You could make a lot of videos on Star Citizen ships. Every year this week there are ships to freely rent and you could review them as long as you have bought the game.
I believe that two similarly looking doors opposite of each other are actually drop pods(you use two later on) and the odd one out is actually an elevator. It should also be noted that 1)it was probably fully build for their species and modified only later on; 2)Cessna 172 is also a private plane. Not every yacht or even luxury yacht is something only billionaire could afford. I think that you've been too pampered with Millenium Falcon which is actually a VERY unique ship in SW setting with how it was modified; 3)yacht designation is an official one. Less official one might be "something we have build for piracy, but wanted to pass officialy as civilian vessel".
It should be noted, I believe the massive "wing" is there entirely for gameplay purposes. On most worlds you can see it long before you actually get to the landing zone. It acts as a very visible landmark for the player without them having to use the mini map
In the bonus material, they said they wanted it to look like a sail boat, with that wing standing in for the sail. So at least not only gameplay reasons.
I'm not so sure about that; the game tells you exactly where it is and it is hard to get lost in the game's very linear map design. It's not exactly labyrinthine. Sure, you might get lost for a few minutes but you walk backwards a waise and go "oh. that's where I am, okay."
In a vast majority of locations where you can possibly get lost - ship is nowhere remotely near to be seen. Fun theory, but feels completely misguided after you actually completed the game.
@@SkywalkerWroc I've already finished the game and am very close to 100% on master, if credentials matter here. Its most helpful on Ilum(it has a kinda confusing area around the entrance to the temple) and bogano. It made life slightly easier and whether or not it was intentional it had a positive effect on my experience.
@@tawabunny I agree, for most of the map it's nothing, but for a few parts(mostly when you are returning to the ship) it makes it so you can see the end a while before you get there
The moving engine pod and wing is meant to give a sailing ship wibe. And wings/tails moving for the sake of it is a staple of the Star Wars universe. I love this ship.
Exactly! When I tell people I own a yacht they think I'm referring to a luxury MEGA Yacht and that I'm a millionaire. Nope. Just a 25 ft sailboat built in 95'. Some might even say "What a piece of junk!"
@@thetragicschoolbuspodcast I've had exactly the same response every time I've mentioned crewing on board my friend's yacht. They all say "woah, he must be rich!" When in reality he just decided to buy a yacht instead of a car. It's a 27 ft yacht from 1973, and there's nothing luxury about it haha. We always considered the long list of things to fix at every stop part of the fun of sailing it
i guess theres a diffrence between a luxury Yacht vs a yacht because if you just said yacht they would assume big massive yacht but if you said luxury yacht they would assume big massive yacht people assume if you just say yacht it might be BIG not a small little thing @@thetragicschoolbuspodcast this is what they think: yacht=big giant yacht luxury yacht=expensive yacht not yach=small yacht any person can buy
I reckon its like a middle class mans retirement style yacht. Like sort of the kind of thing a middle rung manager saves a long time for to relax a bit in. Nothing fancy, just wants the pleasure of his own vessel.
I don't know. If you look outside the bottom of the ship does drop quite a bit and on the interior, you take one or two steps to get to the back area. Those combined might just make it high enough to have a fully upright person in... if they don't bounce too hard when they step.
@@kamuishr3 I was thinking the same - a crawlspace for maintainance. Darth Mauls Scimitar has a similar crawlspace in the nose section, barely wide enough for a person to climb through
I think a lot of it is inspired by smaller single hull sailing yachts irl. That would explain the galley, windows, dimensions and the way you have to go through rooms to get to other ones rather than just having a hallway. I liked that about it. I do believe there could be room for some very shallow bedrooms on the floor bellow. Again, bedrooms in smaller yachts don’t tend to leave much head room. Space is never wasted. :D
That bottom engine also has an analogue: a lot of yachts have a weight dangling on an arm below the hull, to try to make it more resistant to being blown over.
Personally, I think of the needlessly complicated moving parts and landing gear is a part of the ship's status as a luxury vessel. It signifies the extravagance of the owner and how rich they are to maintain a ship with that many moving parts. The rich love spending money on pointless shiny things, and I imagine in Star Wars it's no different.
It's actually deceptive, as from the outside it looks too small to fit. However half way through the ship you go up a small set of stairs, meaning the rear half of the ship could easily be 2 decks. Even more so when you realise the race that designed the ship isn't exactly tall, the lower deck only needs to be half as tall as the rest of the ship to make it big enough for them to walk around in.
@@cgi2002 If the ship was to be made and sold on the galactic market they would design the interior around the average height for species around the galaxy with customization available for species whose height is below the average. Would help if we had an entire explain how and why this ship model was made.
@@erkprower3937 true. But since this isn't known to be one if the big ship building races, it's reasonable to assume that the fair number of their designs would he focused towards their own people rather than other races. Besides you could argue it's both in this case. The height of some of the workstations is definitely too high for them, but then the lower deck appears to be. The pilots chair I would argue is adjustable (its on a single leg that appears to pivot under it). So it's a messy design but at the same time, it kind of works.
1-2 people but has enough seating for like 8, yea sure you want a bit of extra space to bring guests aboard, but it is a poor layout if that were the only case for that much seating.
