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[Jinx]

first of all - tinkerbells concept is GREAT. - but if i am the only person that might work on it right now... i cannot finish it, cause i simply don t know how to separate faces and parts of a model good enough in milkshape - so i need the models in metaseq.

so - i remade the concept in meta.



the primary shape to concentrate on was indeed the train. - but instead of a transports bridge and a few habitational modules, i have added a large factory with processing modules found usually on space stations. - then there is an intermediete structure with large habitational modules - and after that, there is the command / bridge module that "thrones" over the ship ( the round console ) along with a docking port for medium sized ships up to freighters ( fake of course ) - the cargo modules are not containers like seen on the train, but huge cylincrical modules, as large as the round habitational modules seen in the default space station.

the whole ship currently has the height and width of a rheinland battleship with extensions exceeing that size so it will not fit into a tradelane ( a characteristic that was required ) - it would fit into a gate though. for those that are loving symetry - you won t like it. due to the size ... aesthetics are thrown away and i have just added modules where they are logical to be.... resulting in a ship that has no symetry at all - somewhat. its a ship that you could imagine to be "deployed" somewhere and then added modules to it to actually BECOME a stationary spacestation one day. - so its really less a ship and more a barely mobile facilty platform.

it will be 50% longer than a rheinland battleship - and so will be roughly as large as a medium sized space-station.

there will be two large engines propelling the ship forward attached to the hull like the trains ( in the front ) - i ll add another mooring fixture and will place a heavy lifter into the docking bay ( a simplified lifter but the size of the real lifter )

gonne add a few more details ( i think since such a ship won t get spammed, i can add many more polygons ) - and will play around with effects, too a little ( like fire effects inside the processing facility )




pesonally, i am NOT convinced a ship of that size has any practical use - and i foresee that it will not be used at all - but we shall see.

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