gevatter Lars
Vice Admiral
I had this one started a very long time ago and finaly found some time to work in it again or lets better say I just extended my day a bit ^_^
Anyway here it is
As you can see its based on one of Feng Zhus designs.
I changed the idea behind this ship a little bit. Its no longer a "Confed Multi Role...whatever"
I decided to go in a bit different direction and here is the story behind it.
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The Gadfly is a new type of Longrange recon ship designed by the Boarderworlds.
Since the BW can't effort to many real AWACS ships they decided to create a smaller ship that has less powerfull AWACS capabilitys but still can provide better recon data then the normal Banshee pilot can deliver.
It is also equiped with C3 unit (Command, Controle, Communicate) that provides the second pilot with all the information to coordinate larger fighterwings far away from any capital ship.
This provides the BW with a highly mobile plaform to extend their operations without the cost of an AWACS.
Still all this comes with a price. The fighter is poorly armored and shielded.
It has 6 laser canons but Pilots tend to say they are just there to scare enemys then run like hell !
The Gadfly is also equiped with quite big bussard collectors so it dosn't depend on refuling jumpfuel as much as other fighters.
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Thats is my basic idea.
I know the model isn't a 100% replica of Fengs art, maybe when I have time again I will work on that but for now I think it will stay like this.
What do you think about the "story" behind the design? Plausible or to strange?
Anyway here it is
As you can see its based on one of Feng Zhus designs.
I changed the idea behind this ship a little bit. Its no longer a "Confed Multi Role...whatever"
I decided to go in a bit different direction and here is the story behind it.
-----
The Gadfly is a new type of Longrange recon ship designed by the Boarderworlds.
Since the BW can't effort to many real AWACS ships they decided to create a smaller ship that has less powerfull AWACS capabilitys but still can provide better recon data then the normal Banshee pilot can deliver.
It is also equiped with C3 unit (Command, Controle, Communicate) that provides the second pilot with all the information to coordinate larger fighterwings far away from any capital ship.
This provides the BW with a highly mobile plaform to extend their operations without the cost of an AWACS.
Still all this comes with a price. The fighter is poorly armored and shielded.
It has 6 laser canons but Pilots tend to say they are just there to scare enemys then run like hell !
The Gadfly is also equiped with quite big bussard collectors so it dosn't depend on refuling jumpfuel as much as other fighters.
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Thats is my basic idea.
I know the model isn't a 100% replica of Fengs art, maybe when I have time again I will work on that but for now I think it will stay like this.
What do you think about the "story" behind the design? Plausible or to strange?