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Perry Rhodan Database

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Those whom appreciate deck plans and other technical illustrations will find hidden treasure at this huge database of Perry Rhodan starships and technology.

From large AHL sized behemoths down to various small craft, there are dozens upon dozens of well drawn cross-sections and outward profiles to fit the need for non-Traveller 'alien' vessels to populate unknown space.

Enjoy !

http://www.rz-journal.de/index.html
 
Now this, in my opinion, is what Traveller art work should be: useful, direct correlations to the items described. I don't care for the great majority of Traveller related artwork but I do appreciate the examples that are found in books like The World Builders Handbook.

As far as I'm concerned, artwork is best when it's in the form of maps and deckplans.
 
Gadrin said:
Very nice!

Can someone translate:

http://www.rz-journal.de/Fan-Art/Varganen_Stabstrahler.html

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In short (sorry, no time for a full translation now) it is a "Staffbeamer" of the
Varganen species, a combination of defensive (e.g. energy shields) and offen-
sive weapons plus sensors and computer.

Compared to the technology of the Varganen, even Grandfather's tech level
would seem very unimpressive. In Traveller terms, they would probably be
close to TL 20.
 
Excuse me but where are the deckplans...I found the ships and other things ok...

Tana_Salm.jpg


Yup, the very first page screams Traveller. I like the fact there is gender parity without the generic Princess Gloria appearing...this is one area that Traveller has much more work to do.

I wonder if Traveller influenced the aesthetic of many videogames...why did Traveller not learn from those same games and improve the art accordingly...
 
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rust said:
In short (sorry, no time for a full translation now) it is a "Staffbeamer" of the
Varganen species, a combination of defensive (e.g. energy shields) and offen-
sive weapons plus sensors and computer.

Compared to the technology of the Varganen, even Grandfather's tech level
would seem very unimpressive. In Traveller terms, they would probably be
close to TL 20.
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Good, my rather puerile grasp of German/dutch gave me a basic idea of what it was. Might be translatable into something a little less over-the-top and workable in some version of the TU or another RPG :D

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kafka47 said:
Excuse me but where are the deckplans...I found the ships and other things ok...



Yup, the very first page screams Traveller. I like the fact there is gender parity without the generic Princess Gloria appearing...this is one area that Traveller has much more work to do.

I wonder if Traveller influenced the aesthetic of many videogames...why did Traveller not learn from those same games and improve the art accordingly...
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She'll do nicely for my latest "head-overlay" for my star NPC Harmony Frost ;)

Fake-Harmony-Frost-2.jpg


Fake_Harmony_Frost_1b.jpg


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Okay, so who needs the deckplans :D



I found that the bottom round object links to Portfolio of Georg Joergens which has deckplans.....
 
Unsure myself about the format there, what I did was use the Tools, Page Info, Media to tabs on my browser to save the images, converting the webpage to a PDF also work.
 
And let's not forsake the older illustrations. I wonder if the artist was thinking of a young Jane Fonda at the time?
 

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Well I don't see Jane Fonda, but I like the "hip blasters" (if that's what they are).

Slave them to a helmet's rotation like the Predator weapon and a HUD cross-hair...


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Thanks for the links.

As for Barbarella, I'm surprised how often I go back to that film for... uh... inspiration. Yeah, that's it, inspiration.
 
It's been a really long time since I read the one Perry Rhodan novel I've ever seen in the US, and my grasp of German is feeble at best. I seem to remember the standard designs were spheres with the drives in rings around the 'equator'. Didn't they boost 'vertically', that is, perpendicular to the decks? Some of the designs at the site seem to be smaller, saucer shaped vessels, and longer, sort of dumbell shaped as well (the Jules Verne). I've been noodling around with vertically oriented ships, and the Rhodan ships seem to fit the mold.
 
Ah, the old Munchkins Delight (Portable Planetbuster Bombs for all!)

Perry Rhodan Ships originally had these main form factors:

Arkon and (since they based their stuff on a stranded Arcon ship) Terra used "Sphere with a rescue ring" style designs where direction of flight was top of the sphere.

Akon (Descendands from the Arkons who where Descendands from the Lemurians whos homeworld was Terra) used slightly flattened spheres, otherwise see Arkon

Springer (The Galactic Vikins) used a cylinder with the engines in one flat end and pushing. Ships where taillanders standing quite high

Blues used huge disk-shaped ships with engines in a rim around the long dimensions. Flight was head-first

Posbies used "dented cube" style crafts that looked a bit like fragments from a greater craft. Engines along one side

Terranian and Arkon small craft could take Disk-Form (The Gazelle/Space-Jet series) with a engine belt around the middle. Flight was again done in the direction of the small dimension.

As an alternate many polities had fighter-style crafts.


Later ship-forms got more complex and diverse

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PR Technologie is NOTHING like Traveller. They have (all understood/used by Terranians):

+ Efficient Beam Weapons (Handblasters capabel of melting a T72 equivalent)
+ Anti-Matter Reactors (not initially but quite early in the series)
+ Point-2-Point Transmitters, including those with multi light year capacity
+ Zero-Time FTL engines that cover 4 and 5 digit lightyear ranges
+ Interruptabel FTL engines with Intergalactic ranges
+ Time Maschines and Time Generators
+ True Forcefields
+ True Tractorbeams and Gravity Weapons
+ Transporter-Style Weapon systems

and

+ Mausbiber-portable Planet-consuming weapons
 
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