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Re: I.S.S. Urania
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 4 Sep 2001 07:35:42 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Rick Hallman writes:
> The I.S.S. Urania, humankind's first FTL ship to explore the local area
> systems. It found 36 star systems, of which 21 had habitable planets.
> Unfortunatly, 3 years after it was set sail, it was destroyed over Sirus II.
> http://confed.8m.com/ships/urania.htm
Rick-
I really do like the look of this ship and your other NEF creation--
they have that fragile, framework look while still having a nice
meaty core and just enough asymmetry to give them that "we *had* to
put it there" (functionalist) feel to it. I'm halfway inclined
to model my full-size ships in microfig first once _Experiment_
is done!
The page layout is also looking extremely nice. I can tell it's
a work in progress (there was one incongruity in header, image,
and text in the database section--odd because the same vessel
was correctly "collated" everywhere else) but it's very promising.
My only suggestions would be to read through the text to catch
those annoying little typographical/grammatical nits, and to get
that backstory filled in! I'd also really enjoy seeing more
about the technology of the ship--do you envision reactionless
drives, or artificial gravity, or...? (It looks like you have
some kind of centrifuge there, at least on Daedalus.)
Oh, yeah, one more thought: Naming a ship "Icarus" would be
a very, very, very bad idea. "Do I smell...burning wax?" :D
all best
LFB
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| (...) That's what I was going for, was a NEF idea. Everything is modular and can 'break' off to form a Comunications satellite, a lifepod, etc. (...) Err, what do you mean? (...) OOps!!!! ;-) My partner in crime has been off-line since he moved so (...) (23 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.space)
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