When the Daedalus just isn't enough...
This is my current project... started when I was doodling over lunch break at work...
Not much of a backstory at the moment, but simply put this is the Daedalus equivalent to the Nimitiz class Nuclear Aircraft Carrier.
Armament @ the moment consists of the standard ventral missile silos, but will be suplimented with Drones, AAA railguns, Ship to Ship railguns... and 1 or 2 MAC-type guns... not counting the Asgard Beam-weapons... and a full compliment of F-302 and Puddle Jumpers (Ancient, and possibly an Taur'i equvalent...).
Scale wise, I haven't worked out the exact size, but the ship is almost exactly the same width as 28 302's parked wingtip to wingtip: and if I remember the conversion correctly it is either 25 or 26 decks tall ( I beleive the decks are supposed to be between 10 and 12 feet tall.
As of right now, the sublight engines are placeholders... as are the "Asgard" towers, and I am working on the S-to-S railguns, which are based off of the DDX destroyer type turrets.
I also need a name for this mammoth... ideas?
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Names:
Apollo
Helios
Neptune
Posiden
Leviathan
Icarus
Minos
Minotaur
Gorgon
Just trying to stick with the theme.
Glad you like the ship itself.
Nausicaa ("Burner of Ships" in Greek)
Aeolus (ruler of the winds)
Telemachus ("far-away fighter" in Greek)
Got the Sublights rebuilt... pics to come later...
Next step either a Drone Launcher or Point defense AAA system...
Also looking for the SGC font... used on the Daedalus...
Asteri thanatou
"star of death"
proangelo polemou
"herald of war"
astyfylaka
"peacekeeper"
or just Spartan
also the ship is looking good.
So here's the change... the ship is going to be the DCV-309, TFS Spartacus, instead of the CCH-306...
I also got the railguns textured and repositioned...
frankly this comes of as smaller then the 304s for that very reason. also is this suposed to be a lowpoly mesh? looks like it..
over all it looks small and badly proportioned and ive seen better.
overall rating 2/10
oh and sorry if i come off hostile just trying to give you my honest oppinion instead of being a mindless praise drone (yesmen) like others, as i personally enjoy a good critique far more then the standard "cool" or "Wow".
The DAEDALUS is about this big...
Length 200-225 meters
Width 90-95 meters
Height/depth 70-75 meters
Going off the fact that a F302 is roughly 26 meters wide and that wingtip to wingtip 28 of them are the same width as the ship...
The Spartacus is roughly :
1222 meters long
768 metes wide
234 meters tall
Now the reason for the size... this is NOT a battlecruiser... it is a Deep Space Heavy Carrier. This a Taur'i equivalent to the Wraith Hives or the Asgard O'niell. There are not going to be "dozens" of them like there likely would be with the daedalus. Also the size takes into account the armament...
60+ Quad Point Defense Rail Units (3 inch bore)
50-60 Dual Ship-to-Ship Rail Guns (around a 12-16 inch bore)
74 Dorsal Rotary Feed Rail Tubes (each of which is feed directly by a 6 round replenish-able magazine)
8 Ventral Drop Bays (usable for Horizon Systems or a possible Dropship)
2 Drone Launchers (Ventral and Dorsal) - First Taur'i class to be able to truly feild them
2 MAC guns... The main reason for the size
Now this may seem like over kill, but this ship is meant to fight things worse than either the Wraith or the Replicators... and it is the equivalent of a 5th Generation ship and 30 years in the future... Prommy being the 1st, and the Daedy being the 2nd
But the real reason this ship isn't going to change much is that it looks cool, but most importantly the project is going well and other than having trouble working on the model when all the guns are visible, there have been no roadblocks, so I will probably make a scaled down version when I'm done that will be more "realistically" proportioned.
On a side note... someone commented earlier about the ship being to "smooth"... I will rough it up a little but this has taken many lessons from the O'niell Class. You don't have to be brutish to be bad... Also systems are more internalized so that they can not be as easily damaged "if" the shields "were" to fail...
I'll try to get some images up today.
wow big wall of techno babble... first 1000m? good luck getting it off the ground and it certainly doesnt look the part as you have no sense of proportion the bridge being example 1
secondly
"you are not gonna change it bcus it looks cool" ill be frank it does not look cool. it looks weird an unproportined
completly lost my intrest as the overkill factor is way to much and i deem this fanwank.
japme: Just redo the bridge, that's all that's needed to make this work. And I agree, not every new ship has to be intended for mass production. There still has to be room for the occassional Dreadnought.
i just need to add a 302 is NOT 26m in wingspan it is only 14-15m
Just kidding... really cool. Nice work.
About the F302 wingspan:
http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/F-302_fighter-interceptor
Here's the gun placement renders
Blue - Ship-to-Ship
Red - AAA
Yellow - DLS
Still trying to decide where to mount the "MAC Guns"
A. In the main hull as "cheek" guns
B. In the "pods" between the main hull and the hangar pods....
I'll take a look at "scaling" down the bridge... or at least the other windowed areas...
Finally I stepped back and started from "scratch". Went digging for superstructures of modern naval vessels and found one simple enough to knock together, but could also be easy to work with...
Here's the result...
Also would anyone know how to delete "old" images from the new attachment manager?