Know Thy Enemy: Kilrathi Capital Ships - Entry 10: Dubav
FROM: Rear Admiral Tolwyn, CINCWEAPONSDIVISION
DATE: 2009.03.10
This week, the Saga team will like to show off another lost concept art that was found in the official "Making of Wing Commander 3" CD-ROM.
For simplicity's sake, we intend this to be the same class of Kilrathi light carriers mentioned in the Victory Streak manual and the escort carriers mentioned in the False Colors novel. Due to the fact that there is no official class name, the Saga team has decided (for the time being) to call it the Dubav-class (a reference after one of the carriers in the False Colors novel).
This Kilrathi light carrier is specifically designed to operate behind enemy lines for prolonged periods of time. This fast, sleek, self-sufficient escort carrier is equipped with a half wing of fighters and bombers to attack Terran convoys and a loadout of Marine shuttles and bombardment missiles to mount terror raids against Confederation homeworlds and colonies. Notoriously elusive, Dubav-class carriers form the core of many Kilrathi Recon-in-Force fleets, and are normally encountered away from the main front.
-Tolwyn
Nice one :roll
it looks like the small brother of the fralath-class
To be honest, i\'m no big fan of the original design. I think its too flat and doesn\'t really have a memorable or distinctive shape.That said, i couldn\'t think of another model to fill its role and your texturing and lighting make it look very menacing, and it certainly has the WC3-era ship feeling. A few windows would give a better impression of scale, or maybe a look through the hangar?.
Maybe i just need a few torpedo runs against this baby to grow warm with its shape...
it is definately interesting and more than worthy of a few torpedoes
The ship is brand-new and all you can think of is destroying it? :grin
Well, as long as you don\'t announce a Kilrathi Campaign for Saga (which would be awesome, but i guess its safe to assume you won\'t), that\'s pretty much all we can do with any Kilrathi ship.Besides, that\'s how i got to like the Hvar\'Kann too, and i didn\'t even survive any of my runs on it.
I kind of agree with you about the look of this ship, red baron. I wouldn\'t go so far as to say it\'s not distinctive it is very cool; but you\'re right, it just seems like something is ... missing from the overall design. Maybe the bridge should be bigger like in the concept drawing or add some strange structures jutting out of it. Maybe that will make it more carrier-ish and less like a strange Kilrathi wedge from hell.
Nah, wouldn\'t change the model itself. Just add some windows and turrets to better show its scale, but i guess you\'re planning to do that anyway.
Look very close, there are turrets visible in the images.
And several window rows are located on ship\'s flank. Too bad they're not visible in the images.:grin
Hmmm yeah missed the turrets. Had to increase brightness quite a bit, but i have a much better impression of its size now.