"there's a codex on every random bit of _fungus_ in the game but not the heroes ship" I honestly paused the video and had a laughing fit . That was hilarious
The moving engine is known as a outrigger style, the hall below is where the escape pods are, upstairs has two "bedrooms" the other is probably just a utility closet or bathroom. The ship is a small personal yacht so it doesn't have to actually sleep a bunch of people although it has a good bit of seating for hosting guests when you're landed somewhere. I agree it's not the fanciest yacht but maybe it has to do with its builder's culture and what they consider "nice".
the lower deck looks more like a maintenance crawlspace. I think the "quarters" are not much more than a bed. They would be about right for a 3 foot tall alien species, too. As they are, it isn't so much a yacht, as it is a small RV. That's it! You can't go to the lower deck because Heisenberg be makin' spice down there! The rotating section is odd to me too.
Spacedock: By this point, everything got shields Resistance shuttle thingy in the Raddus: "Am I a joke to you? Well...actually nevermind, I am a joke."
The S-foil rotating with the engine before rotating back to the upwards position could potentially be to keep the center of mass from moving during landing. If the engine just swung off to the side on its own that could jerk the craft to the right, which is not what you want when trying to land somewhere.
I'm not a big fan of forward fixed weaponry on civilian ships, mostly because the kinds of threats civilian ships need to be armed against tend to be fast moving raider ships that can easily outmaneuver ships not expressly built for combat. Put an external turret on it (maybe concealable, so it looks prettier in spacedock) and I think I'd be a little warmer on the design.
@@anzaca1 It might be fast for it's size, and if it's *really* pressing speed it might even be faster than a starfighter, but it certainly won't be maneuverable enough to dogfight with an enemy easily 1/4 of it's size. Unless it's aggressively attacking (in a luxury yacht) then those nose mounted guns might as well not even be there.
Agreed. One of the areas the civilian designs in Star Citizen excell in, they are frequently outfitted with retractable manned or remote turrets, usually with good rear arc coverage since a civilian ship tends to be running *away* from threats. Fixed forward firing weaponry necessitates going *towards* danger, which is incredibly foolish.
I liked it. It’s a memorable and different design but without being too wacky. It feels like a good home, but not a fortress and because the story is not focused around the ship it doesn’t distract from the main storyline.
@@TheKarp I feel like dan missed that 2nd point big time, when he says the rooms in the back are small. They are small for humans but the aliens who designed these ships are 3 feet tall so those rooms are much bigger to them.
Most luxury yachts aren't that big. The Christina O is the 54th largest yacht in the world and is a converted WW2 frigate a small disposable warship of which 151 where built in 4 years. Her displacement is 1800 tonnes while the top 10 are in the 10,000+ tonne category. Most Luxury yachts are sub 500 tonnes with 4-10 crew and between 6-14 guests and still cost €50,000+ a week to charter.
I think it also a bit run down from its original fully stocked options package, like how the Millennium Falcon went from fine leathers, luxury rooms, detailed paintjob and fully stocked cape room... to a ship barely holding together after being crashed and salvaged.
The ship is big enough for the native race that designed and built it. We are looking from human pov, but for the race that is 3ft, its pretty spacious
This ship is definitely one of my top 3 favourites in Star Wars... I love that this actually looks like a "ship", with the shape of it's hull, the "dorsal fin" that resembles a main mast. And the interior reminds me of a catamaran.
The section just past those slit windows is wider on the exterior. I thought the same thing you did at first, but then I lined up the interior and exterior windows to find that the area past the kitchen may in fact have more space that we thought. That's also why there's enough space in the back of the ship to go down below for maintenance access.
It can be argued that all the moving parts is to represent the yacht aspect. Sometimes yachts are overly over complicated designs in real life. If you want to be a rich man and you want to show off how awesome looking your stuff is, ships like this still look really cool to fly.
The second he said Yacht I knew immediately why it had the funky wings. I always like how luxury ships are smoother and have design aspects many thing as “not Star Wars like” because we are use to the stripped down, practical military vessels of the main conflicts.
@@LightSightTCR how come it's trash? Respawn did a great job in setting the story in a very interesting point of the star wars history,mixed game mechanics from other games and they did it right,and although Cal isnt that interesting,it still a good protagonist,and the other characters although they lack depth,theyre quite likeable. That's my opinion though. I'd like to hear yours.
Daniel, the "Unreliable" does not have a landing sequence animation because it doesn´t land, it just survives crashing. A crashing sequence animation would be nice though XD
@@SaberusTerras The Mantis makes more sense than the video implies, the doors to the the two sleeping quarters match up with the area of the outer hull that bulges outward, the rooms would be small and maybe a little uncomfortable but functional.
The corridor at the bottom looks like it only extends for a little bit, and there is just barely enough space for a short corridor, and it is probably where the other few bunks are. As he said, the room on the right is probably one of the quarters, and the left is escape pods and cupboards. The one on the right could conceivably also be a bathroom.
If you talk to Greez on Zeffo Cere explains that Greez talked up the Mantis as 'the best and most luxurious ship for the job' when she was looking for a ship which is why she chartered him. It's probably more akin to a light freighter than anything.
