WC aces Ships

The LA class was another one among the files. In fact, as best I can tell the only craft that was missing from eshauber's files indicated on the wc-aces site from 2001 at the Wayback Machine is the Halsey-corvette - another ten craft over what's already on the WCRPG site from the HTL files. I'll prioritize the Constitution and LA conversions. Meantime, I'll keep looking; there are a couple of versions of the acenet.simplenet.org site that I'm hitting walls on at the moment. Still hoping to dig up some of the "retired" craft.
 
Been fighting the Wayback Machine for a couple of days now. I did get some data from it, though. Eshauber's files were more comprehensive.

The conversation going on at the party as I type is sounding very promising data-wise, though.
 
I was the creator of the Halsey class corvette for the UBW. While I don't have the somewhat crude 3-view image I did up of the ship for inclusion on the Aces ship database, I do have the DOC file (standard format, Wordpad will open it though with some garbage at the top that doesn't affect readability) for the Halsey specs, which I'll attach to this post. Put into an ordinary zip file so the forum doesn't bitch about disallowing DOC files, any program that does compressed files should be able to open it.

Note that the manufacturer was originally Tartarus Heavy Industries, the Tanfen thing was something me and the Tanfen guy (forget his name, offhand) were working on for resuming production after the THI facility was blown away in the initial Nephilim strike. We never finished the project, though, my interest in the Aces having faded by then.
 

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Having just looked at the page from the link, I may not be 100percent positive (with it being over 10 years) but I think the original site from which this is the archived version is where I saved all I had accumulated.

Just as a note to those I sent the files, I use the designation "FL" for Corvettes (I think the official NATO designation FL means Frigate, Small which can mean corvette). So I would have designated the Halsey as a Halsey-class FL. So the Valkyrie-class in the Confed section is a Corvette.
 
There is no formal NATO designation specific to corvettes, and hasn't been in a while. You'll just have to suck it up. :p
 
There is no formal NATO designation specific to corvettes, and hasn't been in a while. You'll just have to suck it up. :p
Actually, according to the book I use as reference (Jane's Warships Recognition Guide, dated 2002) the NATO STANAG Designator for a Corvette is FS (a Small Escort of 60 to 100m). There is a note at the bottom of page that not all countries conform to the NATO STANAG codings for their ships. I am in error by using FL but I think it was out of convenience.
 
Actually, according to the book I use as reference (Jane's Warships Recognition Guide, dated 2002) the NATO STANAG Designator for a Corvette is FS (a Small Escort of 60 to 100m). There is a note at the bottom of page that not all countries conform to the NATO STANAG codings for their ships. I am in error by using FL but I think it was out of convenience.
Getting off-topic a bit here.

The kind of corvettes that are driven here aren't Chevys. :cool: A corvette is a corvette.

You found the Halsey you were looking for.

On another note, during the birthday bash we happened to learn from a certain staff member (if he wants to identify himself I'll let him have take the honor) that a big archive of old web stuff could be opening for us soon, if not hosted as a museum piece. We might just get that ship database completed yet.
 
Like I said last night, it's truly incredible what's sitting on the CIC server. I'm glad I asked about the tech database website during the party and Kris was able to provide this information. I figured it was a dead end and those menu selections were lost forever. Funny how that stuff works sometimes!

Taking a trip down Acenet lane will certainly be interesting. Almost all of us either actively participated , wrote a chapter or two, or did something for the Aces club over the years. Although, I'm not sure I want to be reminded what my teenage self was like!
 
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It wouldn't be difficult to restore it as a kind of museum piece (see webmirrors) but I feel that we should reach out to the owners first.
 
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Taking a trip down Acenet lane will certainly be interesting. Almost all of us either actively participated , wrote a chapter or two, or did something for the Aces club over the years. Although, I'm not sure I want to be reminded what my teenage self was like!
I still have one of my stories. Two chapters worth but I never finished it. Think I have a couple of Michael Lu's and another squadron mate's PBMs too. My writing at 14 I think was godawful but we did our best considering not being pros at it. Some of the Acenet stories were honestly painful to read while some kept me enthralled. The story I did was going to center around a resurgent Black Lance.

Geocites, Tripod, Simplenet, the glory (and dark) days of personal webspace, these were our first refuge for many. My ship page even made Featured status on Geo!

2008 was the last time I edited it before Yahoo buried Geocities:
http://www.reocities.com/Area51/9044/index2.html

I did backup the whole site so I could redo it but...why? There are also errors in some of my ships' list on one of the squadron links. Perhaps, if I ever get the carrier in another RPG story I'll bring her out of drydock and fix up some data. My HTML skills however go as far as HTML3 and some elementary level javascript. It'd probably look as butt-ugly as before.

Probably best left a museum piece.
 
He did he managed to get a hold of kevin scholl but we could not get a hold of raptor raganputhy
 
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I think capi said he'd recently had success with this?

I had limited success. As David Wade said, I was able to find Phoenix Scholl and I got permission to use his stuff - which accounted for quite a lot of the material from the HTL campaign and about half the material on the last iteration of the Acenet Central site. I had thought I'd found Rajan Ragupathy during last year's CIC birthday celebration, but that turned out to not be the case. That's pretty much been it. I'm definitely with KrisV - I'd feel a lot better about finding/using/adapting their materials if I could get a hold of the owners.
 
I'm Facebook friends with Raptor, I can shoot him a message if you'd like.

I would definitely appreciate that; I've got five of his designs on the WCRPG site at the moment - they came from the CBG Valkyrie site, and all I've got up there is the stat conversion for WCPRG. If he wants to inspect what's up before saying yea or nay, here's the link. And I'm willing to take his stuff down if that's his preference; I'd like to keep it up if possible and add the images from the Valkyrie site.
 
Hey! Raptor was kind enough to write back quick:

Hi LOAF! I'm happy for the CIC denizens to use anything I've created. (I'm pretty sure I can also give permission to use HTL material that I didn't write myself, as the overall project was my responsibility). I had a quick look at the thread. It's great to see so many great projects still happening in the WC universe. Say hi to Chris, Dan and the rest of the gang for me. Best, Raptor
 
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