08-14-2010, 08:19 AM
So I noticed Dartz story post over on spacebattles and followed the included link to the wiki. Which led me here I've since been working on afew ideas. This is one of them, it is sort of rambling becouse I started with just the base vehicle and worked my way from there. I'd like to thank KaiserDrgn for helping me on the IRC with spelling as well as the other folks for leting me bounce some ideas off of.
I need to rewrite it down to the final product of the 'wavium treatment and use the building steps in the story. Still working on the character that goes with this craft I'll post that later.
The Shooting Star started life as a Modern Chris Craft 28' Cabin Cruiser. It
retains it's single forward cabin as the living place and the front
docking port based on the original bow deck hatch that's located above
the bed. A door at the rear comes out between the captains chair and
passenger chair. The chairs are raised with their own built in foot
rest/step. Behind them the stern seats have been removed for cargo space
while the whole area has been turned into a enclosed cabin using
paneling from a trailer. Former car windows have been added to the front
of the new cabin next to the chairs for added visibility.
A pair of pontoons from a old pontoon boat have been added to the sides
as outriggers to counter the added weight on the upper works. These
pontoons had their middle section removed to shorten them down. The
pylons holding the pontoons are a pair of 14' aluminum john boats turned
upside down with the stern section cut off. This ends up giving them
what looks almost like a bulky wing shape with the pontoons looking like
drop tanks when in flight. The stern sections from the john boats were
themselves cut up and used to serve as reinforcements on different parts
of the boat.
The Ship is fitted out with a old CB radio hooked up to a salvaged whip
antenna that is mounted on the upper most top of the ship. An old
desktop has also been taped to one wall below the Captain's chair with a
flat screen monitor mounted between the seats just above the cabin door
to the living area. The old stereo speaks that use to go to a sound system that was
long gone where wired into the computer. The whole thing is held together
by 'wavium imbued duct tape and all the paint based 'wavium Dakota could make.
The everything, inside and out, has been painted white using 'wavium paint,
with the name "Shooting Star" painted in black on the bow and stern.
With a shark tooth grin painted on the lower part of the bow. The
changes wrought by the 'wavium have made the whole ship look sleeker,
and the outriggers are retractable for hard surface landing by acting as
the landing skids when retracted. The engine having been coated in
'wavium has turned into a hydrogen powered anti-gravity drive. This
drive also creates the gravity field for the boat, including the bow
deck space, letting someone walk around normally inside and topside of
the boat.
The computer is now a fixed part of the ship while it's expanded beyond a normal
computer. It hasn't shown any signs of a AI thou people swear that the running lights
have winked at them when refueling or doing other maintence on the ship.
The monitor has expanded across the front of the Captain's console and
displys info on the ship status and works as a touch screen.
The Old CB has turn into a full coms unit intergrated into the computer
and sound system that also formed from the stereo speaks on the boat.
The ship does have a directional shield system that doubles as a heat shield.
This system throws up a semi-domed field of energy in the path of a attack to intercept it.
It can only have one up at a time and attacks from different directions can overload it.
This also means the ship is open to attack while it's being used as a heat shield.
The pontoons are now the main storage tanks for the water and oxygen systems.
quirks:
"Safety first!": There always has to be a life vest for everyone on board the ship or the ship will refuse to move when in port. Theres two on board in one of the under seat storage in the living area cabin.
"The gentle sea": The boat rocks gentle like it's on the water when at a stop and not on a solid surface. This doesn't seem to effect any airlock connections to the boat.
"We're gonna need a bigger boat": ... somehow there's never enough storage space on board for everything needed. It always ends up in the way or tripped over.
"Don't show the shark" Playing the jaws theme while inside the boat causes the boat to become somehow harder to spot. When the music stops the boat appears to be a badly made out of focus boat model at a distence for three minutes.
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Characters
Sabre Fang
Dakota
I need to rewrite it down to the final product of the 'wavium treatment and use the building steps in the story. Still working on the character that goes with this craft I'll post that later.
The Shooting Star started life as a Modern Chris Craft 28' Cabin Cruiser. It
retains it's single forward cabin as the living place and the front
docking port based on the original bow deck hatch that's located above
the bed. A door at the rear comes out between the captains chair and
passenger chair. The chairs are raised with their own built in foot
rest/step. Behind them the stern seats have been removed for cargo space
while the whole area has been turned into a enclosed cabin using
paneling from a trailer. Former car windows have been added to the front
of the new cabin next to the chairs for added visibility.
A pair of pontoons from a old pontoon boat have been added to the sides
as outriggers to counter the added weight on the upper works. These
pontoons had their middle section removed to shorten them down. The
pylons holding the pontoons are a pair of 14' aluminum john boats turned
upside down with the stern section cut off. This ends up giving them
what looks almost like a bulky wing shape with the pontoons looking like
drop tanks when in flight. The stern sections from the john boats were
themselves cut up and used to serve as reinforcements on different parts
of the boat.
The Ship is fitted out with a old CB radio hooked up to a salvaged whip
antenna that is mounted on the upper most top of the ship. An old
desktop has also been taped to one wall below the Captain's chair with a
flat screen monitor mounted between the seats just above the cabin door
to the living area. The old stereo speaks that use to go to a sound system that was
long gone where wired into the computer. The whole thing is held together
by 'wavium imbued duct tape and all the paint based 'wavium Dakota could make.
The everything, inside and out, has been painted white using 'wavium paint,
with the name "Shooting Star" painted in black on the bow and stern.
With a shark tooth grin painted on the lower part of the bow. The
changes wrought by the 'wavium have made the whole ship look sleeker,
and the outriggers are retractable for hard surface landing by acting as
the landing skids when retracted. The engine having been coated in
'wavium has turned into a hydrogen powered anti-gravity drive. This
drive also creates the gravity field for the boat, including the bow
deck space, letting someone walk around normally inside and topside of
the boat.
The computer is now a fixed part of the ship while it's expanded beyond a normal
computer. It hasn't shown any signs of a AI thou people swear that the running lights
have winked at them when refueling or doing other maintence on the ship.
The monitor has expanded across the front of the Captain's console and
displys info on the ship status and works as a touch screen.
The Old CB has turn into a full coms unit intergrated into the computer
and sound system that also formed from the stereo speaks on the boat.
The ship does have a directional shield system that doubles as a heat shield.
This system throws up a semi-domed field of energy in the path of a attack to intercept it.
It can only have one up at a time and attacks from different directions can overload it.
This also means the ship is open to attack while it's being used as a heat shield.
The pontoons are now the main storage tanks for the water and oxygen systems.
quirks:
"Safety first!": There always has to be a life vest for everyone on board the ship or the ship will refuse to move when in port. Theres two on board in one of the under seat storage in the living area cabin.
"The gentle sea": The boat rocks gentle like it's on the water when at a stop and not on a solid surface. This doesn't seem to effect any airlock connections to the boat.
"We're gonna need a bigger boat": ... somehow there's never enough storage space on board for everything needed. It always ends up in the way or tripped over.
"Don't show the shark" Playing the jaws theme while inside the boat causes the boat to become somehow harder to spot. When the music stops the boat appears to be a badly made out of focus boat model at a distence for three minutes.
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Characters
Sabre Fang
Dakota
(Yes, I have all the Cain books,... they're 40k as it should be)