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[Lord_Mephistopheles]

On 6/18/2025 at 1:00 AM, Dr_Ruminahui said:

If it makes you feel any better, I'm old too and haven't heard of the movie either.  I do remember the Murder Death Kill game, though - never played it, but my longtime 40K buddy was a programmer on it about the time we first met.  If there was a Code 187 video game, I haven't heard of it either.

 

Though, I think we are likely the same amount of old, as the movie Code 187 and the MDK video game came out in the same year.

 

I'll own up.  I'm in my mid-40s, and i had no IDEA that there was a film called "Code 187" in 1997!!  I'm actually going back four years further to 1993 and the work of absolute art that is "Demolition Man":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGGDzEWvGRY&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD

[ZeroWolf]

On 6/20/2025 at 10:02 AM, Lord_Mephistopheles said:

 

I'll own up.  I'm in my mid-40s, and i had no IDEA that there was a film called "Code 187" in 1997!!  I'm actually going back four years further to 1993 and the work of absolute art that is "Demolition Man":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGGDzEWvGRY&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD

Quite funny how different those movies are  one is a more serious crime movie, the other has Van Damm going after bleach blond Snipes  Cool death scene at the end though

[Lord_Mephistopheles]

5 hours ago, ZeroWolf said:

Quite funny how different those movies are  one is a more serious crime movie, the other has Van Damm going after bleach blond Snipes  Cool death scene at the end though

Stallone. Not Van Damme.

 

I bet they have the 3 Seashells in the Imperial Palace.

[kabaakaba]

We'll never know how to use seashells...

[Firedrake Cordova]

As fun as it is to reminisce about "old" films, we should probably stick to the titans, aircraft, and space ships  

[Lord_Mephistopheles]

1 hour ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

As fun as it is to reminisce about "old" films, we should probably stick to the titans, aircraft, and space ships  

Fair. And thanks for the very gentle nudge of a reminder to stay on-topic! Deftly handled.

 

I currently find myself out of ideas. I may try to do some detailing and see if inspiration strikes. Part of me thinks that there should be another Heavy Starfighter / Bomber that carries the "proper" ship killers but I've not got a form or any other details in my head.

 

I can't do any more with Cybernetica, beyond finishing off some of the mechanical bits to make them actually workable.

 

I'm hoping someone might have an idea...?

[Lord_Mephistopheles]

There remains a deal of work to be done in detailing etc., but the latest addition:

 

Kopis-class Fighter - smaller and more nimble than the Xiphon-class Interceptor, which i have recategorised as a 2-man craft in the same way that an F-14 is a larger, 2-man variant for interceptor duties, vs. the F-16.

 

There are no prizes for spotting the homage / inspiration for this craft!

[YoungWolf7]

Viper from the OG Battlestar Galactica. Vintage inspiration!

[Lord_Mephistopheles]

I have a new favourite thing!!

 

I think i'm in love with my Kopis-class Starfighter... although the rebranding exercise has resulted in the Xiphon now being an Interceptor and the Sagaris now being an Attack Ship.

[Lord_Mephistopheles]

Quick update:

Finally got round to looking at the Kratos again.  Never keen on the GW design, so tweaked to my own preferences:

 

 

The Sicaran next to it makes it look small, but it's a good 50% larger than the Sicaran, but now not as tall and ungainly.  Main change was moving the hull mounted weapons to secondary sponsons.

 

In the background, for scale, you can just see the Fellblade, which is next on the update list.

[Lord_Mephistopheles]

Some quick updates:

 

Updated the Kratos a bit more and got a view of it on its own:

 

 

Subsequent updates to the Fellblade (and associated Fellglaive).  Still not happy with the turret on the Fellblade so that needs looking at:

 

 

A new aircraft!!  This is the Spatha Air Superiority fighter, shown next to the Kopis Interceptor for scale:

 

[Lord_Mephistopheles]

More updates:

 

I've spent some more time on the IX Legion Astartes (Blood Angels) air / space fleet.  This has resulted in me departing from established lore for KNOWN vehicles, namely the Xiphon Interceptor that now doesn't fit nicely into the line-up or capability requirements and is thus redundant and changed to something else, which isn't something i've done before to this extent, but hey, why not!  At least my vehicles make sense Games Workshop!!

