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NerdforScience
7 months ago

imagine if it was real

NerdforScience
7 months ago

I was coming up with a whole plan to invade the ship using the photos

Step 1 – take out main guns

step 2 – deactivate engines

step – 3 enter and take control of the flight deck

Kennedy
2 years ago

Beautiful work. Have you ever created an STL version of this?

Billy
Billy
4 years ago

Just wanted to say that this is my headcanon Dreadnought. It’s been my favorite ship type since Heir to the Empire came out all those years ago.

Thanks for giving it a modern look, it meant more to me than you know.

Bas
Bas
5 years ago

Hey Fractalsponge,
i was planning on using this ship in a fanfilm that i will be making and i really like your model so i was planning on making one verry similar like yours. are you okay with that?

Bas
Bas
5 years ago
Reply to  Fractalsponge

Thanks 🙂

Peter
Peter
5 years ago

I would really appreciate if you made the resurgent class star destroyer

John
John
6 years ago

You really should do a MKI Assault Frigate.

Eduardo
6 years ago

Hey I hope you dont mind if I use this and a few others in a story and picture I’m making. I may photoshop them a bit to add some paint to them, if you dont mind, I hope you don’t, I’ll link back to every ship I use since you have the best quality images. I also think you should tag this as Rebel Alliance as well as Galactic Empire, because pretty much EVERYONE used this ship back in the day.

Joel Szasz
7 years ago

Nice to see that you’ve given the good old girl the Fractal treatment. When I use her in my fan fiction, with your okay, I’ll want to link this as a reference to readers, especially since this is superior in quality to what it on Wookiepeedia.

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago

Is this ship have the same firepower than the Vindicator or more?

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago
Reply to  Fractalsponge

Right and does it have heavier armor?

Sephiroth0812
Sephiroth0812
6 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

It certainly does.
The Dreadnaught may be goddamn old (it was used by the Judicial Forces of the Republic already even before Episode I: The Phantom Menace) and rather slow, but it can take a huge amount of punishment and is essentially a sort of flying “bunker” due to its thick armor.

Nate
Nate
7 years ago

After seeing this, I’m curious to see what your design of a Carrack class light cruiser would look like.

Anonymous
Anonymous
6 years ago
Reply to  Nate

speaking of design fractal you said you can’t take the Carrack design seriously because it look like a dick but the Dreadnaught class design also look like a dick but yet you keep it so what justified this one but not the Carrack?

Anonymous
Anonymous
6 years ago
Reply to  Fractalsponge

Oh that’s neat then if you weren’t paid then you make a different model for the Dreadnaught class or will it be the same as this one?

John
John
7 years ago

This is awesome. The Dreadnaught-Class Heavy Cruiser is my favorite ship from Star Wars. I would love to see you do a more standard variant (the clamshell fore section) in the future. A MK I Assault Frigate would be another good project.

MadMoff
MadMoff
7 years ago

That’s a Dreadnaught-class Heavy Cruiser (Not a Frigate, a HEAVY CRUISER), according to the Anaxes System of Ship Classification. The Anaxes System superseded the ship classification used by the Old Republic before the Clone Wars. In the old system, there were heavy restrictions placed on ships above six hundred meters in length, usually by limiting their their speed and/or armement.

Dreadnaught Heavy Cruisers were designed and built by Rendili Star Drive a century before the Clone Wars as a heavy cruiser to give much needed muscle to Judicial Forces task forces, but was slow and ponderous. However, she was durable and well armed, and saw extensive use by Republic forces during the Clone Wars, and later by the Galactic Empire and Rebel Alliance/New Republic Navies

gorkmalork
gorkmalork
7 years ago
Reply to  MadMoff

Since this particular Dread variant is apparently the product of an Imperial overhaul program, it might’ve been (re)categorized under the Starfleet’s own in-house system (and srsly, how ‘heavy’ would this thing look next to a Victory or Venator-class SD?). Even prior to vast swathes of Expanded Universe material being “Legend”-ized for the sake of a (relatively) clean slate, “many of the truths we cling to depend on our point of view”.

MadMoff
MadMoff
7 years ago
Reply to  gorkmalork

That’s the thing about the Anaxes system. Under the old classification system, ships over 600 meters in length (the maximum size of the Cruiser-class) were a rarity, but by the time the Clone Wars rolled around, the Cruiser class was made increasingly meaningless by the sheer number of private enterprises churning out warships far larger than the old size limitations permitted, regulations be damned. The architects of the Anaxes system noticed that, and made allotments for ships far outside the old 600 meter limit.

