I can’t imagine how, seeing as there are no official images of the Mediator, and any sort of family tree linking an Imperial special operations transport to a Mon Calamari battlecruiser would have to be very convoluted, indeed.
CRMcNeill
28 days ago
Very nice. How does it compare in performance with your other corvettes like the Aiwha or Indictor?
Faster than the Aiwha (which is already fast), but perhaps not quite as fast as Indictor at full tilt. This and the Indictor are both highly specialized, so the comparison is difficult. Aiwha would be lethal to both of them if it caught either, being a general combatant design that has high power density and substantial shield endurance.
One thing this design completely lacks is sustained combat power. It has incredible burst firepower through the warhead load, and can outgun a destroyer – once. So the proper thing to do facing something like an Aiwha is to try and kill it in a single alpha strike, or run like hell while siccing a squadron of heavy fighters and a stream of missiles on it. The best option is really just to be done with the job before an enemy can react appropriately.
I can imagine a Spector pairing up with a Velox to compensate.
Ember369
29 days ago
Awesome! Glad to see this obscure ship getting some love. I’ve always found it annoying that the official name for this was the ‘Imperial Escort Carrier’, which always redirected to the Ton-Falk carrier when searched for. So Spector-class Storm Commando Carrier’s a great choice!
Alves
29 days ago
For me it is incredible!
I would just make a change, put a storm command in the hangar bay.
9 of 10
In my mind, the dorsal turrets near the bow look similar to the 12.7cm (127mm)/50 Type 3 guns used by the Imperial Japanese Navy’s destroyers from the Fubuki-class up to the Yūgumo-class. This includes Shimakaze.
Brandon
30 days ago
What is the length on this ship? I saw one source that said it was 150 meters, but when I scaled it out with the 3 side-by-side TIEs and the 20 meter Stormtrooper Transport in the hangar, it looks like 300 meters.
Oh, it’s beautiful. What a gorgeous model. You know if I am ever in the financial position to commission a piece, I’d do something from the Expanse. Fractal’s style would work so well in the grounded, hyper-realistic setting of the Expanse
Toby Rogers
30 days ago
Amazing! Would love to see a ship like this in the Mandalorian.
Brandon
30 days ago
Absolutely, amazing work, as always! Thanks also for providing the top down view – I am going to incorporate this beautiful new design in an online top down tactical battle using the old WEG 2nd edition mechanics.
Best corvette sense your corvette. Is yours still cannon? It needs to be for sure.
no
What’s that ventral aperture at the fore of the ship? If it’s a massive space laser that’d be sick
Docking clamp for boarding operations. This thing doesn’t have the power density for another big gun.
ah good point thx, still it seems pretty damn big/unwieldy if it’s just for docking
Really nice work, I kind of miss the small turrets at the fore of the ship, but looking at the other stuff you added it made me forget about it.
This looks like it could be at the root of the Mediator-Class…
I can’t imagine how, seeing as there are no official images of the Mediator, and any sort of family tree linking an Imperial special operations transport to a Mon Calamari battlecruiser would have to be very convoluted, indeed.
Very nice. How does it compare in performance with your other corvettes like the Aiwha or Indictor?
Faster than the Aiwha (which is already fast), but perhaps not quite as fast as Indictor at full tilt. This and the Indictor are both highly specialized, so the comparison is difficult. Aiwha would be lethal to both of them if it caught either, being a general combatant design that has high power density and substantial shield endurance.
One thing this design completely lacks is sustained combat power. It has incredible burst firepower through the warhead load, and can outgun a destroyer – once. So the proper thing to do facing something like an Aiwha is to try and kill it in a single alpha strike, or run like hell while siccing a squadron of heavy fighters and a stream of missiles on it. The best option is really just to be done with the job before an enemy can react appropriately.
I can imagine a Spector pairing up with a Velox to compensate.
Awesome! Glad to see this obscure ship getting some love. I’ve always found it annoying that the official name for this was the ‘Imperial Escort Carrier’, which always redirected to the Ton-Falk carrier when searched for. So Spector-class Storm Commando Carrier’s a great choice!
For me it is incredible!
I would just make a change, put a storm command in the hangar bay.
9 of 10
I get LAAT gunship vibes from the body shape.
In my mind, the dorsal turrets near the bow look similar to the 12.7cm (127mm)/50 Type 3 guns used by the Imperial Japanese Navy’s destroyers from the Fubuki-class up to the Yūgumo-class. This includes Shimakaze.
What is the length on this ship? I saw one source that said it was 150 meters, but when I scaled it out with the 3 side-by-side TIEs and the 20 meter Stormtrooper Transport in the hangar, it looks like 300 meters.
In his early post he said it was roughly 270 meters
286.9m
Oh, it’s beautiful. What a gorgeous model. You know if I am ever in the financial position to commission a piece, I’d do something from the Expanse. Fractal’s style would work so well in the grounded, hyper-realistic setting of the Expanse
Amazing! Would love to see a ship like this in the Mandalorian.
Absolutely, amazing work, as always! Thanks also for providing the top down view – I am going to incorporate this beautiful new design in an online top down tactical battle using the old WEG 2nd edition mechanics.
I agree, orthos are always incredibly cool and useful even just to get silhouettes