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both.


classes and engine speeds



I has a flute.

My char can take a Harmonica if he really must

Raises hand :Guy:

more vernid pics

this one is me





this one is a ganger








this one is a hatchling






this one has its feelings hurt




this one is typing on dakka






this one is about to become emperor with his epicness

ineptus astartes wrote:alright. we need to get this straight how many guys? a show of hands/hairs/tentacles? how many girls?

*raises hairs* i iz guy. and are we starting a band or something? everyone is naming instruments...

and this one is sneaking up on this guy.



no we just each have different homeworld musical instruments...who brought the grand piano?

ineptus astartes wrote:No we just each have different homeworld musical instruments...who brought the grand piano?

Alright I'm officially bringing the space pipes into play...

Quarran Pipes: A device made by Quarran artisans as a work of pride, the device is carried by specialist Quarran soldiers to improve the age old Quarran tradition of what is known as a "battle chorus." In ancient times, Quarran warriors would croak and call in large groups as a way to prepare for battle, since the innovation of the piped instruments, now instead of verbally croaking, the Quarrans play these devices which are calibrated to simulate the loud, harmonic croaking of many Quarran voices. the tactic is used not only to prepare Quarran warriors for battle but also to scare their enemies as the noise of a great many pipers playing simultaneously can be very intimidating...

DIE SHAPER!

ineptus astartes wrote: DIE SHAPER!

who shaved my hair/arms off!?!?1?

ninja'd by warork

I will work on backgrounds for vernid flutes soon

I'll talk to Mordo about Jump Drives.


SHIP SUB-LIGHT ENGINE CLASS:

1: Includes solid and liquid fueled rocket propulsion. Fuel is directly combusted in a chamber to cause a force to be applied to the ship, moving it opposite of the engines direction. Low speed, efficiency, and cost effectiveness. Popular among the poor and gangs

2: Includes Ion Engines, accelerating particles for propulsion. Ionization panels accelerate particles and bounce them of a chamber, accelerating the ship. Low to average speed, High efficiency, and good cost effectiveness. Popular for civilian ships and satellite or station propulsion.

3: Includes Plasma and Magnetic Plasma engines and propulsion. Super heated fuels are combusted beyond normal range, achieving plasma state, which is then used in a manner similar to rockets. Some use magnetic focusing, enhancing efficiency. Average to high speed, good efficiency, and low cost effectiveness. The expense of Plasma engines leave it to the wealthy or PDF and Military ships and stations.

4: Includes Fusion and Fission. The absolute pinnacle of Coalition engine technology. In Fission, an accelerator slams a small particle into an atom, causing a split and release of energy. In Fusion, twin accelerators force two particles to collide at nearly the speed of light, releasing three times as much energy as fission, at twice the size. High to Extreme speed, High efficiency (with maintenance), and low cost effectiveness (cheap to maintain, expensive to build.). Exclusive to the Military.

5: Yahan Drives. Engines whose manner of operation is unknown to the public, these engines remove the need for a Jump Drive, as the can go from slow sub-light to five times light-speed.

why am i now called a shaper? and,yes,darko is cute...but eviiiilll! oh,and i grew a few hairs back

Awsome post Kasrkai

Right i've done it, i have drawn a Chilceran or at least somehing that doesnt look like an alien School child. If nothing else it would be rude to say you dont like it lol.

Click the spoiler to see

...you still didnt awnser me -_-

That's actually really good, nice one Perkustin...

Perkustin wrote:Right i've done it, i have drawn a Chilceran or at least somehing that doesnt look like an alien School child. If nothing else it would be rude to say you dont like it lol.

Click the spoiler to see

Spoiler:

http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/j406/Antipater1/SAM_0107.jpg?t=1311111058

*ahem* i have one complaint...HOW IS EVERYONE SUCH A BETTER ARTIST THAN ME!?!?!?

pretty good aside from the fact that they are supposed to have four legs and then a human body sitting centaure style on top with four arms, they have long necks and wear clothes.

lord commissar klimino wrote:*ahem* I have one complaint...HOW IS EVERYONE SUCH A BETTER ARTIST THAN ME!?!?!?

Hey, don't point fingers at me, I even fail at drawing stick figures...

just move the first four legs and the body to a standing postion, give it two eyes, a longer neck and take away the crest and it would look perfect

Liking these drives, dey is epic

I think that's a perfect drawing, dude.

Also, Raylid warrior:

yeah (just make them with their bodies on the top with four arms and it will work out great)

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I have also done a quick drawing of an Arcturan. I have just went for a eldar without pointy ears. Or in other words a space metrosexual.



Here is what i think their armour would look like, Obviously not mine lol.

hmmm...I imagined it to be more greek (see OP) but that could be a commanders 'hat'

Energy/cargo supertanker


these massive craft rely on plasma generators to fuel thir massive amounts of cargo

stretching to a full fifty miles these behemoths are some of the largest craft in exisence. dwarfing even Terren Systems battlecruisers

they carry a full load of food,water,fuel,energy,plasma,or oher cargo, to keep a single planet witha 2 billion population supplied for some 3 years. and the energey they are loaded with are flash-frozen when harvested from suns, supernovas, nebulas, black holes, and the like.

the ships are armed only with a single mass driver on the top and bottom, and four railguns dispersed over each side. and as such are accompanyed by escort fleets

crew: 500 most of them techs

Armamet: see above

Powerplant: plasma.

shields: 10. grade

class: cago ship

type of cargo: all

what do you think?


