Mar 052009
I’m declaring victory on the wretchedly organic underside, with the exception of the *hundreds* of raider-sockets (not really looking forward to those, though I have some ideas on how to make them less than entirely hellish to create). Need to scribe the upper-surface panel lines and deal with the stand.
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Do those things have any sort of rocket engines on them?
Everything else in the show seems to have some sort of rocket engines on it, but I’ve never seen any on a base ship.
Not that I’ve seen. But the Base Ships could have, rather than Big-Ass Engines like the battlestars, “distributed” engines all over everywhere. Little bitty engines by the thousands; impossible to shut down propulsive capability by blowing one chunk of the ship off, and provides a more even thrust for the spindly arms.
While they’ve shown battlestars under thrust and sorta-maneuvering, I don’t recall seeing the baseships doing much moving around. They pop in, blast the crap out of things, and then pop back out. Mayhaps the sublight maneuver requirements for the baseships is minimal. Since they’ve shown ships jump from orbit around one thing to orbit around others, apparently the need to actually maneuver in regular space is minimal… all delta V requirements are taken care of during jump.
Shrug.
They do show the base ships moving around a bit on their sensor displays from time to time, but you generally don’t see them doing any sort of manuvering on-screen.
Interesting ship design though, looking a lot more alien than the double-decker flying saucers in the original series.
I still like popping the Galactica out of hyperspace over New Caprica and letting it free-fall into the atmosphere while launching its Vipers, then jumping again just before it impacts the surface.
Finally, a scriptwriter who realized the fun ramifications of a exotic technology. That was a _great_ scene.
The apparently magnetic accelerator driven Cylon launch catapults are interesting also.