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Transposition, or: Ship Happens [Worm/Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio | Arpeggio of Blue Steel]

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Hey, now. Lisa ain't a saint either.
Clearly, by their bitchiness combined they are Tattlepan. Pantale? Pantles? :V
 
Just to pitch in a thought for what Taylor's hull could end up looking like.


Just add glowing white tribal patterns and possibly switch out the single barrelled guns for twin mounts and it'd do quite nicely as a futuristic surface hull... Not that this'd be the end of the escalation, oh no, I won't be happy if Taylor's endgame hull can't fly ridiculously fast while raining down enough firepower to blot out the sun :p.
 
Twei said:
Hey, now. Lisa ain't a saint either.
Clearly, by their bitchiness combined they are Tattlepan. Pantale? Pantles? :V
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Disclaimer: This is not a serious idea. It is in fact probably very dumb.

shade argost said:
I have a half joke idea for Taylor's ship body.

She could go the Lantean route and build a city ship.
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Lantean?
*googles*
...eh. Honestly, it just looks like a big future city with not a single ship-like quality, you know? The aesthetics do not appeal. Besides. Houseboats are a thing already, thank you. And I think there's a relatively recent anime with towns built on huge collections on ships lashed together? And big generation ships would count, and... eh. Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeh.

More importantly, when I heard 'city ship' my first thought was Alchemicals.* And unfortunately, while Taylor is certainly a bullshit magical robot girl, she's not that kind of bullshit magical robot girl. Yet.

soon​

*(Actually, a chatroom I was in was discussing Exalted IN SPACE! where the ships would be built of high-Essence Alchemicals. And since high-Essence Alchemicals go from 'human sized' to 'giant robot' to 'really giant robot' to 'literally a city', it would certainly qualify as city ships. 'twas an interesting discussion.)
 
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Grounders10 said:
Clearly you need a dose of ideas. Pattlecea is the clear winner.
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Shit, you're totally right. Or Tattlecea. I was just thinking that I was neglecting to use the second half of Panacea's name, and there you go. (T/P)attlecea. Bam. :V
 
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Pyrotech51 said:
Just to pitch in a thought for what Taylor's hull could end up looking like.


Just add glowing white tribal patterns and possibly switch out the single barrelled guns for twin mounts and it'd do quite nicely as a futuristic surface hull... Not that this'd be the end of the escalation, oh no, I won't be happy if Taylor's endgame hull can't fly ridiculously fast while raining down enough firepower to blot out the sun :p.
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The turrets need more barrels.
 
Twei said:
Disclaimer: This is not a serious idea. It is in fact probably very dumb.


Lantean?
*googles*
...eh. Honestly, it just looks like a big future city with not a single ship-like quality, you know? The aesthetics do not appeal. Besides. Houseboats are a thing already, thank you. And I think there's a relatively recent anime with towns built on huge collections on ships lashed together? And big generation ships would count, and... eh. Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeh.

More importantly, when I heard 'city ship' my first thought was Alchemicals.* And unfortunately, while Taylor is certainly a bullshit magical robot girl, she's not that kind of bullshit magical robot girl. Yet.

soon​

*(Actually, a chatroom I was in was discussing Exalted IN SPACE! where the ships would be built of high Essence Alchemicals. And since high Essence Alchemicals go from 'human sized' to 'giant robot' to 'really giant robot' to 'literally a city', it would certainly qualify as city ships. 'twas an interesting discussion.)
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Your right it doesn't look like a ship, or at least the top third doesn't, until they launch it into space and initiate a hyper space jump when they need to relocate to another planet.
 
Twei said:
Shit, you're totally right. Or Tattlecea. I was just thinking that I was neglecting to use the second half of Panacea's name, and there you go. T/Pattlecea. Bam. :V
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Now if I could just figure out how the conversation got here I'd be happy.

Pyrotech51 said:
Just to pitch in a thought for what Taylor's hull could end up looking like.


Just add glowing white tribal patterns and possibly switch out the single barrelled guns for twin mounts and it'd do quite nicely as a futuristic surface hull... Not that this'd be the end of the escalation, oh no, I won't be happy if Taylor's endgame hull can't fly ridiculously fast while raining down enough firepower to blot out the sun :p.
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Too many straight lines, where are my handrails and pennants?
 
Glitchrr36 said:
The turrets need more barrels.
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Aye, and I had noted that. It seems to be based off of the fact that any modern gun proposal that could work for anti ship roles has some form of electromagnetic booster added to it for higher range and shell velocities. The Fog need none of that :D.

