What are these...

Here is my opinion.Maybe until 2667-2668 Confed used usuall ,not Glowing vents -they are vents and NOT reverse thrusters- but at 2669 a lot of changed.New weapons,new combat model -with the new countermesoures etc- .So maybe they invented a new generation of intakes.Or they had invented that before but they didnt have the time to place it at some CapShips.
I think that during the fake peace time ,Confed was testing and produced all these new stuff.So they put it at the old ships,the new ships etc.Thats why the old Ranger Class -Victory has new intakes and a new look :P

But even the kilrathi at Wc2 has gowing yellow intakes ,look carefully at the Fraltha,Ralatha,Kamekh.Maybe the cats where the first that they used this technology and we copied it afterwards ;)

This is my opinion though,but there are not enough info about all these,so we can only guess

P.S. Forgive me if you dont understand something ,its obvious that my English are not good :rolleyes:
 
All ships in the Prophecy era have the blue intakes as well. They're the hydrogen intakes for the M/AM engines.

The REAL question is... What does a Kilrathi fighter run off of?
 
Well I dont know with what they fuel theirs ships....but its generally known that we use almost the same technology and through all these years of war,both sides copied stuff from eachother ;)
 
I'm possibly reading the question wrong here, but maybe the comparison is between WCP era ships and Kilrathi ships - since they would still be similar to Wc3 and Wc4 era ships.

I mean, what's the main difference between Wc3/4 era and WCP/SO ships?
 
Wow, the differences are obvious.The WcP/SO ships are superfighters comparing to some Wc3/Wc4 ships.They have probably a new powering system (maybe this because of the Dragon) ,even if this is not noticable in-game as it was with the Dragon.Maybe they just use a part of the Dragon`s technology.
-Look below about the "intakes"-

They have better shielding,armament ,more decoys....eeeeem they got just everything ;)
 
Sorry, I meant something like whether WCP/WCSO ships had any funadmental changes, such as a matter/anti matter engine, like the Dragon, or different power source or fuel source that may cause a change in output colours.
 
Well...no one knows that......there is no info....I am just suggesting.The Powersystem looks different (glowing intakes ,just like the dragon) .But there are no details.
The Thunderbolt also upgraded to have new glowing intakes.The Excalibur didnt.I think that Excal couldnt be upgraded cause it was designed to successfully access atmospear ,so maybe they couldnt change it`s engines.
The Dragon has these intakes and can access successfully atmosphear but it was designed from the beggining to do that
 
Originally posted by Delance
It's stuff that takes hydrogen or something from space and use it for fuel and stuff, or whatever. The Dragon red glowing things supposedly are for the same purpose.

I remember that "Elite" had fuel scoops. Is it the same thing?
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What's "Elite"?

-Concordia
 
Originally posted by TCSTigersClaw
The Thunderbolt also upgraded to have new glowing intakes.The Excalibur didnt.I think that Excal couldnt be upgraded cause it was designed to successfully access atmospear ,so maybe they couldnt change it`s engines.
The Dragon has these intakes and can access successfully atmosphear but it was designed from the beggining to do that
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Bear in mind the Excalibur was a testbed for the matter/antimatter engine system that the Dragon later employed.
 
Well, intakes wouldn't necessarily require M/AM engines. They are simply here to collect fuel. While the M/AM thing gains energy by annihilating the hydrogen, the ion engines(or whatever the fighters fly with) simply use it as fuel.
 
Originally posted by TCSTigersClaw
Well...no one knows that......there is no info....I am just suggesting.The Powersystem looks different (glowing intakes ,just like the dragon) .But there are no details.
The Thunderbolt also upgraded to have new glowing intakes.The Excalibur didnt.I think that Excal couldnt be upgraded cause it was designed to successfully access atmospear ,so maybe they couldnt change it`s engines.
The Dragon has these intakes and can access successfully atmosphear but it was designed from the beggining to do that
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Nonsense, the intakes are routinely shut off when entering atmosphere because they'd produce too much drag.

At least that's what LCDR Bondarevsky did in WC:ER. Read the book.

Although there is something else worth mentioning. They'd be sucking in nothing but oxygen... I guess the intakes have some kind of filtering system to keep oxygen or some other gas from getting sucked into them. I guess it would route the hydrogen out somewhere, or filter it somewhere before directing it into the main tanks. Oxygen has a much higher temperature for undergoing fusion than Hydrogen and would act like a contaminant to the fusion-reactor (it would be tantamount to putting a heavy, non-flammable fuel into your engines).

-Concordia
 
Originally posted by TCSTigersClaw
Here is my opinion.Maybe until 2667-2668 Confed used usuall ,not Glowing vents -they are vents and NOT reverse thrusters- but at 2669 a lot of changed.New weapons,new combat model -with the new countermesoures etc- .So maybe they invented a new generation of intakes.Or they had invented that before but they didnt have the time to place it at some CapShips.
I think that during the fake peace time ,Confed was testing and produced all these new stuff.So they put it at the old ships,the new ships etc.Thats why the old Ranger Class -Victory has new intakes and a new look :P
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Nah... the intakes would only glow if the hydrogen was under enough pressure, or got hot enough to glow.

A large area would probably mean the same pressure would be spread out more and would not be high enough to produce the heat required to make them glow.

Look at the Talahassee's giant vents for example. These ships are of the same vintage as the Ranger... The Sheffield types as well. They both feature glowing blue-thingies.

The Talahassee's do not...

The Concordia-Class... has both blue-glowing things, AND vents (on the fronts of the fins).

My guess is that those vents were on the Rangers too. The textures and graphics in WC3 simply didn't show them...

Those blue things, I'd say were reverse-thrusters. It makes more sense considering their location. They look like the perfect spot for engines...

of course the Vesuvius would be the exception... they are only on the bottom...

But other than that...

But even the kilrathi at Wc2 has gowing yellow intakes ,look carefully at the Fraltha,Ralatha,Kamekh.Maybe the cats where the first that they used this technology and we copied it afterwards ;)
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Nah... they might have incorporated it to reduce space... or maybe they devised a system of taking in more fuel. Either way they'd get glowing intake systems.

This is my opinion though,but there are not enough info about all these,so we can only guess...

P.S. Forgive me if you dont understand something ,its obvious that my English are not good :rolleyes:
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Well I just said my opinions.I dont know what the hell they are,and yes Ive read EndRun but I think that they are talking about some other type of vents in that part.Look at the hellcat for example,a Fighter that can successfully access atmosphear,it has lots of vents.Its one maybe different from the other.Anyway I dont think we must continue to discuss about this cause we dont have enough data ,we can only guess.

I said my opinion,you said yours ,thats it

:)
 
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