The Schkrin Extrasolar Navy

TormakSaber · Post by **TormakSaber** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:50 am

Very pretty ships, though I mostly came in to comment on the color scheme. That, combined with the background planets, is nearly perfect.

AllStarZ · Post by **AllStarZ** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:13 am

Redemption looks like a torso-less pair of legs.

Tsakara · Post by **Tsakara** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:55 am

I just finished my latest project, the Isoko Fleet Shipyards, a massive series of docks and pylons as well as the Fleet Headquarters for the Aurora system.
orbiting the small rocky world of Isoko, the fifth world out in the Aurora system, the fleet yards provide construction sites for the Navy forces in the area, as well as repair and refit services. On the planet below, the Isoko command center is the hub of local space forces, with the planet acting as a training ground for almost all recruits from the Aurora system.
In this photo several Schkrin ships and a terran ship are currently docked. You can easily identify the terran vessel by its poor parking job, its going to take the repair crews a few days to fix the damage they did while docking.

http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... pyards.shp

Note: this is not the only Schkrin shipyard, but it is one of the largest.

_Ti__ · Post by **_Ti__** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:40 am

Tsakara wrote:You can easily identify the terran vessel by its poor parking job, its going to take the repair crews a few days to fix the damage they did while docking.

beautiful station!

Post by **Aralonia** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:53 pm

Tsakara wrote:a massive series of docks and pylons

YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS

That said, I like the station. The docking clamps seem excessively thin and weak to me only though.

Tsakara · Post by **Tsakara** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:54 pm

Those are just airlocks. The ships are held in place by magnetic repulsers

Post by **Aralonia** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:00 pm

Those must be some fucking huge magnets then.

Post by **Arcalane** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:14 pm

Tsakara wrote:The Font is futurist fixed width.
I didn't base it off Tiberium Wars, I hated that game, it was so bland.
I had this rough idea in my head long before I found BSF, I actually renamed them as the Schkrin because TWs took Skrin which was the original name for the race.
sure I'll enter them in the contest, but to do so do I have to read through all 7 pages of that topic?

Buuuuullshiiiiiit~

The Scrin have been around since Tiberian Sun, if not earlier. In fact, technically, they've been around since the very first Command and Conquer in spirit if not in name.

You know why? The Scrin are the reason the tiberium-loaded meteor hit the River Tiber, the first source of Tiberium. It was designed as part of their massive terraforming project which would cover Earth in their Ichor (the Scrin term for Tiberium, according to C&C3) and transform it into a more habitable environment them.

The Scrin first featured (that I can recall) in Tiberian Sun, where a few missions revolve around a crashed Scrin ship (constructed by Kane* (*using the Tacitus), then stolen and crash-landed) and almost the entire story revolves around a Scrin artefact known as the Tacitus which very few people had the ability to translate - more specifically CABAL (the Brotherhood's equivalent to EVA) and a handful of those mutated by exposure to Tiberium.

So Tiberium Wars didn't take the name. It's continuing their legacy.

Also, your backstory fails to account how the people of Earth lost their bioluminesnce and advanced mental powers.

goduranus · Post by **goduranus** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:57 pm

I think there was something in the shape of a crashed airplane that was named Scrin in the first Command and Conquer.

Btw, awsome dock. But I think you should label your ships by function so people know what they're up against, rather than just label them by name.

Tsakara · Post by **Tsakara** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:01 pm

regardless I decided to call them the Schkrin long before I ever heard of them in the C&C games, its a cool name and I'm using it, even if some other race has it.

As for the loss of abilities of the terrans, it is currently unknown at this time. Scientists are woring to understand the apparent evolutionary step backward that only appeared on Earth. It is suspected by some that the original colonists encountered some other native intelligent life and the current humans are a hybrid offspring. However no information beyond speculation is currently known, it is possible that the regression to hunter gatherers caused the devolution but no one is really sure.

Droid · Post by **Droid** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:14 pm

Those ships are beautiful... goes so nice with those planets, etc.

Nice shipyard too.

TrashMan · Post by **TrashMan** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:31 pm

I denounce those heretic claims! :evil:

Life on Earth started on Earth! We are not planted or seeded!
You are not our parents or brothers! We shall not submit! To arms! To arms!

Auriak · Post by **Auriak** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:09 pm

"There are those who believe... that life here... began out there. Far across the universe. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man... who even now fight to survive... somewhere beyond the heavens."
Battlestar Galactica The Original Series

I noticed you have a Battlestar in your shipyard...

Tsakara · Post by **Tsakara** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:48 am

hehe, yeah that was my first ship, I used it as a size test, I figure if it can hold a battlestar it can hold pretty much anything.

oh and I have a mooring point on corners for those ships that are still too WTFHUGE! to fit.

derekiv · Post by **derekiv** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:04 am

Tsakara wrote:You can easily identify the terran vessel by its poor parking job, its going to take the repair crews a few days to fix the damage they did while docking.

The one that went in backwards???