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So 2 pilots, a Scientist and, a Drafter walk into a bar where the bar tender used to be a Historian… (well if you follow the story lines I offer, who’d blame the now bar tender…) A napkin is sketched on and this is what shows up. A general the next day is being bombarded on a causeway somewhere trying to be somewhere else with all 5 loudly yelling over each other and the General just says ok yes! The Bar Tenders well… not going to be very happy…
This little remix showed up when Earth went quiet after losing Babylon 3. With all those peoples input put together in one craft… this is what happened. In the Babylon 4 Alternate time line model, I wrote about Earth quietly using Light Ships still off the Hyperspace Beacons to explore the Ruins of Dead Ancient Worlds. You can’t put a ship that big in that low of an orbit.
So why all these features on both model Fighters? Well now you know. They all got they’re way placing themselves between a Canteen and a Coffee Pot.
The Fighter- Capable of Space and Low Altitude flight and combat with other fighters and if used correctly capital ships as well. Extra engines where the Recon version has extra cockpits too really screw in on a run and then bug out after. It’s designed to take on the insain Centari Pilots. The Radar operated Gatling Cannon is networked with Navigation. So there are different mode enablability from Mission Control to write the code for to enable the fighter to switch into different target modes for different kinds of targets. Like precision strike capability on Capital Ship Defense Grids or Sensor / Radar installations while monitoring and adapting to “fur ball” engagements with other fighters on route to the target, for one. Or, just full on analog. What ever you can think up, it can be programmed in. Flight crew 2. Yes, thats a direct feed straddling the nose cone for the Gatling Cannon and a spinning targeting radar.
The Babylon 5 Universe sure is pretty huh folks?
The Recon Version is less armed, and bolsters a Telescope / Satellite for Orbital Study or Fleet Recon, crew of 4. 2 extra cockpits below with additional space for Specialists for the Radar / LiDAR capability for real time analysis. Or, the Telescope could be used as a decoy as the silhouettes are close enough to stealth. Or establish an orbital network. Espionage, communications, whatever you want. Go talk to them…
Both have duel extra fuel tanks on the wing tips for longer range and deployment options if needed. Why wing tips? Because they can go bang? And thats bad…
Imagine you needed a Starfury that could also act as a Valkyrie in some ways. Here is the new base platform.
What ever the mission demand is the Hermes Class stands ready and capable for an ever changing environment.
Enjoy!
-JH
Update: We no have a Blockade Buster. More bigger guns, double the engines and a NUKE! Pression strike capability everywhere. This Model has a very unique twist. With all the modifications, The welfare of the Fighter comes down to the sequence in the Laser Targeting Systems. In which there are 4 to 5 depending on configuration. It takes 3 to flood the Sensor silhouette of the advancing craft meaning only one weapon can be used at a time. A radiological timer would be needed on the warhead in order to not sound an alarm after launch allowing the Fighter time to break off and escape the blast.
Update 2:The Hermes Class Starfury just received a Monitor Variant. This is the replacement for the Valkyrie Missile Barge. The upgrades and strategy for this model focus on area denial and inner enemy fleet scattering and assault. At the Nose Cone, we see a very large multipurpose array. This is a new technology derived from Babylon 4 externally recorded measurements when a a worker outside the station thought he might have seen a Shadow Vessel. Yes in the Babylon 4 alternate, I wrote quickly on this. The array is designed to firstly detect the disturbance frequency of the Shadow vessel jumping out from Hyperspace. Also it’s designed to encode, activate and monitor its Guardian Statallite System. The Fighter now has an additional 4 Gatling Pulse Cannons, 2 forward, and a tail gunner aft. Along with upgraded engine thrusters to better compensate and peruse a much more aggressively moving target such as a Shadow Ship. Also, it has 4 Thrusters mounted under the Engines to provide Planetary take off and land operations. The sweep style Radar systems are mounted horizontally on the Nose Cone to communicate with the Guardian System. Also, still choosing this platform reduces costs, creates common replacement parts and provides Ariel Base assault strike capability.
The Gaurdian Satallite-This system is under pilot intros to land, Systems operator to activate and maintain, but also reserves an automated system capable of friend or foe recognition system. A communications dish is placed up front to seek targets, and sweep radars to keep an eye out of Hermes Gaurdian Specialists onboard for instructions. 4 thrusters help control the repositioning of the system, and centralized is a rotating mine laying scattering system. It can be used for area denial, or anti fleet and anti fighter wing ambush occasions. The Monitors are tasked with operations of the system.
There are also unladen models and the Satallite as well. The Hermes represents the changing of the tides in this new time of Antibelum on the heels of the last war. The Systems are Logic Gate driven and therefore communicated with by scramblers in alpha numeric code signals that change on a regular frequency to prevent the system to fall into unauthorized hands. Known only to Mission Ops and the Fighters Pilot.
Enjoy! Im ramping up to the end of my Thingiverse conclusion here at 100 listings.
-JH
Update: Check out the new variants and models!
| Gaurdian_System_Scatter_Mine_Satellite_.stl | 8.9MB | |
| Hermes_Ariel_Gaurdian_Monitor_unloaded_long_range_STL.stl | 53.5MB | |
| Hermes_Ariel_Gaurdian_Monitor_unloaded_STL.stl | 53.5MB | |
| Hermes_Ariel_Gaurdian_System_Monitor_STL.stl | 62.3MB | |
| Hermes_Ariel_Recon_Starfury_Better_Wings.stl | 7.0MB | |
| Hermes_Ariel_Recon_Starfury_STL.stl | 7.0MB | |
| Hermes_Launch_Bay_STL.stl | 14.0MB | |
| Hermes_Starfury_Better_Wings_STL.stl | 17.2MB | |
| Hermes_Starfury_Blockade_Buster_STL.stl | 38.9MB | |
| Hermes_Starfury_Flyby_STL.stl | 194.4MB | |
| Hermes_Starfury_Missile_Boat_STL.stl | 43.2MB | |
| Hermes_Starfury_STL.stl | 17.2MB | |
| Recon_Satalite_Telescope_STL.stl | 425.6KB | |
| shadow_chase_STL.stl | 182.7MB |
