That sounds very much like the plot line to one of the missions in Starfield!
New (new) ship teased - Type-11 Prospector
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Alpha Centauri, you say? I’ll just walk there! In a T-Shirt and jeans!!Back in my day, we didn't have no frameshift drive and we liked it that way!
I don't remember, could have been the second or third in a string of CGs, or maybe it was just a galnet storyline. I remember it was the last big goldrush CG though. It was this one.
That was over a year before Starfield released.
I originally thought the nacelle arms flipped upward, but that would require the already fully-extended lower actuator to get even longer. So now I think they fold downward similar to your first image. I think tho that the nacelles might remain vertically oriented at the sides instead of horizontally oriented, to keep them from hanging below the bottom of the hull:
As for landing gear, I don't see any features on the outboard nacelles that look any different from the aft/upper nacelles to suggest foot pads or anything else (aside from the 2 massive actuators in the nacelle arms that could act as absorbers during landing). So I've been assuming the landing gear are here at the 4 corners of the hull, I think like others mentioned earlier:
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Any thoughts on the vertical cylindrical section just behind the cockpit? The bottom of it is pretty obviously either the cargo scoop on a vehicle hatch, but the fact that the top protrudes out from the ship and looks like it could have some sort of hatch or vent seems significant. A built-in refinery, perhaps, swiftly drawing in ore from below and ejecting waste material above?
...Quoting myself... ofc then I think there's this with the nacelle arms swinging in towards the hull and the nacelles tucking in under horizontally, which is what we all probably want in our hearts to see
There appears to be just enough clearance in all the arms and actuators to make it work, and I think it would keep the bottoms of the nacelles from hanging much below the keel of the hull.
Now that you mention it, I think it might well be that they designed it to indeed fold upwards, even if that actuator needs to extend further than it already does in the shown engaged position. The ship doesn't look like it's designed for them to fold downwards, as the nacelles don't have any landing gear or anything. It would only make sense for them to go up when landing.
I didn't notice before, but there are also actuators inside the arm of the nacelle that seems like they would be pulling on the nacelle while it folds upwards:
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I guess we'll find out soon, but I really think they go downward like you originally suggested. Since the 2 big actuators aren't over-centred on the swing arm they could pull the nacelle upward all on their own, making the bottom actuator entirely redundant. If the bottom actuator is only to control the rotation angle of the pod, it would be more logical to mount it on the upper side of the shoulder bracket/hull than on the bottom of the hull.
So it seems more likely to me they swing downward and inward and stow beneath the shoulder bracket.
It might be on the bottom to more securely keep the nacelle in place when it has been deployed as in the picture.
(Of course these are just imaginary ship models rendered in a computer and which don't need to obey any laws of physics, but in general ED ships tend to at least try to look believable in this regard, so it would make sense that the people who designed this ship were thinking exactly in these terms.)
I think you found this ship's new feature: the new gun splits asteroids in big chunks and they get pulled in this funnel and processed. This would suggest new asteroid types and schemas.
I think the arms will actually fold down, and the hydraulics will pull the nacelle in. Whatever it'll be in the end, I think this ship crosses the line between cool and needlessly complicated.
The design is cool and industrial, lots of detail and moving parts are nice too. Static ships (no moving parts) are more dull.
Indeed! TBF - I don’t think it was borrowed (in either direction) - I think it’s a fairly established setup in SciFi by now!
They look fully extended there - maybe they pull the nacelles down for landing?
my tuppence as the naecelle is in two pieces the upper connected to the body and the lower connected to the engine. So for me the pivet point is half way down the wing . The lower ram looks as if can push or pull but the upper rams may well be fully extended and are bigger so give more stability and strength as they look bigger. i think they may well go up? again my reasoning is the engines on the back have a similar cowling and it would look real bad if the engines were at 90 deg along with the cowling . akso the bit of the cowling that would touch the ground isnt flat and shows no sign of wear( yeah i know im grasping here. ) So when in supercruise mode the engines are all orientated the same way the engine slots run left to right and the engine cowlings are of the same same orientation . As there is no elongated slots or additional bits of the wing to slide in and out the pivot should be in the middle of the wing with no real extension of the wing and again if they were landing engines you would assume some sort of shock absorption ?
But i am sort of using my thinking in this game which has been proven wrong.
I would be interested in other thoughts ?
But i am sort of using my thinking in this game which has been proven wrong.
I would be interested in other thoughts ?
I hope it will be viable as a multirole, I like its utilitarian look. The Corsair looks way too sleek and fancy for the multirole king that its internals make it.
