Ark Royal Stuff - Misc. Illustrations

[Ahkileez]

These aren't just for my ship. They're for the organization (Star Trek: Echoes, but obviously will be used aboard Ark Royal also for our players.

Design-wise, they're a mixture of designs inspired by real world awards, the very few pictures of canon ST awards I could find, great ideas by great artists that I've seen and hopefully some individual stuff as well.

I hope you guys enjoy them, and as always I'm happy to discuss the pros and cons of anything here.

(Note: The Letters of Commendation and their accompanying ribbons are translucent, so they'll probably look very dark against the dark BG of this forum)

[Aresius]

Sweet work, they look wonderful.

But somehow I think, Picard also deserved a medal named after him.

[Ahkileez]

Hehe, well these are modern-era medals. Picard is still contemporary to them. Not a huge fan of Picard anyway. Love Pat Stewart the actor, but don't like Picard the character.

[Aresius]

Really?! awwwwwww, saaaaad..

[Ahkileez]

Hehe, sorry.

[Ahkileez]

I updated the set (the full set has been updated on the previous page).


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A couple years ago I ran a huge six month arc called "Sanctum" for the fleet I was in in a previous organization. It was about an area of space called the Sanctum, and a race that lives in it. The Federation inducts a new member with a lot of territory, a powerful military and a bad history with these folks in the Sanctum. With the merging of the two territories, the Fed now surrounds the Sanctum. This leads to increased tensions, and ultimately a war between the Fed and the Synod (the Sanctum's inhabitants).

After the arc was completed (with a 3hr, 60-person IRC finale mission), all those characters that fought in the war received this.

Since I brought my character over from that org into Star Trek: Echoes , he still has it and I needed to redraw it to fit in with the others for STE. Heh.



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I had neglected to put in some service markers in the original set. These are obviously in much faster increments than one would get them in a real military, but it's to acknowledge players' commitment to the game/organization.



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Cdr_Hensley of Okudagrams.com asked for this medal based on a ribbon he'd designed. I hope he doesn't mind that I kinda swiped it to toss it in with my lot too.




Anyway, there you go. Hope you guys like them

[Aresius]

The first one looks wonderful...

Like being made of a necklace or earring..

So sweet...

[Ahkileez]

Thanks Aresius. I wanted something that looked of alien origin, not the mainstream 'humanized' Federation.

[Lord_Trekie]

Hehe, that first one does indeed look great, I also like the service bars.

[Aresius]

Well, for sure the majority of those medals will look humanised, because the majority of Starfleet is human.

But still, maybe you can create some other, more alienised medals.