If you're ready for a personal-canon lore-dump to go with the pictures that is...

 

So here, from left-to-right we have:

Kopis-class Fighter:

 

The smallest true flyer in the Legion Armoury.  The Kopis-class Fighter is a single-seat flyer designed primarily for air-to-air combat dogfighting and air / void superiority.  It is small, fast and manoeuvrable - as with all Legion aircraft it is designed with the unique physiology of Astartes (plus their enhanced armour systems) in mind, and therefore is able to exceed baseline-human limitations on acceleration, turning and reaction speed by some margin.  Capable of both atmospheric and void operation, with only marginal performance differences between the two (although void performance makes this more effective for fleet defence than trans-atmospheric), the Kopis-class is rarely outmatched in any theatre of operation, and is limited only by a comparatively short flight endurance.

 

Armament: 2x Arachnus-class Heavy Lascannon; 2x twin Godhammer Lascannon


Spatha-class Heavy Interceptor:

 

Based on the same airframe and technology as it's smaller cousin, the Spatha-class Heavy Interceptor is an enlarged craft, designed primarily for absolute air superiority.  Despite being void capable, the Spatha is much more at home in atmospheric operations.  It is less manoeuvrable than the Kopis, but significantly exceeds the smaller fighter's top speed in-atmosphere, but is slower and more ungainly in the void of space - nevertheless it remains capable of engaging and defeating craft several times its own size.  The Spatha-class remains a specialist piece of equipment; the significant complexity of its quad- combined cycle SCRAMjet engines meaning only to most experienced of Tech-adepts are privy to it's many mysteries.

 

Armament: 2x triple-linked Arachnus-class Heavy Lascannon (capable of multiple firing modes - pulsed rapid single shot across the entire array (6x single shot); triple-linked; or fully-linked simultaneous fire); 4No. missile hard-points

 

 

Xiphos-class Intercessor:

 

Larger and more heavily armed, but the opposite of the Spatha:  where the Spatha is utilised mainly for atmospheric or trans-atmospheric operations, the Xiphos is primarily a voidcraft with the capability to operate in-atmosphere albeit at reduced performance; the Spatha is a true air superiority fighter, whereas the Xiphos is a void-superiority fighter / light attack ship.  The smallest craft propelled by a true plasma reactor and engine (rather than the small plasma accelerator thrusters of the Kopis and Spatha), the Xiphos is a feared void opponent - its rotary launcher missile system ensuring that it is able to dispense easily with many times its own numbers of enemy fighters.

 

Armament: 2x twin-linked Arachnus-class Heavy Lascannon; 2x twin Godhammer Lascannon; Xiphos Rotary Launcher (56 missile magazine)

 

Sagaris-class Corvette:

 

The Sagaris-class is the largest mass-production, non-transport craft in the Legion airwings, outsized only by transport-capable craft such as the Thunderhawk, Stormbird and Warhawks (and unique craft such as the Seraphim).  Like the smaller Xiphos, the Sagaris is a first-and-foremost a void-craft, albeit some limited atmospheric flight ability is retained.  Intended to be launched en masse for attack runs on enemy capital ships, the Sagaris is heavily armed, armoured and shielded and is designed to unleash a barrage of munitions to weaken and strip enemy shields prior to allied capital ship weaponry being brought to bear.

 

Armament: 2x twin-linked Solex-Magma Superheavy lascannon; 2x twin-linked Arachnus-class Heavy Lascannon; 2x Sagaris Rotary Torpedo Launcher (2x 4 torpedo magazine); 4x Sagaris Rotary Missile Launchers (typically configured as 2x 8 magazine short-range and 2x 6 magazine medium-range missiles)

[Lord_Mephistopheles]

 

Here's the full Legion air-wing...

Pick your favourites!

[Tallarn Commander]

The lore dump was fun to read. Thanks!