As I understand it, the 2 doors are "quarters", the darker one is a toilet and the escape pods they use later are in the lower deck (shown in the cutscene).
I love the pronunciation of the g in hanger and stinger, also one of those doors could be a certain room that humans require multiple times a day to dispose of body waste.
That dorsal fin needs to either stay vertical all the time, or be shown functioning similar to a B-Wing in atmosphere. It looks silly to have it moving to a horizontal position then immediately return to vertical for landing.
Lots of thoughts, first i found your merciless breakdown of the ship amusing. Second, the escape pods are located on the lower deck, which I agree is impossibly large for the ship. Third is that the ship does get about a foot wider right after a kitchen which makes the the two rooms on the starboard just wide enough for a bed and the larger one on the port is probably Greez’s captain’s quarters, neither options are very large which allows the explanation of kal sleeps in the engine room because he’s the only one who needs the extra space for Jedi things. And lastly, the folding engine/wing thing may have been included to give the ship a sail like feature.
Late to the party but I wanted to say the lower deck is of a normal height (so it definately wont fit in the outside) and that's where the escape pods are located. You see it in the final mission where Cal hops down and is talking to Cere as she's prepping the pods. The hyper drive is in the background and your looking at its lower half with the decking then the upper half. So he and Cere have to be on that lower deck.
Btw spacey, if you activate the photo Mode in game with backspace and fly a bit through the Walls you can see that the interior does actually fit in the exterior pretty well and there's much more room than you'd expect especially in height
Side theory: Kal sleeps near the engine room as he is used to working at the docks dismantling Venetor Starships so he enjoys the engine room as he is used to the noise from the machinery near the docks.
I will say the Aegis Hammerhead from Star Citizen has a very similar cockpit layout. Bridge is located on the ventral side of the craft, with glass on the floor underneath the pilot and co-pilot seats.
The lower level is where the escape pods are. The rooms in the back would basically be a bed with a door. A place to sleep with privacy instead of like the falcon where all of the bunks are open and in the same room.
It is the shrunken down version of the Normandy from Mass Effect. Fixed forward guns, sleek hull, glass cockpit in the nose. The first thing that I thought about when I saw it.
The engine room's below-deck hallway is where the escape pods are. As for the Tardis-esc style of the ship, it is probably an enlarged interior for gameplay sake
"You want as few moving parts in a space ship design." BUT, it is a yacht, a relatively non-lucurious one but one at least. The manufacturer may have put in as a feature of elegance and complexity or less likely but equally possible reason being the initial owner having even requested it, what I'm saying is it's only a problem if it breaks and you either have to fix it yourself or have financial strain fixing it. A rich, Kuat chief of a design board member I'm sure would not have difficulty in paying only in how it looks.
I like this more than the B-wing. Having an engine offset from the centre makes a little more sense than having a rotating cockpit. What is the cockpit's reference point? Why does it need to spin?
I had issues with the shop design interior too. That rear hallway should have extended all along the wall of the ship, with the big staterooms on starboard side of the ship. A step up for the engine room, the ladder would work if you needed to get to the keel of the vessel, but a grated deck that you could fold out the way or remove would make better sense for that ladder. I felt that first room on the port side was the latrine[head]! I felt this ship was more of a Winnebago design, where the seats could double as a berth. 😉
I’ll let the ship because it looks like a sailboat. I definitely think it’s more aesthetic though. I think it’s the idea that you’re on your boat sailing from world to world which is kind of a neat idea
I'm no physicist but the only reason that comes to mine about the tertiary engine swinging down is to counterbalance the wing on top in flight. Even in space you need flight counterbalance for the sake of momentum. Probably useful when leaving a planet as to provide extra thrust underneath the ship for attaining escape velocity more effectively and efficiently. Idk just a thought. The extra large landing feet make no sense in overall design. Think about Naboo ships. They have tiny little landing gear. Even for the Queen's Yacht that was blown up in Ep2 AoC. I agree with you the front 2/3 of the ship is beautiful and the cockpit setup reminds me of bridges from human vessels in other Sci-fi universes.
I've got an idea, doesn't make much sense for starwars but here goes: Maybe the servo for rotating the s foils is very low powered, and only works when they are both connected as counterweights. So when landing in atmosphere it rotates it all, locks the engine in place, then uses some aileron on the end of the wing half to lever it back up up for a smaller landing footprint.
I believe that the escape pods used later on in the game is down that ladder in the "guts" of the ship. My theory it that the ship only has two small personal quarters, (the orange doors in the mid-section.) The floor is elevated from the mess and back, giving space to a lower deck (if the outside frame would be a bit bigger) On the other points I believe you are correct.
That small room could be a toilet and I think the escape pods are downstairs cause they're in a hallway that looks different to the one you can walk down. Edit: I went back and watched that bit and yeah you can see the bottom half of the hyperdrive and the walkway where you stand to look down there so the escape pods are downstairs.
I like it overall but I completely agree on the folding engine and foil. Based on Greeze's gambling problem I wouldn't be too surprised if his people really crave excitement, it could just be that they get some sort of pleasure out of having needlessly complicated ships. Plus it's a yacht and whoever's flying it can presumably afford to fix it anyways.
