The Victory-class dreadnought is a rare example of a ship design I did not name after a World War II series of warships. Yes there were Victory ships, and there have been numerous classes of warships named Victory over the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Jack’s Defense Weekly
We’ve established that I’m a visual writer. I like to keep pictures (renders actually) of the various designs and characters open when I’m writing about them. Some I’ve contracted other artists to do for me. Others I’ve done myself with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m a very visual writer. I like to have pictures of my designs and characters that I can refer to when writing stories. That is why I’ve drawn out most of the designs in Jack of Harts in pencil. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fleet 2300 Project Empire Class Battleship Primary Armaments: Three Spinal Gravitic Cannons Six Capital Laser Cannons 56 Capital Missile Turrets 112 Sub-Capital Missile Tubes Small Craft Complement: 24 Starfighters 8 Shuttles 4 Marine Landing Craft 4 Marine Tanks 4 Marine[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fleet 2300 Project Los Angeles Class Heavy Cruiser Primary Armaments: Two Spinal Gravitic Cannons Six Capital Laser Cannons 38 Capital Missile Turrets Small Craft Complement: 12 Starfighters / 4 Shuttles 4 Marine Landing Craft 4 Marine Tanks 4 Marine Mechs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fleet 2300 Project Austin Class Destroyer Primary Armaments: One Spinal Gravitic Cannon Two Spinal Laser Cannons Ten Capital Missile Turrets Small Craft Complement: 12 Hellcat Starfighters Secondary Armaments: 18 Point Defense Laser Turrets 88 Offbore Countermeasure Launchers Proudly Serving the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
XC-9Z Puma Recon Vehicle The Puma was a boondoggle of two sets of requirements that created much confusion amongst the designers. Originally conceived as a light scout and transport, early designs and prototypes were simply larger versions of the Dragon[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ZT-5J Shadow Panther Tank Destroyer Drawn by http://wansworld.deviantart.com Writing by Jinghis Zhou and Medron Pryde With the Sixth Millennium of Chinese history rapidly approaching, the People’s Republic of China was exceedingly busy building new war machines, and upgrading older ones[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Named the Wang Chung Five by Western Alliance Consolidated Intelligence before they learned the Chinese name, the Steel Hammer is one of the older tanks in use by the Chinese Liberation Army. It carries armor plates heavier than cars, a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Republic is prized as one of the “classic first-generation gravtech beauties” of the starship market. Designed as a light carrier shortly after Contact, it brought both heavy weapons and as many fighters as possible into multi-role combat until their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…