the O Miner

[Unseelie]

Plus one, and thinking out loud, I've been felling around the Ominer armour rill idea. I like it, but it needs body. The ring is supposed to be, ultimately, a massively overgrown armour rill.

for those of us who don't know what I'm talking about when I say armour rill, the templar, hussar, and clyde all have spiky, curved protrusions from their armour, as though two convex edges meet. Armour rill.

the ring, then, is a large outgrowth of armour rills. I have thought that it could be done that the ring doesn't complete in the bottom, but this doesn't adress my problem, which is I cannot get my head around a body.
Someone in the Bowex chat has been describing bretonian ships as beetle shelled. I prefer, as I think is the standard, the idea that they are crustatsions, but the idea that much of the outer bodies are shells stands.

This one, not being a capital, will have a fairly smooth shell. The underside of the shell is, as is the style, incomplete, and thats where lots of the 'roughness' of a miner ship will occupy its space. Even so, it needs to be noted that there is no actual underside to the shell, there's just stuff. I'm really not sure what stuff to put there.

Jamez's post helps. My idea, right now, is to have the rills facing backwards, with a large, blunt edge forward. Freelancer design is full of blunt edges, and bretonia has them too, just in stranger places. The rill plating I took the idea from, the one on the clyde, has very heavy edges near the bottom. So, the actual people section of the ship will occur just under the the top of the ring. I'm thinking something like a large oval bridge veiwing port, then the main body, then a connection to the engine. The main body itself is primarily cargospace.

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