I don't care what he says, I love this ship's moving parts and asymmetry. But then again I'm also a huge fan of the B-Wing and other asymmetrical designs. Besides, Star Wars tech is advanced enough that they can get away with overengineering things.
The laterens where Introduced in solo a Star Wars story not this game It looked like a sword, the bottom is the handle the ship and the side engines is the hand guard and the fin is the blade And I see you don’t have the black and gold skin yet And most ships in Star Wars are modular interiors, you get the shell and kit it out how you like, And I don’t think it’s a deck I think the ladder in the engine room leaders to a crawl way under the hyperdrive engine
I guess you could rationalize the small quarters as ment for the species that made it, also the four arm rests on the seats in the cockpit are a nice touch
I mean most the small yachts I've been aboard your quarters are basically just a mattress on a shelf, so it's not a stretch that a 3 foot tall species needs no real space for sleeping. If they are berths they'd likely be very uncomfortable for the average human though which to me would explain cals bed in the engine room
The lower deck looks to be half-height, probably for maintenance rather than hosting additional berths. I think both of those doors were escape hatches as Cere and Cal both use a pod at the same time, which also suggests that someone was supposed to be left behind if the ship got into trouble.
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Can you examine Sanctuary 3 from Borderlands 3?
He is not a new species. I think his species was also in rogue one and solo...
Kinda gives me a u wing vibe
Another stupidly designed ship where the main thought was to be eye catching and brain forgetting.
We won't get the greatness of an Ebon Hawk from EA.
You could make a lot of videos on Star Citizen ships. Every year this week there are ships to freely rent and you could review them as long as you have bought the game.
I believe that two similarly looking doors opposite of each other are actually drop pods(you use two later on) and the odd one out is actually an elevator. It should also be noted that 1)it was probably fully build for their species and modified only later on; 2)Cessna 172 is also a private plane. Not every yacht or even luxury yacht is something only billionaire could afford. I think that you've been too pampered with Millenium Falcon which is actually a VERY unique ship in SW setting with how it was modified; 3)yacht designation is an official one. Less official one might be "something we have build for piracy, but wanted to pass officialy as civilian vessel".
It should be noted, I believe the massive "wing" is there entirely for gameplay purposes. On most worlds you can see it long before you actually get to the landing zone. It acts as a very visible landmark for the player without them having to use the mini map
In the bonus material, they said they wanted it to look like a sail boat, with that wing standing in for the sail. So at least not only gameplay reasons.
I'm not so sure about that; the game tells you exactly where it is and it is hard to get lost in the game's very linear map design. It's not exactly labyrinthine. Sure, you might get lost for a few minutes but you walk backwards a waise and go "oh. that's where I am, okay."
In a vast majority of locations where you can possibly get lost - ship is nowhere remotely near to be seen. Fun theory, but feels completely misguided after you actually completed the game.
@@SkywalkerWroc I've already finished the game and am very close to 100% on master, if credentials matter here. Its most helpful on Ilum(it has a kinda confusing area around the entrance to the temple) and bogano. It made life slightly easier and whether or not it was intentional it had a positive effect on my experience.
@@tawabunny I agree, for most of the map it's nothing, but for a few parts(mostly when you are returning to the ship) it makes it so you can see the end a while before you get there
Three feet of space behind a door? Sounds like a toilet to me.
kamuishr3 that’s what I was thinking.
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You mean a refresher.
*Vac-tube
Head*... it's a yacht after all
The moving engine pod and wing is meant to give a sailing ship wibe. And wings/tails moving for the sake of it is a staple of the Star Wars universe. I love this ship.
It's a luxury yacht, and pointless engineering is pretty much a given on those
*Glares at Dooku's solar sail shuttle
@@darwinxavier3516 the reason given for the sail was that it was an untraceable form of transportation
Martin Jørgensen agreed. This is actually one of my favorite Star Wars ships now. Very nautical.
@@darwinxavier3516 it actually provided most of a power to his ship, so it was a generator
Traditionally a yacht is just a small civilian ship, regardless of luxury.
Exactly! When I tell people I own a yacht they think I'm referring to a luxury MEGA Yacht and that I'm a millionaire. Nope. Just a 25 ft sailboat built in 95'. Some might even say "What a piece of junk!"
@@thetragicschoolbuspodcast I've had exactly the same response every time I've mentioned crewing on board my friend's yacht. They all say "woah, he must be rich!"
When in reality he just decided to buy a yacht instead of a car. It's a 27 ft yacht from 1973, and there's nothing luxury about it haha.
We always considered the long list of things to fix at every stop part of the fun of sailing it
i guess theres a diffrence between a luxury Yacht vs a yacht
because if you just said yacht they would assume big massive yacht
but if you said luxury yacht they would assume big massive yacht
people assume if you just say yacht it might be BIG
not a small little thing @@thetragicschoolbuspodcast
this is what they think:
yacht=big giant yacht
luxury yacht=expensive yacht
not yach=small yacht any person can buy
I reckon its like a middle class mans retirement style yacht. Like sort of the kind of thing a middle rung manager saves a long time for to relax a bit in. Nothing fancy, just wants the pleasure of his own vessel.
