| Toben-Domon | Date: Thursday, 05 May 2011, 10:16 PM | Message # 1 |
 Major general
Group: Users
Messages: 347
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| Hull Type-
Length-
Armor-
Power plant-
Engine-
- 3x Ion engine (primary)
- 2x Planetary thruster (backup)
FTL Drive-
Support Systems & Crew Quarters-
Weapons-
- 4x Laser cannons (fixed, forward-firing)
- 1x Warhead launcher (rear-firing)
Defenses-
- Chaff
- Jammer
- Decoy drone
- Particle/ray shielding
Command & Control Systems-
- Cockpit
- Nav control
- Radio transceiver
Sensors- Crew-
- 1x Pilot
- 1x Gunner
- 15x Passenger
- 400 metric tons of cargo
Toben Domon
Senator, Sluis Van
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| Jace_Varitek | Date: Saturday, 07 May 2011, 1:02 AM | Message # 2 |
 Generalissimo
Group: Administrators
Messages: 2245
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| I love it and I vote to APPROVE. I've got nothing else to say, lol. Except that it seems like a great, simple ship that's perfect for projecting a personality onto, you know? I think it was Sartre who said that we're defined more by what we're not than what we are, or maybe it was Camus, I don't remember. And something about the simplicity of this ship, and the limitations of it too—it's a solid and reliable ship but not really endowed with anything too flashy or special—seems really relatable to me. Ships are often considered to be characters unto themselves (the Millennium Falcon, obviously, and Serenity from Firefly, or even, in an antagonistic sense, the infamous truck in the film Duel), and for me the most sympathetic characters, whether in RP or in fiction generally, are characters who are average and not without flaws, either. After all, to "rise to an occasion," a character must be impelled to transcend the things that are ordinary about themselves or their circumstances and do something extraordinary. I can see this ship doing that, and doing extraordinary things not because it was born (or in this case "designed" or "created"), in some Campbellian sense, to do extraordinary things—say, Superman for instance, or Hercules, or Anakin Skywalker, with great powers or strength (in this case, analogously, special shields or sensors, or an abundance of weapons, etc.)—but rather because it's a simple ship with a simple purpose that can and probably will be pushed to do far more than people expect of it and, if it were a thinking, feeling character, probably more than it would expect of itself, too. So, having said all that and surprised myself with how strongly I apparently feel about it, I guess the moral of this story is that when I said "I've got nothing else to say," I was wrong. So I can be wrong, apparently. I'm never always sure of this, I think because I never really regret anything. Although, shockingly, I did find myself genuinely regretting something the other day. This is rare, for me. I saw a dog poking its nose around in a bush looking for a ball, while the ball was sitting on the ground in plain sight directly behind it. It was hilarious, and I should have snapped a picture of it but I didn't. This, I regret. It just goes to show you... something. Possibly (probably) that it's really time for me to go to sleep.
Jace Varitek
Manager/Administrator from January 2003 to Present
My recent posts here, pre-2009 archives here
"When my information changes, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?"
—John Maynard Keynes
Furthermore, a dancing Wookiee:
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| OrionKarath | Date: Saturday, 07 May 2011, 9:54 PM | Message # 3 |
 Lieutenant general
Group: Administrators
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| Due to Jace's very long and detailed declaration of love, and my appreciation of the source image... APPROVE
Orion Karath
Manager from June 2009 to Present, Administrator from December 2011 to Present
My posts here, pre-2009 archives here
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| Karth_DeQora | Date: Saturday, 07 May 2011, 9:55 PM | Message # 4 |
 Colonel general
Group: Administrators
Messages: 1157
Status: Offline
| ... APPROVED.
Man, Myth, Administrative God. Also plays a mean kazoo.
Jace Varitek: In Northern California we just have gangs of vigilante interior decorators.
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