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Pictures of NJO era ships
Posted: 2004-06-27 07:35pm
by Dark Primus
Seen a lot of pictures of the old ships the Empire and New Republic has for a long time, but not much or if any ships between Thrawn trilogy and NJO novels. Are there any pictures of the ships from NJO era at all?
Posted: 2004-06-27 07:59pm
by Knife
? cannon or fan wank.?
Been recently introduced to
this website. In the starwars section you have;
Jade Saber,
Fan wank imo, but the basic design is there.
Xwing T65J,
Which I think if nifty as hell.
I've seen renditions of the Ranger but they look dumb.
On a side note, ran across this website today
http://njoproject.skywalkeronline.net/ns/index.shtml
Looking forward to anything I can get from there.
Posted: 2004-06-27 10:23pm
by Praxis
The CD that came with the hardcover of The Unifying Force had a picture of a Vong coralskipper and cruiser in it.
The cover of Dark Tide: Onslaught showed a Vong corvette analog.
Posted: 2004-06-27 11:31pm
by Crown
Hmm, that site looks rather promising!
Posted: 2004-06-27 11:53pm
by Knife
On the Jade Saber, since I just barely got done reading
Vector Prime a few days ago, I got the impression that it would look alot like the Naboo Yacht from Ep II;
Not exactly, but some what like it.
Posted: 2004-06-28 05:32am
by Dark Primus
Knife wrote:? cannon or fan wank.?
Rather canon, but wank is fine if they are based on the ships mentioned in NJO, it can give a good idea on the basic designs.
Posted: 2004-06-28 11:47am
by nightmare
Posted: 2004-06-28 11:54am
by Rogue 9
Yeah, except that most of those are Galactic Civil War or Thrawn era ships. (CloakShapes date to the Old Republic, about the same age as the Z-95, IIRC.) Incidentally, I'm pretty sure that the unlabeled Corellian light freighters in the picture with the assault shuttles and Action IV freighter are YT-2000s.
Posted: 2004-06-28 04:10pm
by YT300000
Rogue 9 wrote:Incidentally, I'm pretty sure that the unlabeled Corellian light freighters in the picture with the assault shuttles and Action IV freighter are YT-2000s.
If so (and its pretty likely), that's a crappy illustration of them. A YT-2000 looks like this:
Posted: 2004-06-28 04:14pm
by Stofsk
Knife wrote:Jade Saber,
Fan wank imo, but the basic design is there.
I don't know. Are we sure those things are all guns? They might not be.
Posted: 2004-06-28 04:15pm
by Rogue 9
YT300000 wrote:Rogue 9 wrote:Incidentally, I'm pretty sure that the unlabeled Corellian light freighters in the picture with the assault shuttles and Action IV freighter are YT-2000s.
If so (and its pretty likely), that's a crappy illustration of them. A YT-2000 looks like this:
<snip pictures>
Yeah, I know. The illustration's pretty bad, but the general body shape is similar enough.
Posted: 2004-06-28 04:35pm
by Mange
Fan wank imo
Yes, but it sure looks cool! A very "Star Warsy" design.
Posted: 2004-06-28 07:59pm
by Knife
Stofsk wrote:
I don't know. Are we sure those things are all guns? They might not be.
I have no idea, but an anteana farm like that on a shuttle? Doesn't mesh either. That and the wedge shaped fin on the bottom makes it impractable to land as well. If you go to that site and see the rest of the pics, the whole ass end is nothing but a small landing dock, leaving little room for ship systems.
Mange wrote:Yes, but it sure looks cool! A very "Star Warsy" design.
The basic desing is there, imo, just that it got tripped out and accesorized too much for my tastes. That and when reading the description of the Jade Saber in Vector Prime, I came away thinking it was more rocket/flashgordon/Naboo Yacht looking.
Posted: 2004-06-28 10:07pm
by Haze Gray
What is this Bothan Assault Cruiser and Defender Star Destroyer? These are new to me.
Posted: 2004-06-29 12:15am
by Knife
Haze Gray wrote:What is this Bothan Assault Cruiser and Defender Star Destroyer? These are new to me.
The BAC, from what I've gathered lately, is a recent design via NJO built by the Bothans. Its basicly a Heavy Battle Cruiser with a fighter compliment. Able to stand up to SD's, designed to take a beating and still dish out some woop ass.
Not in as large numbers as the Mon Calamari ships, but probably meant to be competitive.
In the first couple NJO, the Star Defender is mentioned yet not detailed, some one who's probably read the whole series could comment more, but the premace is a level above Stardestroyer but not a SSD.
Posted: 2004-06-29 09:00am
by Dark Primus
I have heard the Star Defenders (not the Defender Star Destroyers) are large Mon Calamari super cruisers, with a lenght of 8 kilometers, to counter the SSD's?
Posted: 2004-06-29 09:04am
by Dartzap
Theres also the Corellian Star Defenders, at first i thought they meant Mon Cal Stardefenders, but it appears there infact two types
Posted: 2004-06-29 09:34am
by wautd
is it me or does the "Deathraven" looks a lot like the Kilrathi heavy fighter in wingcommander 3?
Posted: 2004-06-29 09:59am
by Dark Primus
wautd wrote:
is it me or does the "Deathraven" looks a lot like the Kilrathi heavy fighter in wingcommander 3?
I second that. I was surprised to see it, but it looks cool.
Posted: 2004-06-29 11:08am
by Haze Gray
They do bear a striking resemblance ...
Posted: 2004-07-04 12:36pm
by Dillon
The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels has pics of a lot of YV ships, as well as ones like the Jade Sabre.