Defender_16

Metric empire... now I've seen everything. Celebrex? It seems to have some side effects. The Snowmen of Calvin & Hobbes

Found the image earlier today. http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/Motivational-Napoleonalt2.jpg

If you're giving the Rebels access to Imperial ships your best bet are Victory Destroyers with Y-wing Squadrons for bombardment. I think the VSDII is the strongest bombardment modifier you can get but it doesnt have as much in the way of guns as the ISDII does. I normally use a mixed fleet dedicated for bombardment of about 3 ISDII's and 4-6 VSDII's all equipped with Y-wings. It's my default force of choice for getting through the Shields at Coruscant. Just did a rough calculation and when all is said and done the ISDII has equivilant bombardment capability to the VSDII not counting fighters.

Arround here some of the grocery stores are starting to phase back in cloth bags that people can buy. Many others are simply reusing the plastic ones.

Just a short piece so far. +++ Blade of the Empire and her sister ship Anguish reverted to realspace a safe distance outside of Bothan Space. Turr Phennir turned from the viewports to face his bridge crew. Most looked away to other tasks as he turned. "Navigator, plot a course for the nearest Imperial held sector capital. Communications, I want reports on what of our forces are left and then transmit the co-ordinates that the navigator will supply you with." The General's aid walked over with a datapad. "The Damage reports sir." "Unless any of them concern the Hyperdrives I'll look over them later. We need to organise our starfighter squadrons. Once we're back in command of a resupplied fleet I want to begin staging starfighter raids against the Rebels." The Destroyer began it's run up to hyperspace and the General paused to allow the distracting lightshow time to finish. "Sir, staging starfighter raids against the Rebel positions will require large numbers of advanced Starfighters. I'm not certain we can requisition that many." Phennir nodded. "We'll use a few of the Destroyers and Carriers to jump in and deploy a squadron or two of starfighters in diffrient places where hyperdrive equipped models arn't available. Mostly I intend to use these new Tie Gauntlet starfighters. They can carry a hyperdrive and any number of weapons based on mission and by themselves are cheaper than Tie Bombers." The Aid called up the new information on number of remaining squadrons. "We do have some newer model Tie Bombers left over sir. Their shields were strong enough to see them through the worst of the fighting." "This could work." Phennir decided at length. "The only real problem we'll have is dealing with the Sector moff upon our arrival." His Aid looked over. "We have two Super Star Destroyers sir. In a worse case scenario we could threaten his capital with bombardment if he doesn't supply us." Phennir laughed. 075

A severely kick ass picture find there Tofu. I already reposed it on another Forum.

CAD's take on the New Civilization game.

I saw a couple of the movies so far. Really not all that interested in the whole thing. (Prefer LOTR.) Glad that Dobby bought it though. Didn't care for the character in the movie where he first appeared.

Some local news. This is about a five minute drive from where I live.

Nice one J. Anyways, I'd just read an article the other day about the new Brit Aircraft carrier. Something to the effect that some in the MoD were trying to derail the entire program atleast according to a retired First Sea Lord. (Is it Sea Lord, or First Sea Lord? )

Is that the revised version of the Preybird? Preybird 2 or something? This story isn't bad overall, but my head is hurting something fierce after the lack of punctuation. (It's like a physical force!) Could we perhaps find a volunteer to edit these posts and PM them back to inquizitor? EDIT: I guess I could do it now though while I wait for Paul to log on.

OMG. http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12669 God... Damn, I can't believe it's actually a Warthog. I want one.

EDIT: My previous post was 1337! A truly L33T event! It's supposed to have 10 kiloton nukes going off under that giant shock absorbing blast plate, so yeah it want's to be big. The book is pritty interesting. The US Government rounds up a whole bunch of the best Sci-fi writers they can find to try and figure out how to combat the aliens. They also armed the ship with these sort of deployable self destructing gamma-Ray lasers. When the X-rays from the nukes going off hit the devices it would set off some kind of reaction that would fire it's laser. C&C Budapest The Commodore mp3 player Pokemon rights in the US Senate

EDIT: I think I may have posted the first one before. Kinda tired, I'll check later. http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/repression.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/p-thenine.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/randomencountersmotiv.jpg

I haven't been on so much lately but this just had to be posted. The Orion Project inspired ship 'Micheal' from the Larry Niven book 'Footfall.'

Must agree with Tofu there. It's cool. Did you have any particular planet in mind when you made it? (ie. It's cool, just what the heck is it?)

An odd Combination of music for this game video.

