JcDent

@JcDent

A T-55 experience

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Military history, video games and miniature wargaming.

RPGs, single player FPS, RTS and 4X, grog games.

Passionate about complaining about Warhammer.

Catholic, socialist, and an LGBT+ ally.

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Fortified Niche: a podcast covering indie miniature wargames

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JcDent @JcDent8/27/2024, 2:54 AM

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flynn @ICELEVEL8/27/2024, 2:04 AM

I forgot Talon Karrde’s ship is the Wild Karrde. Star Wars is good actually

BB-8 @bb88/27/2024, 2:41 AM

The Wild Karrde is both the best named and worst looking ship in all of Star Wars. Astounding pun. Looks like a Klingon vacuum cleaner. Looks like a walkie-talkie that survived a SCUD missile strike in the Gulf War. Looks like its proton torpedos give you tetanus. Looks like it sings backup to "Dare To Be Stupid" during the 80s Transformers movie. Looks like your dad is gonna shake his head and tell you your air conditioner has had it. Looks like it should be named the Costaguana and stocked yea-high with facehuggers. Looks like the Toyota I drove in high school, and yes, I am implying this ship neither has air conditioning nor automatic transmission. Again, tremendous name, fabulous pun, astounding nomenclatural rizz, but for a ship designed in 1991 it looks like it was rendered on a Nintendo 64. Looks like a Jawa would leave it be if they found it. Looks like it goes clankida-clankida-clankida. The ship of the pirate prince of the universe and it looks like there must be a Confederate flag hanging inside. Just a hideous garbage truck of a space ship. Astounding.

#STAR WARS #heir to the empire #Talon karrde #wild karrde

JcDent @JcDent8/27/2024, 2:54 AM

Drag that stupid ship's ass!

Boat so ugly, the Beast wouldn't infect it.

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Turnsky @Turnsky8/27/2024, 3:43 AM

it looks like someone tried to make a Jawa Sandcrawler fly and just added bits to it.

@dreadfuldoll8/27/2024, 4:36 AM

doesn't he get a star destroyer painted red later?

Krzysiek Ceran @Krzycer8/27/2024, 6:14 AM

That was Booster Terrik, Michael Stackpole's self-insert's father-in-law. The Errant Venture. I could have used those grey cells for something, but no, they're filled to the brim with this stuff.

Belarius @belarius8/27/2024, 5:57 AM

You know what? I've never seen this design before (was never big into EU lore), and I unironically think it kind of rules.

It's the Wild Karrde! You know, from Star Wars!

Is it a harsh, ugly design? In many ways, yes. Showcasing its low-poly rendering isn't doing it any favors either, of course, but even the more nuanced rendering above leaves no doubt that it looks like someone strapped a rocket to the back of one of Big Zam's toes. It looks like a cosplay made from painted cardboard. But here's the thing: A starship in fiction needs (a) to look plausible for its role and (b) distinctive enough to be a character in its own right. While I agree that more could have been done to make this look less like a Sandcrawler, it definitely looks different from other Star Wars ships, and looks like the sort of blunt armored hammer of a ship that I'd expect from a pirate. It looks like it's probably made its fair share of harsh atmospheric entries and rammed its share of small fighter crash. It's not beating any of the charges being made above, and that's 100% good design in my book.

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