Re: Behind the Dark Fist - Ships

From: "Paul Westermeyer" <westermeyer@???????.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 7:17 PM


> >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...:)
>
> In the sphere descriptions it says the gargoyle-like race (Zelani, I 
> think?) design and build the Vodoni vessels.  I don't think 'grown' works 
> well (it's become a bit cliche), but we could assume some sort of unusual, 
> alien construction techniques.

To be honest, I'd buy a creature (somewhere in the SJ universe) that could 
chew up stuff into a pulp and make a material similar to paper mache. Maybe 
these Zelani could do that sort of thing. I think that is a bit like how a 
bee's nest is built.

David "Big Mac" Shepheard
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