Okay, So here are some more of the Paravian's Ships:

And here is the Sparrow at another angle. I did enlarge the cockpit. But I really think that it is the angle and distance that affects the look.

Personally I think I'd call that scavenger the Tick class. Canine race. biological weapon. And it looks like a bug.

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Still doesn't look like a star fighter to me. Maybe if you got rid of the neck. Yeah I'm being a pain I know. The rest are perfect.

Yea the Tick sounds good to me. Was having a hard time thinking of a name for it as well. So I think we should go with Tick. As for the Sparrow....back to the drawing board. Oh and I can not get rid of the neck with out getting rid of the body component that all other parts are attached to. So..........guess I can try to hide the neck some how.

Or design a new cockpit that covers the neck area.

Finding some of the names is hard. For the Lyrans I needed feline names but what to do for a spore ship? I picked Manticore-class. Part feline; part serpent; part man. The biological weapon could represent the serpent part so I figured it worked.

Plus the Manticore mythology indicates that it was a creature of massive destruction. The Tick can be deadly for wildlife as well....so I like it. Chose Valkyrie because it was a name of a ship class for the Hydran's. Plus they were the choosers of the dead warriors in Norse mythology. Liked Vulture for the Paravian's, for it is a Carrion bird. Condor and Roc are of course names for Romulan ships. So that ruled them out. And the Gorn have all nice dinosaurs names.

Okay.....here are two different versions of the Sparrow. Let me know what you think. It should make it look more like a fighter. But my personal creative opinion is that the original Sparrow looks more bird like.

The Sparrow 3 I think.

All righty! Here is the Paravian Survey Cruiser and the Light Cruiser. Tell me what you think.

All right, the Sparrow 3 then.

Hey AF, what races will be playable?

Here is the Paravian Troop Ship

The United Federation of Planets; Klingon Empire; Romulan Star Empire; Kzinti Hegemony; Lyran Star Empire; Hydran Kingdom; Gorn Confederation; Tholian Holdfast; and the Interstellar Concordium.

What he said.

Ok guys I said I was going to be taking some liberties on the appearance of the Tholians.

For those of you who know what they look like the Tholians have triangular spacecraft with annoying angles for those using the assembly parts of Galactic Civilizations.

Another thing to keep in mind with the Tholians is that when it comes to "alien", ships belonging to the Tholians fit the term. There ships are unlike anything else in the galaxy which is probably because they aren't from our galaxy.

Tholians aren't flesh in blood. They are rock. And there ships look a lot like that. They look like they carved and polished ships from solid rock.

So in sacrificing their basic shape I decided on concentrating on giving them their "living rock" look of ships.

A Tholian Webspinner from the Original series:


Now the Tholian Webspinner in Galactic Civilizations 2:





There is a larger version of it included called Widow-class(Medium)

Here is the Arachnid class patrol ship:




The Tholians of Federation and Empire are refugees from another Galaxy. Fleeing from the slaves they once mastered they came to our galaxy and established the Tholian Holdfast. Limited on building supplies and technology they found a small "chunk" of Klingon space and called it home becoming enemies of the Klingons forever. Still lacking technology they started to take from their neighbors. The Klingons always spoiling for a fight managed to leave pieces of their ships for the Tholians to play with thus was born the Tholian: TK5




The next one isn't really a Tholian ship at all but I've included it into their fleet.
The Aurora class. In the attempt of early star trek to save a few dollars like when they gave Romulans the same warbirds as the klingons they needed to make a "space yaht". This was called the S.S. Aurora and was in the Original series episode called:
"The Way to Eden". What they did was take the Tholian ship and addd warp engines to it. If you watch the remastered episode, well they completely changed it.
So since the Tholians already are known for their klingon hybrid ships I decided to add the Aurora in to the mix as a Tholian/Federation Hybrid.

Original Aurora:


Galacatic Civilizations 2 Aurora:




Ok I'm back to the shipyard working again. I got 13 more Tholians to do.

So all of the Tholian ships I made, you didn't like  



It's your mod, you can do what ever you want. BTW can I make the events?

I thought you and J were going to come up with some ideas and images for events.

I never said I didn't like them. You gave me ideas.

Oh, and you still grounded?

Our mom let me go fo good behavoir, also J has to preapprove everything I say on here from now on.

Me and J just strted an we already finished one event.

so all thats left is the Interstellar Concordium right? and also i more qwestion are you going to put it in the libary or some where else becase the ships the race with tech tree and improvement and all the other stuff like the maps and the Campaign. i think this is going to be bigger then 20MBs so i think you are going have to put them in parts in the library, or put it some where else.

also if you need a beta tester i am your man.

atlas7d is about ready to take over authoring of many ships from you, AF... do something about it!

Collaboration is pure magic and can only result in ONE important thing; terrific quality of the Fed/Emp mod.



Whadda'ya'say, StarDock - shouldn't you seriously consider breaking that limit to a MUCH bigger bytes count (dunno, 80 or 100 even!) to provide us with a more efficient bandwidth access pattern?

I could use more too for; X-Worlds ++ XW-Planets ++ XW-Movies ++ XW-Ships, etc.
And, eventually for the CoSH mod (as of today, it packs up at 17MBs and there's only 12 Homeworlds and 24 Minors added in since version 05-A!).

This was yours:

And I couldn't figure out how to do the rear of this ship until I saw yours:





Hydrans and ISC. Atlas has been doing a great job and providing me inspriration but I have all his stuff he sent me saved to start up once I get the Tholians finished.

You guys also have to understand there a a few minor race ships that need to be done up. Andromedans, Orion Pirates, Seltorians, WYN, LDR(they got finished same day as the Lyrans).

They won't have large ship sets like the majors but they have to get done too. They won't take too long I imagine.

Oh, I'm sorry AF.

If its too big, which it probably will be. It will be in parts and/or on I-Mod.

Felt like I was apologizing for my Tholian design. You guys like them?

Yes.