The bridge overall is useful and kinda fun. The scale is certainly really off, but at least the major bits are in the right place. Obviously, the bridge seats were designed for the Obesoids from the planet Bakphat IX...
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I don't think the bridge is a good place for a docking port designed to handle more than an inspection pod. Being wedged between those catamaran hulls, I doubt anything much bigger would fit even if the port wasn't in a weird horseshoe thingy.
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Uh...you DO know there a fuckton of space twixt those booms, yeh?
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My mistake. I must have miscalculated. Still, If a large ship needed to dock, I wouldn't want to be piloting it. It looks risky. Although, I would assume that there are other docking ports.But, I know what happens when I assume things...
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It's small any way you slice it. It was a bad design piece to transplant from the other classes. Who the hell needs a docking port back there unless Spock is going to show up inexplicably halfway into the movie.
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Piloting a ship there isn't a problem (that's what auto docking is for) the problem is that any travel pod sat there would effectively block the EVA airlock opposite, making it rather redundant. I think the reasoning behind having airlocks on bridge modules is that they are effectively separate spacecraft that can in theory (though we've never seen it) eject away and act as a lifeboat for the bridge crew. This is possibly more a feature used in the trial run of a ship, where the crew is relatively small and the chances of something going wrong are slightly greater. Also for rescue operations it would be useful to have exterior access to the bridge in the event that it is physically cut off from the rest of the ship and transporting isn't an option. Of course it's also essential if the bridge crew need to evacuate to another part of the ship in the absence of jefferies tubes, the turbo lift and transporters.
So what I'd suggest is you make that cavity much more shallow and have just one aft facing airlock, or just more it so it's on the outer curved edge of that same compartment.
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I haven't worked too much on this project lately. Basically what happened is I started to work on a side view for Britannic and it sucked and I got discouraged. Then I got sidetracked by an ancillary project to this one.
This little transporter beacon (approximately actual size) I drew because of the needs of a mission we were doing. Basically you slap it on to what you want to get a good solid transport lock on, activate it and it'll extend its arms to affix itself properly and then you've got a nice solid signal to beam whatever it is out.
The task force Ark Royal is leading into the area of space we're in, includes a Federation Army peacekeeper unit. Not SF Marines, but Federation Army - an entirely different service.
I meant to get much further along with this project before showing anything from it, but I figure I owe you guys something for being so kind.
The images are pretty self-explanatory. For the uniforms, I wanted something that felt like it belonged to the same 'family' as the current Starfleet uniforms, produced by the same culture, but with a distinct look of its own since it's an entirely different service.
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Interesting. I like how they are styled somewhat with today's military style. Are the ranks in the same pattern as today's military ranks? (or at least the American Military rank system)
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Well I didn't work all of it out. But it would be some kind of a hybrid between the systems used by the major militaries of the world I imagine.
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I'd quite like to see a rank system that is not based on US military insignia, like we always see. I mean, there are far more uses of the rank systems based on those of Russia, and half the world, ie. the Commonwealth, use a British type system.
Do like the uniforms though. Hats?
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