Odd fluff question
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Locutus9956
Mongoose
Well they changed to darker colour even before then really. Look at Omegas and Novas compared to Hyperions.
Really though I think it was just an artistic thing really that EA get's darker as the show progresses (on the off chance that anyone reading this DOESNT know the show yet I'll say no more to avoid spoilers)
Really though I think it was just an artistic thing really that EA get's darker as the show progresses (on the off chance that anyone reading this DOESNT know the show yet I'll say no more to avoid spoilers)
Locutus9956
Mongoose
Burger said:
You jest, but thats actually quite plausible now I think about it
EA rushed to rebuild it's fleet and didnt bother wasting resources on paint (it takes ALOT of paint to cover an Omega
)Wing Commander
Mongoose
In one of the older Star Trek Tactical Combat Simulator (yep, that's what it was called!) supplements they mentioned how the Federation stopped using white paint and went with the plain white steel hull material due to cost and weight.
The article was excellent (a bit tongue in cheek) and explained how much 1000's of gallons of paint cost, how expensive it was for the equipment and man hours to paint it on and how heavy all this paint was. It followed through by going through the maintenance schedule costs for maintaining the paint (which got burnt / chipped / holed / flaked regularly) and how much space the paint physically took up to store onboard a ship, not to mention that whole fleet tenders could go out loaded with nothing but paint - a fairly useless cargo all things considered and another horrificly expensive run for cosmetics.
The EA probably came to the same conclusions and decided that there was no point in all of the expense and hassle just to paint a ship...
The article was excellent (a bit tongue in cheek) and explained how much 1000's of gallons of paint cost, how expensive it was for the equipment and man hours to paint it on and how heavy all this paint was. It followed through by going through the maintenance schedule costs for maintaining the paint (which got burnt / chipped / holed / flaked regularly) and how much space the paint physically took up to store onboard a ship, not to mention that whole fleet tenders could go out loaded with nothing but paint - a fairly useless cargo all things considered and another horrificly expensive run for cosmetics.
The EA probably came to the same conclusions and decided that there was no point in all of the expense and hassle just to paint a ship...
Lord David the Denied
Mongoose
Why do you keep saying EAS when you mean either the Earth Alliance or EarthForce? EAS is the prefix for EarthForce ships, standing for Earth Alliance Ship... :?
Greg Smith
Mongoose
Wing Commander said:
This is precisely the reason NASA stopped painting the shuttle's extrenal tank white.
Greg Smith
Mongoose
No, it was done to save weight. (272kg according to wikipedia).
CZuschlag
Mongoose
I remember a note from the manual to the old PC game "VGA Planets" about the group called the "Solar Federation" (knock-off of Star Trek's Federation)
"For some unknown reason they like to paint their warships bright white and put external lighting systems on them. This tends to make them easier targets in a fight, but it also has the effect of scaring the daylights out of enemies. After all anyone who would light up their ships so brightly has to be unafraid of all enemies and have a very powerful ship or they are just completely stupid. "
Valid point!
"For some unknown reason they like to paint their warships bright white and put external lighting systems on them. This tends to make them easier targets in a fight, but it also has the effect of scaring the daylights out of enemies. After all anyone who would light up their ships so brightly has to be unafraid of all enemies and have a very powerful ship or they are just completely stupid. "
Valid point!
MustEatBrains
Mongoose
djshire said:
"...or they are just completely..." :wink:
