re: [FT] New Israel Alpha Test Ship Designs

Beast, I'm sorry about the confusion. There are now two full, or nearly 
full versions of the NI fleet up on my pages. The "unofficial" one is 
all stealth hulls and split drives. These incorporate a number of rules 
from the WDA, and have not been officially sanctioned in any way. I'm 
_still_ working on Jon to make him see that Stealth is _way_cool_ and 
works. But he's a skeptical 'un.  :-)

The "official" one is still in alpha-test, and thus sanctioned in a 
prototype sense. Whether those designs become the "true" designs for 
New Israel depends a) on whether I can sacrifice the right goat to get 
stealth through, and b) if the ships meet with approval and gameplay 
success from people in these (and other) FT groups. Anyone who's on the 
Yahoo group, for example, feel free to post the link there.

As for timelines, I have updated my (again, unofficial) NI timeline to 
be in concordance with the new GZG mini-line, and added production 
dates to the notes on the Alpha ships. If anyone is interested in 
either, I'd be happy to hear comments and suggestions. I'm especially 
interested in whether the fleet introduction years seem logical 
(perhaps I should move some of them to sooner dates?), and if the 
NI-timeline interaction with other powers in the GZG-verse sound 
reasonable (naturally, the NI has allot to do with IF, for example).

So you don't have to go looking beck, the links are:
http://nift.firedrake.org/Alpha/NIAlpha.html
and
http://nift.firedrake.org/NITimeline.htm

Noam

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