Here: Front view
of the imperial
carrier SENECA. The command tower in the middle has been completed, but
there
are still many details for me to develop for the two side bays and parts
of the
ship center.
Background:
The SENECA is a giant
ship and
capable of carrying thousands of crafts of all sizes. Inside its two
side bays
the SENECA can carry a view large cruisers (as a mobile space station)
and
dozens or hundreds of the smaller ship classes. Human crew is not
neccessary as
these imperial space carriers are fully automatized. In resource-rich
environments such as asteroid fields or planets, it can even automatical
harvest
resources required, automatically assemble probes and smaller vessels,
and
launch them on a permanent base. This way, it can also repair
itself.
The SENECA does not use
any chemical
propulsion system which is the reason you won't see any open parts. The
SENECA
uses an internal gravitron drive. The SENECA "was" built shortly
before the
jumping drive came in use and made such huge long-range ships
obsolete.
Scene
File:
Already now, the file
is designed to
be used for animations, and I did already a brief animation of ten
seconds. The
disadvantage is that each frame takes its time due the many divisions I
have to
do, since I do all coding "by hand", without any 3D editor. No polygon
shapes
used, just divided standard shapes.
I also did a starbase
which was
partially hand-coded and partially automatically generated through a
self-written computer program. I might use that program for some parts
of the
two side bays of the SENECA, as well. But not sure yet.
Further intentions:
creating jumper
ships and many smaller vessels.
Sven
Littkowski