remind me of the ship designs from the comic Erma Felna [link] - one of the best/most realistic starship battle depictions in a visual medium. I guess this images is a little reminiscent of this: [link] . So consider this a V2.0
Models and textures by Dave Metlesits [link] , ship design by Masao Okazaki [link] .
DAZ Studio & Photoshop.
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Yeah, I'm not sure how rare they are these days. Amazon has some listings:
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would it be like 2300AD combat ''...sniping with bazookas in the dark.''
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Probably something like that
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Ouch! I can just hear a silent BOOOM!!!
I wouldn't worry about too much mate, from my POV no one has done the Romulan War correctly and everyone keeps forgetting there should be a Klingon War before it.
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If an antimatter reactor blows up in space and there are no trees to hear it, does it make a noise?
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It's all relative I guess!
Actually, the no sound in space thing is not entirely accurate, if a space ship was to blow up and it's atmosphere vent into space, in that expanding curtain of air you'd have sound.
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mebbe.... but excuse me if I don't test out the theory
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We can always do an approximation with Mentos and Diet Coke!
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I wonder if NASA's considered that for out next gen ground to orbit hauler?
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You should check out these Aussies who shoot up water/air rockets up.
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Freaking awesome! Thanks! You ever fly model rockets?
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No, but one day I will get to try out my water rocket kit my granddad bought me ages back.
Hey mate, how do I post a poll around here? Is there a tut/help section?
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Go to your main page. Look for the EDIT PAGE button in the upper right. Click. Go through your available widgets until you see POLLS. Click and follow the responses from there.
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Your ROCK!
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They're back-ordered on little meatballs for the reception.
I'll keep you updated.
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Are those nuclear meatballs, or kinetic meatballs? (Mmmmm, kinetic meatballs .... )
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Did I say "meatballs"?? You know me... I can't spell fer shyt.
I meant "little metaballs"....
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And let's not forget that moving in to close range is extremely dangerous due to the Romulan plasma weapons. The FF lost many ships because of them in Randolph's Gamble.
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Great PoV here 
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Thanks! I did another version that I didn't post. I just didn't think the image was as solid.
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Keeping the distant combat concept goin...lovingit!
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I like this.
Are you going to do any Romulan ships? I'm curious to see what you'd do. Most folk use models that look like they came from Enterprise, and hence look too advanced to have lost a war to the ships of this era.
It would be nice to see a warbird that looked more appropriate.
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Sorry to troll here, Masao did a few Romulan designs. Look like space jellyfish!
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I'd like to see them. Where can I find them?
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Dave Metlesits has some on his dA sites too. Scroll down for the Rom's. [link]
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Oh, you awful troll thing you!!!!
Yep - what Ter said. Staying true to the Starfleet Museum details (many of which pre-date the Enterprise series) I'll be using the "Cabbage" class Romulans (aka "jellyfish") if you ever seen one. But again, distance is a factor... and it seems if you got close enough to a disabled one, they'd self-destruct.
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Considering the payload of a photon torpedo (1.5 kg frozen anti-deuterium) that would put the yield of a single torpedo at about 60 megatons, with ships trading shots regularly...
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I don't think they had photon torps back then.
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But the point being the "structural integrity field" AKA "polarizing the hull plating" allowed a ship to survive a nuke type hit (but the installing of shields really sparked the kind of protection needed). So that distance is probably OK for stopping an adjacent ship taking a hit...
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That's an "Enterprise" thing, right? Even if I chose to embrace that series' details for the era, there are countless other tactical and functional reasons that dictate maintaining significant distance between vessels.
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Well, yes but the big thing was the fact that a ships warp core could breach, letting out the store of antimatter (since the feds at that time had antimatter reactors) a ship exploding would release an explosion in the gigaton range...
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Yup! That's another darn good reason to keep their distance
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The idea that Nukes could be an effective weapon in space is just not feasible. There is no medium to conduct any kind of pressure wave, or concussion. They might be okay against a single target, but against a ship already shielded against interplanetary and interstellar radiation, it would be highly inefficient.
A more effective weapon would be a kinetic kill device, or rail gun. Even a laser, over time, to overheat an enemies shields and hull would be better. Or missiles to penetrate hulls, but they would be easy to pick off with lasers.
Nice pic though!
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You're preaching to the choir. I think it'd be great if they used kinetic kill weapons, but that ain't how the detail got filled in by writers and designers. Again, that's one reason I like the Albedo combat so much. It's almost all kinetic weapons.
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Well said and well executed. Plus, don't forget that the Federation has lost the technology for television at this point - so a blip is pretty much the limit of it.
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Oh, that's right! They reverted to signal flags for the war.
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As a collector of old time radio shows, I can only embrace the rejection of television by both Federation and Romulan cultures.
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