Aight, thanks Katarn. But waht is so ugly about it? A while ago today my friend said it needed some detail, so I added some which is what you see now. Every piece of the ship has a specific reason for being there. The big thingy sticking up out of the top of the bridge? You know, the big blocky thingy in front of the engines? That is a communications antennae.
The other protrusion sticking out of the top of the ship is the mooring mast (again, my friend couldn't stop being immature at the very mention of this part
) it's there, based on the principle that two very large ships could not dock together airlock to airlock. Reason being the forces affecting the ships would just tear the airlock off. Every piece of the ship and everything inside it would have to be weighed, and kept track of during maneuvers. So, ships would 'moor' or attach the giant skeletal mooring mast to each other using giant cables. All cargo and troops transfer would have to go through shuttles.
I bet you all think those giant prongs that stick out the back of ship are wings or some sort of decoration right?
WRONG! They are mass launchers. These house a long rail coming out from the two massloaders that can fling a ship, or mass block out at amazing speeds.
The blocks, are 8 ton solid blocks of metal, rock, or anything that can be fashioned to the rail sled. Why? It is incredibly hard to destroy, (being solid) has more than enough mass to punch through even the toughest warships armor, and continue through. Ships get launched through here. Well, fighters and things that need to go fast anyway. Shuttles can go out the docking hangars on the sides of the ship, as seen in the last render. That is also how the fighters get back inside the ship.
The giant tank on the abck of the ship? Between the engines? That is a coolant tank, kept just a few inches thick it houses special coolant to keep the reactor warm.
The giant tubes going into the ships nose thing? Those are torpedo tubes.
The things sticking out the sides of the nose? Ammo depots. They house a load of the torpedos and other weaponry inside them. Why is all the firepower of the ship housed in the nose? Why is the nose so thin and stick out so far? Because, if ruptured, a weapons cash can gut a ship. If this happens to the canisters sticking out the sid of the nose, damage is minimalized, and does not proceed through the ship.
There are no windows on the ship, they would be easy to destroy, exposing those inside to the vacuum of space. The only windows are on the communications and nav cache on the top of the ship (where the antennae sticks out of). The window is there in case a UNS goes down, and leaves everyone in the area lost.
UNS's are large space stations stuck inside Lagrange points at special locations in system. These space stations monitor all ships in the immediate area, and maintain a constant relay with the ships, providing their XYZ coordinates in the immediate explored universe. These stations are HUGE, bigger than a couple, of these ships. They are designed to be completely self reliant, hard to move, and defendable.
The information stored in one of these is enough to turn the tide of a war. Such as secret base locations, military outposts, planets, and where warships, trader ships and just about everything is located at. Destroying one would place a fleet in complete navigational hazard. Forcing the communications to be limited to a range, and Navigators to rely on visual star mapping.
The location of UNS's are unknown to all but top military officials and the people who live and operate the facilities.
Ships that come within range of a station are warned to proceed on a different course or be destroyed.
UNS's are also long range communications hubs, allowing universal communicaton almost instantaneously.
Warp drive does not exist to be on large ships. Such as Warships. Or even large trading vessels. 'Warp' (not what it is going to be called later on) is achieved through going through a 'warpgate'. These are large circular 'gates' that allow a ships inertia to be nulled out, allowing for a ship to travel at revelantational speeds with ease.
Why aren't 'warp drives' on large ships? The energy demands for such warp drives are far to great for a large ship to handle. A joule/foot of mass ratio produces enormous energy needs. Small ships, IE fighters, civilian ships, and small traders can use these drives. The location of UNS's are unknown to all but top military officials and the people who live and operate the facilities. Commercial warpgates and UNS's do exist, but require a toll, and locations are widely known.
UNS stands for Universal Navigations Sattelite.
All rules and restrictions to this universe I have dreamt up are meant to be as realistic a possible, and are based on actual principles. Which and how I know, I cannot tell you.
That, I consider and insult. But, no I didn't know what to call myself when I came here and just decided to call myself this after, modeling being one of my favorite things to do.
Just as I fall asleep they pop into my head. Lol.