Banshee w/ gravity booster engines v.2 (pic).

Sorry, just to clarify, I'm not talking about their appearance, I'm talking about the way they work. For example, cars can look clean and slick, but under the hood, they're raw metal and greasy. That's what I'm trying to get across, and the effect of the gravity boosters definitely doesn't reflect that same way of working.

Electricity isn't actually awfully Terran. They'd use it in wiring and everything, much like we do nowadays, but it's not like they'd have open Telsla coils or anything. The effect you're giving it also doesn't look like the sheer force of true electrical power, not to mention that such power would just travel around the metal edge of the Banshee.

So, yeah. I'm not talking about the visual appearance, though that does come into it, but more just the way their machinery works, and although they use electricity, it isn't as though it's a Terran icon.

 

If you want to bring the tycus animation in, look at the area that he is being armored up. It is dirty and gritty and greasy. Tycus had not used the armor, but it still had some dearty gritty parts.
As for the electgricity. lookj at tycus and the area around him. DO YOU SEE FREE FLOWING ELECTRICITY!!! no you see hydraulics and gears and metal of metal.
The final point i see is, in the piucture this electricity is open to the air. It is obviously a high enough voltage to pierce through the air (which is an extremely high voltage) but what is keeping it there? how do they keep the electricity inside the circle and not from hitting and frying the rest of the ship and even arcing out to the ground

 

yes it may look gritty on some parts. but check out also the overlook design of metals etc. they are actually stylistic although its just not clean or polished new painted.

 

I like your passion but I still like the rotors better. It just gives the banshee a distinct look.

 

Ya I must agree with capthavic. Makes it look more slealthy killer. If you want the engines changed. Then just use rockets has the engines. Like our rocket ships. But that would be best in space.

 

I tooled around with the Banshee model a little while back just to see what it would look like with thrusters. I agree that the "helicopter in space" concept is less then desirable and thrusters would solve that, my preference is for the second from the top.

http://i34.tinypic.com/14soaw8.jpg

 

That breaks the whole design of the Banshee. Unless you're going to be completely redesigning it as a Wraith Version 2.0, then placing a jet on the back of a helicopter is simply not going to work.

 

I agree I think they made the banshee look alot less cooler then it could. I thought it would be slightly bigger and have thrusters or something of the likes.

 

I like the chopper blades... gives 'em a different flavour than everything else and their jets.

 

I also agree with you Major Willy. Just in the space maps, the Banshee would get thrusters. But only in space maps.

 

why? mutalisk doesn't get some alternative method of flight, i think we have to assume that there is some artificial atmosphere on space stations.

 

Keep the chopper blades. Not only are they eco-friendlier compared to all the flame-propelled behemoths the terrans have in their armada but gravity play is the protoss' domain. And if terrans had gravity transportation.... then they would have to redo most of their units remember BLIZZARD strives for originality and that is why we love them.

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maybe they could grow an extra pair of wings on their...... is that their mouth?

 

If that was true then why is it so open, with no vents? I mean there is no plants there. So where do you get your carbon dixodie to oxygen fliters?

 

Well presumably if there was an artificial atmosphere, they'd have their own filters. Unless it's like an entire planet, plants aren't going to do much.

And they're already talked about how space stations have artificial gravity generators, so I'm sure they'd have an artificial atmosphere as well. If they didn't have an atmosphere, then there'd be way to many problems to rectify.

 

EIther way, ALL the Zerg are supposed to be able to survive in a vacuum and the Mutalisk has been depicted flying in outspace in both art and cinematics.

The Banshee however is distinctly an atmosphere reliant ship which is poor for the game's overall flavor. I mean how would a helicopter look flying around on AWESOME maps like these where there is OBVIOUSLY no atmosphere.

http://www.starcraft2.com/images/screenshots/ss66.jpg

 

Actually, I wouldn't be so sure that all Zerg can survive in a vacuum. The flyers can, but I'm not aware of anything saying that all other Zerg units were as well.

And seeing as Space Stations do have an atmosphere, due to their artificial gravity generators, it's clear that the Banshee is still able to function in all tile-sets. As for that screenshot, that's still the Space Station tile-set, so still has an artificial atmosphere.

Here's a quick snippet of the lore of the Banshee:

 

maybe theyre holding their breath, for a really long time, or until they die

and for the gravity boosters, it kinda reminds me of those things on the ships from the matrix, which would make sense as to use magnets to propel and hover right?

 

i actually meant the actual flying as its long been established that zerg can survive in a vacuum (plus holding your breath wouldn't help in the slightest in space ) the point was, if zerg are seen doing completely impossible things in regards to space flight, why does a terran unit have to use overused jets based on schematics of space stations?

plus the awesomeness of that asteroid tileset... anyway, it clearly has quite heavy gravity based on the zerg and protoss there, so even that having drawn in an atmosphere of some description is quite feasible.

 

In short:

Artificial gravity generators = Atmosphere = Atmosphere reliant ships

Questions?

 

I think you have a point....but you are looking WAY TO FAR INTO THIS.