Axanar: Strategic Operations is a mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion that totally converts it to the universe of the recent fan movie Axanar, based on star trek.
Stations
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Description
A couple of stations to give a taste of them. The large Starbase is the popular Watchtower Starbase whislt the smaller one is a design by HandofManos which can be seen here.
Both are in various stages of development.
Was this (or the other station) not seen in the first JJ Star Trek movie or am I wrong?
As far as I know, the JJverse uses a mor spherical star base design that has big disks around it.
However this one is actually inspired by older TOS model space stations I think. But it wouldn't suprise me if the JJ Star Trek movie would have some influence on that design. The time period would fit and the team of the axanar independent film project took some inspiration in terms of ship designs from them.
OK, that could be right, maybe I mixed something up. But the design of both starbases is great, I like it and also Axanar and what this guys do. Keep it up!
I hope we'll get to see some deep space stations type K-7 as it was seen in TOS. And I'm really excited to see these stations textured. I remember, in the original TOS, they all looked very plain, you could not see much of the plating and so on. Part of it was design choice, part of it just due to the technical issues they had back then with more detailed and complex models . (They tried something on the refit to make it's plating look all shiny and interesting and it basically ended up being a giant pain in the a** to edit out all the bluespill they had from using a blue/greenscreen with the model)
Now, with this game and the input from axanar, these guys might be able to give those well known stations a little different look and I'm really eager to see wether they'll go for a more detailed, rough design that looks less advanced than TOS or if they'll stick more to the TOS plain designs.
Anyway, by the looks of it, they'll manage to sort that all out beautifully!
I'm sure K-7 would be the trading station, at least it would fit very well. And the texture maybe will look similar to the ships, which amazing. :)