The Ctan
11-08-2004, 21:58
The bay was humming with the sound of precision instruments at work, slicing parts to shape, and among this riotous noise numerous supervisors and technicians worked. The object taking shape between them was a rather interesting shape, they’d already mocked up the cockpit using civilian grade equipment taken from one of their other projects, and already someone was sitting in it going over a multitude of controls, trying to work out the specifics.
The engines were stacked neatly in a pile, and behind this pile Arnold Zimmerman, renowned scientist talked to another of his compatriots, a youngish necrontyr man by the name of Arnaw, and an elven woman whose name was unknown to both the others, given that she'd been dragged down from her comfortable office to look at this thing. “I don’t see your concern!” Zimmerman said, “It’s quite safe.”
The other two sighed, “Listen, we’ve been through this before, the hopper,” this was the nickname for the concept, officially titled the ‘Experimental Long Range Displacement Gunship,’ “is unsafe.”
“It’s not unsafe, we just need to iron out the bugs,” he said, this was his pet concept, a fighter that could travel faster than light, deployed from the inside of a ship it could appear and deploy strategic or tactical weapons long before anyone anticipated the strike from the fleet. It had the capacity to utterly revolutionise space combat. Or so he thought. “and I know that we can do that!”
The elf fondled the white star on her name tag, “I don’t know about that,” she said, “it’s a fundamentally flawed implementation,” she said patiently. “I don’t think we’ll ever get this ship working.”
Zimmerman glared, “I assure you, this concept is sound, and we will make it work...”
http://www.necrontyr.plus.com/images/hopper4.jpg
Hopper Exterior Design
The engines were stacked neatly in a pile, and behind this pile Arnold Zimmerman, renowned scientist talked to another of his compatriots, a youngish necrontyr man by the name of Arnaw, and an elven woman whose name was unknown to both the others, given that she'd been dragged down from her comfortable office to look at this thing. “I don’t see your concern!” Zimmerman said, “It’s quite safe.”
The other two sighed, “Listen, we’ve been through this before, the hopper,” this was the nickname for the concept, officially titled the ‘Experimental Long Range Displacement Gunship,’ “is unsafe.”
“It’s not unsafe, we just need to iron out the bugs,” he said, this was his pet concept, a fighter that could travel faster than light, deployed from the inside of a ship it could appear and deploy strategic or tactical weapons long before anyone anticipated the strike from the fleet. It had the capacity to utterly revolutionise space combat. Or so he thought. “and I know that we can do that!”
The elf fondled the white star on her name tag, “I don’t know about that,” she said, “it’s a fundamentally flawed implementation,” she said patiently. “I don’t think we’ll ever get this ship working.”
Zimmerman glared, “I assure you, this concept is sound, and we will make it work...”
http://www.necrontyr.plus.com/images/hopper4.jpg
Hopper Exterior Design