Velvet is a very huge work, thank you for this ship, I plan to add Xenon Q and Osaka to it, but it takes a lot of time

ahhh. i cant blame you- the ATF ships have -so- many gribbly, fiddly bits >.<

I realize this response is very late, but no, I didn't end up doing anything with the Boreas. The Tyr very nearly burned me out, so I've been focusing on some smaller projects for the time being.

dont suppose you ever ended up fiddling with making a Boreas ?

Ah good, something to remind me of all the times I died to one of these. xD

Yes, this is good to go with Combat Update 2. All weapons mounts have been converted to new turret blocks and many have been scaled up to accomodate bigger weapons. There are currently three custom turrets to go with it (which can be found in the new Xenon J Weapons Collection) and I am planning to add at least one or two more.

If you're playing on the new 0.19 beta branch, be aware that the change preventing duplicate Xsotan artifacts in the same ship makes turret slots harder to come by, so the ship is a bit more difficult to fully arm. I also have not updated the turrets to use the new projectile color feature - I'll probably be waiting until that hits stable branch to do that.

I assume the recent update to this is the Combat Update version?

It's good timing too, the Beta update finally let me properly play Xenon for the most part (i.e. no crew, especially not pilots).

I'm currently working on turrets for this for Combat Update 2. This ship will be recieving an update to use the new turret mounts as soon as they are on the stable branch. When I built this ship, there was little reason to have anything larger than a size 2 hardpoint - the upcoming version will have larger turret mounts to accomodate true capital ship weapons.

Awesome!

Do the Hyperion (200 meters) after the Tyr

I have my hands full with the ATF Tyr right now, but if I did another Xenon ship, it would most likely be the P.

Also, this ship will be receiving an update to utilize the newly-introduced torpedo launchers (from combat update part one) as soon as they are on the stable branch.

Omg, that's awesome, same for fighters! Can you build Xenon P (I guess as starter ship)?

Thank you both!

I remember how happy I was when I got one of these with the system override
and some hackerchips (might have been a mod) .

Your X3 builds are awsome man.

Damn dude, I've been meaning to build this in either Empyrion or Avorion, but you already did it. Nice work!

Thank you!

Amazing detail work, good job!

@Isaacity: Thank you!

@not.given: Thank you! I am planning to do Kha'ak fighters. I'm not sure if I will try to do anything larger than that, but expect to see an M5, M4, and M3 down the road.

quote ---. In addition, some of the J's armored internals are framework placeholders, so that you can customize the ship to your liking

WONDERFUL, excellent ship, thanks for sharing!

any chance we could get some KHA'AK? :))))))))) you are the best!

Amazing Work!

I think some of them are more possible than others. I think I could do the Octopus, though I may have to slightly flatten out the angle of the wings. Others look... less possible.

Don't expect a Boron capital ship from me, at least.

Are Boron ships even possible in Avorion? IIRC they're all super-curvy designs.

Just an FYI for Pencil Sketch, Tyr is a standard M2 that doesn't have a hangar.

At least it wouldn't be hampered by improperly configured cargo space here...

Ah, well I greatly look forward to the Tyr.

The Tyr is actually one of the three that I'm considering. It is probably the most labor-intensive one on the list, though.

The other two that I was thinking about are the Split Raptor (M1) and OTAS Boreas (M2).

I personally would like to see one of the Terran or ATF M2s, preferabbly one that has a hangar so that it makes sense for me to have hangars (Kyoto, Tyr, Valhalla.) I don't expect you to do them cause they take a huge amount of time to do but it'd be amazing

@Sufok, Blackwool, Just Cirind, and Black_Disciple: Thank you!!!

@Pencil Sketch: Thank you - I'm not ready to commit to another one yet, but there's a short list (roughly three) of other X3 M1/M2s I'm considering, and there's still a bunch of fighters I'd like to do. The ATF Fenrir M3+ will be coming soon. I'll probably try and do a Boron something or another after that (maybe an Octopus M5). My next megaproject is going to be a Homeworld mothership-class build.

@warpSpeedNyanCat(); Thank you, and I'd love to drop by sometime!

@Mattoropael: I really loved them, too, this one especially. The J is actually my favorite X3 capital ship. There's just something about the red machine eyes that stare into your soul. The Xenon I superdestroyer from Albion Prelude is another ship I'd put on the "someday I'd like to build that" list.

@XenoJade: Thank you! Part of it is just lots of practice with shapes. You get a feel for it after a while of playing around and/or picking apart other people's builds to see how they did certain things (angled delta wings, for example, are not something I figured out on my own). My first draft of the Kadeshi Fuel Pod was embarrassingly bad, but after a few months of doing other builds, I came back to it and did a lot better on the second try.

Very nice work. Very impressive.

Oh my god.
Velvet...
Now you did it! :D.
Holy shit...
It looks amazing! I love thouse details.
Just like in X3.
I hopes so it's also as anoying to fight like in that game xd.

That is a truly impressive build, Velvet. I wonder how many of these blueprints you'll make?

seriously look at this , all the bits and bobs on the hull , so many details its sexy! you should come play on our server sometimes , though i dont want to shill the name here

Really love the blocky circuits look of the X3-era Xenon capitals, shame they made them the robotic Kha'ak in Rebirth.

Now we really need that Artifact Update to get an AI crew...

M-MY EYES!!!

IT IS TOO GOOD! >n< I wish I could create ships like you do. I've been seriously struggling to create the Drake from Eve Online.

I made the bridge section... and that's it. ;n;

like deserved

I L O V E T H I S

Before anyone asks me about this, the original ship's engines were indeed purple. I was a little confused when I saw that as well, but I decided to keep them as they were.