Here's
where we post pictures and discussion of ships we can't identify. Readers are invited to mail in with their pics, ideas, and
suggestions.
04 September:
Just a quick update after having played through the first 11 missions
of Cataclysm. Ship U6, as suspected, is the derelict object
that contains the Beast infection. Object U2 is a Turanic
Raider outpost, and is much larger than it appears in the shot. U5
is most likely the rear-end of the Beast mothership.
08 August:
The ship in this first new pic can't be positively identified as yet,
and it's scary enough to include here.
Fresh off the official site, an item that
looks, well... sort of like a beat up stereo speaker.
Scuttlebutt is that this is a single-player npc object,
possibly the derelict that contains the Beast artifact. Con
sonar, designate contact U6. |
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23 July:
The ship in this first new pic can't be positively identified as yet,
and it's scary enough to include here.
Here two ACV's are hit by an Infection
Beam. But what is firing the beam? The ship could be the Beast
Mothership or Heavy Cruiser, but it doesn't appear to be
either. Designate contact U5. |
Just moving this U2 pic back to
the top, so I could delete some of the older entries. First
discovered way back in March, there still hasn't been any new
data on this vessel. |
7 July:
There is a new destroyer-class vessel to
be seen here.
5 May: New Clee-San info
from the revamped official site:
In the final days of their control over
the Mothership's PDA, Kiith Somtaaw triumphantly built one final ship,
the Clee San, a top-of-the-line deep space research frigate. Students
of history will note that the names of all three vessels derive from
the names of temples along the old Shimmering Path: Kuun-Lan,
"Purifying Flame", Fal-Corum, "Silent Wayfarer",
and Clee San, "Truth Seeker"… So,
it seems a good bet that what we have here is some sort of ship in the
single-player game, related to the discovery of the Beast. I have
moved Clee San to its own page. Thanks to KrulL
for the heads-up.
25 April:
Here's something interesting to ponder:
This is a shot of the Command Ship, after being
infected by the Beast. Yup, that in the upper corner sure
looks like the same ship pictured below. Note the letterbox
format, indicating that this is a cutscene. (Thanks to Jake Hopkins for
pointing this out.) |
This is the very next screenshot in the
series to the one below for April 19 (note the scouts in both
shots). The mission objective reads, "Find CLEE-SAN."
CLEE-SAN? Ecclesiam? Coincidence? You be the judge. |
Okay, I agree that's pretty thin. But keep in
mind that the name "ecclesiam" is just the filename of the
sketch image from the French site; we don't know what the ship is
really called.
24 April:
Here are a few thoughts from the community about the possible identity
of good ol' Unidentified Ship el Numero
Uno:
/downslope\:
Well basically I think the "ecclesiam" ship is one of the
repair ships that skirts around a capital ship's hull that they [Chris
Stewart and others] are talking about.
Farcus:
I think the ship is a control ship, a ship that is the center of the
SU's or
whatever they are, the control units that are needed just like ru's.
Jean-Luc
Picard: I think this could be a version of the Ghost ship...the
arrays on the
side take over control of beast vessels. Maybe just used
to
exterminate the beast from infested ships. That infestation beam in
the
movie just seamed too effective this may be a balancing ship.
UFO64: maybe it's some kind of miner
bot you find in the first mission....
For myself, I can say only that it
seems too large to be a repair bot. Beyond that, who knows? Cloak or
gravwell generators come to mind... or perhaps a sensors jammer? Let
me reiterate, by the way, that "ecclesiam" is just the name
the French Ouare Games site gave to the sketch image... I have no idea
what the real name of the ship is.
19 April: Fresh
from the new GameSpot preview, here's an actual screenshot of
that "ecclesiam" ship:
Here it is, next to the command ship. It
looks to be about the size of a worker. |
Here's the "ecclesiam" sketch
again, for reference. |
10 April:
Chris Stewart recently supplied this information:
Arioch - Those are marker buoys so ships
approaching the ship on it's dark side know where to slow down and make sure
they don't smack into the side of the commandship. You're a mining vessel after
all; safety first. They only appear at the beginning of the game.
28 March: This just in:
There has been some speculation about the identity of these gray objects that are
seen in rows near the CS in several screenshots. |
In this recent shot, we get a slightly better look at them. They look just like the
old Taiidan target drones from the first mission of Homeworld. |
Taiidan target drone from Homeworld |
Taiidan target drone from Homeworld |
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