That's a good observation.
Makes sense.
So a space RV, essentially?
A big point dan missed is the yacht is also built by 3-4ft people so by that comparison the ship and its rooms are big enough
@@scottjennings503 the space R.V your parents buy after retirement
It could be that the sub-deck is sized for the race rather than for humanoids.
I like the idea that it leads to s maintenance crawl space not too dissimilar from Jeffries Tubes in Star Trek
I don't know. If you look outside the bottom of the ship does drop quite a bit and on the interior, you take one or two steps to get to the back area. Those combined might just make it high enough to have a fully upright person in... if they don't bounce too hard when they step.
@@kamuishr3 I was thinking the same - a crawlspace for maintainance. Darth Mauls Scimitar has a similar crawlspace in the nose section, barely wide enough for a person to climb through
Solid reasoning........ the first thing that crossed my mind
@@mafuletrekkie I was thinking that too, until I realised that most of that is then taken up by the front landing strut ...
I actually like this ship a lot.
I think a lot of it is inspired by smaller single hull sailing yachts irl. That would explain the galley, windows, dimensions and the way you have to go through rooms to get to other ones rather than just having a hallway. I liked that about it. I do believe there could be room for some very shallow bedrooms on the floor bellow. Again, bedrooms in smaller yachts don’t tend to leave much head room. Space is never wasted. :D
That bottom engine also has an analogue: a lot of yachts have a weight dangling on an arm below the hull, to try to make it more resistant to being blown over.
I instantly fell in love with this ship when I first saw it.
Personally, I think of the needlessly complicated moving parts and landing gear is a part of the ship's status as a luxury vessel. It signifies the extravagance of the owner and how rich they are to maintain a ship with that many moving parts. The rich love spending money on pointless shiny things, and I imagine in Star Wars it's no different.
Looks like they took the class "Yacht" so seriously they gave it a sail.
Jeff Vader REALLY!!!?!??????
Nothing says on the run from the Inquisition like a giant dorsal fin pointing out your position to everyone in a 10 mile radius
It's so overt its covert
it cant be much bigger than the fins on a lambda or sentinel shuttle and ti's got to be smaller than the wings of a delta.
I fell in love with this ship. The design and functionality is just so unique. Even the interior looks pretty cozy, much like a real life yacht.
Hopefully we’ll see more of this ship’s interior in the sequel
That lower floor could just be a crawl space for maintenance. Also it could just be a Yacht designed for 1 to 2 people to use.
It's actually deceptive, as from the outside it looks too small to fit. However half way through the ship you go up a small set of stairs, meaning the rear half of the ship could easily be 2 decks. Even more so when you realise the race that designed the ship isn't exactly tall, the lower deck only needs to be half as tall as the rest of the ship to make it big enough for them to walk around in.
@@cgi2002 If the ship was to be made and sold on the galactic market they would design the interior around the average height for species around the galaxy with customization available for species whose height is below the average. Would help if we had an entire explain how and why this ship model was made.
@@erkprower3937 true. But since this isn't known to be one if the big ship building races, it's reasonable to assume that the fair number of their designs would he focused towards their own people rather than other races. Besides you could argue it's both in this case. The height of some of the workstations is definitely too high for them, but then the lower deck appears to be. The pilots chair I would argue is adjustable (its on a single leg that appears to pivot under it). So it's a messy design but at the same time, it kind of works.
The lower level is actually where the escape pods are.
1-2 people but has enough seating for like 8, yea sure you want a bit of extra space to bring guests aboard, but it is a poor layout if that were the only case for that much seating.
I got the impression that the below deck and rooms were intended for the pilot's race who are substantially smaller in size.
"there's a codex on every random bit of _fungus_ in the game but not the heroes ship"
I honestly paused the video and had a laughing fit . That was hilarious
Calls it a Yacht. (When it's really just a SPACE RV.)
An RV is just a land yacht, change my mind.
It’s a spacefaring sailboat. The insides look like a more spacious fancy boat interior.
The moving engine is known as a outrigger style, the hall below is where the escape pods are, upstairs has two "bedrooms" the other is probably just a utility closet or bathroom. The ship is a small personal yacht so it doesn't have to actually sleep a bunch of people although it has a good bit of seating for hosting guests when you're landed somewhere. I agree it's not the fanciest yacht but maybe it has to do with its builder's culture and what they consider "nice".
Lateron spaceship signature: over-complicated design nightmare.
Up next: a ship that doubles its length upon landing, like an accordion
Iain Number Like a space RV with compartments that extend outward
@@ianmcneely2446 This guy gets it!
Not like an accordion, like an umbrella! A full fabric "deck" just folds out, supported by unreasonably sized landing legs.
the lower deck looks more like a maintenance crawlspace. I think the "quarters" are not much more than a bed. They would be about right for a 3 foot tall alien species, too. As they are, it isn't so much a yacht, as it is a small RV.
That's it! You can't go to the lower deck because Heisenberg be makin' spice down there!
The rotating section is odd to me too.
I like the design. If I was someone in the franchise I would love to have one as a personal ship.
For me it would have to be a VCX-100, but I could totally see this ship as a flashy racing yacht.