(mordo. could we have some more info on the shapers and their biotech and who the 'shaped' are?)

Shapers
Physical Appearance- No two Shapers are exactly similar. In their quest for Perfection, many Shapers turn their arts upon themselves, warping their bodies in ways that other beings find repugnant. The rare unaltered Shaper is around 8 feet tall, although they tower over most beings, they are preternaturally gaunt, their limbs spindly and disturbingly flexible. A Shaper's head has an enlarged cranium, their tight skin highlighting the ridges of their skulls. Their eyes are a milky white and without pupils. They sport two mouths, one on top of each other, they speak through both these mouthes simultaneously, making their speak horribly disturbing to non-shapers. They can also use these mouths to carry on two conversations at once. Their hands sport three long fingers, often implanted with various surgical tools. Shapers are entirely hairless, leading some to come to conclusion that they are perhaps a kind of reptile yet undiscovered. Their legs terminate in needle-like spikes, it is unknown how a Shaper keeps itself balanced at all. It should be noted that there appears to be no difference between the Shaper genders, in fact, it is unknown whether or not they even have genders.
Culture- We know next to nothing about the workings of Shaper society, only their desire for Perfection. A Shaper is obsessed with the idea of becoming Perfect, this belief is the closest thing to religion that the Shapers posses. Their creations speak religiously of the Shapers, and how they will lead the universe to universal Perfection. The Shaped follow the whims of the Shapers to the letter, even obviously suicidal orders. During the Antigan Wars, the Antigan 85th Armored faced an endless siege by the nightmarish Shaped. Wave after wave of warped slaves through themselves against the Antigan lines, millions of the Shaped were killed by enemy fire during the opening moves of the siege, but still more came. Reports of Shaped being engineered into living bombs, strapping themselves to tanks before exploding in a geyser of acidic enzymes and meat, were quite common during the siege. After weeks of endless slaughter, the Shaped fought their way through to the capital city of Monzburge, and soon after more Shaper ships arrived to "bring Antiga the gift of Perfection". Shapers have been known to gather into groups called "Choirs". It is believed that every Shaper has some form of psionic power, and Choirs "sing" with this power to bring about shaping a world, or commanding the Shaped. The only real hope on has of repelling a Shaper invasion is to kill the members of the Choir leading the strike.
The Shaped- 'Shaped' is a blanket term to describe any being that has been altered in any way by the Shapers. They take a variety of forms, no two Shaped are alike, each freakishly unique. They are the slaves and soldiers of the Shapers, looking up to their masters with love and respect. A being that has been Shaped loses their free will and becomes utterly loyal to the Shapers, while they retain their personalities and memories to a degree, they look down on the Imperfect (anything non-Shaped) with pity and contempt. The Shapers have had success with Shaping enemy commanders, allowing them to lead their now Shaped forces into battle. To create a Shaped, the Shapers send out strange bio-tech drones called Harvesters that are released on the surface of a world, these drones then abduct beings and bring them to a Choir to be shaped. If a Choir is not available, a Fleshforge is often built on the surface of the planet, the Fleshforge Shapes just as effectively as a Choir, but takes slightly longer to produce a large number of Shaped. Shaped can be of any race, no one is immune to Shaping. Even the dead can be Shaped, but they produce only brain dead drones that have to be directly commanded. Most Shaper vehicles are commandeered from another race, piloted by Shaped. The most terrifying example of Shaper engineering is the Behemoth. A towering, vaguely spider-like monstrosity formed out of hundreds of Shaped beings strapped to a metal chassis. You hear a Behemoth long before you see it, each Shaped beings singing terrible songs in one awful voice. The Shaped lashed to the Behemoth strike out at nearby enemy units with thrashing limbs.
Psychology- The Shapers have devoted their entire lives to the quest of Perfection. Shapers view their forms as Imperfect, and through their arts must twist their bodies until they see themselves as Perfect. Their definition of Perfection is so disgusting to other beings, that most sentient life views the Shapers as an extreme threat. Shapers have a very alien mind compared the majority of the species in the galaxy. Mindwalkers who have touched minds with a Choir have gone insane or were messily Shaped into a blob of animated flesh. Shapers seem to all have an acute case of megalomania, each believing itself to be a god. They look down on all non-Shaped with pity and derision, the believe it is their duty to bring the gift of Perfection to all other beings.

woah.

sound like a cross between 'nids and vong!

with two mouths. I am getting the picture of a bigheaded vong with two mouths.

maybe a drawing by you, perkustin, or Kasr would help.

make: Thaynne&Kammisk (venid)

Preatorian class escorts and an Alliance class battlship

preatorian class escorts are armed warships, meaant for holding off larger ships and fighters.

crew: 125

powerplant: fisson

Armament top: 2 railgun batteries (1 battery consists of two twin linked guns.)

2 laser cannon batteries

4 plasma cannon batteries

Bottom:

2 plasma guns

1 missile launcher

Sides: one torpedo tube on each side

front: laser cannons





make: Thaynne&Kammisk (venid)

alliance class battleship

powerplant: cold fusion

armament: 4 mass drivers.

8 rail cannons

2 laser cannons

2 rear missile launchers

1 kinetic rod bay

crew: 900

(kinetic rods are used to smash the armor of enemy ships, creating thousands of feet of destroyed metal with intense intertial force)

Alliance class ships are meant to assault enemy capital ships. and win. they use the awesome firepower at their disposal to bypass or shred shilds and turn opposing forces into dibris