I think I have been bitten by the starship love bug or something, ’cause this ship is absolutely beautiful, the thin profile, the antenna and sensory equipment sticking out, it can’t get any more realisticly sci-fi looking than this! (At least in Star Wars.) I plain love it’s design!
Also, I think this is the sort of ship that would be best in the 150m range of size, like the CR-90, so it could fit inside a Impstar’s hangar, that way it could be safely removed within or deployed from the Impstar.
Anonymous
6 years ago
Can you call this ship a scout corvette?
Nine Volt
6 years ago
Beautiful! How do the crew embark and disembark from the vessel? Is it meant to land at its size?
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I generally like the Raider design, except the exaggerated TIE Interceptor style wings. If they had integrated them better, it’d be a winner in my book.
Speaking of the raider it is now canon thanks to EA Star Wars Battlefront 2.
Adm. Drakkmar
6 years ago
I bet the Kontos-class would make a good EW-type ship. Seems like it would be fast enough to disengage from a potential fight, while the aft guns would discourage pursuit as it is withdrawing. Would be really interesting to see a Kontos class EW conversion.
Eric Otness
6 years ago
So, since you did an Electronic Warfare-based starship, think you are up to doing a full render of the Pride of Tarlandia (that’s the large Star Destroyer whose bridge we briefly see during the Endor space battle)?
Chris
6 years ago
Should this have some sort of fighter capability? An external rack like the Carrack has??
It’s ~262m main hull length. Lightly armed recon/electronic support ship, designed to run (very fast) if engaged, and otherwise stand off and direct/support other ships onto targets.
Between that proportionally huge drive nacelle & elegant tapering hull, this puppy certainly *looks* fit to leave a CR90 (or anything up to an A-wing) standing still. Also digging those semi-recessed sensor domes & underwing panels (srsly, *that’s* how you scale up TIE-style “solar absorbers”).
Are you sure about that 262 meter length? I only ask because in that comparison shot in your Velox class gallery with the Vigil and Kontos ships, the Indictor seems substantially shorter than both the Velox and the Vigil. The Velox looks something around 300 meters long, maybe more given you listed the Vigil as 250-ish meters long. Or are the ships not to scale in that comparison picture?
Kaul Agarous
6 years ago
Interesting. I’ve never heard of this one. Is this an original design?
Well this is a nice surprise. This is a cool addition to the fleet. Love it. 👏
Adam Warnock
6 years ago
This is a cool little ship. I guess by the name and appearance it’s supposed to be kind of like an anti-blockade runner? Just out of curiosity, why aren’t the guns on those bridge extensions angled out or even put on their sides? It looks like it’d give more coverage that way, and placing a third on a raised platform behind the sensor dome would allow you to retain the redundancy of the current setup.
It doesn’t really matter if they are angled, but it would definitely worse coverage if they were on their sides (pedestal perpendicular to horizontal plane of ship). The current mounting wouldn’t depress enough to cover the top hemisphere. Also, they’re raised because I imagine this ship would run if engaged, rather than fight. A hull mounted gun actually has less aft coverage.
I figured coverage was why they placed where they were. It just looks like there’s a blind spot on the sides to me, and I was just thinking out loud. I also kinda figured it wasn’t meant for the stand up brawls that the capital ships are built for.
Alex
6 years ago
Nice, interesting design. Still working on the Victory class ISD?
Any given size informations?
Wow. Looks like an Imperial version of the Spiral launcher:
I love the massive retractable sensor array. very cool way to protect such sensitive equipment.
Where did you see this?
Where is the Bridge?
Buried inside the hull – more a CIC than a traditional SW bridge.
What is CIC stand for?
Combat information center.
I think I have been bitten by the starship love bug or something, ’cause this ship is absolutely beautiful, the thin profile, the antenna and sensory equipment sticking out, it can’t get any more realisticly sci-fi looking than this! (At least in Star Wars.) I plain love it’s design!
Also, I think this is the sort of ship that would be best in the 150m range of size, like the CR-90, so it could fit inside a Impstar’s hangar, that way it could be safely removed within or deployed from the Impstar.
Can you call this ship a scout corvette?
Beautiful! How do the crew embark and disembark from the vessel? Is it meant to land at its size?
Airlocks in superstructure. The ship doesn’t land (well, at least has no landing gear) – purely for operations in space.
So, three turrets of twin light turbolasers, right? All on the Dorsal surface? Nothing ventral?
And what are those large triangular-shaped … objects?
They’re sensor panels. Sized like the triangular facets on a Star Destroyer’s sensor domes.
Guns are paired single light turbolaser and single heavy laser. Self defense only – the ship is designed to run from trouble, not fight.
nice model… reminds me of FFG’s Imperial Raider Corvette 😉
Posted elsewhere:
I generally like the Raider design, except the exaggerated TIE Interceptor style wings. If they had integrated them better, it’d be a winner in my book.
Speaking of the raider it is now canon thanks to EA Star Wars Battlefront 2.
I bet the Kontos-class would make a good EW-type ship. Seems like it would be fast enough to disengage from a potential fight, while the aft guns would discourage pursuit as it is withdrawing. Would be really interesting to see a Kontos class EW conversion.
So, since you did an Electronic Warfare-based starship, think you are up to doing a full render of the Pride of Tarlandia (that’s the large Star Destroyer whose bridge we briefly see during the Endor space battle)?
Should this have some sort of fighter capability? An external rack like the Carrack has??
Nope – not meant to fight. It’s a very specialized design. But I like the hull enough that I may do a general purpose version.
Are you still considering that general-purpose model?
Thinking about it, but the light frigate is starting to take over that slot in my mind – it’s a lot bigger ship though.
Wicked-cool!!
Very cool! Mind explaining it’s intended purpose and likely length?
It’s ~262m main hull length. Lightly armed recon/electronic support ship, designed to run (very fast) if engaged, and otherwise stand off and direct/support other ships onto targets.
Between that proportionally huge drive nacelle & elegant tapering hull, this puppy certainly *looks* fit to leave a CR90 (or anything up to an A-wing) standing still. Also digging those semi-recessed sensor domes & underwing panels (srsly, *that’s* how you scale up TIE-style “solar absorbers”).
Are you sure about that 262 meter length? I only ask because in that comparison shot in your Velox class gallery with the Vigil and Kontos ships, the Indictor seems substantially shorter than both the Velox and the Vigil. The Velox looks something around 300 meters long, maybe more given you listed the Vigil as 250-ish meters long. Or are the ships not to scale in that comparison picture?
Interesting. I’ve never heard of this one. Is this an original design?
Original design.
Well this is a nice surprise. This is a cool addition to the fleet. Love it. 👏
This is a cool little ship. I guess by the name and appearance it’s supposed to be kind of like an anti-blockade runner? Just out of curiosity, why aren’t the guns on those bridge extensions angled out or even put on their sides? It looks like it’d give more coverage that way, and placing a third on a raised platform behind the sensor dome would allow you to retain the redundancy of the current setup.
It doesn’t really matter if they are angled, but it would definitely worse coverage if they were on their sides (pedestal perpendicular to horizontal plane of ship). The current mounting wouldn’t depress enough to cover the top hemisphere. Also, they’re raised because I imagine this ship would run if engaged, rather than fight. A hull mounted gun actually has less aft coverage.
I figured coverage was why they placed where they were. It just looks like there’s a blind spot on the sides to me, and I was just thinking out loud. I also kinda figured it wasn’t meant for the stand up brawls that the capital ships are built for.
Nice, interesting design. Still working on the Victory class ISD?
He probably is. I’ve seen him bounce between a few projects at once before now.