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Re: Nestt Series - Regenesis/Degenesis
Yep
--- "The sand people are easily startled, but they will soon be back, and in greater numbers." — Obi-Wan Kenobi
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8/21/2006, 3:46 pm
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I have been thinking about using the front cut out to mount a cargo hauler container anchoring system.
*snaps fingers* Wait a minute... what if that cutout is there for a docking ring of some kind?
I know I'm assuming a lot based on just two views of this ship (which is already looking pretty cool), but if that lower area is the main cargo deck it'd be a perfect place for a docking ring. Easy loading/unloading when docked, and one could always stick the gangway ramp right underneath it to get all the entry/exit access right in one spot.
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8/21/2006, 3:46 pm
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Lets see if Wanted by Cracken offers any usefull visual material. Since I was unaware it had a picture, I could not include it so far. No site I searched for info provided something like that. Might change a lot. Hey, if it leads to too many conclusions, I might have to change a LOT, which would eventually be a double-edged sword. We will see. No matter what it provides, you will love the possible consequences. 
--- "The sand people are easily startled, but they will soon be back, and in greater numbers." — Obi-Wan Kenobi
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8/21/2006, 3:55 pm
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Re: Nestt Series - Regenesis/Degenesis
I hope you can read it:
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8/21/2006, 4:01 pm
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Okay, now lets take a hammer and smash everything.
Okay, just kidding. When I started to work on it, I did it as if the silhouette was the only source. Much like with the Nella. I did remember I had seen some additional material on that ship, but since couldn't look it up, I decided to ignore it for the time beeing and let my fantasy run wild for a while. The moment I saw the Miv'Rah, I remembered why.
Now what do we have on the Nestt? We have the stats and silhouette from Pirates and Privateers and we have the picture and stats of the Miv'Rah.
So far, so good. The only problem is, that the Miv'Rah is everything but a stock Nestt.
Lets look at the stats first:
Nestt - Miv'Rah
Length: 29 meters same
Crew: 1 (optional co-pilot) same
Passengers: 4 same
Cargo Capacity: 150 metric tons 110 metric tons
Consumables: 1 month 2 weeks
Hyperdrive Multiplier: x1 same
Hyperdrive Backup: x9 same
Nav Computer: Yes same
Maneuverability: 1D+2 same
Space: 4 6
Hull: 3D+2 same
Shields: 1D+1 2D
Sensors:
Passive: 15/1D same
Scan: 25/2D same
Search: 50/2D+2 same
Focus: 4/4D same
Since the Miv'Rah is the visual evidence, I will work based on it. However, it is still heavily modified and we know what that can mean, when we look at the Millenium Falcon and compare it to a stock YT-1300.
The Miv'Rah is 50% faster than the stock version, which means it has to have more powerfull thrusters. It also has stronger shields, which require not only the bigger power core, but also new shield generators and new shield projectors. It has less consumables than the stock Nestt and it lost 40 metric tons cargo capacity. From the description text we are told, that it also has massive energy banks and power converters to sponge excess power output, when sneaking through patrols. It is armed with two quad cannons, which have 2D fire control, requiring additional targeting sensors and dedicated computers.
All in all, this means that the Miv'Rah has only little internal similarity with a stock Nestt. Now if you swap thrusters, power core, shield systems and power systems, add retractable weapons, massive power banks and targeting systems AND rearrange the life support systems to include smuggling compartments, you end up with an entirely new ship that has almost no single internal system in common with the stock variant.
In order to work for smuggling, the Miv'Rah does not need to look like any ordinary Nestt to the eye. It just has to look like any ordinary SHIP on sensors. Any Imperial customs officer, who has ever seen a stock Nestt from within, will see that it is a modified ship. The 40 metric tons of lost cargo space alone are proof of that, because something has to take up that space. External modifications were most likely not only possible without problems, they are necessary to build the Miv'Rah.
When installing energy systems with that much more output and engines with that much more power, the ship will have a really serious heat problem. That means the heat exchangers and radiators have to be modified as well. Much of them is bound to be external, because that is where the heat has to go.
Therfor I intend to do two things.
I will develop the Miv'Rah and I will develop the stock Nestt. I will do so, by blending my concept model with the top appearance of the Miv'Rah until I am happy and until I got a stock ship, that shares enough elements to be the same ship, while at the same time beeing enough different to make the Miv'Rah modifications possible. If we should come to the point, where the final stock Nestt turns out VERY differently than my concept model, I will modify the current concept model in a third direction, so that we will eventually have two new ships and the Miv'Rah modification, or stock-Nestt and Miv'Rah-Nestt, with an entirely new ship as a bonus.
The next thing I will need, is background information about the owner of the Miv'Rah. A well personized ship reflects its owner, so the owner is just as important as stats and description are. If anyone can dif that info up faster than I can, I'd be very happy. If not, I'll have to do it myself, as soon as I got my copy of Wanted by Cracken back.
Now feel free to continue discussion. During the process of building this ship, I am looking forward to a lot of that. Eventually, we will probably tear everything apart a few times, rip the ship to shreds and rebuild it from scratch. Not a bad thing, even though some would consider it a waste of time and think I should better have done complete research first. Did I say I like to work a bit chaotic? Muahahahaha...
--- "The sand people are easily startled, but they will soon be back, and in greater numbers." — Obi-Wan Kenobi
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8/21/2006, 6:34 pm
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Slay1
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Re: Nestt Series - Regenesis/Degenesis
Funny lookin' fella
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8/21/2006, 7:27 pm
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The VOID
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Any suggestions, which additional smaller modifications and details would fit this guy?
I think that based on the massive internal modifications, we can rule out that he is the kind of smuggler that tries to keep the internals of his ship as inconspicuous as possible. To me he seams to be more the kind who keeps the outer appearance harmless, which is supported by the retractable quad cannons, but I don't think he cares much about close inspections. His ship would not make them anyway.
Thoughts, please.
P.S.: Keep in mind that almost ALL villains in "Wanted by Cracken" are described in a charmingly naive way, which means they are all effectively not really dangerous people. Since this was a disease of the time these books were made, we should probably assume that all mentioned atrocities are only the tip of the iceberg. The Rebellion wouldn't care much about criminals, less dangerous than the average planetary lowlife scum. A good example of this is Captain Dor Reder, the first character described in the book, who has not done anything beyond beeing a competent imperial captain. No civilian massacres, no slave trade. Just an officer with an ISD. Either all these guys are actually much worse, or General Cracken is a total moron with far too much time on his hands.
Last edited by The VOID, 8/23/2006, 6:22 am
--- "The sand people are easily startled, but they will soon be back, and in greater numbers." — Obi-Wan Kenobi
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8/23/2006, 6:14 am
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