Pictures of NJO era ships

Dark Primus · Post by **Dark Primus** » 2004-06-27 07:35pm

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?

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2004-06-27 07:59pm

? 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.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-06-27 10:23pm

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.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2004-06-27 11:31pm

Knife wrote: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.

Hmm, that site looks rather promising!

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2004-06-27 11:53pm

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.

Dark Primus · Post by **Dark Primus** » 2004-06-28 05:32am

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.

nightmare · Post by **nightmare** » 2004-06-28 11:47am

Here's a few

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-06-28 11:54am

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.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-06-28 04:10pm

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:

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-06-28 04:14pm

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.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-06-28 04:15pm

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.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2004-06-28 04:35pm

Fan wank imo

Yes, but it sure looks cool! A very "Star Warsy" design.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2004-06-28 07:59pm

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.

Haze Gray · Post by **Haze Gray** » 2004-06-28 10:07pm

What is this Bothan Assault Cruiser and Defender Star Destroyer? These are new to me.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2004-06-29 12:15am

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.

Dark Primus · Post by **Dark Primus** » 2004-06-29 09:00am

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?

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2004-06-29 09:04am

Theres also the Corellian Star Defenders, at first i thought they meant Mon Cal Stardefenders, but it appears there infact two types

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2004-06-29 09:34am

nightmare wrote:Here's a few

is it me or does the "Deathraven" looks a lot like the Kilrathi heavy fighter in wingcommander 3?

Dark Primus · Post by **Dark Primus** » 2004-06-29 09:59am

wautd wrote:
nightmare wrote:Here's a few
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.

Haze Gray · Post by **Haze Gray** » 2004-06-29 11:08am

They do bear a striking resemblance ...

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » 2004-07-04 12:36pm

The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels has pics of a lot of YV ships, as well as ones like the Jade Sabre.