I am very grateful that you would even consider doing it.
I would of course ensure that you get full credits for your work - that is, source and name, to preserve your Copyright rights.
We could even include a Link to you as the "....... Design Bureau".
However - there is no rush at all - we have been running this Game since January this Year - and I have been G.M. since the end of March.
I was thinking that I would have to do Outline Drawings in Autocad 2006 ( Light - 2D ) That would be just 2D side and plan views. Outside views that is.
The real problem is that no-one has ever really attempted to describe how these ships look - nor how they work, except in general terms.
We do not need internal views - as we never fight at the personnel level.
We only have Fleet Commanders - and ATM our only enemy is the evil, nasty Aliens.
We are probably looking at functional designs really - boring streamlined cylindrical like shapes, except those XSBB "dagger" Ships - perhaps with "flat bottoms". But several have belly Turrets. Maybe landing gear.
All have to be able to land on their bellies, with landing gear - even the XSBB Ships are being built in a Moon Base Shipyard.
Powerplants are Thermal Nuclear / Fast Breeder Nuclear up to now - but our Science guy now says we have cheap, safe Fusion - but only in Units from 9 GigaWatts upwards.
In-System Propulsion would be Reaction Propulsion, possibly some form of accelerated gas stream, related to plasma weapons.
FTL Drives are Very Fast - but I have no idea how they work ( someone mentioned refined drive cores ).
Probably something internal, but external loading ports and eject ports for cores. The Ships can carry several normal Drive Cores. Oh yes - the 100 times faster "one trip" Z-Drive - this has to eject used cores from the FTL Drive. This Tech was decided before I joined the Game - but it was "found" Technology from abandoned ejected cores we found.
Probably needs external ports for loading and ejecting FTL cores, and for loading and ejecting Z-Drive cores.
We have Spinally mounted Railguns on some Ships - and some Turret Mounted Railguns on biggest Ships or as secondary armament. Plasma Weapons are all Turret Mounted I think. They use compressed gas magazines - gases being derived from mining on Moons and Asteroids.
We have Lasers from Heavy to Light, in Turrets - and multiple Point Defence Laser groups in Turrets.
We are gonna be getting some more "exotic" stuff in the next 8 weeks -
First -- Energy Shields for the first time
Then -- Particle Accelerators shooting powerful pulsed Neutron Beams, a bit faster than Light Speed - don't ask me how.
Finally --
Energy Beams ( Force Beams ) - generated frequency beams in high frequencies and high energies.
Tractor Beams, and Pressor Beams.
I don't know the tonnage of Ships - it will be more governed by sizes.
Customs Corvettes - 100 m long.
Destroyers - 500 Km long.
Frigates - 800 m long.
Cruisers - 2 Km long.
Battlecruisers - 8 Km long.
Battleships - 8 Km long.
Super Battleships - 22 Km long.
Light Carriers - 2 Km long.
Carriers - 8 Km long.
Super Carriers - 20 Km long
XSBB Ships - 45 Km long
I actually have Specs. for all of the standard Weapons in current use.
And Weapons Loadouts for all the Ship Types.
SBB and Super Carrier Ships have two Powerplants - and the XSBB Ships have four Powerplants.
As the XSBB are only started building - they will probably have Fusion Powerplants now.
Unarmed Ships of 100 m length can easily cary 2,000 ton payloads.
Sorry if this is a bit overwhelming.
Yes - we have FTL, and enclosed Life Support for all these Ships.
The Fighters we actually have a Pic of - but it must have been lifted from an Internet Source.
http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/group.php?do=picture&groupid=90&pictureid=4423
Sorry - I do not have the original Source for this - but it could be improved, in my opinion, and also to avoid Copyright.
Yeh - this all happens in Armchair General Site.
Onwards and Upwards
