Concept for an Irra Replacement Model

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once we get the animations fully working - it could extend its "wings" to allow a larger profile in combat mode though.

That'd be a cool effect for all nomad ships, TBH. I love how in the video I linked the nomad suncrusher has rotating fins that open up as it fires.


Anyways, the current Irra model:

Main issues with it are that the rear looks very... unusual... compared to other nomad ships, and it lacks any 'interesting' features, overall it's relatively bland. The nomad bomber has those unique wings that, personally, I find awesomely designed. The assassin has extra fins. The marduk has engine tubes and such. The Irra just looks... boring and uninspired (which it is, being nothing more than a stretched/enlarged nomad gunboat).

The rear end on it doesnt really suit the ship engine anyways, and the four-way symmetry of the turrets really bugs me, since nomads are all supposed to have three-way symmetry in their biological design (presumably a trait shared by their creators, the Daam K'vosh).

It is a bit 'compact', but the new model would be wider/fatter than the current one, if a bit shorter. I'm sure Yuri can make a model look much better than I did in these simple GIMP drawings. If absolutely necessary, it can, of course, be stretched out a bit more and given more detail to the front and back ends. It will probably have an interior skeletal structure similar to the nomad bomber, if Yuri can manage that, and the 'spiky-ness' is evident in the three wingtips, which each have two spikes protruding forward.

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