Kadaeux
3rd Jan 2009, 11:29
I went with a teardrop shape. Explanation to follow really crappy "concept sketch" which was made after I began work on the model and saw it was a requirement. I never do concept sketches so it was something of a second for me. (The first was the "torture chair" challenge.)
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j134/larask/Untitled-1-1.jpg
"Darter" Class Sprint Assault Drone.
The Darter is a fourth generation Sprint assault drone fitting into the ship class typically referred to as "needle ships" designed with length and a short width in mind to make use of the smallest jump anomalies to move superior firepower at superior speeds.
The Darter has no crew but a Class XIV Combat AI with FTL communication updates possible through the etheric layer of spacetime.
It holds twenty Vampire class antimatter missiles with a range rating of 15 million kilometres it also has four point defence particle beam weapons rated for a 250'000 kilometre engagement range.
Its sensor suite is second only to specialist system-survey craft and Super-Capital class warships.
The Darter is intended as a first-last strike craft and is typically deployed in armadas numbering no fewer than 200'000 such craft as well as up to a thousand specialist ECM sprint drones.
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j134/larask/Dartersprintassaultship.jpg
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j134/larask/Dartersprintassaultship2.jpg
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j134/larask/Dartersprintassaultship3.jpg
Sorry for the late entry but I only just got Max working again :(
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j134/larask/Untitled-1-1.jpg
"Darter" Class Sprint Assault Drone.
The Darter is a fourth generation Sprint assault drone fitting into the ship class typically referred to as "needle ships" designed with length and a short width in mind to make use of the smallest jump anomalies to move superior firepower at superior speeds.
The Darter has no crew but a Class XIV Combat AI with FTL communication updates possible through the etheric layer of spacetime.
It holds twenty Vampire class antimatter missiles with a range rating of 15 million kilometres it also has four point defence particle beam weapons rated for a 250'000 kilometre engagement range.
Its sensor suite is second only to specialist system-survey craft and Super-Capital class warships.
The Darter is intended as a first-last strike craft and is typically deployed in armadas numbering no fewer than 200'000 such craft as well as up to a thousand specialist ECM sprint drones.
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j134/larask/Dartersprintassaultship.jpg
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j134/larask/Dartersprintassaultship2.jpg
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j134/larask/Dartersprintassaultship3.jpg
Sorry for the late entry but I only just got Max working again :(