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Babylon 5 Centauri Vorchan Warship

Description
Centauri Vorchan Class Attack Cruiser escorted by 2 "Sentri" class interceptor/fighters -also includes 2 Narn "Frazi" class heavy fighters and 2 Drazi "Sky Serpent" class fighters on intercept courses.

This ship measures 353m long by 505m wide by 305 meters tall.
Entry can be gained through the airlocks hidden just beside the bridge (just to the side of the lower-most glass viewscreen at the front of the ship)

This is a large ship that is composed of more than 111,000 blocks (10,600 of those are non-armor blocks) and with (as of the initial upload to Steam workshop) 11,510,366 triangles. (I provide these stats to give a reference point to compare with other creations for people unsure if/how much their system may lag while using this ship).


Note that this is still a work in progress but it was close enough to done that I decided to go ahead and share it.
I built this ship with the intention of making it functional within space engineers while trying to stick close to the original ship from the series. Thus it is functional and able to move/fire (though sluggish at this point -something I hope to eventually smooth out).

The Vorchan still has 2/4 of the interior levels incomplete and the underside of the nose has a spot that needs work.
There are 4 tubes above the engines that are empty at this point -but with some modification are intended to house torpedos/etc. I may eventually add some hard points along the belly for external ordinance (ie mines) as well. I have yet to place gravity in the main living areas of the ship pending the decision of whether/what types of external ordinance to mounted to the ship so that I can place the gravity field in such a way that it will not interfere with any gravity-driven ordinance it carries. Also in the future I plan to augment the gravity drive to make the ship less sluggish and add some groupings for the various systems to make activating various systems simpler.
In the meantime, enjoy modifying the current ship to fit your needs!


This world comes with 6 complementary fighters: 2 Centauri Sentris; 2 Narn Frazis and 2 Drazi Sky Serpents to better re-enact some of the memorable B-5 battles for the "glorious Centauri Republic".

NOTE: As of this time (current patch is 1.033) there is an odd bug that affects the Narn fighters. -if you try to fire their rocket pods the 2nd volley will end up destroying your own ship. The only work-around I've found is to remove and replace the fighters' left gatling (the one on the left when in the cockpit). Simply deleting and re-applying the gatling in the same position seems to remedy the problem but after reloading a save and/or copy/pasting the fighter you will have to repeat the above workaround. (alternatively you can always redesign the fighters slightly to avoid this bug by shifting the rocket pods a few blocks forward if you don't mind changing the look of the fighters)

Please let me know if you enjoy this creation and if you have any thoughts about ways it could be improved I'd be happy to read them.
7 Comments
RamblingMonk  [author] Jul 28, 2014 @ 8:20pm 
I'm glad you like it. -and thanks for mentioning the lack of Minbari ships in the workshop before. I had been trying to build that Minbari fighter since before I started the Vorchan but kept having issues rectifying the curves/trangular layout of the original with the blocky-square grid layout SE makes you work in. Thanks to your earlier suggestion I started working on a Minbari Flyer and partway through inspiration struck as to how to make the Nial work! ...Now if only I can work out how to make the last fighter on my current list look half-way proper I'll be set haha.
☆smileyalyssa『悪』 Jul 25, 2014 @ 3:17pm 
i just saw the minbari ship, looks good! the paint job is fine. the minbari ships always had a strange purple/blueish colour. im not in any hurry for ships man, make what ya feel.
RamblingMonk  [author] Jul 25, 2014 @ 9:50am 
Feel free to let me know if you're interested in other B-5 ships and (while I won't promise I'll try to make any/every ship requested) I'll at least look at the logistics and if I think I can (and if I think I'll have fun doing it) I'll put it on my 'to do' list :)
RamblingMonk  [author] Jul 25, 2014 @ 9:50am 
Not a problem. It's sometimes fun to have challenges (besides I'd been wanting to build a Minbari Fighter for a while but had been dragging my feet after I ran into some technical problems so this gave me a good excuse to go back to it).
Speaking of which, I just uploaded my Minbari fighter which you can find in my workshop. (I was hoping to have a Minbari Flyer done too but T-storms the last few evenings have delayed that).
Let me know how you like it (and also anything you see that needs work -I am getting ready to run out the door on my weekend trip as I type this so the ship hasn't had quite as much testing as I usually give them before uploading, and I'm still not really satisfied with its paintjob).
Hopefully I'll not have any problems with the Flyer and have it done by next weekend with some luck. Hope this (at least somewhat) quench your thirst for Minbari ships!
☆smileyalyssa『悪』 Jul 21, 2014 @ 7:20pm 
oh thanks man, and dont rush yourself, im not in any hurry. just do what ya want and have fun. :beatmeat:
RamblingMonk  [author] Jul 21, 2014 @ 2:35pm 
I'm glad you like it and thanks for the comment!
The Minbari ships had not been high on my priority list simply because they are oddly enough the hardest B-5 ships to build in SE (for me at least).

Since you asked though I will re-prioritize and see if I can get a Minbari ship (or something reminiscent of one) done before I go out of town this weekend. No promises though since there are some major problems I've encountered when I tried planning them out before (It will likely be a smaller ship though since their capital ships are so massive it would likely reduce my rig to a glowing pile of goo at least until SE is better optimized).

If you have any other requests let me know. I've got several B-5 ships on my 'to-do' list (some are a bit less commonly seen than others) but if you have a particular request I may be able to bump that up a bit on my priority list ;)
☆smileyalyssa『悪』 Jul 18, 2014 @ 12:35am 
nice! could you make some Minbari ships next? there arent any on the workshop yet.