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Damocles
August 13th, 2006, 02:03 PM
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This is the warrocket Viper fighter carrier we call a battlestar.

Time for some real rocket science.

How would you improve the battlestar for the new Galactica we want, and keep it recognizable as the beloved Alligator we remember?

http://www.synapse.ne.jp/save/readers/yongari/galactica.jpg

As always;

dilbertman
August 13th, 2006, 11:01 PM
http://www.colonialfleets.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11868

I like this idea so far.

Jim

martok2112
August 14th, 2006, 01:37 PM
http://www.colonialfleets.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11868

I like this idea so far.

Jim

Agreed...it is very recognizable, and has a kind of "aircraft carrier" style appearance to the landing pontoons. :)

spcglider
August 14th, 2006, 02:47 PM
http://www.colonialfleets.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11868

I like this idea so far.

Jim

I'm pretty fond of that as well. Whoever did it has really kept the flavor of the old ship while making it a slimmer, meaner, more detailed version.

I wouldn't even try to out do this version... unless of course it transforms into a Superdimensional Attack Fortress robot!

-Gordon

dilbertman
August 14th, 2006, 08:19 PM
I'm pretty fond of that as well. Whoever did it has really kept the flavor of the old ship while making it a slimmer, meaner, more detailed version.

I wouldn't even try to out do this version... unless of course it transforms into a Superdimensional Attack Fortress robot!

-Gordon
How did you know it did that?

Jim :eek: :rotf:

dilbertman
August 14th, 2006, 08:23 PM
http://www.colonialfleets.com/forums/showpost.php?p=243902&postcount=31

Here's who did it and will hopyfully do more in the future.

Jim

Damocles
August 15th, 2006, 02:16 PM
http://www.colonialfleets.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11868

I like this idea so far.

Jim

It is EXTREMELY good. I kind of wished Mister Larsen had made the Alligator a little more mass symmetric in the X axis in that he would put the rocket motors in line with the CG mass thrust line on the battlestar. Also I wish the hanger pods were more midline port/starboard Y/Z aspect for the same reasons.

But that is a "very minor" quibble. Mister Larsen put a lot of thought into his model of the battlestar and it shows. It is one of the finest renderings even at this stage of work of any spacecraft model I have ever seen. It has intuitive plausibility galore.

One comment on arrestor cables and hooks. You need aerodynamic forces and gravity to make that controlled crash sequence work in reality on aircraft carriers.

In space Viper recovery will be more like a violent RAST procedure. In this case the helicopter dropped recovery cable is replaced either by an electro-magnetic or artificial gravity tractor from the mother ship. The pilot flies into the tractor "basket" from where the beam can "grab" his Viper. The Viper once in the "grab" is not so much flown down to the deck as DRAGGED down by the beam. That justifies the almost balconyesque layout of the hanger pod landing stages, and is a nice touch Mister Larsen gave his rendering.

Like I said; a model full of intuitive plausibility and detail.

As always;