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This is my entry to the EVE-online star-ship contest.
I rubbed my eyes twice when I woke up in the morning and discovered from my DA mailbox that CCP was holding a EVE-online contest in DA. I have been dreaming about getting my design to eve for as long as I'v played it.

So I started looking through my old works (I got hundreds of unfinished things on my drive, because I get very inspirational at late nights, but I never get to finish anything because I have to go to sleep ). This ship is something I put together from many different sketches.
Took 3 days and 2 nights of modeling and 38h of reggae (that's all the reggae I had lol) I hereby want to thank Komposti reggae radio, radio shows: [link]

What else... I wanted to use golden Amarr logos on the sails and hull, but wasn't sure if it was legal in this case. I filed a petition inside the game to the "EULA and terms of service" team as well, asking if I could do it, but these things take time... so no Amarr logos at the moment.

I used guardian color pallet mostly with crimson red and gold + different variations of brown


time to get down to business:

Amarr royal yacht, built specially for her majesty.


Back-story:

Designed by old (rumored to be crazy) pod pilot, who came across the blueprints or something like it on one of he's exploration trips on the border of Gallente low security and lawless space.
Rumor has it, he found a sleeper drone operation in a dead end low security system (though many don't believe the sleepers drone part, as they have never known to venture outside of there unknown systems.). According to the story the pilot lost he's harbinger classed battlecruiser in a short skirmish with the superior drone forces, leaving the pod floating in deepness of space. Some say the pilot wasen't able to warp out due to the drones subspace jammers (though once again this has sparked a lot of controversy, as Jovian pods warp systems have rarely known to malfunction), other say the pilot just didn't want to warp out, because of he's curiosity of the drones. What ever happened, it's rumored that the pilot actually docked he's pod with one of the drone battleships, some say it to be a sleepless keeper, other say it was just a rogue drone overseer there are even been talks about a fully functioning Yan Jung cruiser. No one knows what happened inside but what is known is that the pilot was inside almost a day, as indicated by the pods log. After returning to the pod, the warp jamming field was gone or maybe it never even was there to begin with.
Then some time later after the incident, one of the high ranking Amarrian agents in Imperial Constructions got approached late after the work. Evidently the same pilot who had lost he's ship to the drones and been on board that long forgotten vessel (what ever type that was), had come up with an advanced design star-ship in less then a week, featuring specs that made even that veteran engineer raise he's eyebrows.
It didn't take long before the theology council gained knowledge of the whole mater. The agent for the Imperial Constructions disappeared and the pilot who came up with the blueprints was arrested on grounds of smuggling, while making a supply run through Amarr.
There really are no lengths for which Amarr can go for even a little technological edge and pod pilots some times talk about how that pilot was tortured to death hundreds of times, only to be reactivated again with a new clone...
Years went by and with proper motivation from the ex-slave-masters and an elite group of royal ship engineers (the same people who built the infamous Gold Magnate) an advanced cruiser sized yacht was built, specially for the upcoming Amarr Empress (even when she wasn't at power back then, there's even speculation if the Empress her self didn't give the order for the arrest.)
There are no records of what happened to the builders or the pod pilot after the ship was finished plus noone has ever seen the ship in any action and rumor has it, that it's still docked at the royal space-dock, hidden from praying eyes.
That is, if it even exists...

-story's end


...but it DOES exist! mwuahhahaha

and here are my suggested attributes:
High slots: 4
Medium slots: 3
Low slots: 8
Turret points: 1
Missile points: 0
Rig points: 3
Calibration p: 400
CPU: 420
Power: 1500
Capacitor: 1800
Capacitor reg: 335 s
Structure: 1688
Cargo: 1520 m3
Drones: 0
Volume: 55 000 m3
Mass: 7 500 000 kg
Inertia: 1.1
All hull res: 20%
Armor: 6920
Standard Amarr armor resistances
Shield: 1980
Standard Amarr shield resistances
Shield regen: 1300s
Max target range: 130 km
Max locked targets: 5
Scan resolution: 306
Radar sensor points: 18
Signature rad: 99m
Speed: 230 m/s
Warp: 4.7 au/s
Ship maintenance bay: 10 000 m3 (for docking pods) 10 pod per ship max

Potential bonuses:
15% bonus to medium energy turret rate of fire and damage per Amarr cruiser skill.

Extra 2 pods per cloning facility operation skill.

My idea was to give this ship the ability to dock pods. So it could be like a fancy bus. Let's say I want to get all my alts from jita to rens (even tho I don't have alts), then I could dock their pods inside the ship and fly it there. Or me and some other people may want to get from jita to rens, we could dock with another player (if we trust him) and he could fly us to rens and undock us in to the station. That would be neat and save me a shuttle trip and possibly not gettin' me blown up at every gate : )

...Or it could be something entirely else ^^
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Comments: 32

dreamchaser1 [2015-04-14 12:04:02 +0000 UTC]

Nice space yacht~ Someone really have to make antimatter propulsion for such a star treck. My dream also..

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kilo139 [2014-07-30 04:53:18 +0000 UTC]

your sketchs dont really look that good but when you made the colored model it looks pretty good.

