Human Starship: 'Deathstroke'

Fuzzy Modem · Post by **Fuzzy Modem** » 2004-01-30 10:32pm

Terran Remnant Tachyon Dreadnought
T.R.D. Deathstroke

http://www.angelfire.com/dragon/fuzzymo ... stroke.jpg

In the years following the pacification and subsequent eradication of the Human race at the hands of the Ru'harri, Terran vessels have been few in number and dramatically inferior to the starships of other races. The only Terran vessel ever to pose a serious threat to the Ru'harri was the T.R.D. Deathstroke.

During the second Terran insurrection a deep space exploration vessel came upon the derelict remains of an ancient Vullhaw'ven space craft. The ship was towed back to dry dock and summarily torn apart in search of a technology that might give the Terran Remnants a chance against the Ru'harri.

Although the best Terran scientists were unable to fully reactivate the vessels enormous tachyon engine, they were able to power up the tachyon stream in a controlled vector at a very low level. With the engine's wake shields disengaged and the failsafe overridden the Terrans found they had a powerful weapon, a tachyon cannon that could attack a target more than a light year away.

While the weapon could only fire for a few seconds before overheating the effect was devastating. The tachyon stream would utterly obliterate any vessel, station, or colony from a safe distance provided it had precisely accurate telemetry data.

At first the weapon was towed into position and activated by remote, but after the few first successful attacks a jump capable vessel was build around the hull of the ancient engine. Christened the 'Deathstroke' this Dreadnought wreaked havoc on Ru'harri fleets and installations for nearly a decade.

The Dreadnought was finally destroyed while in dry dock during an assault on Epsilon Onomis. 17 years later the last Terran stronghold was destroyed and the human race was wiped from the face of the galaxy forever.

The rest of the Vullhaw'ven derelict was never recovered. It's fate remains a mystery.

Critz?

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2004-01-31 12:43am

The background is too dark, not much contrast, I can't see the ship in its full glory.

Fuzzy Modem · Post by **Fuzzy Modem** » 2004-01-31 01:05am

Shroom Man 777 wrote:The background is too dark, not much contrast, I can't see the ship in its full glory.

Turn the brightness up on your monitor.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2004-01-31 01:12am

I love the story, but generally asymmetrical designs annoy me. I find it somewhat hard to believe that such a massive engine is run by that dinky structure added to the back. Nice texturing, or whatever the hell that's called.

Fuzzy Modem · Post by **Fuzzy Modem** » 2004-01-31 01:19am

StarshipTitanic wrote:I find it somewhat hard to believe that such a massive engine is run by that dinky structure added to the back.

It's not. The engine is a self contained mechanism. Ironically, it can no longer move by itself. The added structure transports the engine in normal space and through hyperspace.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2004-01-31 06:14am

Mmm, clunky and ugly. I love that style.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-01-31 10:35am

It's a little dark regardless but the look of the big gun design is pretty cool honestly.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-01-31 12:07pm

Don't use a dark background, because we can't see a damn thing. Telling us to turn up our monitors is being pretty lazy on your part.

Otherwise, I personally think that it's great.

Fuzzy Modem · Post by **Fuzzy Modem** » 2004-01-31 12:23pm

There is an ambient keylight with an intensity of 0.2, this should be enough to bring out the details, but the image is supposed to be pretty dark.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-01-31 02:23pm

But we can't SEE the damn things that you make, and that's harmful for you.

Fuzzy Modem · Post by **Fuzzy Modem** » 2004-01-31 02:48pm

It's odd. I post all these threads on 4 different forums, Spacebattles, Eatpoo, Sci-fi Meshes, and here.

This is the only forum where people complain about the images being too dark, infact on other boards I've had people complain that they are too bright, especially when I use a white background...

*Updated the above image. Brighter now.

Psycho Smiley · Post by **Psycho Smiley** » 2004-01-31 02:58pm

It was just fine before. Now it's definately too damned bright.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-01-31 05:03pm

Better in my opinion.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2004-01-31 07:07pm

Fuzzy Modem wrote:It's odd. I post all these threads on 4 different forums, Spacebattles, Eatpoo, Sci-fi Meshes, and here.

This is the only forum where people complain about the images being too dark, infact on other boards I've had people complain that they are too bright, especially when I use a white background...

Probably because they'd be more concerned with the picture appearing realistic when we just want to be able to see all the details.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-01-31 07:36pm

Looks better now. It's quite interesting. A front or rear view reminds me of the shape of the Viking or Voyager deep space probes.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2004-02-01 01:20am

It kicks an obscene amount of arse.

The story of the vessel.... is horrible! THE HUMAN RACE DYING?! That's just sad. The story is nice.... but it's sad. But it's kinda cool, since you hardly have any sci-fi story with humans being extinct.