I'm jumping around from project to project with C2, and one of my current ones is a new version of the Behemoth, which is still lacking wings. I suppose this could be considered a reinterpretation of the ship since it is not an exact copy of the C1 sprite when viewed from above. Here's the info I posted about it in my sketches thread earler - the sketches thread I'm getting no feedback on to help with the direction of new models... HINT HINT.
High-Capacity Transportation - Behemoth:
The Behemoth is a ship often used to pump colonies, picking up many peasants at a time and taking them to a new home to build it from the ground up. This colonial use often requires the use of a fleet of shuttles taking people from giant transports in orbit down to the surface, but starline companies wanted a way to cut out the shuttles. The issue with landing a big ship, even if it is aerodynamic, is how to support it on landing gear once it's landed. One solution is to just have many sets of gear lining the belly of the ship, but this cuts into cargo space. The solution for the Behemoth was to use combination of smaller landing gear and anti-gravity fields. This allows the Behemoth to land on most planets and support it's own weight, but there is still one problem: anti-gravity fields take energy to keep online and energy lost is profit lost. The solution to help the previous solution: make the Behemoth into a seaworthy starship! When landing on many terran and oceanic planets, the Behemoth, with a hydrodynamic keel, can land in an ocean or sea and forgo the use of any landing gear. This saves energy from anti-gravity use and also allows the Behemoth a convenient place to dock!
- The CopernicanWerks Guide to Intergalactic Starships and Space Stations