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I like the VCX as well. Also Lando’s Falcon All 3 are beautiful.
Spacedock: By this point, everything got shields
Resistance shuttle thingy in the Raddus: "Am I a joke to you? Well...actually nevermind, I am a joke."
The U-Wing also has transparent floor panels in the cockpit. Pretty sure it's a design influence from the UH-1.
I'm sure EC Henry can make a version of the ship where the dimensions make sense.
The S-foil rotating with the engine before rotating back to the upwards position could potentially be to keep the center of mass from moving during landing. If the engine just swung off to the side on its own that could jerk the craft to the right, which is not what you want when trying to land somewhere.
I'm not a big fan of forward fixed weaponry on civilian ships, mostly because the kinds of threats civilian ships need to be armed against tend to be fast moving raider ships that can easily outmaneuver ships not expressly built for combat. Put an external turret on it (maybe concealable, so it looks prettier in spacedock) and I think I'd be a little warmer on the design.
This is a yacht, remember. It's biggest advantage is going to be speed.
@@anzaca1 It might be fast for it's size, and if it's *really* pressing speed it might even be faster than a starfighter, but it certainly won't be maneuverable enough to dogfight with an enemy easily 1/4 of it's size. Unless it's aggressively attacking (in a luxury yacht) then those nose mounted guns might as well not even be there.
Agreed. One of the areas the civilian designs in Star Citizen excell in, they are frequently outfitted with retractable manned or remote turrets, usually with good rear arc coverage since a civilian ship tends to be running *away* from threats.
Fixed forward firing weaponry necessitates going *towards* danger, which is incredibly foolish.
I liked it. It’s a memorable and different design but without being too wacky. It feels like a good home, but not a fortress and because the story is not focused around the ship it doesn’t distract from the main storyline.
"While we are here... Lets... Uhh... Lets take a look at the aft..."
Luxury yacht? That thing is barely big enough to be a luxury shuttle.
Far as I know 'yacht' just means "small ship/boat for recreation you can sleep on" which is why "Luxury" needs to be specified.
@@Vespuchian its also aftermarket, and designed by tiny people, so for them it should be spacious.
@@TheKarp I feel like dan missed that 2nd point big time, when he says the rooms in the back are small. They are small for humans but the aliens who designed these ships are 3 feet tall so those rooms are much bigger to them.
Most luxury yachts aren't that big. The Christina O is the 54th largest yacht in the world and is a converted WW2 frigate a small disposable warship of which 151 where built in 4 years. Her displacement is 1800 tonnes while the top 10 are in the 10,000+ tonne category. Most Luxury yachts are sub 500 tonnes with 4-10 crew and between 6-14 guests and still cost €50,000+ a week to charter.
I think it also a bit run down from its original fully stocked options package, like how the Millennium Falcon went from fine leathers, luxury rooms, detailed paintjob and fully stocked cape room... to a ship barely holding together after being crashed and salvaged.
The ship is big enough for the native race that designed and built it. We are looking from human pov, but for the race that is 3ft, its pretty spacious
I feel like the mantis’s crew heavily refitted it and that’s why it doesn’t feel like a yacht
Seems they tried to take a sailing yacht- sail, keel and all- and 'star wars' it
This ship is definitely one of my top 3 favourites in Star Wars... I love that this actually looks like a "ship", with the shape of it's hull, the "dorsal fin" that resembles a main mast. And the interior reminds me of a catamaran.
The section just past those slit windows is wider on the exterior. I thought the same thing you did at first, but then I lined up the interior and exterior windows to find that the area past the kitchen may in fact have more space that we thought. That's also why there's enough space in the back of the ship to go down below for maintenance access.
It can be argued that all the moving parts is to represent the yacht aspect. Sometimes yachts are overly over complicated designs in real life. If you want to be a rich man and you want to show off how awesome looking your stuff is, ships like this still look really cool to fly.
The second he said Yacht I knew immediately why it had the funky wings. I always like how luxury ships are smoother and have design aspects many thing as “not Star Wars like” because we are use to the stripped down, practical military vessels of the main conflicts.
You know I have to try and build this in space engineers now. That’s a week of my life that’s gonna disappear
Jacob Davis hahah yeah wow. Can you put it on steam if you do?
I still need to pick this game up.
You should is one of the best star wars games to come out in years.
Dont wory it's trash
@@LightSightTCR I find your lack of a structured argument disturbing.
@@LightSightTCR how come it's trash? Respawn did a great job in setting the story in a very interesting point of the star wars history,mixed game mechanics from other games and they did it right,and although Cal isnt that interesting,it still a good protagonist,and the other characters although they lack depth,theyre quite likeable. That's my opinion though. I'd like to hear yours.
Daniel, the "Unreliable" does not have a landing sequence animation because it doesn´t land, it just survives crashing.
A crashing sequence animation would be nice though XD
I see it less like a yacht and more of a space winnebago.
Honestly, at least the Eagle 5 had a layout you could make sense of.
Exactly what I thought, Felicity.
@@SaberusTerras The Mantis makes more sense than the video implies, the doors to the the two sleeping quarters match up with the area of the outer hull that bulges outward, the rooms would be small and maybe a little uncomfortable but functional.