At the time of its inception, the Dreadnaught-class Heavy Cruiser was actually a rather sizable warship at 600 meters in length. (A comparable vessel designed during the Imperial Era would be the Vindicator-class Heavy Cruiser, or her more recognizable cousin, the Immobilizer 418-class Interdictor Cruiser. Both of those vessels were 600 meters in length, and were relatively heavy warships in comparison to the ships available to planetary governments at the time.) However, the Dreadnaught was dwarfed by the Victory and Venator-class Star Destroyers that were designed during the Clone Wars, and even those were put to shame by the Imperial-class Star Destroyer.

gorkmalork
gorkmalork
7 years ago
Reply to  MadMoff

Well & good, though I must note that even well prior to the Clone Wars major powers like the Mandalorians were fielding 1300m+ Kandosii-class ships. Vessels approaching and/or well exceeding an Impstar’s bulk don’t seem to have been *that* recent a development on the galactic stage.

MisterE
MisterE
5 years ago
Reply to  MadMoff

Classifying ships by length is not a serious idea. Does a sphere that radically outmasses, outpowers, outguns a dagger-shaped ship of the same length really belong in the same category? That scheme is embarrassing and should be done away with.

EmperorNiko
EmperorNiko
7 years ago

Any plans to make an Assault Frigate Mk.1 from this?

Popkorn
Popkorn
7 years ago

I think it’s a litte too big to be considered frigate, i think cruiser suits it much better. Awesowe work as always.

gorkmalork
gorkmalork
7 years ago
Reply to  Popkorn

FS seems to operate with the notion that star *destroyers* are exactly that, and Imperial warships start approaching ‘cruiser’ scale around twice an Impstar’s bulk. As for the EU/Legends’ smaller officially-labeled ‘cruisers’, that gets chalked up to their manufacturers’ hyperbolic marketing. Makes sense to me, but your mileage may vary.

gorkmalork
gorkmalork
7 years ago
Reply to  Fractalsponge

That Republic-cum-Alliance scale does nicely account for combat-modded Lucrehulk ‘battleships’ and the winged/wingless MC80 derivatives; I suppose Home One-scale vessels might be battlecruisers to their crew, but light-ish cruisers to the Imps. Can’t help pondering whether the EU’s more blatantly plot-shielded NR-era flagships (Galactic Voyager, Mon Remonda & her sisters, etc.) would start making sense as 5-7+ km. bruisers with the punch (if not necessarily thrust) to make a Bellator-ballpark foe work for it. At any rate, Dread & Immobilizer-weight craft still feel like frigates to me.

daggers56
daggers56
7 years ago
Reply to  gorkmalork

The Old Republic Dreadnoughts are classified as Heavy Cruisers in the Star Wars universe. Star Destroyers seem to fall more into the class battlecruisers, based on how they’re used in combat operations, their size and their armor and weapon compliment. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dreadnaught-class_heavy_cruiser

gorkmalork
gorkmalork
7 years ago
Reply to  daggers56

That still leaves quite the tonnage gap between Victories/Venators/Impstars and flagships like the Executor class, not to mention a handful of capitals from supplemental sources (comics, games, concept sketches) that seem to mass around 1/3 to 1/2 Ex’s tonnage, which still dwarfs your average star destroyer. And given how much time destroyers seem to spend chasing corvettes & freighters about, the analogy with their WWII Terran counterparts doesn’t strike me as terribly far-fetched.

Sephiroth0812
Sephiroth0812
6 years ago
Reply to  gorkmalork

Maybe in the Star Wars galaxy the designations of “Cruiser” and “Destroyer” are simply switched compared to Earth naval nomenclature?
On Earth, it usually goes like:
Patrol Boat/Gunship->Corvette->Frigate->Destroyer->Cruiser->Carrier/Battlecruiser/Battleship.

In Star Wars, the roles of Cruiser and Destroyer are simply switched around with Destroyers like the Victories, Venators and ImpStars being the second most powerful classes with the tonnage gap being bridged by ship-classes designated as Heavy Destroyers (like the Tector-class) or light “Battlecruisers” like the Allegiance-class or Praetor MkI (which has 4km length).
In the real world navies there was also a more notable tonnage gap between the second most-powerful shipclasses (Heavy Cruisers) and the most powerful ones.
For example, the German Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen had around 18.000 tons in tonnage, but the next bigger ship, Battlecruiser Scharnhorst, had already 38.000 tons.

Classifications are also rather inconsistent anyways as the Malevolence of the CIS is called a Subjugator-class “Heavy Cruiser” when it is with 4.8km bigger than the already mentioned Praetor MkI which is classified as a Battlecruiser.
For all intents and purposes, the Malevolence should actually be classified as a Battlecruiser too if not even as a Star Dreadnought due to its immense firepower.
Not to mention George Lucas himself called Grievous’ Invisible Hand, and thus the Providence-class, a Star Destroyer as well.

