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Broken shuttle in Luminaire
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Chris Vattic
BrainBox
Blades of Grass
#1 - 2012-06-07 12:51:33 UTC
There's a beacon in the system near this:

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/826/luminaire5.png

Any idea what that is and where it's from?
Gritz1
Ice Fire Warriors
#2 - 2012-06-07 16:46:46 UTC
Was this from one of the eve books? I could be completely wrong.
Roga Dracor
Gladiators of Rage
Fraternity.
#3 - 2012-06-07 19:58:39 UTC
Those are scattered all over the cluster.. I have asked before because the scale looks massive compared to our own ships. If that is a cockpit and not a bridge in the front..

Maybe the Jovians shrank the human race...? Lol

It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then, and it's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
Qvar Dar'Zanar
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2012-06-07 22:08:45 UTC
They look too much like an USA shuttle, and they are too big to be anything made by the four (five, actually) empires...
Roga Dracor
Gladiators of Rage
Fraternity.
#5 - 2012-06-08 02:10:22 UTC
Colony Ships is the best guess I have come up with.. Despite their shattered appearance, if they are pre-Empire, then they have held up remarkably well over the centuries.. Perhaps they are the Architects Gate Assembly ships, mobile factories able to take raw materials and build the infrastructure to colonize the cluster..

It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then, and it's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
Velarra
#6 - 2012-06-15 04:44:59 UTC
Or they are unfortunately, completely undefined, unrelated to any plot, fiction or eve history. Nothing more than models, set dressing.... pixels. Unfulfilling toys for the imagination of those that might see them. Plot hooks without plots or reason outside of RNG placement at the time of Eve's inception. To make a world seem as if it has a history.

Randomly scattered around Eve much like many of the impossible numbers and rng data given to the planets and stars of Eve. Like clouds in the sky.
Mithfindel
Zenko Incorporated
#7 - 2012-06-15 07:10:37 UTC
Terrans, terrans everywhere!

Well, not really. Just like several ships that have vastly nonproportional "cockpits" and "conn towers". Our frigates are roughly the size of real life heavy bombers or large airliners (there's a pic in the Internets comparing a Rifter to a 747). This would make the "bridge" on the Cormorant, for example, a very large space. The glass (or whatever) covered part in the Moa's beak is a large space. Let's not get started on the lights on battleships and the like.

(On the contrary, the rows of lights on some frigates would pretty much need to be just pretty lights, as they're on places that don't really make sense to be decks.)

As for the ship size, the Empires are supposed to have access to titan-sized vessels for a thousand years. Could well be for example a primary hull (pressure hull) of one such vessel, and while we (and the artist!) may have thought of that as a traditional "space aeroplane", the opening could well be a hangar or something.
Viktor Fyretracker
Emminent Terraforming
#8 - 2012-06-16 20:19:42 UTC
That is fairly accurate that the frigates are in the neighborhood of the size of a jumbo jet.

Which brings up an interesting point, if they are that 'small" even before pods the crew must not have been that many. only takes I think two people to operate a jet airliner... for a space frigate guessing you would have had a pilot, co-pilot/navigator, engineer and a weapons officer.

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Makkal Hanaya
Revenent Defence Corperation
#9 - 2012-06-21 18:49:58 UTC
Viktor Fyretracker wrote:
That is fairly accurate that the frigates are in the neighborhood of the size of a jumbo jet.

Which brings up an interesting point, if they are that 'small" even before pods the crew must not have been that many. only takes I think two people to operate a jet airliner... for a space frigate guessing you would have had a pilot, co-pilot/navigator, engineer and a weapons officer.

Correct. For a frigate with a capsuleer, you don't need any crew. For a regular ship, you just need 2-8 people.

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