Qui'ong Gai (Thornship) image - Yuuzhan Vong at War mod for Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
Behold the Yuuzhan Vong Army! This mod adds the Yuuzhan Vong Race as a playable faction and all units of this era. We are a community of modders working for the greater goal, so anyone who wants to help or support us is welcome!
A highly advanced and specialized Vong ship, the Qui'ong Gai or 'Thornship' as referred to by Repbulic fighter pilots was about 280m in length on average, and appeared to have been at one point a living creature which suffered the fate of Vong genetic manipulation to become what it is now. Green scaly flippers help maneuver this creature in atmospheres much like the reddish Cha'o Khinh making the ship highly maneuverable. a large extinct gaping mouth also persists from its previous life which now serves the purpose as a hangar for launching a squadron of Yorik-Et Coralskippers. Orange tubular organs can be seen growing out of the softer green scaled skin which has been observed to be a form of AA weapon nicknamed 'rockspitters'. The rest of the creature appears to have been overcome with a massive thick coating of yorik-coral which has grown into spiked peaks providing a very strong defensive shell in the front of the ship, indicating assault tendencies for the craft. Through this armored shell pockets can be found that contain Dovin Basals connected by a rather intricate network of purple veins which pilots have reported sudden and intense shield drains when in their proximity. Dotting the ship were also observed 24 medium plasma canons, 2 medium magma launchers, 10 heavy rockspitters, 27 light rockspitters. While this ship was heavily armored and very strong defensively, it could only achieve speeds as fast as most other common Frigates, therefore making it a little slow for use as an Assault Ship, despite that being its intended role.
Special Ability:
Launch 1 squadron of coralskippers
Shield Leech
Model Concept was from the Vong Comics
Initial model design (basic shape) - Seregruth
Model Edits/Details - Burntstrobe
Art Asset creation and Direction - Burntstrobe
Texture Creation and super creepy imagination - Doci
Creation of a very complicated UV - Revan
Blastmarks and rigging - Azat
So another fun team project. This was an unfinished ship by the Vong Invaders started long ago when they worked with us. Seregruth and I brainstormed this ship together after seeing it in the comics, but it was never finished for the Vong Invaders release. After working with the model for a while, I created this much thorny-er version to portray a menacing appearance of the ship that related to the Vong's Thorn'ed infantry armor. Then Kad yelled alot about my ideas of making it into a ship that could ram other ships and do collision damage, so we then came up with the idea that specific Vong ships would have Shield Leech ability, designating 1 Shield Leech specific ship for each class of ship type. The Qui'ong Gai fulfills the role of the Shield Leech ship for the Frigate class. After showing the ship to Doci, Doci then went full creepy on this thing and really brought it to life showcasing a multitude of different texture techniques while showing how the ship can be related to other more organic ships with flippers, the organics of the mushroom ship, and the armor of more heavy capital ships. Another hard challenge that he succeeded at, for each texture not only has to look good, but be consistent throughout all our vong ships. Revan did an amazing job on the UV and the shadow, which was not an easy task and currently Azat is working on our blastmarks and rigging. This will be an average speed unit in the game, but will be deadly vs smaller sized ships. Great job everyone who worked on this :)
wow that is a long description for this image
Trying to teach people about the ships so they know how to use them, and others asked from time to time about our dev process...
Next ship I’ll just say “yo vong ship, check it”
Lol. That's one damn scary ship tho
love it !
this **** gets more scary by the update.
keep going.
You really have to feel sorry for all the creatures the Vong manipulated don't you? The life they live as Vong slaves must be awful!
I really hope those creatures are lobotomised ... but as I know the Vong, they are not and really feel everything because the pain is glory for and prayer to the gods.
The texture work is real crispy, well done lads.
M.Wittmann
That is FLOOD! A SINGLE FLOOD CELL CAN DESTROY AN ENTIRE SPECIES