Halcyon Class Light Cruiser
Both ships encounter the other during routine patrols near Jupiter and then open fire on each other. Starting distance of 500000 Kilometers.The pride. @wut: The Halcyon attempts to slipspace jump closer, but due to how horribly inaccurate pre-war slipspace drives are the ship winds up inside Jupiter. For real though Expanse torpsHalo. A couple of weeks ago I decided to recreate the campaign level 'Pillar of Autumn' from Halo: CE, cinemtatics and all, and this required a replica of the UNSC Pillar of Autumn Halcyon-class light cruiser. So here it is.
The Halcyon-class light cruiser is a light capital ship classification in the UNSC Navy. It is best suited to frontline combat.HistoryThe Halcyon-class was designed by Reyes-Mclees shipyards and is a dinosaur compared to most 'modern' cruisers. Its reactors are barely enough to properly power it with all systems on, it is slow, unmaneuverable, and has a light armament for its size.
However what defines the Halcyon is its durability; the ship's unique design allows it to take a large amount of damage and keep moving. This internal superstructure design also came at great cost, later variants used standard superstructure which made the ship lighter and cheaper at the cost of durability.Armament1 Rocket Launcher - 6 Missile Turrets - 4 Gatling Turrets - 3 Strikecraft Slots - 1 Interior Defense TurretTacticsHalcyons are tough but slow.
They perform best when used alongside other cruisers, absorbing most of the damage to protect more fragile ships.This ship is 1:10 scale. It is 100% heavy armor construction and is not rated for atmosphere. Funny you mention making a Halo ring using voxels and such as when I can get back into Space Engineers I plan to attempt a small scale Halo ring station (as a full scale version which is 10,000 km in diameter would lag/crash the game) with asteroids interspersed around the inner surface to allow for the placement of voxels.
Paris Class Heavy Frigate
The only challenge will be finding a way to pressurize the surface, a somewhat easier thing I'm going to try doing is partially hollow out a section under the surface of a earthlike planet and turn it into a shield world like Requiem, Onyx, or that one we see in the Halo Wars campaign.