@@InsomniacDoggo I agree, the purpose is just to sleep not lounging. 😊
The corridor at the bottom looks like it only extends for a little bit, and there is just barely enough space for a short corridor, and it is probably where the other few bunks are. As he said, the room on the right is probably one of the quarters, and the left is escape pods and cupboards. The one on the right could conceivably also be a bathroom.
If you talk to Greez on Zeffo Cere explains that Greez talked up the Mantis as 'the best and most luxurious ship for the job' when she was looking for a ship which is why she chartered him. It's probably more akin to a light freighter than anything.
As I understand it, the 2 doors are "quarters", the darker one is a toilet and the escape pods they use later are in the lower deck (shown in the cutscene).
Perhaps one of those doors is a toilet XD
Constantine that is quite funny
@@harryrobinson6694 I just remembered how SpaceDock was judging that no one usually thinks about it when designing ships
Constantine one is since there’s a line in game about lighting a scented candle next time for whoever used the refresher
That’s actually why I love this ship. It’s weird and I love it! and it’s definitely my favourite ship. It’s so.... homey 😅
"Nobody escapes from the Sith Inquisition!"
Leopold Briggs Their chief weapon is surprise.. Fear and surprise. Our two weapons are..I”ll come back again (Runs back to the door)
I love the pronunciation of the g in hanger and stinger, also one of those doors could be a certain room that humans require multiple times a day to dispose of body waste.
That dorsal fin needs to either stay vertical all the time, or be shown functioning similar to a B-Wing in atmosphere. It looks silly to have it moving to a horizontal position then immediately return to vertical for landing.
James Eves it does that because it’s licking and rotating the bottom engine
Lots of thoughts, first i found your merciless breakdown of the ship amusing. Second, the escape pods are located on the lower deck, which I agree is impossibly large for the ship. Third is that the ship does get about a foot wider right after a kitchen which makes the the two rooms on the starboard just wide enough for a bed and the larger one on the port is probably Greez’s captain’s quarters, neither options are very large which allows the explanation of kal sleeps in the engine room because he’s the only one who needs the extra space for Jedi things. And lastly, the folding engine/wing thing may have been included to give the ship a sail like feature.
Whoa, wait a minute, Star Wars is NOT made for us nutcases? Besides how does not being able to explore all of the ship not annoy everyone!?
I love the mantis, it’s a good amalgamation of things I enjoy in ships.
The escape pods are underneath. You see the ladder and engine in the background in the cutscene
I like this ship but I like its captain (Greez Dritus) even more.
Time for a top 5 hero ships list? Also, it may be a racing style yacht? So not luxurious but fast?
This is actually a neat little ship if a bit... Ill-conceived?
Late to the party but I wanted to say the lower deck is of a normal height (so it definately wont fit in the outside) and that's where the escape pods are located. You see it in the final mission where Cal hops down and is talking to Cere as she's prepping the pods. The hyper drive is in the background and your looking at its lower half with the decking then the upper half. So he and Cere have to be on that lower deck.
Btw spacey, if you activate the photo Mode in game with backspace and fly a bit through the Walls you can see that the interior does actually fit in the exterior pretty well and there's much more room than you'd expect especially in height
I think the escape pods are accessible from the lower floor, because in that cut scene you see the bottom of that hyperdrive circle.
if you use the camera from photo mode you can get a better estimate of the rooms size, and the escape pods can be seen underneath the engineering room
“C’mon, I’m a Jedi! Let me climb on top of my spaceship!” Killed me
Using the holo map gave me some Mass Effect vibes, like using the Galaxy map on the Tempest/Normandy.
Side theory: Kal sleeps near the engine room as he is used to working at the docks dismantling Venetor Starships so he enjoys the engine room as he is used to the noise from the machinery near the docks.
I think Spacedock has confused a yacht with a Bond villains luxury ship.
I will say the Aegis Hammerhead from Star Citizen has a very similar cockpit layout. Bridge is located on the ventral side of the craft, with glass on the floor underneath the pilot and co-pilot seats.
I like it a lot, although I am a sucker for pointlessly complex moving parts/functionality in spaceships.
The lower level is where the escape pods are. The rooms in the back would basically be a bed with a door. A place to sleep with privacy instead of like the falcon where all of the bunks are open and in the same room.
It's laid out a lot like a touring RV used by a band of musicians. Small bunks and all. The n-dimensional landing gear stowage is totally bananas.
It is the shrunken down version of the Normandy from Mass Effect. Fixed forward guns, sleek hull, glass cockpit in the nose. The first thing that I thought about when I saw it.
The engine room's below-deck hallway is where the escape pods are. As for the Tardis-esc style of the ship, it is probably an enlarged interior for gameplay sake
"You want as few moving parts in a space ship design." BUT, it is a yacht, a relatively non-lucurious one but one at least. The manufacturer may have put in as a feature of elegance and complexity or less likely but equally possible reason being the initial owner having even requested it, what I'm saying is it's only a problem if it breaks and you either have to fix it yourself or have financial strain fixing it. A rich, Kuat chief of a design board member I'm sure would not have difficulty in paying only in how it looks.
