Mark Skarr Wrote:Bob: Carmen, nah, she's too nice. The only people that she really rips on are the French and the overtly religious (she's an atheist). But, now that you mention it she does have a striking resemblance to a cute little supergenius. That was unintentional; Carmen is a fairly old character of mine (the original three-day head start on CoH).
Rob: Yep, Carmen's a cute, little medical ensign. And, oh yes, Holly's got legs on her (So does Carmen, but the size difference, Holly's 5'10" and Carmen's 5'2", makes Holly's more pronounced).
The funny thing about that picture is that, originally, I had Holly in a green dress (I can't stand the Star Trek Mustard color, so I drop it for a nice, deep green color), and Carmen in red (they're both blasters). Then I had my "Duh! D'oh!" moment. Holly's super name in worlds where she uses a code name is "Red Velvet" and Carmen's is "Blue Electron." So, they had to wear red and blue respectively.
Since you already have some idea of who they are in your game, perhaps they should be close to the same people in Fenspace. Does anyone mind if I put both ladies on the staff of Starbase 1, with Holly the Security Chief and Carmen one of the doctors? (They can even keep "Red Velvet" and "Blue Electron" as their call-signs.)
HRogge Wrote:First, thank you for the tips...
maybe its time to explain a little bit what I have for a concept of the station in mind.
The basic building element of the base is a board.
A board is a 8x8 meter steel surface which mounts infrastructure on one side, the other side points to vacuum. An inner wall is put on from the other side to hide the infrastructure, forming a 'wall' of one meter thickness. Boards can be put together in a 90° angle or parallel to each other. The connection is semi-permanent, but with the right tools you can get two boards apart again.
Some boards mount a large airlocks to allow getting in and out of the base, others contain life support, energy reactors, sensors or small point defense weapons. Many are just 'empty' inside except tubes and cables.
A module is a cube built out of boards, which look like the 'shipping containers' in the picture. At the state the station is in the picture, all modules are two or three boards long and one board wide and high. The inner space of a module is 6x6 meters large and 14 to 22 meters long (as long as you don't built different modules). Many have an intermediate ceiling that splits it into an upper and lower deck.
The modules are put together with airlocks facing airlocks to create the whole base.
In that case, I'd definitely recommend going with the "aztec" effect - different boards come from different production batches, and so have slightly different reflectivity indexes, depth of color, or both. (Assuming Blender can do that, of course.)
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Rob Kelk
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