all-
I'm interested in scratchbuilding some ships and SSDs to go with, based
loosely around something I was originally calling 'infection' ships, but seem
to have found a better name in something I found on Firedrake: devourer.
I'm still wrangling with actual justifications and
whatnot for drive-types, 'weapons', etc. I really like
the idea of the 'Parasite' pods suggested by Beth Fulton, and am trying to
imagine how that might work for these critters.
suggestions as to other 'slightly off-standard' stuff
that I might throw into these things, or should I concentrate on the
'Devourer' model proposed at Firedrake?
the images so far, still VERY unfinished and in uncooked Sculpey.
http://www.users.qwest.net/~inire/DDdev.jpg
G'day,
> suggestions as to other 'slightly off-standard' stuff
I'm probably being thick here but is there a link or a bit more of a hint? Do
you mean the archives?
Thanks
G'day again,
Oh and nice looking prototype.
Cheers
Beth sez:
> G'day,
It sure sounds like he's talking about something Noam said a few years back:
http://lists.firedrake.org/gzg/200102/msg00166.html
Though, perhaps nudged into Noam's mind by:
http://lists.firedrake.org/gzg/199611/msg00359.html
Hi, Fultons!
The_Beast
apologies for lack of linkage!
the first entry at
http://nift.firedrake.org/alien/WDA-Xeno.htm
and the Beth-suggestions at
http://nift.firedrake.org/alien/WDA-SVpods.htm#Parasite
sorry. I was about to expire last night when i sent
it...;-)
> --- Doug Evans <devans@nebraska.edu> wrote:
> Beth sez:
*blush*
Sorry, Noam.
Still, I'd missed the devourers idea; it reminds me of one I'd had, though
much simpler, based simply on some cheap plastic Xmas decorations I'd
picked up in the mid-90's.
Some elongated 'bulbs', in gold, silver, and a sparkly 'ice' paint job, and
some icicles also sparkly. As the inch-long bulbs reminded me of the
pencil
ships in some sci-fi, I figured those would be two nations at war, and
the icicles would be a third player 'space beast'.
Imagine the first two players' surprise when the icicle started 'infecting'
their ships. Couldn't decided if the sparkly ships would be
dead-in-space
until a delayed transformation into icicles, or fight as regular ships until
same. Either way, you wanted to nuke 'em, as they could only infect AFTER
becoming icicles.
Course, back then, I thought it was toooooo silly an idea to bring up to
the group... ;->=
Least, I THINK I refrained.
The_Beast
> the images so far, still VERY unfinished and in
Well I'm no Vac head, but those look excedingly sexy to me!
Look forward to seeing the finished products. They look a bit Vorlon (B5) to
me, which is no bad thing.