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Realised I never posted any updates on this, this was back when my old computer was routinely dying and losing me a lot of work and I got kind of despondent. I might rework the Aludran in this now because it's kind of nonsense at the moment.
The upper panel shows Admiral Kalin di Alud and the two helmswomen of the Aludran flagship ANV Grimalkin. Aludran naval tradition dictates that bridge staff should wear their dress covers on duty, and this view is of the ship's internal armoured bridge, which is roughly amidships just below the level of the main deck. The armoured bridge reflects the Aludran doctrine of a single multi-purpose bridge; only flight ops is separated, handled in a second armoured bridge divided from the first by a combined mess hall and sleeping area.
The second section shows an overhead view of the Grimalkin and two of her escort cruisers; at 1,522ft, Grimalkin and her two sisters were at the time the largest warships in service, with the exception of the Chiran mobile shipyard Null which, even today, Chira denies the existence of.
The unorthodox design of these three leviathans reflected Aludran experience during the frequent surface battles in the Strait of Huron, which showed the vulnerability of flat-top carriers with exposed catapults. Her payload of Griffon UCAVs allowed a departure from the upper armoured recovery deck / lower launch deck pattern normally used, in favour of a system using 20 3-cell armoured box launchers on her flanks, ten to a side. This allowed the giant carriers to potentially launch 60 aircraft at a time with a potential compliment of 600. This and the use of VTOL recovery freed up the front of the ship for gun armament, allowing the use of the brand-new 550mm Advanced Gun System on these vessels.
One point of interest is the helipad symbols: these are actually two Chiran pagan protection wards set at 180 degrees to each other that say "protect within" in one of their ancient languages. This was because the inventor of the first Chiran quad-copter was fond of old traditions and hoped it would help her prototype to stop crashing. Aludra copied the marking since they assumed the Chirans knew what they were doing, and by the time they figured out what the symbol actually meant it was a standardised marking and too awkward to change.
The upper panel shows Admiral Kalin di Alud and the two helmswomen of the Aludran flagship ANV Grimalkin. Aludran naval tradition dictates that bridge staff should wear their dress covers on duty, and this view is of the ship's internal armoured bridge, which is roughly amidships just below the level of the main deck. The armoured bridge reflects the Aludran doctrine of a single multi-purpose bridge; only flight ops is separated, handled in a second armoured bridge divided from the first by a combined mess hall and sleeping area.
The second section shows an overhead view of the Grimalkin and two of her escort cruisers; at 1,522ft, Grimalkin and her two sisters were at the time the largest warships in service, with the exception of the Chiran mobile shipyard Null which, even today, Chira denies the existence of.
The unorthodox design of these three leviathans reflected Aludran experience during the frequent surface battles in the Strait of Huron, which showed the vulnerability of flat-top carriers with exposed catapults. Her payload of Griffon UCAVs allowed a departure from the upper armoured recovery deck / lower launch deck pattern normally used, in favour of a system using 20 3-cell armoured box launchers on her flanks, ten to a side. This allowed the giant carriers to potentially launch 60 aircraft at a time with a potential compliment of 600. This and the use of VTOL recovery freed up the front of the ship for gun armament, allowing the use of the brand-new 550mm Advanced Gun System on these vessels.
One point of interest is the helipad symbols: these are actually two Chiran pagan protection wards set at 180 degrees to each other that say "protect within" in one of their ancient languages. This was because the inventor of the first Chiran quad-copter was fond of old traditions and hoped it would help her prototype to stop crashing. Aludra copied the marking since they assumed the Chirans knew what they were doing, and by the time they figured out what the symbol actually meant it was a standardised marking and too awkward to change.
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Housecat
Size 1280 x 797px
File Size 431.1 kB
Chiran shipyards will have a couple of trainee priestesses sent over to mark them out in chalk and bless them because despite that nobody really thinks the old wards work, there's no harm in doing them properly just in case. People used to mark single ones on the ground in front of doors and windows to keep evil spirits out.
Another fun thing I just recalled is that Chira has a very popular series of vertical-scrolling shooters sponsored by the Navy with a name usually translated into Etrusean as Bold Fleet (tagline "One Hundred Ships Fight As One!") and there's a fairly interesting story about how Grimalkin ended up as the final boss of the fifth one. Might have to write up a journal about it.
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