Harvester

[Jinx]

a word ( or words ) of explanation to some extend...

the history of the harvesters goes far into the past - intertwined with the dom kavash and their designs - whats appropriately functional for a machine faction would be a borg cube or a floating "something" - construction site sort of that would grow more and more into a nexus of structures combined and fused over the centuries... - however what an AI factions ship would look like is of course subjective and down to what one thinks of what machines put priority onto.

nature has found efficient "designs" for things - and a fishlike shape is not far fetched for a living being in space - nature is quite efficient, too - and has not created a cube as the simplest thing, - nor a real sphere ( although some species are close to that ... like some ant tribe in the amazonian areas that form up a living sphere as a hive )

now - lets look at it in a more practical way. - such a ship would attempt to replace a design that is rather unpopular or unused. - spontanously - i would think of the battlestar ( the old one ) - the talarca or the huntress. - now, i checked for some of them - and the talarca appears to be more popular than i expected, especially its generic look ( thats why i m not working on a replace anymore ) - the battlestar is a brand of the =CR= faction, and even if its a bad model that looks anything but the battlestars from the show - its still a ship they "need" for their roleplay. - the huntress is a bad design ( not a bad model ) - its not used much cause its slow, its shape is horrible in the FL enviroment and it doesn t fit to the corsairs. the rheinland pirate cruiser is somewhat rare, too - thats why we chose that one as the first choice for a replace - cause people usually rather take the hessian cruiser over it anyway.

of course i could also replace the corsair dreadnaught ( not the current one, but the one that is put aside in the lost battlestar ) - so it would be a replace, but in a way - a fully new model, cause the old one was inaccessable.

however, such a design NEEDS to be approved by the community as it would NOT be a public ship for whatever it is. - it would be a non restriced faction ship - like the juggernaut is not to be used by anyone but the zoners. - problem here is ... the zoners are a vanilla faction, the harvesters are not - however, their storyline blends into the history of sirius quite well ( for those that read it )

i do know that the design does not suit "humans" much - however, its not really "non-freelancerish" - which on the other hand doesn t mean its particularly machine like - but somehow a design must settle somewhere.

so the simple question is - would it hurt more than it helps to replace a non used ship with such a design and give the harvester faction this ship as their own? - put aside jealousy about a new faction getting a design they call their own - are there real reasons why that should not happen - would such a design disturb vanilla RP?

from what i see - the harvesters would prolly not use too many of those... i don t know... 1-3 maybe.... its a playerfaction with a direct control over the ship to contain any random player from using it to spoil others RP.

so - lets say, i ll hardponit it the way the unused corsair dreadnaught is hardpointed - no ship in use would get replaced - would it be acceptable then?

ps.: mon stars ship is approved - a ship for him alone

edit: - i don t see getting a faction ship as a reward as such ( even if it is - in some way ) ... but in the end, its simply luck. - if you have someone that likes your ideas and works on a ship, you may get it... on the other hand, even if you need one desperately, but there is simply no one able to make one out of lack of imagination or skill, you don t get one. - now i agree with unselie here for the "does not fit human designs" - so i d hope such a ship would rather be used in the more remote systems - where juggernauts and other odd ships fly around, too. - it would look strange in manhatten orbit for sure.

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