Freelancer Ti'Laana -- "Memories of Darahna": A LEGO® creation by Alan Crisp : MOCpages.com

Freelancer Ti'Laana -- "Memories of Darahna"

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Freelancer Ti'Laana -- "Memories of Darahna" There are not many freelancers operating in the human sectors of the galaxy, but of those the most peculiar is the young Mekmalahn female named, Ti'Laana. Her people and homeworld were conquered and enslaved by the Khulani. Before she too was enslaved, she stole an ARC Drive capable shuttle craft and fled for distant sectors. Eventually, she came to the Theta Epsilon sector, which was home to the human planet Gaia. On the ship yards of San Sterling, she was able to militarize her shuttle craft and take up the profession of being a Freelancer. Her ship may not have much cargo space or a very far range, but she has so far managed to make a living Freelancing between various human worlds.

About this creation

Before you ask, no there is no interior. I had planned to make one, but it was late at night and I just wanted to finish and go to bed. Anyway, I had planned to do the interior with the same method as I used on the Kaar Ker'margh transport. With this MOC, you will notice the entire thing is upside down.

So, we get some technic bricks and technic pins, and voila, I was going to build the interior right side up. I did not get to it, so the entirety of the MOC, aside from the studs on the side, is upside down. Doing the interior right side up would not have been hard, but another draw back was that there was very little interior space.

You will notice a view port in the tail of the ship, that was going to look into Ti'Laana's quarters. Rear viewports are all the style this fall.

The idea for the gun turrets comes from Space: Above and Beyond -- from the troop transport. The viewports for their gun turrets were very similar in design to this. I had already been using those windscreens as viewports, so here I just slapped on some guns and c'est si bon.

At first, I did not have any orange on this, but as the minifig is orange, it only made sense to have a little bit of detailing color. You might say this looks like a neimodian ship on steroids. I actually got the idea for this design from a screen shot from EVE Online. I do not play that game, but I have investigated the screen shots and there was a ship that inspired me; it just came out looking like something from Star Wars.

Here we see the hatch to the ship. I have wanted to use this boat hull for something spacey for some time, but the inspiration had just never hit me until now.

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Moodswim .

October 7, 2009

Very cool design and use of parts! I love that it's upside down:)

I like it

Parrington Levens

September 4, 2009

Wow, what a clever use of those boat parts. Very inovative. And I love the scale on it, just right.

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Marcus Forsberg

August 26, 2009

Cool idea, cool-looking ship! It hasn't even crossed my mind to build an entire ship upside down... Brilliant!

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'Nickre .

August 8, 2009

I absolutely love the ship hull and the upside-down vibe. Awesome work.

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Willis C

August 8, 2009

Awesome job. It's very rare to see unique designs like this. 5 out of 5 to be sure

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George Kemper

August 2, 2009

Yeah I would have never thought of useing the bottom of a boat to make a space ship. Great job!-George

I made it

Alan Crisp

August 2, 2009

Quoting Yuri Fassio Why did you put this in "Your Worst Creations"?

'Cause it's a really odd looking ship. I don't know really, even though it was a challenge and I enjoyed building it, it just does not sit right with me for some reason that I have yet to figure out.

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Yuri Fassio

August 2, 2009

Why did you put this in "Your Worst Creations"?

I made it

Alan Crisp

August 2, 2009

Quoting Jonathan Thomas Don't just use a piece to use it.

Ah, mon ami, therein lies the challenge. Does the attempt with a hard to use piece, the end product, look cruddy, or did I succeed? That is the rub! I have only ever seen one MOC in all of Legodom that used this piece for a spaceship, and I had to try.