3DStar Trek: Type XXV Starbase

BorgMan

I've been searching for a cool starbase as a backdrop for some of my ships for a long time, but the usual suspects (Spacedock, Orbital Office and it's variants, etc.) usually are focused on the fact that they're, well, f*cking big. This makes for, in my opinion, a poor setting. Hence I started building my own (again). I've been making ground based towers and whatnot for some time but never finished them because I lost interest. I'm planning (honestly!) to finish this one off; it's been a good run, but I really need to get my act together and deliver something useable one day eh?

The basic shape is taken from a Star Trek Online space station I found during a google image search, but augmented to become 'whole', so to speak. The large saucer portion will hold several repair and docking bays (6 total), large enough to fit a single ship per bay in size up to an Intrepid class. Underneath those are a total of three docking hubs, allowing nine ships to dock simultaneously, with fly-through shuttle facilities in the arms connecting the hubs to the central shaft. The longer, overarching arms contain docking facilities for shuttles and runabouts (six entrances) and a total of three drydocks to service ships larger than an Intrepid class. I skipped the intern bays in the arms because the resulting hole looked rubbish. It does, however, create excellent space for phasers and torpedo launchers I'm not sure yet how long it will be, but right now it's 3 kilometers from the farthest end of an overarching arm to the central shaft and 3.2 kilometers high (not counting the everything above the fattest part of that communication spire); I'll probably keep it that way but I might add a few hundred meters if I can't manage to stuff the generator part in the lowest parts of the shaft.

And about that Type XXV name? Yeah, no clue

Vortex5972

Ah, this looks based on the original ST:O base. Yours is much better. Looking good so far.

(I like your Galaxy Class model. )

evil_genius_180

Looking good so far. :thumb:

Yeah, the design you're basing this on was used for the original Earth Spacedock before people whined and they changed to the double mushroom style station. (before I started playing) Though, the model does still exist in the game, as Starbase 39.

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Starbase_39

BorgMan

Awkward, it doesn't look like it at all. Or is that because it's a higher level version?

Anyway, next render!

evil_genius_180

That's looking good.

I have no idea what you found in your Google image search. It could have been a player fleet Starbase. That could be it, if it was incomplete, as one of the things you have to do in a fleet is "build" your Starbase. Or, maybe one of the other Starbases in the game. There are also some that are multiplayer PVE maps.

Schimpfy

Very cool, although it kind of reminds me of this:

BorgMan

Lol, it does resemble yeah

Here's the image I used as a base

evil_genius_180

BorgMan wrote: »

Here's the image I used as a base

Ah, the Tier 4 Fleet Starbase. I haven't played that game in so long that I had to look it up, but I thought that was a Fleet base.