StarDestroyer.Net BBS

Version I.
Version II.
Version III.

The Victory class Star Destroyer is a slightly older contemporary of the Venator class, and roughly comparable in terms of shield strength and firepower. She lacks the cavernous hangar facilities of the VenStar, but makes up for it with a larger reactor.

Though designed by Rendili StarDrive, the Victory has more in common with the later Imperator/Imperial class than the KDY Venator class. The hull form, superstructure, reactor and bridge structure would be adopted and modified for use in the larger ship.

The Victory class exists in more than one form. The first possessed a stub-tail structure, situated between the primary sublight engines, and contained the hyperdrive system. The bridge module possesses a pair of wing-like structures that boast a pair of globe-shaped communications/sensor pods, and other sensor systems.

The Block II variant of the Victory I eliminated the tail in favor of an internalized hyperdrive system, as well as shortened engines (which compromised acceleration performance, but enhanced protection from enemy attack). This resulted in shortening the ship to the now-accepted 900m length figure.


The Mk. II VSD was built at around the same time the Imperator class ships were under development. While KDY saw advantages in the older VSD design, Rendili adopted the new hammerhead-shaped bridge tower design as a standard, yet maintained the front pod as the location of the bridge on the tower face.

Note that the VSD was designed by Walex Blissex while his daughter, Lira Wesses, was responsible for the ISD. There may have been familial involvement in the similarity between the two ships, despite the difference in manufacturers.

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Features such as turrets and other miscellaneous bits will be added to the model. There will also be visible missile tubes, as that was a hallmark of the VSD design.

Comments?

EDIT: Whoops. Fixed one of the links.

Version I and Version III link to the same picture...

Apologies for my fuck-up. Comment if you intended to vote for the tailed variant.

Have to go with Version-I Gotta love that tail!

I had a feeling it would be close to a toss-up between the tailed and tailless variants. I think I'll spend some time to refine both designs, and submit another poll to see which one wins.

I'm still abstaining from the poll, but it's still too close. Instead of another one, I'm starting to think about building the two bridge tower designs, and asking for preferences at that point. I'd like the hull to maintain its differences compared with the EGVV version, though I'm not yet certain if it should have a tail or not.

The engine configuration will be kept, as I like it better than the secondaries arranged vertically between the primaries. I'm just not sure about the tail or the bridge.

Any thoughts? More opinions are welcome.

Notes:

LOVE the current engine arrangment, excellant link to the older ships.
Love the tail, looks nice.

Bridge needs work, fron the side it looks good, but from the front, the shape seems to be just a rectangle, may want to introduce a few different forms.

Also, I'm not sure how to say htis, but the ''shapes, aroudn the bridge, conencting to the hall, I don't know what to call them, but they look off. Basically the ones in front are pointed and sloaped. But the ones in back are straight and too boxy.

Could you point them out in a drawing, perhaps post an edited version?

Here's something I noticed perusing the XWA Upgrade site. Note the low sensor domes with antennae sprouting from the tops. Perhaps something like this instead of the globes, and reintroduce a tower similar to the original configuration?

Actually I like a version of the Sensor domes, it would make a good link to the modern Star Destroyers. Also, if I rmember correctly, thats the bridge of an Enforcer ship, which is made by Siner, the same guys who made the TIEs.

As for the, eh, well, I'll make and edited version and E-mail it to you, give me a bit

Thanks. I'm not sure about the domes myself, though they don't have to be unique to Sienar or whoever builds the ship itself. They could have been built by a subcontractor who specializes in sensor systems.

E-mail and pics sent

Hope they clear up what I'm talking about

Okay, tailed design it is, though the bridge tower is up in the air at the moment.

Looking at the poll results again, I realize the tower design may have skewed the results. This should have been meant to decide the tail alone, and I apologize for adding the third item.

I think the tailed variant should be the Block 1 Vic and the tailless should be a later Block. Possibly keep the tail for a Block 2 with the more KDY bridge?

That's the idea.