Sorry guys. Things have been kinda hairy on my end. :p
The primary finish of most Roughrider ships (with the notable exception of Blackbirds) is mirror-finish chrome in honor of the Apollo Astronauts, whose capsules were finished in a similar manner. On the Peacemaker, it'll still have the blacked-out area over the nose simply to keep any glare from the Sun out of the command crew's collective faces. Of course, this is gonna be one of those matte black finishes.
The Air Force roundels should be replaced with Republic of Texas flags and the SAC shield with the Gonzalez Banner.
Every Peacemaker is a flagship, so it would only be appropriate that the Unit Patch would be proudly displayed as tail art.
And, of course, replace USAF and US AIR FORCE with RR and ROUGH RIDERS.
(EDIT: Oh yeah, and nix the checker marks on the landing gear doors, tail-fin tips, and the yellow on the propeller hubs and engine intakes. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of a B-36 like that before and it looks ghastly to my eyes.)
F-EZigs are carried on pylons under the wings, between each engine (with the last ones outboard of the fusion torch engines). Properly fitted, a Peacemaker can touch down and take off at a 'Dane-side airfield with its F-EZig accompaniment docked.
By all means, Star, hack away.
And I don't lay sole claim to the F-EZigs. If I like what I see, I'll just say, "Yeah, Roughriders got those, too."
One final thing... Ben wouldn't be so evil as to make that many people operate on a forward-deployed basis like that... He'd give them several small facilities, hidden in the Belt on which they can rest, recuperate... and, when needed, scramble and come flying like bats outta hell. It wouldn't even have to be an asteroid. It could be a small space station. Nothing huge, probably on the same scale as the ISS because it would have food, living quarters, plus parts and munitions for the entire squadron. (At this point, I'm gonna say that a typical Roughrider Squadron is two Blackbirds, twelve F-EZigs, and a Peacemaker. Peacemaker carries eight F-EZigs each and each BB piggybacks two more - their hulls are so short, after all.)
Long duration configuration on a Peacemaker would probably be three-of-four modular bays fitted with a living unit (racks for the entire crew plus eight fighter pilots, plus galley and hygiene) and one heavy missile unit (incase they run across something really tough).
For more flavor, Peacemakers, despite being well built machines, are quirked to break down in some bizarre way. However, during the design phase Ben did foresee a need for them to be easy to work on. Therefore, most breakdowns can be repaired in-flight by the flight engineer. Therefore, you can have the engineer grumbling about some repair he/she just finished up (easy to work on, yes - convenient, no).
For the flight engineer... you could use that character I thought up that riffed off of All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku... she was the one that started out as a farm girl who just wanted to help her dad out by making sure the tractor never broke down again... and got herself a very unique kind of catgirl biomod. (The 'bio' part of that is debatable as she is roughly 20% cybernetic now.) Ah, yes! Here she is: http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/topic/5426
Someday I am really gonna have to do a better job getting some of this stuff wikified so it's not a big question mark. :p
EDIT2:
Just for scale, Star. Nothing really brings home the sense of scale on this thing like this picture. Yes, those are chairs they're sitting in.
![[Image: b36f_01.jpg]](http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/bomber/b36/b36f_01.jpg)
The primary finish of most Roughrider ships (with the notable exception of Blackbirds) is mirror-finish chrome in honor of the Apollo Astronauts, whose capsules were finished in a similar manner. On the Peacemaker, it'll still have the blacked-out area over the nose simply to keep any glare from the Sun out of the command crew's collective faces. Of course, this is gonna be one of those matte black finishes.
The Air Force roundels should be replaced with Republic of Texas flags and the SAC shield with the Gonzalez Banner.
Every Peacemaker is a flagship, so it would only be appropriate that the Unit Patch would be proudly displayed as tail art.
And, of course, replace USAF and US AIR FORCE with RR and ROUGH RIDERS.
(EDIT: Oh yeah, and nix the checker marks on the landing gear doors, tail-fin tips, and the yellow on the propeller hubs and engine intakes. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of a B-36 like that before and it looks ghastly to my eyes.)
F-EZigs are carried on pylons under the wings, between each engine (with the last ones outboard of the fusion torch engines). Properly fitted, a Peacemaker can touch down and take off at a 'Dane-side airfield with its F-EZig accompaniment docked.
By all means, Star, hack away.
And I don't lay sole claim to the F-EZigs. If I like what I see, I'll just say, "Yeah, Roughriders got those, too." One final thing... Ben wouldn't be so evil as to make that many people operate on a forward-deployed basis like that... He'd give them several small facilities, hidden in the Belt on which they can rest, recuperate... and, when needed, scramble and come flying like bats outta hell. It wouldn't even have to be an asteroid. It could be a small space station. Nothing huge, probably on the same scale as the ISS because it would have food, living quarters, plus parts and munitions for the entire squadron. (At this point, I'm gonna say that a typical Roughrider Squadron is two Blackbirds, twelve F-EZigs, and a Peacemaker. Peacemaker carries eight F-EZigs each and each BB piggybacks two more - their hulls are so short, after all.)
Long duration configuration on a Peacemaker would probably be three-of-four modular bays fitted with a living unit (racks for the entire crew plus eight fighter pilots, plus galley and hygiene) and one heavy missile unit (incase they run across something really tough).
For more flavor, Peacemakers, despite being well built machines, are quirked to break down in some bizarre way. However, during the design phase Ben did foresee a need for them to be easy to work on. Therefore, most breakdowns can be repaired in-flight by the flight engineer. Therefore, you can have the engineer grumbling about some repair he/she just finished up (easy to work on, yes - convenient, no).
For the flight engineer... you could use that character I thought up that riffed off of All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku... she was the one that started out as a farm girl who just wanted to help her dad out by making sure the tractor never broke down again... and got herself a very unique kind of catgirl biomod. (The 'bio' part of that is debatable as she is roughly 20% cybernetic now.) Ah, yes! Here she is: http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/topic/5426
Someday I am really gonna have to do a better job getting some of this stuff wikified so it's not a big question mark. :p
EDIT2:
Just for scale, Star. Nothing really brings home the sense of scale on this thing like this picture. Yes, those are chairs they're sitting in.