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  Re: Use found for useless pipe macro (sorry!)  
From: Psychomek
Date: 1 May 1999 08:40:45
Message: <372AE820.BCF5B591@cyberhighway.net>
I LOVE IT!

Equiprawn wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Unfortunately Mr. Tran, I have found a use for your pipe macro. I have been
> working for a while on designing and building my own ST:TNG Federation
> starship, and as soon as I saw your pipe macro, I thought "Borg".
>
> So here is the first public appearance of the USS Harriman. I haven't
> finished it yet (still texturing and lighting). It's a mesh that I made in
> Macromedia's Extreme 3D, and then exported to Moray, where the whole scene
> was composited. This image has lots of post production in Photoshop
> (smoothing out blotchy radiosity, adding glows, etc.).
>
> ----
>
> "Bring us in, heading 158 mark 234" ordered the captain. The Harriman had
> just reached the system, and was speeding towards Mars. The huge, precise
> faces of the Borg ship loomed towards them, cold and dead. My god, it was
> the size of a small moon! How would the Harriman have a chance against that
> thing? After all, it was just a small science vessel. The Federation Council
> had ordered all available ships back to Sector 001, to help protect Earth
> against the Borg invasion. The captain ignored the reports of the lost
> ships, not wanting the futility of their situation to overwhelm them. The
> |Borg's weapons were striking out at any ship that got too close or started
> to attack, and few ships survived the onslaught. The captain's jaw
> tightened. "Lock phasers on the Borg's weapons array, full intensity" he
> ordered. He looked at the screen one more time, his jaw tight, his resolve
> strong. "Fire."
>
> The raw energy of the Harriman's phasers lanced out through space ... and
> bounced harmlessly of the Borg's shields...
>
> ----
>
> Equiprawn
>
>  [Image]


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