'Kay.
The ship as it is now was heavily inspired by
Jet Porn Ace Combat 6.
Hence descriptions follow. And pretty pictures.
If this ship had a dedication plaque, that plaque would say only one this, and nothing else:
"No Replacement For Displacement."
Those things facing forward on either side are actually engines, not weapons. The thrusters you see hanging around are for vectored thrust. There are also two small doors in the center. The front is a cargo hold, the one aft is the launch bay.
Reverse engines in back. The two big rectangle things are for missile racks that lift upward out of the hull when in use. The small little bits in the center and the sides are sensor clusters for flight control. The rectangular bit at the very bottom of the center is the forward navigational array, which contains telescopes, spectroscopes, radio antennae, ect. There are going to be large loading doors blended into the very front tip of the ship.
It looks like a car from the side...
...not intentional...
...I swear...
...maybe a little...
They serve a practical purpose. In addition to housing engines, the "wheels" house massive Anti-G coils, allowing temporary to indefinite athmospheric flight (depending on the planets gravity). In lower than .9 G the ship is capable of full VSTO (Vertical Surfate To Orbit).
Something I wanted was a tougher looking ship. Something that looks like it can more withstand the velocities and torsion from "knife-fight" manuvers. Trek ships look cool, but it's canon that those graceful swan shaped ships are pretty much held togeather by force fields and Scotty's chewing gum. Compared to the Osiris, the SG is built like a brick [EXPLETIVE DELETED]house.
Well, like I said, she's about 90% done. That 10% pretty much covers joining the three parts togeather, adding hydrogen ramscoops the tail assembly, flare/countermeasure launchers to the sides, and fixing some mesh glitches that are just driving me nuts. I swear I've got no idea what the hell's causing them.
It started out as a large mothership-sized saucer, but eventually bacame a much smaller (but in no way little) arrowhead shaped Q-ship. A Q-ship capable of doing things no Q-ship has any business being able to do. Like fire missiles. A lot of missiles. We're talking
"Do You Remember Love?" amounts of missiles, here. A Smeg-ton of missiles.
'Cuz missiles are just better.
My Caracal carried about four launchers and 10,000 missiles split into three types...and a laser...
I'm feeling a little lightheaded...My head's feeling a little lightheaded...
Weird...*yawn*...how long habIbeenuu*falls asleep at keyboard*
*snoooooooooooore*
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