Fleet pictures wanted
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far-trader
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I think I need to get a translator program... </font>[/QUOTE]Bookmark this page:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
It's not perfect but does in a pinch.
All you do is copy/paste the page link you want into the space on Bable Fish, select the languages (Japanese to English in this case) and voila!
Enjoy
far-trader
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All very cool
ONE HUNDRED MILLIION TONS!
How long would it take to build something like that? Did your ref spec that out or just say something like... "It's BIG. The I.N.S. Imperius Rex spontaneously implodes out of shame."
I'm trying hard to remember, but I do believe it took decades to build these Imperial and Zhodani super-sized ships.ONE HUNDRED MILLIION TONS!
How long would it take to build something like that? Did your ref spec that out or just say something like... "It's BIG. The I.N.S. Imperius Rex spontaneously implodes out of shame."
The Imperius Rex was destroyed when the Zhdukkran crippled the Rex, took her inside her hangar and blew her up. Of course, this crippled the Zhdukkran as well, but Chienjistebr was a little crazy in pursuing his revenge.
The Rex was replaced by the I.N.S. Imperium, the empire’s own one hundred million ton mega-dreadnought, flagship of the Emperor Strephon again commanded by Admiral Goolanzoon.
She launched just a year later in 1138, but I believe she had been under construction for fifty years!
Thank god we wrote all of this stuff down in a chronicle of our adventures, or I wouldn't remember any of it!
P.S. Deckplans... you're funny!
Icosahedron
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IMTU the Imperium (alone) can have multi spinal weapons (canon allows janus mounts anyway, so why not?) It was either that or design bigger guns - I took the easy option.
far-trader
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...or was it prehaps 1782 or 3
No? Oh, not that James Bruce the Traveller then
The name was sounding so familiar but I couldn't quite place it. Thinking perhaps he was published that I'd read it was Google to the rescue of my failing memory. For shame my cluttered mind to have mislaid such a noted Scottish figure. Verra cool that your ref shares such a noted name.
More Japanese Traveller goodness can be mined here: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/piroki/searchdiary?word=%2a%5b%a5%c8%a5%e9%a5%d9%a5%e9%a1%bc%5d
Dear Folks -
I sent a link to this thread to Paul Jaquays (the original Supp 9 artist!), and he wrote back his thoughts. Paul gave me permission to pass those on here:
I sent a link to this thread to Paul Jaquays (the original Supp 9 artist!), and he wrote back his thoughts. Paul gave me permission to pass those on here:
Paul's current work is available on J A Q U A Y S . C O M.I’m floored. Probably what’s most amazing is that in the long history of Traveller, someone didn’t do better ship art and designs than those old early 80s vintage illos I did for, what was it, Ships of the Imperium?.My art was little more than gussied up versions of Tim Brown’s original designs. I did most of the illos on the kitchen table of the apartment flat I rented across the street from Coleco.
Wish the pics weren’t so dark.
Paul
far-trader
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After the translating being exterminated it can be read high,
but to tell the truth the fast water liver (laughing)! ! !
but to tell the truth the fast water liver (laughing)! ! !
Renard Ruche
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Personally, I like the 'Air Rocks' on the deckplans...and yeah, that translation is quite interesting...maybe if I try reading it after 4 beers instead of 3....
Paul's current work is available on J A Q U A Y S . C O M. </font>[/QUOTE]Holy shit! Paul Jaquays, dude!Originally posted by Hyphen:
Dear Folks -
I sent a link to this thread to Paul Jaquays (the original Supp 9 artist!), and he wrote back his thoughts. Paul gave me permission to pass those on here:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />I’m floored. Probably what’s most amazing is that in the long history of Traveller, someone didn’t do better ship art and designs than those old early 80s vintage illos I did for, what was it, Ships of the Imperium?.My art was little more than gussied up versions of Tim Brown’s original designs. I did most of the illos on the kitchen table of the apartment flat I rented across the street from Coleco.
Wish the pics weren’t so dark.
Paul
I love those illos. I wish I still had the updated full-size versions I did of those ships, but the damn hard drive that had those images crashed so hard the laser needle dug into one of the discs! Unrecoverable doesn't begin to cover it.
To me, those ships are Traveller.
No worries, Jim!Originally posted by Jim Fetters:
Cool!
Thanks for that, Hyphen.
(BTW, are you Jim Fetters the anti-Scientology guy , or Jim Fetters the mayor?
Because then Traveller would cease to be an excellent RPG and become just an excuse to make pretty CG pictures, like ZAON. 
Seriously, probably because the kind of artists that do that kind of work demand premium rates (and rightly so). The kind of rates that Traveller publishers are usually unable to pay.
The only comparable art I've seen is Jesse DeGraff's stuff for GURPS.
Seriously, probably because the kind of artists that do that kind of work demand premium rates (and rightly so). The kind of rates that Traveller publishers are usually unable to pay.
The only comparable art I've seen is Jesse DeGraff's stuff for GURPS.