So I go Comman & Conquer 3 yesterday and it's suficiently kick ass. The Mamoth Mk.3 Tank truly appears to be a worth successor to the previous ones, especually after you upgrade it wity Railguns. The new 'Zone troopers' waver back and worth between giving too much over kill and just getting killed to easily. Harvesters remain true to their inebriated origins and will once again waltz right up to an enemy base if the Tiberium field is on the other side. Infantry are grouped in squads which seems to make controling them easier. Unfortunately the basic infantry seem to take damage much more easily than in previous games and arn't quite as versatile. No mowing down a tank with twenty riflemen in this one, you'll need a whole bunch of rockets or a tank to kill the enemy one. Orca Fighters are basically the same though they appear to lack some of the crappyness of the Orca's in Tiberian Sun. It's been compensated for by making them slightly more stupid when it comes to returning to their airfield. Thankfully there's a return all aircraft to airfield button which they immediately follow. Unit repair took me a little while to catch on to. Vehicles within a set radius around the Warfactory will get repaired by flying droids. Infantry must be sent to the armoury for their asquad to be re-equipped. This is a step in the wrong direction for infantry as far as I'm concerned as the Medic was a staple of my infantly forces in previous games. Gameplay seems fairly solid. Overall despite it's quirks I'd still recommend the game.

I did this for NSO though so I included my 8km long "Command Class Super Star Destroyer" which has a diffrient bridge design. Does anyone know where I can find a floor plan for a standard Destroyer Bridge giving scale?

It wasn't just you Mad. Man, in Academy I couldn't even make it past the first level until I decided to go with Jedi heal first.

A race for the survival of humanity... an arms race. Halo 3 - E3 2007 Trailer

+++ Galactic Venture fired her heavy turrets one last time before the Imperial class Star Destroyers could get out of range. The burned remains of destroyed hull plate still drifted away from the Smuggler Warship, even though she was no longer taking hits. The Tie Bomber squadron that had been harassing the ship had gotten a few torpedoes through and damaged one of the turrets. The old Corellian picked up his comlink. "Booster to Kre`fey, we can`t get enough speed up to stay with you." The Bothan's voice came back with barely a moment's delay. "Don't bother Booster, we're going to have to break off persuit before they jump. If you have any Tractor beams left help get those enemy Vic's under tow. I don't want them falling out of orbit." "We've got enough to do some work still. I'll have my remaining fighters pile into that mess the Imperials call a fleet. Booster out." Booster looked over to his starfighter co-ordinator. "Well, what are you waiting for? I want our people to get in some parting shots." +++ An old style Tie Starfighter with rebel markings trailed flame as it plunged down into the shields of the SSD Anguish. Face snapped off a shot at the Interceptor that had hit the Rebel fighter but it dodged at the last second. Elassar Targon, flying a Tie Hunter blew through the Interceptor then linked up with Wraith leader. "Eleven here, it looks like the advanced ties are grouping near the landing bays." "That makes sense." responded Face. "Not all of their advanced fighters will be equipped with hyperdrives." A pair of XJ's with gold squadron markings came streaking arround the edge of the Destroyer with a flight of Tie Defenders in persuit. "This is gold leader, could use some help." Face checked his screens then issued orders. "Wraiths three, and five make for Gold Leader's position. Eleven, you're with me." As the four rebel ties closed on the X-wing pair the Defenders launched their remaining missiles. Peshk still had enough countermeasures left over to protect his fighter but his wingman didn't. Three concussion missiles blew through shields and the aft fuselage exploded. Before the Wraiths could close to Weapons range the Defenders turned and fled back toward the landing bays. Not all of the Wraiths fighters were fast enough to keep up and if they did persue they'd find a squadron or more of Tie Gauntlets waiting for them. "Don't persue. Form on Gold Leader." The Five fighters flew out to a safe distance from the SSD while ignoring the turbolaser fire then linked up with a mixed fighter force preparing to strafe the same ship. All the while, Imperial class Star Destroyers overtook the two larger command ships and began jumping to hyperspace. The mixed fighter force encountered some droid starfighters before they made their pass but otherwise encountered little resistance. Lasers and even some missiles impacted the still whole shields on Anguish as the fighter group attempted to hit the bridge tower. The rebel fighters were preparing for a second pass when the SSD jumped to hyperspace. A trio of Star Destroyers jumped a moment later leaving less than a handfull of still operational ships behind. The last ship, a damaged Nebulon B frigate, exploded not long after when a converted passenger liner fired on it's damaged sublight drives. For a minute or two there was nearly complete com silence as the last few droid fighters and manned ties were shot down. An exhausted sounding voice came over the com not long after. "This is Admiral Kre'fey to all rebel ships... begin recovery operations." 074 Ok! I might made the ending a bit more entertaining but I decided it was time to end the darn battle and get it over with. Spelling checker still not installed on Vista machine yet so let me know if post contain any major errors so I can fix them.

It's not that big. Heck an old Dreadnaught is bigger. Thanks to a reminder from krytos I've scanned some things in today. http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/StationConcept.gif

Man... that reporter one was just hilarious. I was sto stunned at first a took me a few seconds to start laughing. I finally found one of my fovourite Anime Music Video's that got taken down from Youtube. You rarely see a badguy with such powerful character shields. Unfortunately it can't last.