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Yesteryears Cardassians

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Majestic

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Post your comments (other than pointing out a logo error). This will decide if we are going to include them.
 
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Fours enough but you can have them as map units for single player.
Very nice ship.
 
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Looks Great.

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Will be starting to make a mod of my own but need to read the books first.
 
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Yes, that is an interesting design... I think you should include it in Yesteryears.

Also I find the idea of a TMP Cardassian race as quite interesting (when I played STA II the first time I played Cardassain Union).
 
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I agree, I like the idea of TMP Cardies. I do think however that the a greater effort should be made to make the ships noticably different from the TNG/DS9 counterparts.

The ship as it is now would not look out of place (as in old) in a TNG era fleet.
I would suggest for the Obsidian that you mute the colour of the hull, make it a little more grey. I'd also make the make a grill texture to go around the warp engine glows.

I think these to changes would give the ship the right kind of feel for a early Cardassian warship.

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I will consider your suggestions Rod. I may play with the ideas and see what I come up with, if Majestic agrees.

Overall, it sounds like the cardassians are appealing to the general modding community here. :)
 
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Rodglas said:
I agree, I like the idea of TMP Cardies. I do think however that the a greater effort should be made to make the ships noticably different from the TNG/DS9 counterparts.

The ship as it is now would not look out of place (as in old) in a TNG era fleet.
I would suggest for the Obsidian that you mute the colour of the hull, make it a little more grey. I'd also make the make a grill texture to go around the warp engine glows.

I think these to changes would give the ship the right kind of feel for a early Cardassian warship.

Rod
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I actually don't completeley agree with this one. The style that the Obsidian has is totally different to the established TNG/DS9 era Cardassians. The lack of the forward command module, the lack of any exteral modules at all, in fact, making it all one base section that flows together, with the rows of windows etc. And the brown-ness as opposed to just yellow.
 
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The Hideki dosn't have a command module either or any other pods. It may just be a small patrol ship but the precident is there.

What does work as a "older" design is the swept back forward section leading into what I assume to be the warp engines suggesting a period before the cardies had intergrated them into the hull.

I also like that this design seems smaller then the later Galor or Keldon Class ships, as both those ships were small when compared to the federation or Klingon counterparts.
 
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That was the idea. The section that arches back is indeed the nacelles, And the lack of a bridge/command module makes this ship look as much like a submarine as a spacecraft. The ship is only about 70% the size of the Galor class. Look at the Galor, it was designed the same time frame as the Ambassador Class. The Obsidian was designed right after the Cardassians got some Intel of the new starship the feds were building, the Excelsior class. The thing with Cardassians, in this mod they are an "Unknown" race. And to make things worse, the Cardassians are xenophobic conquerers, so they would most likely plant spies in a new enemy as soon as possible, with plans to invade as soon as they felt they would have the upper hand. Early skirmishes in the TMP era would lead to the post TMP era war. The Obsidian is about 2 years younger than the Excelsior. So as it goes, this TMP ship is the equivalent to the Galor of TNG.
 
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Hello:
Well, I must say I always like the Galor class (but I like Keldon class better). So I'm very happy that Cardie ships will make their appearance in Yesteryears. I find that a very cool idea and the actual ship desings you have here are good for me.
Keep it up YY's team!
 
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Is there anything else on the Cardassians folks?
 
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So far we are aiming to get the platable races completed, both ship and station wise. Once that is done, Syf will be modelling the Cardassian and Tholian races. So far I can tell you he has the entire Tholian fleet designed and is working on concepting/designing the Cardassian fleet.
 
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Majestic said:
So far I can tell you [Syf] has the entire Tholian fleet designed and is working on concepting/designing the Cardassian fleet.
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This is more than mildly awesome. Keep up the great work, as I can hardly wait to see your take on the TMP-era versions of these races.
 
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Well, I look forward to seeing more TMP Cardassian Ships. :)
 
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Steven Kodaly said:
This is more than mildly awesome. Keep up the great work, as I can hardly wait to see your take on the TMP-era versions of these races.
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Thanks, its support like this that gives up determination to complete Yesteryears sooner and not just for our own shake and being able to say that we did complete it.

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Well, I look forward to seeing more TMP Cardassian Ships. :)
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In all due time mate in all due time. Just wait till you see some of the stations for the other races that Syf is cooking up. :D
 
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Topic Closed Considering the Cardassins are now a full race and have been for a while.
 
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