Thanks *everyone* for great shots and comments! We've had so far very good ideas, and will start designing the Earth Fleet ships based on your ideas.
We're going to need further assistance later on, and we'll put more specific tasks as we move along.
Great stuff!
In Iron Sky, the Earth will stand up and defend itself against the Nazi enemy. In 2018, many of the countries have developed their space program - maybe in the shadows, maybe in open - to also be able to engage in a fight in the orbit or in deep space, if necessary.
In this task, we need ideas for what the space ship of the Middle-East would look like, and under what flag it would fly?
We'd request everything from descriptions to concept drawings, from crude ideas to finalized artwork - whatever is your game.
Few guidelines:
- The film is set in 2018 - so don't get over-excited on tech!
- There's no such thing as "interstellar travel" or "antigravity" invented.
- Be reasonable - try to be functional, and limit your ideas to feasible technologial advancements.
- For ideas, you can look for example the "Venture Star" -program: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_Star
- Also, the ideas can be pretty wacky ones - maybe some huge project a country has been working on is, instead of being what it looks like, a battleship?
We've already discussed the weapons technology in the previous task:
http://www.wreckamovie.com/tasks/show/52
Maybe reading through the thumbed-up -shots (you can sort them in the task) would give some ideas as well.
Included you'll find some concept art of stuff our concept artist Jussi has done. You may use them non-commercially and share them with others, but not claim them your own or charge money from them. Here's more info on the CC-license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
As the licence in Iron Sky production requires, you need to give all the rights for derivative or original work you do for this task to the Iron Sky team for us being able to use them.
Go for it, people! Let's design the greatest space fleet in the history of film!
Into mind comes that maybe the middle east has started to prepare for the times when oil is no longer an option.
They could have huge solar power fields in the deserts, and Earth based laserguns.
In space they could have a bunch of spacemirrors, with the original purpose to redirect the suns energy into a solar platform that would then beam the energy down to earth.
Once the crisis strikes they decide to use the mirrors as a weapon and by co-ordinating the mirrors to concentrate the sunbeams into one spot, they can fry any ship that happens to be there :)
While I don't see any of the ME nations press forward a significant space program, one exception might be Dubai. As they like to do grand scale futuristic projects, they might have made some kind of temporary (liner) or full-time hotel in space, with a few small shuttles for emergency services.
The Arabs have known that they will run out of oil much sooner than other countries believe. They have made secret plans to evacuate their leading tribes to Mars before a world war over the last oil supplies begins.
With unlimited resources and a history of conflicts their ships are as beautiful as they are dangerous. They are prepared to shoot down American destroyer satellites and kill any boarding astronauts. On the other hand they look as sleek and beautiful as their jewelry and daggers.
Allahu Akbar!
Paul Day
July 09, 2009 06:46
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It would seem more likely that much of the Middle East would initially sympathise with the Nazi's anti-semitism, until persuaded otherwise - perhaps by a realisation that the first thing the Nazi's want is their oil. At this stage some sheepish, former Iraqi chiefs might finally admit to having one BIG weapon of mass destruction hidden away in the desert. It would probably look shit but it wouldn't half pack a punch.
MajorD
July 08, 2009 22:18
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If anyone is going to use skyscraper ships these are the guys to do it.
I can't get the idea out of my head that they should attack using guys in space suits launched, from their flying buildings, at their enemy.
Ok- we all know Dubai is the city growing the most in the Middle East. Why don't we have some Dubai inspired architecture floating around space?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_stellated_dodecahedron
I got the idea from a lantern of this shape that my father brought as a souvenir from Egypt. Somehow, the shape just screams "Middle East" to me. The shape is composed of pentagrammic facets, the pentagram being found on Morocco's flag and having been the seal of the City of Jerusalem (and possibly the seal of King Solomon). From a certain angle, it does resemble the Star of David but is not as clearly identified with any single religion. (It could even be that the threat of Space Nazis, intent on wiping out the entire Semitic race, would finally unite Israel and the Arabs against a common foe...)
The shape might not be suitable for a manned spaceship, but more like a killer satellite or space mine.
The Arab World is the leading exporter of oil, so they shouldn't use any other form of fuel. That is not to say that other nations don't, but the Arab Space Fleet must have their ships powered by petroleum.
Jykke
November 18, 2008 17:37
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Would be cool if the design had some influences from an arabian sword or something like that. For example in the shape of the curves on the ship.
Arabs have the dough, so they'll be mostly interested in luxury. Make their spaceships seem lavish luxury boats with pools and stuff rather than streamlined battlevehicles. Though their armament shouldn't be next to anyone either - just hidden and discreet, and controllable with utmost lack of bother. (The sheikh-in-command taking a bubblebath with virgins while accepting measures...)
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I like this idea, I wonder if it's possible for the rays to incapacitate a crew and not destroy the ship they are on?
This makes great sense and would look great on screen.
The way power will be transmitted from orbital mirrors is to convert the electricity into microwaves and beam them to Earth where they will be collected by antenna. So, the weapon would probably involve pointing the microwave emitter at the enemy with the solar panels at the sun.
Unless, they use mirrors to direct sunshine directly at either Earth based solar cells or solar furnaces used to heat water for steam. They could have both but I think the former is more efficient than the latter.
Good idea, and the most advanced oil-based economies are indeed investing heavily in alternative sources of income and energy in real life, so this idea is particularly believable.
Archimedes heat ray in other words:-)