Topic: HANGARBAY'S PORTFOLIO - THE ART OF HOMEWORLD

[hangarbay94]

Hi folks!

I'm now gearing up for the start of Star Wars apocalypse and blow me down I'm stumped at the first hurdle! I realised that as this is set far far in the Star Wars future I'll need to work with whole new ship designs, nothing can be recognisable from the existing Star Wars cannon. So after looking around for ideas here is the first image showing possible ship designs for the story...

The ship in the foreground may just possibly be our main characters mode of transport, a small yet long range transport, it's lightly armed but it has one trump card up it's sleeve.....A cloaking device!!!! If you have any thoughts or ideas for names I'm all ears... The image shows the ship being chased by what looks like Pirate Clan Star Destroyers....

The good thing about this project is that I am free to create stuff from scratch, design and style can be really different, so I'm going to try to create a whole new look taking the Graphic Novel genre up another notch or two...I only hope that I can go back to X-Wing Alliance after working on this...



 

[Tamer]

Wow Jules looks great. I will see who beats me to the fp with it!

I am also getting this and your last pic full size so I can add it to the wallpaper gallery. I am using it as one of my backgrounds already!

[Phatty]

Perhaps an older model "P-Wing" fighter, the Pick Axe?

[Tamer]

How about the Star Wolf or the Wolf Star? The front end kind of reminds me of some type of canine feature.

[DarthSinister]

Great stuff Julian!

Seems to me, with the cloaking device, that "Phantom" should be part of the name.

Maybe "The Phantom Menace" as a tip of the hat to the original universe.

Maybe "The Phantom Star", "The Phantom Anomaly" or "The Phantom Cuda" after the American Muscle Car the Plymouth Barracuda.

Just food for thought..

[hangarbay94]

What an excellent recommendation! The Phantom Star! sounds great... Phantom Menace is also a bloody wonderful idea. It's a tough one... one that I shall ponder over.

[Clonehead]

Thats a stunner, Jules. I would like a framed poster of that one.

[Tamer]

Got this up on our facebook page today too.

Has everyone seen our new Facebook Page? We would really like it if you would like it!

[CaptainLux]

Awesome job on this ones!

[Road Warrior]

Hmmm...... nice image - Homeworldesque?

For some reason when i look at the image and that particular ship the name Void Rider comes to mind.

[DarthSinister]

I was thinking "The Star Specter" also Jules.

RoadWarrior's suggestion of "Void Rider" has interesting implications. There was a ship referred to as "the Void Rider" in an issue of MARVEL Comics; STAR WARS #38. The story was kind of a side story from the regular stuff they were putting out, a filler right before "The Empire Strikes Back" came out. It centers around a mysterious ship that appeared suddenly after Luke and Leia's ship malfunctioned escaping Imperials, leaving them stranded in Hyperspace. The ship seemed to transcend time and space and was unlike anything the two had seem before. It's lone pilot had escaped a kind of Viral Apocalypse and became lost in the void in between space and time, eventually becoming one with his ship. The ship also had an advance droid who was programed in Lightsaber mastery. The droid nearly bested Luke in a duel.

Eventually the pilot realized that Luke and Leia were not enemies and returned them to regular space at the point at which they had jumped to lightspeed. Unfortunately the Imperials were still there and attacked the "Void Rider"... unfortunate for the Imperials that is. The "Void Rider" had an advanced bio-weapons system that was able to totally annihilate a squadron of TIE fighters and a Star Destroyer.  The "Void Rider" jumped back into hyperspace leaving Luke and Leia safe and was never seen again.


It would be very interesting if this ship was somehow related the galaxy's future...  

[hangarbay94]

Oh now you are putting a huge spanner in the works! What an amazing story...

For this project I'm leaving the story stuff up to Kessel Run Imports, but I know he is checking out this post, so who knows.

Thanks DS for the rare snippet of Star Wars cannon.

[Mr. Black]

That little tale DarthSinister's referring to, is one of my favourites from the Marvel era. The ship Luke and Leia fly is also one helluva design. I believe Luke also has to fight a very tough droid.

Here's some links to that:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_38:_Riders_in_the_Void

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ship_%28sentient_spacecraft%29

And iirc, Leia looked very sexy in that issue....

[hangarbay94]

The story reads more like a Star Trek episode, it's definitely outside the comfort zone as far as most Star Wars fiction  goes....

[hangarbay94]

I've been playing with ideas for the Pirate Ships, here is another test rendering....This story is going to be presented in a very cartoony/comic book style....