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Just a little something before I go to bed.
It's the S.S. Aurora from the hippy episode. It's a bit a strange ship, of course.
I suggest that it's a Tiburonian ship, probably built from surplus Tholians hulls bought via some unscrupulous merchant-race. Ferengi-ish. Perhaps somebody like the Nyberrite Alliance or the Mklexa.
I was rather suprised to learn that the *short* end is the front, which makes it look a bit less Tholian, but a whole lot more silly
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Well, it's a great treatment of a silly use of the model, at least.
But wasn't Tiburon a Federation member? That's been my understanding...
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That's nice, Harry. I would only suggest to darken the shading on the edge of the triangular plane coming towards us. It's facing downward at an angle so shouldn't be lit. I also think there's some sort of texture to the read parts.
Open Question: What do you think the size of this thing is? I suspect that each of those arms/planes is at least 2 decks tall. Are you gonna take a leap into the unknown and add any scale clues, such as portholes and airlocks?
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As for size... according to a size chart I made months ago, it's 15m. That's probably based on the Tholian ship being ~15m (according to EAS, anyway).
That's a rather pathetically small "space cruiser" though, so I might have to make it larger.
Tiburon was indeed a Federation member. But Federation members can still have their own ships, like the Vulcan SS T'Pau and the Hekaran science vessels.
Going by the ~2 deck width of a wing, the length is around 65 meters. There doesn't seem to be consensus about what size the Aurora or the web spinner actually were supposed to be, so I guess this is a pretty good guess.
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Well, there were what? -- ten hippies seen on the show, at most? That might give a hint about the size of the ship.
On the other hand, there's the apparent urgency that Starfleet Command gave in ordering the Enterprise to pursue the Aurora, I'd speculate that it was a somewhat larger ship. After all, didn't one of the Oreo-men from "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" steal a Starfleet shuttlecraft, six months before the episode? I figure that the Aurora would have to be a bigger and somewhat more important ship -- not to mention privately owned, to boot.
The 65-meter length sounds good to me.
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he Tholians are gonna sure for copyright infringment for sure, but it's a really nice rendreing of a ship best forgoten.
I think, designwie, it'd be cool to have adocking port on the ship's nose: there should be just enough room there nad it would allow this ship o dock at a connie's neck or saucer port without landing in the shuttlebay.... if that would even fit in the bay at that scale, that is.
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Actually, Harry, why not make the docking port slightly larger, or with some more mechanical gizmos surrounding the circular hatchway itself? Jason's comment about docking to a Connie got me thinking. I'm seeing something similar to the docking ports on the NX-01, that have more complicated attachment mechanisms to create a safe connection. It looks like the single circular port is more appropriate for those dinky travel pods in TMP and TWOK, not for connecting with other starships or at a spacedock. (If that's what you want to have, at any rate.)
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To be honest, the docking port I have now was supposed to be just for pods and shuttles to connect to. I guess you could have a 'proper' docking system in the nose.
Does the Constitution itself have any docking ports, though? Probably behind some retractable hull-plating again, I'd guess
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You're a braver man than I Harry. If it were me I'd be alting the details of the design, trying to push it away from the Tholian look as muck as I could get away with.
As for why the Enterprise was ordered to hunt her down, this might have more to do with who the owner was than with what sort of a ship he or she owned... It's not implausible that private warp yachts would still be less than commonplace in the 2260s.
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That's cool, Rev, but the red part makes it look like a giant cockpit. Mabye you could ass some kind of texture or vent pattern there to break up the area...
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