This is the brand-new starship Libellule. I've made the mesh and SimCosmos will do the texture job. It is based in the 1981 European TV series "Il Était Une Fois L’Espace" ("Once upon a time: Space")
The mesh is almost completed, i have to rework the main doors and make the cockpit and some airlocks here and there (oh, and the attitude thrusters). It is 50 meters long, and the main characteristics are:
- Main fusion generator from 1000 years in the future with Earth-alien mixed technology.
- Main, hover and retro nuclear thrusters with no radioactive or neutral particles emission.
- Energy shield with various functions: Protection from energy or particle beam weapons, protection during reentry, and heat excess dissipation from the engines.
- Hyperspace drive
- Atmospheric gas/liquid collector and processor.
The Orbiter implementation will have in the first release:
- Nuclear engines (well this are normal thrusters, perhaps with additional exhaust textures)
- Energy shield. Only for reentry for the moment.. perhaps a new reentry texture.
- Hyperspace drive: With the Warp MFD
- Atmospheric collector & processor: I'll try to do this. For example you could enter a very low perihelion orbit around Jupiter and activate it.. the fuel will increase depending on various factors. I plan to do some fuel tanks: one of H2, that is the refined fuel, and one or two for atmospheric collected and compressed fluid.