Alan
Alan
7 years ago

Man your work is awesome, any chance of making the Executor Star destroyer or Death Star

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago

man, your work is awesome, any chance of making the Executor Star Destroyer or Death Star?

Brad Knowles
7 years ago

I’m wondering what some of these weapons are. On the port and starboard sides of the forward section, there appear to be two pair of over/under mounted twin light turbolasers in what might be “point defense” positions. But turbolasers supposedly aren’t that effective against fighters, and I would expect to see quad light laser cannons here instead.

In the larger blisters on the port and starboard sides side, it appears that there are three forward-pointing giant cannons of some type, but I can’t tell if they are large turbolasers or maybe ion cannons? And then the mostly aft-oriented quads might be medium turbolasers?

Are there any other weapons on this ship that I’m missing?

Also, on the ventral side of the forward section, there are what appear to be fourteen cylindrical-shaped objects that are canted aft at about a 45 degree angle — are these escape pods?

gorkmalork
gorkmalork
7 years ago
Reply to  Brad Knowles

I asked FS similar questions a couple work-in-progress pages back, so maybe this’ll help.
Big single blister guns: Impstar II-caliber heavy turbolasers (each one=a single barrel on the ISD’s octuple turrets)
Quad blister guns: Acclamator-yield medium turbos
Tiny dual guns: light turbos (our host gives ’em a little more anti-snub credit than some games & novels indicate)
Ventral cylinders: anti-capital missile battery
That last one’s an addition with the in-universe logic of Imps retrofitting their Dreadnaught surplus for firepower approaching a Victory-class destroyer’s.

Kaul of Keldabe
Kaul of Keldabe
7 years ago

Wow! The forward facing view makes it seem pretty intimidating

jonathan
jonathan
7 years ago

hot damn, that looks great.

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago

Can you add to site option to rotate models like on Sketchfab?

Anditesh Ordo
Anditesh Ordo
7 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

that would be a awesome experience to see Fractalsponge’s work rotate around.

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago

Well done, Ansel!
What’s next, I wonder?

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

From this easy to model rebel Assault Frigate Mark I of all types

gorkmalork
gorkmalork
7 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Dunno if that’s gonna happen outside another commission; our esteemed host seems neutral at best when it comes to early-EU “bar with a couple bumps & thick ends” ship designs. Can’t say I really blame FS, given the aesthetic appeal of Kuat’s doomwedges.

Sean
Sean
7 years ago

I love the fact that the Vindicator has the exact same guns as a Dreadnaught, seeing as they’re both 600 meter escorts XD

what’s your next project gonna be? I’d be rooting for an Immobilizer 418, an Acclamator (I or II), a Venator, or an Arquitens, though I’d also absolutely love to see more hovertanks or walkers. Perhaps an APC of some sorts?

Daniel Shenise
7 years ago

Looks good, best representation of the Dreadnaught I’ve seen. Still question that 3rd blister location (starting from the bow, the one with the medium TL’s). It’ll always look crowded to me. But I do like it, not as much as your original creations, but still an excellent job. The little light twin TL or laser cannon positions are nice addition and flesh it out a lot.

John
John
7 years ago

I LOVE IT!!!

Mynock
Mynock
7 years ago

And where would you say the bridge/command center is? I know in the EU it wasn’t supposed to be as ‘exposed’ as the more traditional craft.

Chris
Chris
7 years ago
Reply to  Fractalsponge

I would say internal….ala Battlestar Galactica.

Astro1derboy
Astro1derboy
7 years ago
Reply to  Chris

I agree! Something along the more recent BSG lines!! Would be fantastic! Or Serenity. 🙂

Astro1derboy
Astro1derboy
7 years ago
Reply to  Astro1derboy

Apologies for the somewhat disjunct reply. I was pondering the general what-next statements. 🙂

Mynock
Mynock
7 years ago

As always, brilliant work – How many fighters/small craft would this ship be carrying? Also, what’re the dimensions of the Dreadnaught?

Ric
Ric
7 years ago

Love it!

gorkmalork
gorkmalork
7 years ago

Much as this particular EU (re)creation likely gave you some migraines, the result’s one damned impressive example of streamlining & adding functionality to a somewhat underdeveloped ship design. Thanks are also due for this ample array of perspective shots.

Chris
Chris
7 years ago

Any way we could get an animation showing the field of fire for the cannons??

chris pearson
chris pearson
5 years ago
Reply to  Chris

I still generally prefer the configuration from Legends, with the overbite, 6 engines, and pair heavy guns inside the blisters. But this does have nice detailing on it.