Post by Insidious Threat on Sept 28, 2004 4:55:42 GMT -5
I do not know if this belongs here or in the other races section, but this one seems more technology related... So here goes... sorry if I got the wrong end of the stick.
Hull Design and Concepts
The ships of the Vaeloni are primarily deisgned for their long-term endurance and ability to be easily upgraded with modular weapons systems. Their utility lies in the fact that the most common ship; The Taeka'Shau Class (equivalent to an armed frieghter) can be armed with an array of basic anti-capital ship weapons batteries or be used to trasport a small community of Vaeloni travellers within it's spacious hold. Such ships are often used as the life blood of the fleet and are thus seen more commonly than most other ships.
The Taeka'Shau has a simple cuboid design for it's main hull, which houses all of the living and crew space, as well as the hold at the bulkier drive section. Two fins that are twice as broads as the main section is high taper down from their full length at the rear of the ship, to two points nearly half again the ship's length, each point separated by the distance the main habitation and control unit provides. These fins, made of almost solid letal interlaced with power cables, feeds and data-stacks, are covered in solar arrays and fins, all of which are designed to capture the potential energy of solar winds and other stellar energy emissions to power redundant systems and allow the ship to have a much higher effeciency than the main reactor can provide. The reason for using this ship as an example of the Vaeloni architectural tastes in ship-building lies in the fact that it is currently the main shape of hull they they use, due to the versatility of it's design, and the reliable solar power feed.
The fusion core of each ship is a primitive device compared to Imperial Plasma reactors, but it does have an incredibly long lifespan without regular maintenance and it does not need any raw material to be fed into the core to sustain the reaction more than once per decade. This gives each individual ship an extremely long operational range, and will often result in a Vaeloni ship running out of foodstuffs and oxygen long before they run out of energy. In the case of a Taeka'Shau Class ship that has been fitted with the capacity for sustaining a limited plant ecosystem, it is likely that the Vaeloni crew will survive for up to five generations before population levels become unsustainable. To prevent all of these problems, the Vaeloni will always stay in large fleets, with a single command ship that has a warpdrive.
The Taeka'Shau has no warpdrive, hence the massive hold. This is true for 96% of all Vaeloni ships, which just do not have the power sources to maintain a viable atmosphere on the ship and a Gellar Field at the same time - severely limiting their operational distances away from Storm Riders or Beacon Class vessels.
(This is it so far - I have to go now... Writing in class and I want to go on a break
But I will be adding more when I get home tonight. Till then - Have fun)
Yep, it should have been in Other Races. Factory is ultimately for the creation of "statistics" for the representation of the various vehicles, gadgets, etc.
Hull Design and Concepts
The ships of the Vaeloni are primarily deisgned for their long-term endurance and ability to be easily upgraded with modular weapons systems. Their utility lies in the fact that the most common ship; The Taeka'Shau Class (equivalent to an armed frieghter) can be armed with an array of basic anti-capital ship weapons batteries or be used to trasport a small community of Vaeloni travellers within it's spacious hold. Such ships are often used as the life blood of the fleet and are thus seen more commonly than most other ships.
The Taeka'Shau has a simple cuboid design for it's main hull, which houses all of the living and crew space, as well as the hold at the bulkier drive section. Two fins that are twice as broads as the main section is high taper down from their full length at the rear of the ship, to two points nearly half again the ship's length, each point separated by the distance the main habitation and control unit provides. These fins, made of almost solid letal interlaced with power cables, feeds and data-stacks, are covered in solar arrays and fins, all of which are designed to capture the potential energy of solar winds and other stellar energy emissions to power redundant systems and allow the ship to have a much higher effeciency than the main reactor can provide. The reason for using this ship as an example of the Vaeloni architectural tastes in ship-building lies in the fact that it is currently the main shape of hull they they use, due to the versatility of it's design, and the reliable solar power feed.
The fusion core of each ship is a primitive device compared to Imperial Plasma reactors, but it does have an incredibly long lifespan without regular maintenance and it does not need any raw material to be fed into the core to sustain the reaction more than once per decade. This gives each individual ship an extremely long operational range, and will often result in a Vaeloni ship running out of foodstuffs and oxygen long before they run out of energy. In the case of a Taeka'Shau Class ship that has been fitted with the capacity for sustaining a limited plant ecosystem, it is likely that the Vaeloni crew will survive for up to five generations before population levels become unsustainable. To prevent all of these problems, the Vaeloni will always stay in large fleets, with a single command ship that has a warpdrive.
The Taeka'Shau has no warpdrive, hence the massive hold. This is true for 96% of all Vaeloni ships, which just do not have the power sources to maintain a viable atmosphere on the ship and a Gellar Field at the same time - severely limiting their operational distances away from Storm Riders or Beacon Class vessels.
(This is it so far - I have to go now... Writing in class and I want to go on a break
But I will be adding more when I get home tonight. Till then - Have fun)Yep, it should have been in Other Races. Factory is ultimately for the creation of "statistics" for the representation of the various vehicles, gadgets, etc.
..eg...like the tailend of a plane..or like the deltawings on a plane ;D.cheers [a href="
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there's a lot of issues concerning 'straight lines' but hey,