Jump Point magazine Issue 01.01 (n°01), December 2012 | Page 9

Once the cargo bay was
established, Chris wanted
to see a mechanism for
loading cargo into the
bay. One idea was to use
an elevator that dropped
out from the bottom of
the craft.
When I was trying to work
that out along with the
landing gear, i realized
that the hard-point loadouts were getting very
cramped with the rest
of the stuff under the
fuselage. Also, I had been
eyeing the wings with
suspicion since the beginning of the process for
the 300i. In SC, craft do
enter and exit planets in
a story context, but the
need for wings and wingtips is nonessential.
I like to have all the elements in a design serve
some kind of fictional
purpose, and I was trying
to figure out how best to
solve my problem with the
hard-points, so I came up
with the idea of eliminating the outer-most wingtips and mounting the
weapons on the wings. All
of the sudden this wing
structure had a purpose!
I ran it by Chris and he
seemed to agree.
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