Know Thy Enemy: Kilrathi Capital Ships - Entry 3: Missiles
FROM: Rear Admiral Tolwyn, CINCWEAPONSDIVISION
DATE: 2009.01.04
This week, we would like to highlight the work of our team member limdaepl. He has been responsible for the design of our Kilrathi missiles. In Wing Commander Saga, missiles are a major threat. A single missile hit is enough to bring a light fighter to its knees. We wanted our Kilrathi missiles to reflect the aggresive and psychologically intimidating design philosophy displayed in the Wing Commander 3 games. The following pictures illustrate how we have tried to capture that feel in the way we portray Kilrathi missiles.
-Tolwyn
The idea behind the kilrathi design was to mimic the fin design from the confed equivalent missiles (not necessarily a one-to-one copy). In the end we ended with a combination of the \'brick\' body with the fin design of the confed missiles so one can easily correlate them with each other.
You should also concider that these missiles are also used in air combat, even if you don\'t see it much in WC, they must be able to fly in the atmosphere too.Before you go about triangular missiles in atmosphere, there are traingular missiles today ^_^
Though the missiles look great i feel compelled to point out that the fins, appart from a nice visual effect, are rather useless in space. :)