Quote:When you're right, you're right. I had actually thought that it might be partly that the mass saved by not enclosing the generator rails doesn't become significant until you get to some pretty big scales, but the visual continiuity is too cool to pass up.
On spinal-mount BFGs--it might be entertaining to copy the Tuning Fork Gun (Reflex or Reaction Cannon) design all the way down to mecha- and man-portable beam weapons.
Quote:Hm. Well, I'd guess that the terran name for them would probably be either straight out of the Dakkin handbook or in honor of the scientist who first found worthwhile evidence of their existence.
The Precursors: Civilization One? (Civ 1 for short, making the Others Civ 2, et cetera... ) Or perhaps Culture One... Culture Prime... Come to think of it, it'd be likely that Terrans and Zentradi would use different names for 'em--the Zents might call them the Commanders, or the Great Race (not riffing on Lovecraft here, but rather on F.M. Busby).
The Zentradi? Well, I'd guess that they'd use either 'The Makers' or 'The Gods'. Earth wouldn't have had the data to theorize about the Others until after they'd made sustained contact with the Zentradi, so that's probably the only name they've got.
Quote:Well, since we're evidently not using the 2001-as-ARMD idea, I'd guess that that's what those three outriggers were.
I definitely like the more streamlined look you've got going for the SDF-1 in some of those pictures, though I have to wonder how the add-ons will fit in and where they'd go on it.(And which we'd keep of the three currently proposed -- carrier, battleship, and ARMD).
Using a battleship instead of the Deadalus makes excellent sense, especially since it'd be the best reenforced of the possibilities. On the other hand, using either of the surface ships presents the problem of scale - even if the SDF-1's sister ships were only built to be as big, relative to their crews as a Nimitz class (which I'd call the minimum for their proposed role as command ships/elite cruisers), then we still end up talking about something the size of an Imperial Star Destroyer, which'd make those outriggers, what, five hundred meters?
That's a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig twinkie.
BTW, those ships were rather close to the sort of style I'd been thinking of for the native-built ships before I started sketching the SDF-1's outriggers.
Quote:Silver-haired space babes! Yeah!
Oh, and while we're on the subject, let's make the new Lap'Lamiz counterpart look like Megatokyo 2040's Sylia, just for giggles. Classic Lap'Lamiz
*koffkoff* Er, I heartily agree.
Quote:I'd keep him as a Russian - remember, assigning crew members for this thing is going to be political as all hell, and Manfred and Lydia are OTO to the core, while Kamaria's a representative of the Neutrals. One way or another, that kind of crew balance is going to require a concession to the Pan-Asians, and the top slot would work well.
I don't know about "should" be Italian; just pointing it out, 'sall. After all, you already have the Japanese cast members (Hikaru and Misa) becoming Mexican and American respectively, so what's a little more tweaking?
Ja, -n
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