Re: [OFFICIAL] MORE NEW STUFF NEWS!!

trapper wrote:
> 
> ...
> The new ships sound good ("techno brick," huh?) but I'd like to
suggest 
> that they be UN ships instead of Japanese.  

I'd like to second (third?  fourth?) that sentiment.

> I've always envisioned the Japanese fleet as streamlined and high-tech

> instead of boxy, something with a bit of panache.  Similar to the FSE 
> cruisers, perhaps.  I like the NSL and similar looking ships, but
they're 
> way too bulky to be Japanese. :)  Anyway, that's just my take on the 
> matter.

Perhaps some variation on the elipsoid-looking ships from Star Wars?
(escape-from-Hoth ship from ESB and part of the fleet in RoTJ) 
Interesting designs, and very sleek looking.  Plus they'd have other
uses...

Tom

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Thomas Pope
Human Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
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