One of the worst 'bigger on the inside' issues that I've noticed is on Mass Effect Andromeda with the Pathfinder ship.
I like this more than the B-wing. Having an engine offset from the centre makes a little more sense than having a rotating cockpit. What is the cockpit's reference point? Why does it need to spin?
So cool to have a fully explorable interior. Very "Mass Effect".
I had issues with the shop design interior too. That rear hallway should have extended all along the wall of the ship, with the big staterooms on starboard side of the ship. A step up for the engine room, the ladder would work if you needed to get to the keel of the vessel, but a grated deck that you could fold out the way or remove would make better sense for that ladder. I felt that first room on the port side was the latrine[head]! I felt this ship was more of a Winnebago design, where the seats could double as a berth. 😉
The laterons were actually introduced in solo with Rio
I love the mantis design all the rotating bits are great
Any chance we can look into Star Citizen again? It's been a while, and they're doing the intergalactic expo this week.
I’ll let the ship because it looks like a sailboat. I definitely think it’s more aesthetic though. I think it’s the idea that you’re on your boat sailing from world to world which is kind of a neat idea
It's alright. Unique ship, I can tell you that.
I'm no physicist but the only reason that comes to mine about the tertiary engine swinging down is to counterbalance the wing on top in flight. Even in space you need flight counterbalance for the sake of momentum. Probably useful when leaving a planet as to provide extra thrust underneath the ship for attaining escape velocity more effectively and efficiently. Idk just a thought. The extra large landing feet make no sense in overall design. Think about Naboo ships. They have tiny little landing gear. Even for the Queen's Yacht that was blown up in Ep2 AoC. I agree with you the front 2/3 of the ship is beautiful and the cockpit setup reminds me of bridges from human vessels in other Sci-fi universes.
It's more RV then yatch
yeah, i agree. it's more function then fashion
Airstream holiday trailers were marketed as land yachts.
I honestly had no idea it was a yacht.
Yacht is a catch-all for small civilian boats in the real world.
Technically the Millennium Falcon would qualify.
@@occultatumquaestio5226 there's enough overlap for it to be both.
Almost have this model ready to be made flyable in Neos VR. Got all. The animations working n all.
I've got an idea, doesn't make much sense for starwars but here goes: Maybe the servo for rotating the s foils is very low powered, and only works when they are both connected as counterweights. So when landing in atmosphere it rotates it all, locks the engine in place, then uses some aileron on the end of the wing half to lever it back up up for a smaller landing footprint.
I believe this would be an Excellent replacement for the now destroyed Razor-Crest!!! 🤠👍
I believe that the escape pods used later on in the game is down that ladder in the "guts" of the ship. My theory it that the ship only has two small personal quarters, (the orange doors in the mid-section.)
The floor is elevated from the mess and back, giving space to a lower deck (if the outside frame would be a bit bigger)
On the other points I believe you are correct.
I get a strong motorhome vibe from its interior, maybe the whole "luxury yacht" label was a marketing campaign!
That small room could be a toilet and I think the escape pods are downstairs cause they're in a hallway that looks different to the one you can walk down.
Edit: I went back and watched that bit and yeah you can see the bottom half of the hyperdrive and the walkway where you stand to look down there so the escape pods are downstairs.
I like it overall but I completely agree on the folding engine and foil. Based on Greeze's gambling problem I wouldn't be too surprised if his people really crave excitement, it could just be that they get some sort of pleasure out of having needlessly complicated ships.
Plus it's a yacht and whoever's flying it can presumably afford to fix it anyways.
Never transparent floors in sci fi ships? Every second star Citizen ship is like that
I really like the design overall but the first thing that occured to me was that there were no bedrooms on it. LOL
In the game you can collect different plants for the hydroponics.
I don't care what he says, I love this ship's moving parts and asymmetry. But then again I'm also a huge fan of the B-Wing and other asymmetrical designs. Besides, Star Wars tech is advanced enough that they can get away with overengineering things.
Cydonian Mystery totally agree with this
Wish the big wing folded inwards when it landed instead of just sticking up into the air
The laterens where Introduced in solo a Star Wars story not this game
It looked like a sword, the bottom is the handle the ship and the side engines is the hand guard and the fin is the blade
And I see you don’t have the black and gold skin yet
And most ships in Star Wars are modular interiors, you get the shell and kit it out how you like,
And I don’t think it’s a deck I think the ladder in the engine room leaders to a crawl way under the hyperdrive engine
I guess you could rationalize the small quarters as ment for the species that made it, also the four arm rests on the seats in the cockpit are a nice touch
I mean most the small yachts I've been aboard your quarters are basically just a mattress on a shelf, so it's not a stretch that a 3 foot tall species needs no real space for sleeping. If they are berths they'd likely be very uncomfortable for the average human though which to me would explain cals bed in the engine room
I love this ship to be honest, it is my favorite ship I’ve seen through all of the movies
It seems more like the SW version of a fancy cigarette boat than a yatch
The lower deck looks to be half-height, probably for maintenance rather than hosting additional berths. I think both of those doors were escape hatches as Cere and Cal both use a pod at the same time, which also suggests that someone was supposed to be left behind if the ship got into trouble.