Snark

Snark
Size (W×H×L)	90m×33m×37m
Cargo capacity	0 TC
Cargo bay extension	N/A
Maximum speed	0.30 LM
Manoeuvrability	Roll: 2.1 Pitch: 1.6
Energy banks	Unknown
Energy recharge rate	Good (4.0)
Gun mounts	Fore
Missile slots	None
Shield boosters available	No
Military shields available	No
Hyperspace capable	Yes
OXP or standard	OXP
Available to player	No
Base price	N/A

Overview

The Snark is a powerful fighter, used by escorts, bounty hunters and pirates.

ReadMe

The snark is primarily a slow but powerful escort but may turn up as an equally slow (and hence reasonably rare) pirate. She has triple forward beam lasers. You may also see it (ironically enough, given its name) as a hunter - a role for which she is more than fit, although her lack of cargo space makes unaccompanied hunting a fairly futile exercise for her. This is also the reason I haven't made her into a player ship.

If you want to see her stright away, go into the 'AddOns' folder within your main Oolite folder and either create a subdirectory called Config, or just copy the accompanying Script.plist file into an existing "Config" folder within there. The Snark then appears within scanner range, the next time you exit witchspace (no matter what system you choose).

This ship was actually intended as a demonstration of inversion texturing: i.e using a single texture to cover two mirrored objects, and so reduce memory usage. I had thought this would be difficult, but actually Wings3D makes it trivially easy using the "flip" objects functionality to flip the selected object on, in this case, the x axis. If you dig in the OXP, you'll see there is only one wing texture, but by reverse-mapping it, it serves as the texture for both wings (which are mirror images of each other).

Context

The Hunting of the Snark

By Lewis Carroll: A tragedy in Eight Fits

Fit the First

The Landing

"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,

As he landed his crew with care;

Supporting each man on the top of the tide

By a finger entwined in his hair.

"Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:

That alone should encourage the crew.

Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:

What I tell you three times is true."

Just the place for a Snark!

The crew was complete: it included a Boots—

A maker of Bonnets and Hoods—

A Barrister, brought to arrange their disputes—

And a Broker, to value their goods.

A Billiard-marker, whose skill was immense,

Might perhaps have won more than his share—

But a Banker, engaged at enormous expense,

Had the whole of their cash in his care.

There was also a Beaver, that paced on the deck,

Or would sit making lace in the bow:

And had often (the Bellman said) saved them from wreck,

Though none of the sailors knew how.

There was one who was famed for the number of things

He forgot when he entered the ship:

His umbrella, his watch, all his jewels and rings,

And the clothes he had bought for the trip.

He had forty-two boxes, all carefully packed,

With his name painted clearly on each:

But, since he omitted to mention the fact,

They were all left behind on the beach.

The loss of his clothes hardly mattered, because

He had seven coats on when he came,

With three pair of boots—but the worst of it was,

He had wholly forgotten his name.

He would answer to "Hi!" or to any loud cry,

Such as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!"

To "What-you-may-call-um!" or "What-was-his-name!"

But especially "Thing-um-a-jig!"

et cetera, et cetera

The observant will have noticed that there is one fit for each of The Eight

Download

The Snark is available in the Snark OXP (BOX). Alternate download on capnhack.com here (CapnHack).

Links

• Written by ADCK in Jan 2006.

• BB Thread (2013: Radagast's only two posts!)

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