Know Your Shipmates: Confed Capital Ships - Entry 8: Lexington
FROM: Rear Admiral Tolwyn, CINCWEAPONSDIVISION
DATE: 2011.11.05
This time, we like to show off another carrier class that will be featured in the Darkest Dawn: the Terran heavy carrier. This is a traditional carrier that relies on her fighters and escort capital ships for protection.
This carrier was first seen in the Super Wing Commander remake on the Sega CD game as an alternate model to the TCS Tiger’s Claw and the rest of the Bengal-class carriers. It is also seen in Wing Commander Armada as the player’s carrier, the TCS Lexington, a self-sustaining carrier that was sent deep behind enemy lines in a high-risk operation.
The Saga team took the original design, incorporated several features about Terran fleet carrier design from the novels, and worked hard to “reboot” this carrier for the Darkest Dawn, this time as a modern class of carriers that sustains life to Confed’s shattered military after the Battle of Earth.
After the Battle of Earth, the Lexington-class is the new backbone of the Terran Defense Fleet. More then a match for their Kilrathi counterparts, these carriers can take critical hits in multiple launch bays and still maintain flight operations. They are traditional carriers with minimal weapons and must rely on escorting warships for support, but they do possess a full compliment of fighters and the heaviest shielding and armor this side of a starbase. The majority of these vessels have been withheld from the front to defend Earth and the Inner Colonies.
-Tolwyn
I like a carrier that does what a carrior is puost to insteed of being a battel ship with fighters
A lot of good these things did when the potential third battle of Terra occurred on the losing path.PS FYI that antispam protection is very weak (at least it looks like it).
Nice, but not nearly as sexy as the old Ranger-class carrier 
Wasn't the TCS Lexington of the same class as the TCS Victory? (s. Wing Commander IV)
Quote : Wasn't the TCS Lexington of the same class as the TCS Victory? (s. Wing Commander IV)
Nope. The TCS Lexington was a new Class, we seen in Wing Commander Armada Handbook. It was destroyed in that Storyline. The First TCS Lexington was a Concordia Class Carrier that was destroyed in the Battle of Earth. Then the TCS Lexington (Lexington Class) destroyed in 2669. After the Battle of Earth the destroyed Concordia Class Hull was rebuild and the new TCS Lexington was done after the War.
Sources: Wing Commander Armada Handbook, Wing Commander Fleet Action and Wing Commander 4 Novel.
PS: a little bit confuse but thats the story ;)
Hello? It's been several days since the last update. Is there anything new? How is the beta test going? What's left to be done before release?
Quote : Hello? It's been several days since the last update. Is there anything new? How is the beta test going? What's left to be done before release?
My dear Talon, considering the fact that you, when you were part of the team, didn't get ANYTHING done in a resepctable time, it is kind of annoying that not only you contact me AND Tolwyn via PM, but no you ask it here also.
We do have private lives, I just moved over 1000 km to start my new job and I still don't have my new internet connection yet and Tolwyn is starting working his final thesis. All stuff that is A LOT more important than whether YOU see any updates here.
Having said that we are making great progress despite being busy as hell. But our priorities are to get the game done, not to satisfy you my friend. If you had done your work right back in the day you'd still be onboard and then you'd know what's going on and might actually do your part to make us finish a little quicker. But since you weren't able to do that, how about leaning back, relax, be patient and stop sending us Spam PMs?