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Alexander Delarge
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http://design.archdev.com/yamato/misc/sona1.jpg
http://design.archdev.com/yamato/misc/sona2.jpg

These are compilation pictures of the So'na attack shuttle (sona1), and the giant collector ship (sona2). The attack shuttle pics are computer renders--for some reason the top and bottom views are different widths...the bottom view appears more accurate to me.

The collector ship photos are mostly of a huge model that was made for pyrotechnics...apparently not everything is done best with a computer.

Just thought I'd toss these out. I'm still trying to find decent pictures of the Battleship and Cruiser---the only sources I've found are in the "secrets" book.

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I thought they didn't use any physical models for Insurrection, everything was CGI. Why would they need a pyrotechnics model?

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Alexander Delarge
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When I said "pyrotechnics model" I meant a model to be blown up. A miniature generally still looks better exploding than an all-cg explosion (perhaps a real explosion has too many random elements in it to look real in cg).

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Because of the complex curves involved in the ships (and for various other reasons), they built basic study models, and used 3D scanning to get the basis for the 3D models. ALL of the ships began as physical models.
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Alexander: The new Star Trek The Magazine has a few So'na ships posteod.

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Bernd
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Once again a ship design without any windows or anything suited to determine its size...

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Sol System
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According to the magazine, Ru'afo's ship is 354 meters long. I got some rough figures based on that...

Ru'afo's ship: 354m long, 337.91m wide

Battleship: 836.73m long, 1,078.09m wide

Collector ship: 1,914.82m long, 1,222.91m high when the sail is in the closed position

Unless I'm way off, the Son'a ships are huge.

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You're right, they do seem to be very big..... The Son'a's servantTarlac and Ellora must have been very busy building them. BTW, it says in ST:M that the Son'a gained a genetic defect after leaving the Ba'ku world, losing the ability t have children, hence becoming a "dieing race."

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Aethelwer
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In the movie, Skin Guy's ship was about as long as the Enterprise's nacelle, if that helps.

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Bernd
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grb: So those who left the planet are actually the only Son'a. It wouldn't have been much of a difference anyway if there are a few hundred or thousand Son'a. Does the magazine say anything about the time after the Son'a had left?
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Elim Garak
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*wonders who "Skin Guy" is...*

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Aethelwer
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It's my name for Ru'afo.

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