Re: Behind the Dark Fist - Ships

Aha, but remember that the Vodoni don't originate their current ship  
designs themselves. The Nightwolf, Werewolf and Hunter-Killer were  
designs built by the Zalani. Somewhere (I forget exactly where) in  
the UTDF material it does state that the winged design was a Zalani  
trademark (the ships do look sort of gargoylish). Likely, the Vodoni  
pressed the Zalani to build them war vessels that had their own  
unique Vodoni stamp on them, bearing lupine imagery as well.

As for what they're made of, all of the Vodoni warships save as  
ceramic, so I'd imagine some sort of clay composite is molded to get  
the sleek, aerodynamic lines and sculpted lupine heads of the vessels.

For BTDF, I have two more warship schematics planned, as well as  
several uniquely Vodoni civilian ship designs (since a lot of what  
I'm doing will focus on the Vodoni as a civilian population rather  
than as token enemies, I figured it'd be a severe cop-out to just  
assume all humans everywhere, even places as far away as the 12  
Vodoni spheres, fly hammerships and tradesmen)

On Aug 8, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Adam Miller wrote:

> Since we're discussing Under the Dark Fist, I want to
> bring up a topic for discussion: the ships.  Namely,
> I'm trying to think of how would be the best way to
> construct their winged wolfships.  I'm just not sure
> one would go about building those wings of those
> ships.  It kinda looks like a plastic toy, really;
> neat to look at, but impossible to build to scale.  So
> how would you go about building those wings?
>
> One idea I'm toying with is that Vodoni ships aren't
> built, they're born.  Perhaps on one vast ocean world,
> there are gigantic wolf-headed manta rays, which the
> Vodoni catch, gut, maybe petrify, and turn into their
> ships.  Fully mature creatures are werewolf ships,
> immature become nightwolf ships.  Rather macabre, but
> it'd fit an empire of monsters, I think...:)
>
> Adam
>
>
>
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