The Terrans

[AgentZero]

Sefta Aruna: Yes, I am working towards having a complete, downloadable shipset sometime in the future. Don't know when it'll be done though, since I only found the time to work on them since I was sick and off work. Now that I'm better it'll probably take me quite a while to get em finished off.

Baron Munchausen: In principle, I would agree with you about the guns. However, keep in mind that the shipset is being built according to very well established guidelines that unfortunately were not created with SE in mind. And the Galaxy of Fire Terran ships' most prominant feature has always been their guns. While most GoF races conceal their guns internally, the Terrans revel in their reputation as the most fearsome warriors in the Galaxy, and place their weapons on open display as a challenge to any who might oppose them.

Klvino [ORB]: I see where you're coming from, and I may actually go back and lengthen the struts to make them look a bit more heavy-duty. Keep in mind though, that a considerable amount of Terran ships' hulls are composed of a substance called Ultramantium, whose strength-to-weight ratio makes titanium seem like tinfoil.
From the Galaxy of Fire Encyclopedia (and mostly from memory too!): "Ultramantium, and the composition thereof, is a closely guarded secret of the Terran Federation. It is such an incredibly strong, durable substance that in order to construct with it, solid pieces of ultramantium must be forged with pockets of a dense carbon-fibre 'mesh' where the piece is to be joined to another. This makes it extremely difficult to work with, and in fact most of the ultramantium in a Terran ship's design is concentrated in the two or more massive shields that typifies Terran design...."

If memory serves the article continues in depth about the costs associated with ultramantium construction, and why those costs prohibit Terrans from building their entire ships out of it and so forth but I don't remember that part so well, and it's not terribly relavent anyway.

As for the shipset itself, I've got the LC sketched out, and hopefully will get it rendered tomorrow, along with hopefully the Cruiser as well, if I managed to get it sketched during a quiet moment at work tomorrow...