The Legion

Post by **Arcalane** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:44 pm

Actually, with a lot of tweaking and if it was made huge, it might work as a Galactic Council Base - if one removes the engines of course.

Ed: As it is, it just wouldn't work as a BS, and I can't bring myself to try and modify it to be a station.

TheBlueEcho · Post by **TheBlueEcho** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:21 pm

That, is kind of sad actually.

Ixranin wrote:
TheBlueEcho wrote:That's one of the most Awesome rendition of the Chainship I've seen, and it don't even look like a ship, much less the chainship.
I liked your rendition a lot, though I don't think you've put up a finished version yet.

This thing? No, it's not finished yet. Still working on the front. But thank you.

Commodore111 · Post by **Commodore111** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:30 am

well, you could saay it was originally built by the Legion and then bought and modified by GC to work better wit their systyems, but still have noticable Legion ship properties.

Post by **Arcalane** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:18 pm

It still just wouldn't fit as a craft. As a base, yes. As a craft, no.

As it is, I don't want to try meddling with it; my expansions on other people's work, unless on the small scale, are often very obvious and out of place. The most obvious is the body of the Orthus compared to the wings; the body was based on a prototype of Kaelis' that he never finished, and I just tacked on a pair of wings - they look very out of place to me.

BlkRdgPharmPRSTAFF · Post by **BlkRdgPharmPRSTAFF** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 2:35 am

Quite frankly I love this fleet, and it is very well made and innovative. It's a shame to see it on the second page.

lightstriker · Post by **lightstriker** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:01 am

well, you fixed that problem

really cool fleet, (congrats on getting ship of the month). Very nice use of engines, and the triangular symmetry (would that be the term?) is one of the most interesting ideas i've seen in a ship, let alone a fleet.
Are you still working on this or have you more or less moved on from it?

Ai_512 · Post by **Ai_512** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:07 am

lightstriker wrote:triangular symmetry

Radial symmetry.

I AREZ CORRECTIN NINJA FEEL MAH CORRECTNESS! lol

He's probably busy with the Boss Rush currently, hope he does make more.

Piecewise66 · Post by **Piecewise66** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:17 am

very awesome

must have been a pain to get perfectly symmetrical like that. though...I do have a theory on how you did....

build a single arm at an angle then group clone and group move then rotate with all children then mirror

lightstriker · Post by **lightstriker** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:18 am

Ai...
i'm not sure whether i love you or hate you.
@ Piecewise: ah, it's all so simple now... lol

Ixranin · Post by **Ixranin** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:57 am

Arcalane wrote:It still just wouldn't fit as a craft. As a base, yes. As a craft, no.

As it is, I don't want to try meddling with it; my expansions on other people's work, unless on the small scale, are often very obvious and out of place.

Probably the same here. If I wanted to build a starbase out of it, I'd have to start over with the chain ship, else I'd have too much trouble trying to imitate the style with expanding the current version.

Piecewise66 wrote:must have been a pain to get perfectly symmetrical like that. though...I do have a theory on how you did....

build a single arm at an angle then group clone and group move then rotate with all children then mirror

Actually... I've never done group clone/rotate except with the Gatekeeper. All the Legion ships were built by adding a piece to one arm, then adding the same to the other arm. (Third arm is covered by mirroring.)

I'll see about making some more. I have two that survived functionality testing, but just haven't gotten around to finalizing them.

Post by **Arcalane** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:08 pm

So Ixranin, where did you get the names for the ships from? I recognize Nonsense Codon as a track from the G-Darius Soundtrack, and Massive Strokes as a track from the Chaos Legion Soundtrack, but the other ones escape me.

BigFattyPlus · Post by **BigFattyPlus** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:11 pm

I must say, those are some VERY impressive ships there! So, do they actually spin, or do you have manually spin them. I just get the spinning image in my head.

jwa8402 · Post by **jwa8402** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:35 pm

Ixranin wrote:
natan_j wrote:That ship is beautiful! Any chance for a download?
Just click on the picture.

Venator · Post by **Venator** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:13 am

Well, there's not much I can say about the inherent awesomeness of the radial design.

The only criticism I can give is to fix the core colours on the original ships; it's a pain, but it'd make things look just that much better.

Ixranin · Post by **Ixranin** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:35 am

Arcalane wrote:So Ixranin, where did you get the names for the ships from? I recognize Nonsense Codon as a track from the G-Darius Soundtrack, and Massive Strokes as a track from the Chaos Legion Soundtrack, but the other ones escape me.

Yah, they're almost all from soundtracks, though some only use pieces of the titles and others are combinations.

Three new ships passed preliminary testing and have been added to the first post, but still require more tuning before being put into service.

The burst laser on the Fatal Quickening can prove deadly against low-armor targets, and can quickly knock a chunk of ablatives off medium ships.

Now adding long-range bombardment to The Legion's list of abilities.

Issues:
-The Flash Shielding on the Type B Fatal Quickening doesn't work because modding module energy appears to have no effect.
-I'd been trying to develop the Enigmatic Crisis, but I the idea of draining the energy of an Impeder doesn't appear to work.
-Still need to figure out if I'm going to be able to make the Quantum Corridor's Frosch Gun work correctly with the already poor track record of module energy modding.