The Stars Beyond

[Aury]

I /know/ its on the big side, and I was going to size it down. if you were on IRC you would have seen the whole spiel.

[Aury]

Ok, it is now a good deal smaller.

[ThePrivateer]

Yeah that's a bit better now!

[Aury]

Sisters of domina: Missionary-class transport



Just a custom transport in their general style, mostly because I just wanted to do something in their architectural style for fun, but also I thought it would be fitting to have a ship that would broadcast who they were as their missionaries and emissaries traveled around on whatever they needed do.
In contrast to the penitent gunships, the Sisters transports are defense-oriented, but also have a darkmatter cannon (in this case a dark fire cannon).

[ThePrivateer]

Sisters of domina: Missionary-class transport



Just a custom transport in their general style, mostly because I just wanted to do something in their architectural style for fun, but also I thought it would be fitting to have a ship that would broadcast who they were as their missionaries and emissaries traveled around on whatever they needed do.
In contrast to the penitent gunships, the Sisters transports are defense-oriented, but also have a darkmatter cannon (in this case a dark fire cannon).

Ooooh. nice looking Wolfy!

Did you have to manually create a Dark Fire weapon (because I didn't think that was available in vanilla yet)

[Aury]

The damage type already existed. I just had to make a weapon that used it.

[Aury]

I'm currently going through and re-making all the masks with transparency as well as touching up a few of the models (ie, fixing the non-smooth hull of the ares carrier)

[Aury]

I've redone these two ships; they look much better; and a whole lot less plastic-y.

Generation 1 CSC

Generation 1 CSC has 6 particle cannons & 4 thermo cannons. They will call in a supply ship should they run low on thermo shells (If the supply ships are getting killed, they will Cheat-spawn more shells). The remaining two (CSC Australia lost long ago in a battle against the ares) are still in service with the fleet today as hospital ships behind the front lines.


Generation 1 Carrier/Escort Carrier

Generation 1 Carrier has 4 particle cannons & 2 thermo cannons (Stock version). They obtain more ammo like the CSCs. These carriers were produced in much larger quantities than the CSC's, of which there were only a handful. These ships however are nolonger in service with the fleet; most have been handed down to the militia, though a few have been surplussed off, having been too battle damaged and worn to repair to original specs. The majority of the surplussed ships have been snatched up by various corporations; Korolov has a number of significantly downgraded carriers now used as staging bases against the charon pirates, while Taikon purchased several and outfitted them with their state-of-the-art technology as use as a mobile expedition platform out into the unexplored territories of the fringe. Other known owners of individual ships include Bushido and Makayev (The former's is an original, never having been completed, while the latter's was a surplussed model having been re-purposed as a testing platform for new technologies), and the Commonwealth National Military History Museum, which is based in a modified carrier permanently located in St.Katherine's system.

[Aury]

Now that 1.05 is out, I can make my autotargeting point defense devices for my capships ^^

I hope to get some screenshots soon of this tomorrow.

[sdw195]

wow
i cant wait to be able to play TSB

[ThePrivateer]

wow
i cant wait to be able to play TSB

Me too -- also I'm hoping that Wolfy will host the file on his own website rather than having to use another modding site that is not affiliated with us (assuming Xelerus won't take the final file)

[Aury]

Yeah it will be on one of my sites. I'm not going to use one of those ad-ridden/wait-time-afflicated places
Xelerus doesn't hold mods larger than 5MB. Zipped, TSB is ~14MB I think. Unzipped its now ~70MB (I cleaned out all the old unused junk)

[Aury]

I'm almost done coding the ammo supply freighters

This is going to be cool since with a little copy + pasting, I can just make them global lambdas & ship base classes and have the whole system accessible for any ammo-using capship.

[Amilir]

As a quick point, a centurion can carry 2k thermo cannon shells. Any freighter but an aurochs would be silly. A custom wolfen would be the best likely transport, though transcendence and intelligent maneuvers don't mix well. As another question, how many shells does it carry, and what would be considered low? The only good reason not to have a near unlimited supply is so that the player doesn't get a fortune if a CSC falls.

Anyway, looks awesome, etc. get it done!

[Aury]

OnDestroy, the freighter will delete most of its cargo.