This is the section below the Rotating Habitat, to give you the idea of depth to the ORION. Bloody HUGE!!!
Ok solar panels have been scratched… Alot more bits and pieces can be duplicated (eg Dry docks…) I would draw more but it may get a little hard to read visually. I will let you 3D wizards deal with that …hehe. The blue blobs are ships and huge ones at that. Hope you like 
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ALL THE WORLD WELCOME TO THE LAND OF MADNESS.
AEGIS ROCKS ROCKS TO THE CORE.
:bounce: mark awesome sketches.
Vic > DogmaD will start working on the Battleship soon.
Ok try this concept on for size…I have made the rotating habitat like skyscrapers pointing inwards. At the top of the image is the Hydrocropping rotating ring and one of the double sided domes. The spine of the station has many many levels in it. I was thinking the station could be ancoured to a planet by a skylift…would look cool.
Skycraper idea is cool. I don’t know about the lift idea. The thing is, a lift has to go up and down, and to go up and down over such a large distance just to carry some people is simply unpractical, because you can’t more than one left on one track up. Maybe we can have some electro magnetic launcher on the planet, which launches these small disk like structures? And then they are caught near the space station by a special reciever? This way you have a lot of “lifts” after eachother and just fire them back at the other side. Sort of like those ski lifts, you know. 
Might be more efficient. And it would look nice, i think.
Ok the lift ideas out the window…crash!! hehe… I do like your idea though can you sketch that?? Glad you like the skyscrapers…I am quite fond of them
Sure, i will create the sketch. I am also modelling the Ceph light fighter. Why i sketched something with such complicated curves i don’t know. It is really hard to get right in 3D. Ah well, i will take a break and sketch the mechanism.
So, here are the first two images of the light fighter wip. Still very early in the process.
I am a bit in doubt about the upper connecting part between the two wings, what do you guys think, drop it, or keep it? I have created screenshots of both with and without.
just a quick message to let eveyone know im still around but that my interenet acess is severly limited due to a massive upheaval in my life at the moment.
i WILL be back on the project, make no mistake, im more determined than ever to make this work!
being away for so long has shown me how valueable this project really is and what it is capable of.
as soon as i have my interent connection back ill be making up for lost time with new concepts, story and charactor development. ive just had so little time lately as im trying to sort my housing situation and life out. but now things are on track and im currently looking for a new house to live in, so, with any luck ill be back within a month (i know it seems like a long time, but the way things have been going up untill recently, i thought id never get back online and that this project would die horribly and waste all of our effort. thankfully, this isnt the case! )
so yes, im VERY happy to see new ideas and new faces around here, the concepts are looking awesome!
ill continiue to post and check in at every opportunity i get (they are limited at the moment).
keep up the awesome effort guys! you all rock!
-dene-
Cool progress on the Ceph ship…
Dene good thing about this team is we all help each other…Aegis is in good hands.
WE CREATE THEREFORE WE ARE!!!..lol
Little scale comparison:
Still in doubt about how to add the 3rd wing on top of the ceph light fighter…
I am trying to apply the same modelling style to the light fighter as to the destroyer. So i have added the same drives as the destroyer into the wings of the light fighter. I am also recreating the blisters on top of the destroyer and some of the characteristic shapes on the hull. I do think they are now both very recognizable as ceph ships, so that is a good thing.
Hmmm, i might make the light fighter even smaller, what do you guys think?
Thumbs up from me…very reconizable as Ceph Technology. Maybe the top part of the fighter could be like a dorsle fin but hey what ever works. very cool stuff…
Looking good! Some ideas:
Just a quick overdraw with some suggestions, use what you like, dump what you don’t.
Hiya all,
Hear is some more fighter sketches I did today…what ya think??
@Victor thanx dude for the overdraw…helped alot
Hiya all,
Hear is some more fighter sketches I did today…what ya think??
@Victor thanx dude for the overdraw…helped alot
Lots of nice work Mark,
I will just reply on the official forum, because it will probably be a big reply.
Ok here is the hybrid Bullnose/Rhino pod.
I have made some changes to the pilot position… I propose a fluid filled cell with the Neural lounge. Just an idea.
This is the Bullnose pod connected to the Hunter componant.
Hi again here is my idea for the orbital tunnel…I have changed it to a tunnel cross mining rig…using the magnetic forces of the planet and magnetic buffers to repel astroids. Also fitted with canons for safe guarding. I thought if the space station was big and this is Sci-Fi fantasy, this would be visual eye candy…hehe. This facility mines its own energy and provides safe passage for who that passes through… 
