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EA Magnum Heavy Lifter
The Merciful
Earthforce Officer
in Babylon 5
I saw the silhuette of this ship in the offial size chart hosted at B5-blender.com. Does anybody know what it look like and if there's any picture of it on the net?
[url="http://www.b5-blender.com/Chart2.jpg"]http://www.b5-blender.com/Chart2.jpg[/url]
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[url="http://www.b5-blender.com/Chart2.jpg"]http://www.b5-blender.com/Chart2.jpg[/url]
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the Snub-nose Whitestar is the bluestar [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
And I don't believe the centauri fighter is so big. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/tongue.gif[/img]
Merciful: If he made the chart, he should have a reference model somewhere, so hopefully we can see it.
[b]That, I believe is the ship that was taking pliots up away from the ground in the establishing shot in ITB just before the Ivonova and Ivonov have their last chat. Considering we only saw the back end and a few far shots, and those were at night, I doubt you'll find many good pictures.[/b][/quote]You are right. I found [url="http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/message?forumid=9881&messageid=986959057"]this[/url] via Google, and that's all I found in Google. Damn! I had hoped there were some Agents of Gaming stuff around, or something... [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/mad.gif[/img]
[b]The chart isn't drawn by A297, it was drawn, as it read on the picture, by T. Earls. It's official alright. Bluestars and Nova Dreadnoughts and so on are fan inventions.[/b][/quote]
The Bluestar is not a fan invention, nor is the Nova. They're both canon ships, which have been seen on B5 a few times.
And "oops" on the author [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
[b] The Bluestar is not a fan invention, nor is the Nova. They're both canon ships, which have been seen on B5 a few times.[/b][/quote]Sorry, I should have been clearer. I meant the names, not the ships themselves.
But what the heck is EA Magnum Heavy Lifter? I have never heard about it, nor seen it before and it wasn't in the series AFAIK. Or are those supposed to be those transport ships shortly seen in one scene in ITB on the ground on Earth and firing it's thrusters to take off?
- PJH
Didn't we see one of these in the space scene above Minbar in SiL?
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BlueStar is an ointment...
Just saw the advertisement on TV...
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Seriously, wasn't the BlueStar that Duck billed personal craft that Sheridan flew out for the Sunday Drive when he passed on after the 20 year life extension...???
Later...
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[b]by T. Earls. It's official alright. Bluestars and Nova Dreadnoughts and so on are fan inventions.[/b][/quote]
It's not automatically official simply by the nature of being drawn by Tim Earls. I'd think JMS and/or WB would have to deem it official. Some of his work isn't terribly...let's say some is almost as much technobabble as a lot of Star Trek, including some of the Warlock weapons.
Bluestar = JMS cannon, the name of the ship that Sheridan is piloting on his Sunday drive in SiL. It's a personal Whitestar.
Nova = JMS cannon, the ship that the Omega design was based on. You can see lots of them in ItB.
That heavy lifter thing = my guess is the transports seen in ItB as well, although as mentioned we only saw the back end and a side silluoette through a window.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
[b]I swear we saw some heavy lifters during the Mars ground scenes in "Endgame", or were those just regular shuttles?
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I think the ones in Endgame were just regular atmoshperic shuttles. I beleive the heavy lifters only appeared in ItB and just the aft section was(one while it was being loading with equipment and then the engines starting up) shown.
BTW, replace chart2 with chart3 in that address and you'll notice the class name of the Hyperion is wrong. It is a heavy cruiser NOT a destroyer. Garibaldi even said it was a heavy cruiser when one came through the jump gate in season 1. And there is no way the Nova is a gunboat.
[This message has been edited by Ranger1 (edited 12-03-2001).]
[b]
Seriously, wasn't the BlueStar that Duck billed personal craft that Sheridan flew out for the Sunday Drive when he passed on after the 20 year life extension...???
Later...[/b][/quote]
Wasn't it also in our game?
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-R.
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We had the Netter Geometry for it even before I was booted with the rest of Oakhurst. I just don't know how far it got as to being incorporated into the game.
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[b] Wasn't it also in our game? [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img][/b][/quote]
The duck or mini Whitestar? [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Re: Sentri size.
I'm not sure if you remember the ship size debates, but what it comes down to , is there was never a "real" ship size. Foundation/Netter never modeled the ships to scale -it was fairly arbitrary (IIRC, the Starfury model had a wingspan of 7 kilometers, or something equally absurd).
What Tim Earls (and I, independently) did, was start making some size comparisons starting with known sizes (B5 was 5 miles ,long, the Starfury Pilot was ~2 meters tall) and extrapolated dimensions from there. Remarkably, we often came pretty close to each other (I didn't get access to most of his dimensions until after the game was axed). So the dimensions you see for the Sentri should be about right -and if it's from Tim's chart -cannon.
Marc
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Thanks, Marc!
Ain't many fighters with beam weapons and artificial gravity that can jump either!
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras