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Actually there are many Defender classes: 1) Defender class Assault Carrier-700m in length, probably what you're talking about 2) Defender class Star Destroyer- 1040m long, 65% the length of an ISD, but enough strength to pummel an ISDII...the pic makes the ship look kinda big tho... 3) New Republic Defender Starfighter- a system-based fighter, exceptional manuverabilty, but no hyperdrive. it's really small, looks really ugly too judging by the pic i saw. and you're right...that bothan assault cruiser looks like junk...it looks like someone chopped down an ugly skyscraper or something. but it is a picture at least.

yeah that shouldnt be a problem. it's been a great while since i've used 3ds max, but it shouldnt be hard to relearn. i did it the first time anyways. i'm not too good with textures tho, so i'll hafta hand it off to someone else for that. whenever i finish the modelling, i'll post some rendered pics of that, see if anyone likes it , then have it textured. i'm hoping it'll come out good, it looks neat on paper haha...

well it appears those were the only really useful pics i could find, but here's the link for anyone interested http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=starwars/article/sw20020110gallery and the second page of the gallery: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=starwars/article/sw20020124gallery Enjoy!

yes i saw saxman's, i have my own design. he actually sent that to me when i was doing some stuff for XWA. in his explanation, he talks about mixing together a few existing designs. i didn't think that'd work since it was of genuine rendili stardrive manufacture, so it should be based solely off the victory. the victory was succesful, just out dated, so i just added some 'bells and whistles,' simplified command structure, and...added a bit. i'll work on the model i doubt it'll take long.

i think fighters would be the easiest...but there werent really many new ones during the Thrawn Era were there? just the e-wing i believe...maybe the new republic defender?

yes i hope this will also kick in the love i had for this game, and i'm pretty sure it will

Well he sure does jump around quite a bit...i think i need to get back into the NJO series, i'm falling behind!

help, who needs that haha i hope you have a great vacation!

help, who needs that haha i hope your vacation is going well!

good points. even tho GL himself is the most canon source that can exist, i doubt that he would change the story too much to mess with continuity. Perhaps the first movie would span the Bakura campaign and most of the Rouge Squadron series, up to the Thrawn conflict. Then the second one could cover the Emperors Resurrection (the dark movie of the trilogy) and then the third one...hmm...it'd be nice if he possibly ended the show there....well until more books came out that is

is there any conversion rate that anyone has figured out between the amount of turbolasers to the turbolaser strength in rebellion? as in 60 heavy turbolasers of an ISD equals a value of 300 in the game? something like that...that would be helpful in balancing the ships. the same goes for shield's SBD values, and the in-game shield strength. rinse and repeat for ions, lasers, yada yada yada...

found some neat pics in a gallery of ships that wree previously never before designed, pretty good stuff. it's out of the 'Starships of the Galaxy' RPG, i think i might hafta get a copy. i posted some pics in one of the other threads under the models forum.

this place that is called nivan net or something actually is creating a fan fiction trilogy to complete the series, starting 80 years after ANH... haha Luke is supposedly 100+ years old and still going strong with his NJO, and apparently the Hutts are the arch-nemesis....

well, they all seem fun to blow up to me

i would be happy to help. i in no way feel the need to push all of these ships or anything like that, but right now i'm trying to figure out which if any of them can fit into the thrawn area. this is merely to help reloaded. as of right now, the Republic class supposedly should have existed at the time, tho may not have seen action. I would like to help with any modeling, if there is any to be done just holler my way.

i thought Coruscant was just outside the Deep Core. So just oustside the Koornacht, in other words. Because those damn Yevetha had control of the entire Koornacht, correct? Sesswenna is kind of an ugly name anyways. I used to have the web address for a site with an entire SW galaxy map...

...and of course, i'll look for more...

i found a website that has pics from the RPG book 'starships of the galaxy' which has a few drawings that give me a base to work with. i can take these, redraw them from more angles, and hopefully that way i can design a model also. Bothan Assault Cruiser http://www.wizards.com/starwars/images/sotg_gallery/40151_GS.jpg Defender Class Star Destroyer http://www.wizards.com/starwars/images/sotg_gallery/40153_GS.jpg

oh alright, well i guess that takes care of that then. it's no big deal, we can just pretend haha... tho theoretically, the clone emperor did retake coruscant, correct? i was reading through a timeline sometime ago, and it seemed like the empire retook coruscant once more also, does anyone know when this happened? i think i need to explore the other threads some more...

i'm pretty sure i could...i usually draw the models up myself, and then see what i can do with 3ds max. that's how i made all of the models before. i think the most complete model i did before was the republic SD, which had a basic star destroyer texture on it. it wouldnt be too hard, as long as i can get someone to send me the models they are using for the other ships (star destroyer, etc.) so that i can use these to know what sort of poly count i can work with. also, it'll help me out already having a model to work with, cuz that makes my work easier. i just have to manipulate the model, add some features, and it's done. obviously it would be harder with ships like the bothan assault cruiser, i would just try and find a similar ship design, note the differences, and then model the ship. it usually comes out ok after...several tries

well let's hope GL outlives his own expectations...then we'll have nothing to worry about in regard to a third trilogy. I wonder what THOSE movie titles would be...

hi?

thanks, guess i'll just go back to my roots

switching sides would create a lot of problems i assume, it'd be nice if things could work that way tho. is there some way to mess with the game to just have the rebels on coruscant to begin with? or maybe switch the planets names around so that whatever planet the rebels control at the beginning of the game (Yavin, for instance) would be Coruscant? just an idea.

that would be really awesome! i thought GL had nixed the third trilogy becuase he didnt expect to live that long. there are plenty of people he could hand it off to...it would be great to see the saga keep going tho! would they follow the current expanded universe or just go off and do something different?