On the topic of ornamentation, why on earth would Taylor add that... It's not like she needs to look pretty or anything :p [jk]. More seriously I think it's just down to the resolution of the model and whoever made it not taking the extra time that would be needed to add them. A human warship would at least need railings and the like, though I could see any futuristic designs minimising the presence of anything that might give a good radar return.
 
Pyrotech51 said:
Just to pitch in a thought for what Taylor's hull could end up looking like.


Just add glowing white tribal patterns and possibly switch out the single barrelled guns for twin mounts and it'd do quite nicely as a futuristic surface hull... Not that this'd be the end of the escalation, oh no, I won't be happy if Taylor's endgame hull can't fly ridiculously fast while raining down enough firepower to blot out the sun :p.
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A ship based off of that from the From the Depths community:
Total Eclipse (Work in Progress)

 
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One thing we need to remember for our more, possible, speculation: Ships usually take their class design from the region in which they originally operate. Eg. Yamato being a Yamato-Class, U-2501 being a german U-boat, etc. So its likely that Taylor will be an American design.
 
Hmmm hmm, hmmm hmm.
Watashi no kare wa gunsou desu.


...and yes, I probably butchered that but I needed two more syllables
 
Grounders10 said:
One thing we need to remember for our more, possible, speculation: Ships usually take their class design from the region in which they originally operate. Eg. Yamato being a Yamato-Class, U-2501 being a german U-boat, etc. So its likely that Taylor will be an American design.
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So, are we talking Enterprise NCC 1701, Battlestar Galactica, or Star Destroyer? That seems to be the right sort of "American" ship designs Taylor can use as inspiration.
 
I'd say something here about The Pretty Dang Fine Ol' Texan Ship Alamo's Revenge, but I don't expect many people to have ever heard of that, since Superguy and SFStory never exactly had a huge reader base. This makes me sad, because transforming into a huge robotic steer and taking an Endbringer on its horns would be awesome.
 
One thing to remeber in Taylor's ship design is that she doesn't need living quarters or corridors etc. Since a Fog ship doesn't have a human crew, or at most a minimal crew, she needs minimal to no human comforts on board. Therefore she frees up a lot of space for more guns and missile tubes since she can get rid of the majority of the central tower (just basically have it as a senor suite, and probably decentralize that anyway).

That is, of course, assuming Taylor doesn't follow her sisters in the fine art of cos-playing.
 
Major Session said:
One thing to remeber in Taylor's ship design is that she doesn't need living quarters or corridors etc. Since a Fog ship doesn't have a human crew, or at most a minimal crew, she needs minimal to no human comforts on board. Therefore she frees up a lot of space for more guns and missile tubes since she can get rid of the majority of the central tower (just basically have it as a senor suite, and probably decentralize that anyway).
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It is still a ship, you need a lot of empty space for it to ,you know, actually float.
Then again Fog ships already stuff so much stuff, in the hulls that I doubt Fog pay any mind to things like buoyancy and physics. A Takao class hand more missiles that a Ticonderoga and a Kirow missile cruisers put together on top off the tube weaponry an WWII cruiser already had. All on a circa 15000t ton standard hull.

So Taylor can chose a Trireme form and still have macross missile massacre.
The ram bow would be a lovely place to put a big honking space gun in.:cool:

An Trireme hitting Leviathan on the head with its 3 rows of oars?
That image has a strange allure to it. In full on crack sort of way!:lol
 
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MarekGutkowski said:
It is still a ship, you need a lot of empty space for it to ,you know, actually float.
Then again Fog ships already stuff so much stuff, in the hulls that I doubt Fog pay any mind to things like buoyancy and physics. A Takao class hand more missiles that a Ticonderoga and a Kirow missile cruisers put together on top off the tube weaponry an WWII cruiser already had. All on a circa 15000t ton standard hull.

So Taylor can chose a Trireme form and still have macross missile massacre.
The ram bow would be a lovely place to put a big honking space gun in.:cool:

An Trireme hitting Leviathan on the head with its 3 rows of oars?
That image has a strange allure to it. In full on crack sort of way!:lol
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Fog tech is based on gravity manipulation and as such tends to ignore little things like 'bouyancy' and 'lift'. If I had time I'd look out that gif of the swan diving cruiser?, Battlecruiser? (Not sure what that one actually was), since that just about sums things up... Or the Kongou deathstar I suppose...
 
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