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Siamon89 [2011-02-18 16:46:15 +0000 UTC]

Never noticed this before mate, excellent design... I must watch you closer!

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ACXtreme In reply to Siamon89 [2011-02-18 18:20:27 +0000 UTC]

ty

I should have worked harder on the windows

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marcioalexandre [2011-01-22 02:07:59 +0000 UTC]

great work!

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ACXtreme In reply to marcioalexandre [2011-01-22 09:43:56 +0000 UTC]

thanks!

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supersampled [2010-10-12 17:08:33 +0000 UTC]

This deviation has been featured here: [link]

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ACXtreme In reply to supersampled [2010-10-12 17:46:39 +0000 UTC]

O

I'm honored.

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Zeredek [2010-09-15 16:39:05 +0000 UTC]

I wish Ambulation would let you walk around on this.

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ACXtreme In reply to Zeredek [2010-09-15 19:26:11 +0000 UTC]

oh yeah... don't get me started on ambulation.
I actually have had dreams where I'm a bar-keep on a minmatar station.
Some day in distant future, I think ccp will let us walk around in ships as well

Or they could make some ships walkable in ambulation, that would give players something to do till the yacht reaches it's destination

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Geinto [2010-09-14 21:43:05 +0000 UTC]

Just...wow, the design of this is absolutely beautiful.

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ACXtreme In reply to Geinto [2010-09-15 08:11:09 +0000 UTC]

nice, thanks

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baubusiukas [2010-09-14 11:00:39 +0000 UTC]

nice

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Arkaun [2010-09-11 09:23:20 +0000 UTC]

Somethin like this prolly wouldnt have as many highslots as you say (just from a CCP point of view) but beisdes that, this is one of the coolest designs of seen so far xD

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ACXtreme In reply to Arkaun [2010-09-11 10:21:07 +0000 UTC]

That's very possible, like I stated- I just made a suggestion.
I'm glad you like the design, I'm doing a Minmatar assault frigate next : )

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XISAWORD [2010-09-11 09:17:30 +0000 UTC]

Amazing, its like an Ammar version of the Opux... only a million times better!

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ACXtreme In reply to XISAWORD [2010-09-11 10:25:26 +0000 UTC]

It just feels so logical... Religious people have always had a thing for fancy chariots.

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minimihkel [2010-09-11 09:07:36 +0000 UTC]

edu, tΓ€itsa huvitav disain!

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ACXtreme In reply to minimihkel [2010-09-11 09:08:48 +0000 UTC]



TΓ€nud

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sg3s [2010-09-11 08:29:36 +0000 UTC]

That is freaking amazing, btw... very nice...

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ACXtreme In reply to sg3s [2010-09-11 08:46:31 +0000 UTC]

thanks

and what concerns the logos, well it's too late to change stuff now, but be sure, I'll be posting more shots after the contest is over with the full gear

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sg3s [2010-09-11 08:29:05 +0000 UTC]

Use the logos man, it's ok as long as you're not making money with the designs you use them in.

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novafox [2010-09-10 22:51:25 +0000 UTC]

Wow nice entry indeed, that is one thing ill be behindmodelers on is time constraints. Hope an eve player wins at least.

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ACXtreme In reply to novafox [2010-09-11 07:45:35 +0000 UTC]

Hey thanks man.
Means a lot coming from you.

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novafox In reply to ACXtreme [2010-09-12 23:52:10 +0000 UTC]

No problem at all looks alot better than my zion definetly.

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ACXtreme In reply to novafox [2010-09-13 08:45:28 +0000 UTC]

if you mean visually, maybe yes...
but overall, every concept is unique so don't worry about it.
Your yacht is just more bloodradider stile : )

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RQAlucard [2010-09-10 20:54:30 +0000 UTC]

Oh snap, VERY nice ship.
The only reason why I hope that you don't win this competition, is because I'd like a ship that's actually useful in the game(which this frankly isn't )
Still, extremely nice model.

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ACXtreme In reply to RQAlucard [2010-09-10 21:29:48 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the comment.

I love eve because the developers are changing the game by adding the ambulation expansion.
This is also useless as it doesn't add much content or anything, but it brings the game closer to the real life and that's one of the features that separates eve from other mmorpgs, that and the cruel death penalties.

I created this ship because I wanted to expand the other content then pvp in eve. Why not let yourself relax knowing that you and your corpmates are safe flying 20 jumps through low sec and 0.0 just because someone else you know is driving. This could save so much trouble for people who need to travel long distances (possibly in unsecured space) or are just lazy. Also pirates and pvp'ers could enjoy many pod killmails if they happened to catch it.

But yeah, if your a pvp kind a person then this ship is only useful as cannonfodder.

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zilekondic [2010-09-10 20:40:40 +0000 UTC]

I'm not an EVE player, unfortunately, so those specs don't mean much to me, but i think this is one of the better entries so far, visually. Kudos for extra effort for the backstory and everything!

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ACXtreme In reply to zilekondic [2010-09-10 21:30:22 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, when ever I'm on a longer project I just get these kind of ideas : )

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forte805 [2010-09-10 19:52:07 +0000 UTC]

now that's a nice concept

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ACXtreme In reply to forte805 [2010-09-10 20:30:41 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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