Maybe that thing can "interact" with asteroids by "land attaching to it. (look at the sides next to the main body) there seems to be a retractable thingy on both sides. The dark grey ones are probably the real joints, and they would rectract all narcelles to the front. (same for those on top). And then your Huge or Large mining laser can chip off the asteroid. Also, right below that hardpoint is something that looks like it might be a big cargo hatch, so while the type 11 might not be a huge ship, probably smaller than an anaconda, it might be able to directly swallow the mined off chips into its belly when attached to the asteroid. That would sort of be awesome as we need less probes and less time for them to collect stuff. But thats just my weird fantasy when looking at it's design. Imagien those engine narcelles all can pull themselves forward and their fronts attach to the asteroid like standing on 4 huge landing gears.
Maybe that thing can even mine sub surface without requiring those sub surface tools. because giant lasers go peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww, but for this you have to correctly attch yourself to the top of a sub surfaces location spot.
even more maybe maybe, these narcelles can extend and their fronts are acting as huge sledges able to crack open asteroids without needing seismic charges.
Maybe that thing can even mine sub surface without requiring those sub surface tools. because giant lasers go peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww, but for this you have to correctly attch yourself to the top of a sub surfaces location spot.
even more maybe maybe, these narcelles can extend and their fronts are acting as huge sledges able to crack open asteroids without needing seismic charges.
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Not sure if anyone else is really thinking about ship attributes at this point, but my sketch (part prediction, part hope) is something like this:
Core Internals: Power Plant: 6, Thrusters: 5, FSD: 5, Life Support: 3, Power Distributor: 7, Sensors: 5, Fuel Tank: 5
Optional Internals: 7C 5555 44 3 111
Hardpoints: 1L 2M 2S 4U
Speed (Dirty Drag): ~340 m/s, Boost ~530 m/s
These optional internals would give it a theoretical cargo capacity of 366t, decently below the Type-8's 406t but in second place above the Corsair at 318t. The 7C would be a cargo-restricted slot like the Panther's, able to take a 192t rack. The clustering around Class 1 means there isn't a lot of pressure on modules like DSS, Supercruise Assist or a 1A Prospector (unlike most mining ships), and around Class 5 is good for relatively efficient 5A Collectors.
A mining config might look like:
7C: Mk II Cargo Rack
5: Cargo Rack
5: Shield Generator
5: Collector Limpet Controller
5: Collector Limpet Controller
4: Refinery
4: Fuel Scoop (or whatever else you like)
3: Operations Multi Limpet Controller
1: Prospector Limpet Controller
1: Detailed Surface Scanner
1: Supercruise Assist
for a total 224t cargo, or 235t with a pre-engineered Class 5 Cargo Rack. Lot of space for niceties – since it seems to support a fighter bay we could fit that in place of extra cargo, the Shield Generator could drop to Class 4 (or 3) to make more space, etc.
Fun thing about this optional internal layout is if you wanted to kit a ship like this out for combat, you'd probably hull tank. I'd be hoping to see a weak shield but decent hull strength as it is, but Class 5s and 1s are also ideal for hull tank builds. Dedicated cargo space on a ship with a good power distributor might make for a fun off-meta pirate ship (please FDev one day make piracy more viable).
Core Internals: Power Plant: 6, Thrusters: 5, FSD: 5, Life Support: 3, Power Distributor: 7, Sensors: 5, Fuel Tank: 5
Optional Internals: 7C 5555 44 3 111
Hardpoints: 1L 2M 2S 4U
Speed (Dirty Drag): ~340 m/s, Boost ~530 m/s
These optional internals would give it a theoretical cargo capacity of 366t, decently below the Type-8's 406t but in second place above the Corsair at 318t. The 7C would be a cargo-restricted slot like the Panther's, able to take a 192t rack. The clustering around Class 1 means there isn't a lot of pressure on modules like DSS, Supercruise Assist or a 1A Prospector (unlike most mining ships), and around Class 5 is good for relatively efficient 5A Collectors.
A mining config might look like:
7C: Mk II Cargo Rack
5: Cargo Rack
5: Shield Generator
5: Collector Limpet Controller
5: Collector Limpet Controller
4: Refinery
4: Fuel Scoop (or whatever else you like)
3: Operations Multi Limpet Controller
1: Prospector Limpet Controller
1: Detailed Surface Scanner
1: Supercruise Assist
for a total 224t cargo, or 235t with a pre-engineered Class 5 Cargo Rack. Lot of space for niceties – since it seems to support a fighter bay we could fit that in place of extra cargo, the Shield Generator could drop to Class 4 (or 3) to make more space, etc.
Fun thing about this optional internal layout is if you wanted to kit a ship like this out for combat, you'd probably hull tank. I'd be hoping to see a weak shield but decent hull strength as it is, but Class 5s and 1s are also ideal for hull tank builds. Dedicated cargo space on a ship with a good power distributor might make for a fun off-meta pirate ship (please FDev one day make piracy more viable).