Yellowjacket Squadron

Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

-- Deuteronomy 7:20, KJV.

The Terran Empire Navy's Strike Squadron FORTY (STRIKERON 40) on deep interdiction raid somewhere in the vicinity of the Xi Scorpii 5 complex of stars. Wearing their Yellowjacket colors, the light cruiser Paris (CL-77), the light carrier Hawk (CVL-82), the frigate Thedus (F-329), and their destroyer consorts Norfolk (DDE-207), and Southampton (DDE-221) plus Interceptor Squadron NINETEEN (The Reds) seek out the soft underbelly of their enemy's interior to raid and sow confusion and disarray in the 'safe zones.'  These high risk/high reward missions attract only the finest ships and crews, their captains and squadron commodores given nearly unlimited latitude to conduct operations. 

I think at this point, this project represents the most ambitious effort that I've been able to come across to bring the world of the STARFIRE tabletop game to 3D life. I've done my best to interpret the byzantine array of rules and versions of rules, while at the same time presenting them within my existing style's rules for deck orientation, heat rejection, laser armaments, logical placement of sensors and EWAR arrays, RCS thrusters and all of that.  I had to do this in 3 renders, and composite the image together. Total throw weight of the composition was 4.73 million triangles, and Kerkythea said oh HELL no...

Modeled with Trimble SketchUp. Rendered (grudgingly) with Kerkythea. This is a commission for
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