I've been lurking for some time now trying to pick up tips, thanks to everyone who may have helped or inspired, albeit inadvertantly.
Although this is my first fleet, strictly speaking these aren't my first ships, as there were something like ships 8 before these.
As you can see I'm still learning so across the fleet the quality is slightly uneven, and only the later ships use the SMmod, Doo_Sections and so on.
There was blurb to go with this race also...
Added - 24/01/2009
Background Fiction
"We had watched them of course, our nearest neighbours, from across the deep void that separated our two systems.
Even then we knew they would come to rule their world.
Swift, insectile, utterly relentless, they tore a swathe through their ecology like an unstoppable gasworld tornado.
In the course of a few short centuries they had achieved what had taken us millenia to accomplish.
Eventually they would take to the stars, flinging themselves outward on flickering spikes of fusion. That they would make their way to us, the nearest, brightest star in their sky was only to be expected.
Yet here they seemed to stall, their crude reaction engines too slow to carry them across that empty vacuum. For a while we debated the merits of helping them, of granting them the least of our superluminal technologies, allowing them beyond the confines of their system where they might flourish and grow. I myself spoke before the Sororitorium, counselling caution, warning of the dangers a star-faring race like the Necrid might represent. In the end we chose intervention, a decision we would later come to regret.
At first however all appeared well. To us the Necrid were wholly alien, their short lives were as brief as sparks struck from a megafoundry. Each Necrid seemed to live in a fury, as though they felt the cold hand of death move inexorably upon them. But for all their differences they showed no sign of anything untoward. They were attentive and respectful, and consumed what knowledge we shared voraciously. For a time my fears were allayed.
Then dark rumours began to circulate. There were many things we had not told the Necrid, things we had deemed too dangerous for them to know and they had discovered this, although how we do not know. They were jealous of us it was said, jealous of our hidden knowledge, jealous of our technology, but most of all jealous of our longevity.
They attacked without warning, their ships - hard jagged shapes built in secret - blackening the skies over Thantus Prime. There was fear in the Sororitorium, even raised voices, a thing almost unprecendented among my people. Too late we realised our error. We had thought to temper them, guide them, turn them aside from the path they were set upon. But we could no more change them than temper a bullet, or alter the nature of a gun. They were a race obssessed to the point of madness.
My people were scholars and scientists, not fighters, so we did the only thing we could, we surrendered. But they said to us: "Your surrender is not necessary,"
All they desired they said was our medicines to regenerate them, our technology to replace what could not be regenerated, and our bodies to unlock the nature of our long lives...
Many of us are now gone, many more will be taken. Necrid experimentation camps run day and night and our beautiful world, once the jewel of an entire sector is slowly being devoured. I myself am waiting, one day my turn will come, these Necrid wish to live forever, and they are going to turn me inside out to discover how. Perhaps it is fitting, through our hubris my people helped unleash this terror, we did only what we thought was right but now uncaged the Necrid will not stop at us, will not stop at anything. My regret? Yes, I regret we didn't virus-bomb the bastards into oblivion while we had the chance."
Data fragment recovered from Listening Post Asterxes 7 Xena.
Spectre Class Experimental Beam Corvette
Wraith Class Gunship
Zombie Class Heavy Assault Transport
Phantom Class Torpedo Frigate
Ghoul Class Destroyer
Golem Heavy Freighter/Defence Monitor
Banshee Light Cruiser
Revenant Class Heavy Cruiser
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Added - 25/01/2009
Fast Cruiser Variant
Vampire Class Strike Cruiser
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Under Construction
Dracolich Class Battlecruiser
On The Drawing Board
BTW, I was thinking of rounding out the fleet with a couple of extra ships but I can't think of anymore decent Undead...
If anyone can suggest something that'd be gratefully received - Mummy Class Dreadnought just sounds a bit rubbish.
TSA
