Vindication-class Light Battleship Renders image - Sins of the Prophets mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
A Halo mod for the critically acclaimed Sins of a Solar Empire, that aims to capture the fast paced intensity of the Halo series.
Vindication-class Light Battleship Renders
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Vindicated Design
While most famous for its Flight II models introduced into UNSC service in 2554, the first flight of Vindication-class Light Battleships were originally designed by the CMA during the later stages of their Insurrection campaigns. Unlike its successor, the CMA's original vision for the Vindication called for a mixed-guns battleship capable of taking on jobs traditionally assigned to entire task forces. Corruption in the ranks and bureaucratic meddling led to the project being shelved until the Great War. The Vindication project was revived by the UNSC following the emergence of hostilities, allowing the Navy to bypass the typical multi-year feasibility studies and go straight to wartime production, with the first units leaving SinoViet naval yards in 2530.
Our rendition of the Vindication takes some deliberate liberties from its canon counterpart, and was designed prior to the official lore drop in the 2022 Encyclopedia. As such, we felt fit to give it a custom lore that makes it fit in without overriding the canon design.
Check out our post on Artstation for more of the Vindication:
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HOLY ****! You guys are getting these new models out faster and faster, I was JUST responding to one of your devs that responded to my questions and I check again and BOOM! New model! This thing looks like a BEAST! 2 heavy MACs, 2 sets of large coil gun turrets, regular coil gun turrets all around the hull along with an array of anti-fighter turrets and a large set of archer missile pods, just wow. I can see the inspiration a bit from the Phoenix-Class a bit too especially around the engine cluster, also speaking of engines the forward facing thrusters again are mint. I cannot wait to use the Vindication in small battle group, this along with 6-8 frigates maybe 2-4 destroyers could be very effective in a friendly gravity well. Now that I am done fawning over this ship, question time! The description says "capable of taking on jobs traditionally assigned to entire task forces" the Vindication Class clearly has a top landing bay and 2 hangars down below, can I assume that this ship will have a fighter compliment as well as ground force contingent on board? As I always say, you guys are seriously putting in major work into this and if you are doing this great model work I can only assume the rest of the game mechanics/art/sound design will be PEAK! Thanks for all the free work and thank you for loving Halo and the beautiful ships the lore brings. SOTP and the devs/artists are the best <3
In this case, the Vindi has been done for a few months and we're only just now getting around to showing it off. I wouldn't necessarily take the pace of posts as indicative of how fast we're progressing - we have *significantly* more ships done than what we've spotlighted so far. It's mostly just finding the time to render them out and screenshot them (as well as getting the textures from Mal to render). Sometimes we might not post anything for a month, and sometimes we might post multiple times a week - but despite that progress is steady.
As for the question there, the Vindi in the mod is characterised as a fairly multi-role ship with a focus on being able to fire on many different targets at the same time in close-ranged brawls. It carries many munitions of varying kinds, and excels in just putting out lots of firepower in a very short amount of time. Unsure if it'll have a strike complement, but in-lore it certainly at least has a small token force (though it would be unlikely to be anything more than a single squadron or two).
Well that was my bad on assuming that every time you guys finished a ship it was an instant turn around for posting it, That also makes sense since I was wondering on the Covi ships because those haven't been posted/highlighted as much. But its good to hear that progress is steady and there are "significantly" more ships done but not shown, as always hyped to see them in the future. Pertaining to the Vindication Class, yah I wasn't expecting it to have a small carriers worth of squadrons just like you said 1-2 fighter squadrons just based on the front hangar area and maybe a Charons worth of ground contingent based on the top landing area to assist pelican load and offload. Whatever it ends up having the fact it is loaded with enough weapons to rival a small task group is awesome, ship looks like it can punch real hard. Thanks for the response again.