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Heh.. to be fair, trading was never the intended role..cbr wrote:armoured trader a bit lacking in the cargo department
SureMind if I add them to the 'Custom paint jobs' section of the wiki page?
Apologies for taking so long to get this done.. images now added to the wiki page.
<chortles>Cholmondely wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 2:08 pmAnd is there vocabulary which better describes what I'm trying to say?
You wouldn't be assuming a non-fixed cockpit would you by any chance?Cholmondely wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 2:08 pmJust wondering: surely instead of pitching/yawing along two axes these ships should have a triangulated three axes of manoevurability?
Nice one!Redspear wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 11:58 pmYou wouldn't be assuming a non-fixed cockpit would you by any chance?Cholmondely wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 2:08 pmJust wondering: surely instead of pitching/yawing along two axes these ships should have a triangulated three axes of manoevurability?
Or a similar three axes to be present in the make-up of the pilot perhaps?
Are you quite sure that this one is a Riredian Coluber?Captain Beatnik wrote: ↑Thu Mar 20, 2025 7:33 pm...I have a finished model for the fast Coluber Queensnake-class courier freighter in my files. Unfortunately, wings3D on my imac always crashes whenever I try to create the UV map and also the python-script that transfers obj to dat does no longer work on my mac. So I've since given up. But if someone transfers the model and takes over the texturing, maybe the ship can actually make ist the Ooniverse after all. Let me know if you're interested, and I'll gladly send you a link from box.com to the Wings3D file with the model via PM.
The basic idea behind the Queensnake is a ship whose main characteristic is speed and a particularly economical and effective fuel injector and an average cargo capacity of 30 ct.
Here are three pictures of the model compared to a cargo container and a Cobra Mk III:
When we get the ship up and running together, I'll try to add an interesting background story and a custom HUD, but that for sure will take some time because I'm a bit busy with work at the moment.
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Coluber Pitviper: Notable features
In Riredian culture and religion the numbers 3, 6 and 9 are very meaningful and this has had great influence on the design.
(Eg. the Pitviper Vindicator can carry 27 (3*9) missiles; has 9 energy banks; has 3 engines; etc.)
The Pitviper comes with its own specially Coluber-designed HUD.
You will notice that following the Riredian prediliction for trinities, that the HUD is split into 3 sections from left to right.
And that both left and right-hand sections are further split into 3 vertically.
It is rumoured that Coluber's engineers spent many fruitless hours attempting to further subdivide the IFF Scanner to achieve a perfect trinity of trinities, but their efforts proved unavailing.
But this is not true for the coluber racers or the queen snake. These designs were made by Coluber inc. alone. But, of course, the commercialy very sucsessful piviper has left some clearly visible marks on design of the queen snake, i can´t deny that. Nevertheless, the queen snake is mainly a very fast cargohauler, not a designated combat vessel like the pitviper.Captain Beatnik wrote: ↑Fri Sep 14, 2012 11:56 pmThis .oxp adds the powerful Coluber CPV-9333 "Pitviper" to the Ooniverse. ...
...This corvette-class combat vessel is the result of a joint venture between the Riredian Government and the Coluber Works and Shipyards Ltd. (The HQ of the company is located in the Riredi system in galaxy one and so they have very good connections to the lokal government.)
The ships hull can not deny to be a insektoid design and thus - to human eyes - the ship looks quite ugly.
In the Riredian culture and religion the numbers 3,6 and 9 are very meaningful and this circumstance had great influence on the design.(E.g. the vindicator can carry 27 = 3*9 missiles; 9 energy banks; 3 engines; etc.)
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