Fleet Carrier concept from the artbook?

[rootsrat]

I recently revisited the official artbook and this caught my eye:

Could this be a concept art for the Fleet Carrier?

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

Would be cool if it would be something like this not mega ship (which I feel needs to be more of something persistent nature).

 

[Iskariot]

I recently revisited the official artbook and this caught my eye:

https://i.imgur.com/BngDpvU.png

Could this be a concept art for the Fleet Carrier?

I hope that is not the design that gets used for this.
I do not like it at all.

 

[bubbabenali]

That looks really nice, but with it's size I don't think that could handle large ships.

 

[Arindor]

I love this carrier, I think it works tbh. However, I also think it was an idea they put in the bin along with some of the other cool stuff mentioned in the DDF. So expect to see something very different.

 

[ebbrell]

I as hoping for a battlestar galactica type, with docking slots on both sides, inward at front, outwards at hack

 

[Crank Larson]

I recently revisited the official artbook

Don't know about the Fleet Carrier, but thanks for reminding me that I'd never even looked at the art book. I have now.

 

[rootsrat]

Don't know about the Fleet Carrier, but thanks for reminding me that I'd never even looked at the art book. I have now.

My pleasure! Lots of good stuff in there.

 

[Lightspeed]

My pleasure! Lots of good stuff in there.

There is and ... with hindsight ... lots of hints of what was to come .... and still more.

That 'fleet' ship might one day be introduced to carry small ships and make them useful again, such as Sidewinder and Eagle.

 

[Loskene]

I as hoping for a battlestar galactica type, with docking slots on both sides, inward at front, outwards at hack

Oh yes please. Would definitely suit our needs considering the size of ships Galactica could carry.

 

[coca_fr]

I have the feeling it'll look like an square outpost ship like rather than a beautiful ship.

There is a lot of concept art that could be borrow from here

 

[bubbabenali]

Oh yes please. Would definitely suit our needs considering the size of ships Galactica could carry.

http://www.ok1mjo.com/all/ostatni/space_aircraft/BSG/colonial-one_3.jpg

Funny story: The Galactica is supposed to be only 1.44 km long. A Farragut would dwarf it.

 

[Ziljan]

Nah, for one it has wings. Why would a ship too big to fly need wings? For another, look at the glass on the Cockpit. Its way too small to hold even an Anaconda, let alone be a carrier.

 

[Ca$hback]

I think a Federal Carrier would look like a serrated arrowhead.
I think the Imperial Carrier would be a curvy slab with a whale shark mouth and smaller, faster-spinning dorsal ring.
In either case I think they'd be smaller capital ships, .7km-1.2km long.
Smaller capital ships would be great.

 

[Sapyx]

I think that design is for a fighter-carrier, not a fleet-carrier. It would date from a time before they realised that two wings of four carriers each holding ten fighters, meeting each other on the field of combat, would be way, way more ships in one instance than the game architecture could comfortably handle.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Don't know about the Fleet Carrier, but thanks for reminding me that I'd never even looked at the art book. I have now.

Yes beautiful things to be looked in this book

 

[Cosmo]

That concept art looks like a semi-retro carrier (with a Boeing cockpit), but they said at Frontier Expo that they didn't yet design the Fleet Carrier. I hope it will be massive like 6 kilometers long.