B5: Hyperion Redesigned

[Monkey Boy]

Originally Posted by chrono

It's a neat 'alternate' design take on the old model, but it lost the height of the old center area and got over weaponed like most fan designs do. Both of those changes have to be adjusted or else it's going to continue to look unbalanced.

She's a nice look piece of fluff though!

I'm not sure what you mean, I thought the superstructure looked about the same height as the original, and 'over-weaponed'? I think the original only had 1 turret on the top of the fin, together with a 'disk' sensor thing, I don't think replacing this with a second turret is particularly overdoing the gun emplacements. It's not like it's been festooned with additional cannons....

...thoughts?

[Hyperspace]

Oh as far as the "disc" goes... I will put some similar sensor thing in place.

Apparently it was originally intended to by the command bridge (for similarity with EA freighters). But that will certainly not be the case for me. No 90% of the crew areas are in the "tower", concentrated mostly in the absolute center. With the bridge at the deep middle for safety.

[Monkey Boy]

Yes puting the bridge in that disc would make it very vulnerable in a fight, there was no indication in that B5 prequal movie (that showed sheridan straped into his cruiser's bridge) of there being any windows or other indications of the bridge being against the external skin.


Those 'Omega" things on the lower front, well I'm pretty sure we never saw any weapons fire from them, but also neve had any confirmation of another purpose - I just assumed they were sensors, perhaps large apperture radio telescopes or something

[Rhadek]

Those 'Omega" things on the lower front, well I'm pretty sure we never saw any weapons fire from them, but also neve had any confirmation of another purpose - I just assumed they were sensors, perhaps large apperture radio telescopes or something

Those are Westinghouse - O.T.O. Melara "Mjolnir" Heavy Plasma Mortars

[Hyperspace]

Originally Posted by Rhadek

Those are Westinghouse - O.T.O. Melara "Mjolnir" Heavy Plasma Mortars

Possibly... But that's not canon info. The designer of the Omega most likely intended them to be weapons, but they were never used as such.

[Monkey Boy]

I'm not familiar with that weapon name, but do you mean that heavy plasma cannon that B5 was fitted with?

If so, then the ones on th Omega are considerably larger than the station was fitted with.

The one on the station is also articulated (turreted), and given the way all other weapons on the Oma can be aimed, why not these mortars as well? - But having two side-by-side that close together, I would think they are likely to be fixed in place.

IMO the designer put them there as detail, with no originally intended purpose other than to look good and busy, and later some-one else decided they looked like mortar barrels

If they are in fact weapons, yeah they were never used as weapons in the series, even theough there were many occasions when they could have been - in fact should have been.

[black campbell]

I always figured those oblong gun-like things were the retro-rockets; they're always on the front of the ships.

[Parker Midwinter]

as a big B5 fan, and the Hyperion class being my favorite ship design from it: this is freakin' COOL!

i love the redesign... and the quad-cannon turrets look NASTY...

as for the oblong "Plasma mortars"... perhaps they're for planetary bombardment? the Nova class has them too, and they've been relegated to border-disputes and Assault-ship duties since the advent of the Omega class... i duno, just a thought.

[Rhadek]

Possibly... But that's not canon info. The designer of the Omega most likely intended them to be weapons, but they were never used as such.

True.
I always use that page for B5 weapons ... not cannon, true. But why not ?
weapon systems

[Caeser4031]

Whatever happened to this project?