First off, go check out the actual owner of the XEN concept here (http://andalar.deviantart.com/) because he runs two great comics that you should check out. He asked if I would help him out with concept work for creating vehicles, weapons, technology concepts, possibly other races, planets, or other background stuff. I don't have extra information aside from whats been published so I am going to shoot in the dark and see what hits. I actually like it this way because in a sense there is a no limits but it still feels grounded. Its a challenge, and I enjoy it so hopefully it will keep me around here instead of steam or league of legends. You can find the XEN forum post here projectprime.org/forum/topic.p… and all of the comics andalar has done or is doing are conveniently located on that top bar on the page so you should really go look at them.

Still working on the bridge image but I had this idea and I wanted to do this one because I was having a conversation with my dad about manned and unmanned ops and I got this idea. From what I understood about the information is that in the XEN universe there is or has been armed combat between several factions. Now normally people can imagine the massive draw on manpower and material but forget about the training of the manpower. Now its one thing to strap boots on and point a rifle downrange, but a occupations like pilot requires very specialized training and its not a field everyone is cut out for. So if you lose a pilot, you also lose all the time put into training said pilot. You can't just rely on unmanned drones being piloted from somewhere else due to possible input lag or interference. And you also wouldn't want to just make a AI program that determines when and when not to kill (scifi skynet stuff but you get the point). So instead, you would create unmanned vehicles that are programmed to fulfill key functions that a wingman would provide the lead pilot in a flight stick and have it programmed to follow instructions delivered to it by its flight lead (which would be a manned aircraft). For every 1 pilot trained then, you could put up a full flight of 4 aircraft/spacecraft and you wouldn't replace a pilots intuition with exploitable programming. This type of tactics could be used by a faction with dwindling or just low military ready/age/trained personal to maintain either equal force strength with an opponent or even tactical air/space superiority. Granted this idea is kinda out there compared to some of my other concepts but I liked the idea a lot so yolo.

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