Charlie

Charlie was active in the Oolite community for a short while between 2006-8.

Creative, and pushing the game code to its limits, he designed a large number of ships.

He tried to create a Black Hole, he did create an oxp introducing new planets in each system (Plannets.oxp), the asteroids used in Asteroid Storm and created a bizarre new ship, the Orb, which never quite worked!

OXPs (wiki pages)

• Benulobiweed Inc.
• Kestrel & Falcon OXP - the only one available on the in-game Expansions Manager

Falcon (Oolite)

Falcon S (Oolite)

Kestrel

• Condor
• Firefly
• Merlin
• Pallas
• Swift
• Tepiu

Charlies Box of goodies

Charlie's Collection

• Charlie's Collection in Box: (2006-8): link thanks to cbr

Adds - 20 advertisements for Benulobiweed Inc. ships

For Ahruman - cobra and orb demos

Orb

Ships - Condor, Falcon, Kestrel, Merlin, Navy Starships (Navy Interceptor & Constitution), Pallas & Swift (with older versions)

Ordinance - empty

Black Hole - empty (unfinished project) - but see his comments here (2006)

Beta - Asteroids & planets+moons (new skins - 2006): See plannets.oxp - is it still working? (2008)

Benulobiweed text - more on the background of this great company.

model-utilities.zip - Meshwork graphics (not a recommended package for post-v.1.65 Oolite).

Planets/Plannets OXP

Charlie's Planets.oxp added planets randomly to every system (from a pool of about 20 odd different ones). But was really a test OXP. He probably planned to script them individually but then got side-tracked with his Orb. As it was an early alpha, he did not put it up on Oosat.

This was contrasted with the other early moon/planet-adding OXPs (Lave, Diso, The Assassins Guild) which only added them at specified systems.

From Littlebear's 2007 post

Interesting/Enjoyable Links

• Benulobiweed.inc: New Company, New Ships...;) BB thread 2006
• Charlie!!! Are you up there, somewhere in the clouds? BB Thread 2008
• History of Benulobiweed (BB thread 2008)
• Ships - Condor, Falcon, Firefly, Kestrel, Merlin, Navy Starships (Navy Interceptor & Constitution), Pallas & Swift (with older versions)
• Follow the links in this one: Orb!

• Alcubierre Warp Drive Ship for 3-D Desk Top Manufacturing (2018, updated April 2021)