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The newest thread in this tradition: Let's see the ships you've made this year!
Continuing the request for more Korx/Altarian designs, here's two Korx ships.
The Dominion of Korx exploration pod:
A relatively early design, it was able to locate multiple anomalies that helped keep my struggling economy afloat.
Several of them were later upgraded to this, the Korx Bouncer-class heavy fighter.
Now in its sixth generation, the Bouncer has served well against the forces of the Torians, Iconians, and Arceans, holding the border in the Galactic Wars, participating in the successful defense of the Krynn Consulate, and leading the charge into Arcean space.
Also, while not one of my ships (or a particularly attractive design, either), I just felt like showing off this, one of the most powerful ships I've ever seen a minor race build. Several were given to me and the Krynn during the war.
Have you ever thought of upgrading you Bouncer to a Elite Bouncer. Instead of Laser Beams try going Doom Ray Beams and Zero-Point Defenses.
I'm new to GalCivII.
Learning it and yes I am loving it.
With limited time, I do what I can.
And the ship builder is one feature I have not even begun to touch. Will do in the next week -- hopefully.
Carry on. Love the designs. Yours too Empress.
Bump. Is there any way to pin this in place of the previous year's thread?
Been a while since i showed any here but here is one of the new ones i have been using in the game as a large battleship. The Jeannie class battleship was brought into service to defend the borders of the realm from rogue pirate attacks.
Note: -
The base design for this ship was downloaded from the library here and altered somewhat by myself. 
The Terran fighter 'Potshot'
No weapons or engines attached as was making a new template.
Modding keeps the game alive
Successfully added the Galactica mod from the library into the game
Modding keeps the game alive
Spacestation Nimbus is a research-/sciencestation located in what is believed to be the nebula in which the precursor homeworld once was located. The inhabitants have been tasked with researching strange phenomena first detected several decades ago. In its third year of operation a major breakthrough was achieved with the discovery of a radiation that could cure most diseases with relative ease. In the following decade multiple discoveries and advances in a wide range of subjects were achieved. Initially designed for a forty year mission, it's successes have allowed for continued existence. Though recently, construction on its successor, Nimbus II, has gained momentum.
Located at the front and back of the station are the docking ports, engineering stations and power stations. Thrusters along the station allow for it to make subtle adjustements so as not to drift away. Communication arrays allow for contact with a nearby satellite which amplifies the signal and sends it at near-lightspeed towards an undisclosed location. Nimbus II will contain a more advanced communications center that will negate the need for a seperate satellite.
Crew accomodations are located at the sides of the station. Each module contains quarters, a mess hall, sanitation, exercise rooms and various forms of entertainment.
To detect incoming objects, the station is equipped with two radardishes, one at the top and one at the bottom. Both these dishes are positioned above the biospheres. The biospheres contain various trees and plants which provide food and oxygen. It also a nice environment to walk around in and relax.
The Nimbus was designed with redundancy in mind. Command & Communications Centers can be found on the front and back of the station. Besides CommComm, these areas contain crewquarters for officers.
Research is done inside the station instead of in external modules. This was planned as to protect valuable data, should anything bad occur.
The Drath Tri-Wing fighter.
This is the first of a few Drath designs from my current game I intend to put up over the next few days.
It's been a long time since I posted something. Busy, busy...
Anyway here are some pics of what I've been doin. There's more but I'm short on time right now. See if I can post some more in the future. Gotta keep this thread alive.
Drengin Strike Cruiser (medium hull)
Terran Frigate (medium hull)
@ migr8r: That is ... really freakin awesome, actually. I like the Terran Frigate most of all. Good job, good job.
One of my Custom Races, the Arcturian Oligarchy:
A species of sentient Parrot native to Arcturas, they lacked the limbs to build a civilisation of their own, despite their greater than average brainpower. They survive through psychically controlling humanoid species, referred to as a "grasper" by an osmotic link through the claw of the Arcturan.
Humanoids were often abducted or purchased to provide a grasper for every Arcturan. In later years, experiemts were made with cloned and animatronic graspers, though results were mixed and tended to be harder to control than natural born humanoids. Upon the conquest of Earth, an acceptable compromise were found by using condemned criminals that the provisional government provided.
Once relatively peaceful, the Arcturans were happy to isolate themselves in their research institutes and colonial experimentation centres. However, the death of Emperor ThoughtHold Ovsa led to the more pragmatic Oligarchy under the reign of Emperor ThoughtBeam Alpha.Their vessels were designed to evoke dangerous tropical birds of prey: brightly coloured, sleek designs, with large solar collector wings.
The earliest military action of the Arcturans was the conquest of the peaceful Scoctran Econoforms, of whose unremarkable civilisation little record survives. The great distances between the stars required that any invasion fleet must be able to fend for itself, possibly for years.
The first of these miltary vessels was the Lapwing Fighter. Lightly armed, but fast, their main goal was to overwhelm the defences of fledgling species in anticipation of a ground invasion. The version seen here is a converted Lapwing-Chaff Fighter, with limited distance and improved weaponry, used mainly for local planetary defence, though a large fleet of these vessels was notable in their blockade of Torian space during the middle period of Arcturan history:
The second wave in their invasion strategy was the Hawk Troop Transport. Sacrificing capacity for speed, it was nevertheless instrumental in gaining the Arcturian Oligarchy its first foothold amongst the stars:
The most magnificent of Arcturian Starships, the Terrorsaur Wrecker Dreadnought was the vessel that expanded the Arcturian Oligarchy's borders to their widest extent. Capable of travelling anywhere in the galaxy in a matter of weeks, this vessel kept the peace by ghreatly outfighting any other vessel out there, as shown during the Snathi rebellion, where Terrorsaur Uilasta defeated an advanced fleet of 70 Snathi destroyers. It's imposing command section was wholly covered with its torpedo launchers, a deliberate design to inflict terror on its opponents, who would see only a shield and many cannons when approaching from the fore.
This vessel was also the first to be fitted with Thought Beam technology, whereby one Arcturian could amplify his brainwaves to the point where he could telekinetically control over a thousand graspers at once, freeing up the majority of the Arcturians to engage in their research, which is believed to have had a direct effect on their disapperance from the galaxy nearly a century ago.
The graspers left behind were eventually reabsorbed into human society, and were incredibly useful in understanding how to control these powerful starships that they had been left with, a process which gave the humans an upper hand in the ensuing chaos that was a result of the disappearence of the masters of half of this galaxy.
here are some of the ships i built for custom enemy races (rebel alliance and space marines)
X-WING
NEBULON
MC80
BOTHAN ASSAULT CRUISER
SPACE MARINE BATTLE BARGE
Here's some more Korx ships. No creative story here - the game hasn't been going on very long.
Unnamed Attack Fighter:
some of my own designs i have used in my recent games:
Drake Class Worldship (huge)
i used this one as an armed troop transport packed with half a planet's population
Ambassador Class (huge)
equipped with several warp drives. mainly used it to hunt down torian fleets
Mumakil Class (huge)
built these to protect my borders. no extra drives or life support. just loads of mass driver weaponry and extra armor.
where could one do so? if anyone really wants to use my temps i can send them via e-mail, just pm me your address.
some of the ships i built in my last game:
Redeemer Class (huge)
Wyrm Class (huge)
Fury Assault Unit (medium)
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