Archive for February, 2010

The San Diego-Class Cruisers are very powerful ships and are primarily used as fleet escorts to larger ships such as Battleships, Carriers or Dreadnoughts, however Cruisers themselves are often used as command ships of much smaller ship groups.

The Canberra took part in the invasion of Hoyle in 2297, where she was a fleet escort as apart of the 10^th Cruiser Squadron.

The Canberra was chosen in 2299 to lead the Reinager Invasion Group, and as it became the group’s flagship – Commodore Arthur Greene was transferred aboard.

Go to U.S.S. Canberra Page

Rummel was transferred from Earth along with Baker and Dog Companies of the 1^st Battalion aboard the U.S.S. Hornblower (SDD-1073) to the rendezvous point at Fiersis in the Granedee System before accompanying the Reinager Invasion Group to its target.

Rummel is an unrelenting adversary, he believes firmly in superior firepower and a direct hard and fast assault.

Go to Norman ‘The Rhino Rummel Character Page

This week has been very very slow…why you may ask?

One word…clouds.

In Part 8 we are going to see the invasion of Toyr’diablo which of course involves the invasion force entering the atmosphere, and of course that means clouds…creating, animating and rendering clouds can be a pretty arduous task, not so much the creating and animating, but the rendering is astonishing depending how big your clouds get. One 200 frame (roughly 8 seconds long) shot took 16 hours to render – crazy huh?

So yes it’s been going a little slower than usual, but nonetheless Part 8 is charging forward.

Another little hiccup with Part 8 is the fact myself and my family are moving house today, it’s incredible that you never really know how much stuff you have until you move house.

So today is pretty much a write-off for doing any work on Part 8 .

Another section I’m going to start doing on and off is wallpaper, I’m going to do everything at 1152 x 864 resolution, but if you want it higher or lower just let me know and I can do them how you like them.

So thanks once more for the interest and all the support and stay tuned for more.

Lew

The Roanoke along with several other Union vessels were destroyed by new Dakota super-cannons that had been fitted to the front of their destroyers and cruisers. The destruction of the Union vessels was so quick and instant that all hands perished.

Quickly after the destruction of the Roanoke, the remaining two vessels, U.S.S. Patton (SCA-703) and U.S.S. Tigershark (SGB-994) retreated, ensuring the destruction of the Nile Road and the decisive loss of the battle.

Go to U.S.S. Roanoke Page

I have two wallpapers both taken from the Invasion of Toyr’diablo – during the landing operations involving the UC-78 Raven Carryalls – first wallpaper is 1280×800 and the last two are 1152×864, please let me know if you would like different resolutions and I can provide and I’m sure there’ll be more to come.

Laski was transferred to the U.S.S. Asimov (SDX-6152) of the Imperial 8^th Colonial Fleet in 2295 as chief weapons officer, by 2297 he was the executive officer serving under Captain Esteban.

In 2299 Laski and his ship were ordered into enemy territory to run research on a newly discovered black hole that had been detected there. He was more than unimpressed with the lack of any sort of escort on such a dangerous mission.

Laski, the rest of the Asimov crew and the Asimov herself have not been heard from again and are listed as missing in action.

Go to Paul Laski Character Page