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Re: New MOC
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Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:56:07 GMT
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Great backstory, and I love all the other names for the ship (The Lusty
Jabberwock? Bwahaha!!) The ship looks exactly like you'd expect such a
heavily modified ship to be, though with Captain Dobbs punching that many
holes in the hull, I'd be worried about its spaceworthiness :)
Adrian
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www.brickfrenzy.com
In lugnet.space, Anthony Babington writes:
> The U.C.T. Quasimodo
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> (commonly referred to as...)
> -The Platypus
> -the "Tricky Dick" (the original ship was the R.M. Nixon)
> -The Hephaestus
> -U.S.S. Ughmo
> -The Canker
> -"It was Born to be That Ugly"
> -The Lusty Jabberwock
> -Spacevan
> -U.S.S. Cr*ptastic
> -The Mule
> -The Bumhouse
> -The Blunderbuster
> -The Hobo's Galleon
> -U.S.S. Baglady
> -The Scrapheap
> -H.R.M.S.S. Delapidated
> -U.S.S. Sh*tbrick
> -The Cobble's Lament
> -A Patchwork Orange
> -"All in a Day's Recycling"
> -The Colossal Wreck
> -Carpe Garbage (Cr*pus, Refuse, etc.)
> -U.S.S. Chunk
> -"I Hope That Works"
>
> The Quasimodo began it's life as a short-range patrol craft. it's service
> record was unremarkable, and passed quietly on to the scrapyard. before it
> could be melted down it was bought, at a considerable discount, by
> then-exile J.R. Dobbs XXVIII. it's long transformation to the U.C.T.
> (Universal Cargo transporter, thus far the only ship to bear that
> designation) Quasimodo happened in fits and starts. the captain first
> scrapped the internal engine/fusion module, which had taken up most of the
> space behind the cramped cockpit. in it's place he installed a Galley, with
> two cupboards and a fridge (usually filled with cold drinks of questionable
> nature). next was the addition of a second, lower deck. a new Linear-Fusion
> reactor was installed at the back of this deck, with engines mounted on the
> roof. for a time the lower deck was rented out to a planetary survey team,
> who installed sensor packages in the forward support column. when they left,
> they left the sensors behind. until the addition of the crew's quarters,
> Captain Dobbs and any crew he might have slept on the floor of the lower
> deck and galley. he claimed the interior of the ship was too dark at one
> point, and began chopping holes through the walls as soon as they were in
> drydock. the result was a conglomeration of windows about the hull, which
> are set into deep wells on the first deck (except the aft-facing windows,
> since they don't drive backwards), but are on the surface of the lower deck
> (because it can be sealed off from the main deck. when he finally tired of
> sleeping on a bed of compressed titanium, J.R. ordered the grandest
> modification to date. after sawing a doorway through the hull of the main
> deck, at the rear of the galley, he aquired a bunk section from an abandoned
> military Barracks ship. heavy duty welding secured the barrack to the side
> of the Quasimodo (which was now beginning to grow into the name) and began
> re-routing reactor power to brackets slung underneath. a new engine array
> was aquired (the captain won't say from where) and bolted to those same
> brackets. next came a vast tangle of conduits and pipes as Drive Plasma from
> the reactor was pumped around the ship, eventually arriving at the engines,
> where it was reacted with interstellar hydrogen to propel the ship.
>
> The Crew: J.R.Dobbs XVIII - Captain
> Reginald Van Morten - Engineer/communications
> 2G-767-KXC - Ship's Droid/Cook/Assistant Engineer/Fleebnorker/Cargo
> Loader/Maintenance Unit/miscellaneous
>
> Systems: one "orion" class Linear fusion reactor (salvaged from ???)
> one three-engine plasmadrive array (salvaged from ???)
> one "Archimedes" type main computer (standard equipment on original
> vessel)
> one deep-space chemical toilet (part of salvaged barracks)
> one Space-SavR combination Stove/Sink (salvaged?)
> one deep-freez refrigeration unit, with cupboard space below. (salvaged?)
> two planetary scanner arrays (left behind by survey teams, converted for
> ship scanning)
>
> Weapons: none (yet?)
>
> The U.C.T. Quasimodo is one of the more unique ships in known space, and is
> almost universally agreed to be the ugliest thing moving under it's own
> power. Captain Dobbs is always willing to listen to requests for transport
> of cargo, and the bay can even be fitted with seats for transporting
> passengers, and he will even haul hazardous cargos for exorbitant fees. the
> only complaint ever heard from the crew regards the food, since the Droid's
> built-in secrecy systems prevent it from telling people what's in the food
> it creates. the current theory is that the meals consist of Fleebnork
> prepared in a variety of new ways, since nobody has ever seen the Droid
> burning Fleebnorks off the ship, as is standard procedure.
>
> (P.S.: I'd like to thank the residents of the Sinfest Forum for supplying
> the names for the ship, Mark Sandlin, for creating Fleebnorks, and of course
> TLG itself.)
>
> (P.P.S.: I apologise in advance for problems with lighting in the pictures.
> I've just moved into my Dorm here, and am still figuring out how best to
> light my models when I take pics.)
>
> (P.P.P.S.: here's the link:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=6399 now you have no choice
> but to read the backstory... wait...)
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| The U.C.T. Quasimodo (commonly referred to as...) -The Platypus -the "Tricky Dick" (the original ship was the R.M. Nixon) -The Hephaestus -U.S.S. Ughmo -The Canker -"It was Born to be That Ugly" -The Lusty Jabberwock -Spacevan -U.S.S. Cr*ptastic (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.space)
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