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The TTDt track is now complete. The circuit is made exclusively for testing the prototype TDt craft (prevoiusly for the Mark 5, but has since been considered for adapting other TDt chassis types). Extensive testing has been implemented to make the chassis "all - terrain capable", particularly for Zone events (The track environment is styled in this way to get the pilot used to such an effect).
The last meeting of the A.L.T.E.R.N board of directors led to the decision to make some of the technical detailing used in the prototype Tez Dharkan advanced AG-craft public.
It's an honour for our R&D team to showcase the latest inventions which will make our ship a serious contender in it's first season in the fx-500 racing league.
Attached are blueprints of the key technologies.
With greetings from A.L.T.E.R.N HQ, Mt. Everest
D79 Director and leader design and R&D
Wow, these teams and machines look amazing. I've been re-introduced to Wipeout HD after briefly playing Fury, and I might up my arts skills to produce something good if i can.
Teams: possibly a purists team which is popular with the fans, like a team which goes racing as its only means of income, like the Brawn GP team in Grand Prix racing.
By the way, I'm back guys, love the updated forum.:D
R.zen (Pron. "Erzen")
Country
- Italy
Founded
- 2191/2211
Overview
- Team R.zen was one of the strongest to ever compete in the semi-professional leagues of the dark AG-racing days. As many competitors of those league, when a professional championship was estabilished and the budget required to field a ship arisen, they retired from racings. But now, thanks to the support of the emergent data-cast provider G-CAST, they managed to develop a competitive ship. The Italian team is set to field the young japanese Miko Akita, ex-AG Systems pilot, for 2211 and further.
Stats
- Speed: 8
- Thurst: 8
- Controllability: 9
- Shield: 6
TEAM DATA RELEASE
R.zen DATACAST NEWS BY TEAM DIRECTOR GIULIANO BADOER
Our ship, the Z211, isn't ready to be shown yet. We're still improving the chassis and the energetic shield systems, and thanks to our technicians hard work we're obtaining an handleable, competitive chassis with a powerful motor. For the 2211 season, we'll field a ship relying on a brand-new technology, but, instead of many teams have done in the past, we gained the approval of AGRC even before to build a running prototype. We don't want to put all our technical efforts and our hard work just to get disqualified in the end of the racing campain.
I have to admit that our ship is not the best in the AG League. Our pushing engine doesn't give the thurst that Piranha's and Icaras' does; our shield isn't as strong and reliable as Triakis' one. But who need top speed and acceleration when you are less slowed by corners? Who need a strong shield when they can't even lock on you a missle?
The ship will be unveiled during a press conference at Moa Therma, when the first open-to-public test will have place. Be sure to connect to our G-CAST in the next days to know further details on the first public run of the ship!
R.zen - Assault Philosophy
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MIKO AKITA
(From Wikipedia - The Free Datacast Encyclopedia)
Miko Akita (Born: 24,12,2192 in Kyoto, JP) is an antigravity professional pilot, currently competing in the FX450/FX500 League. She's the youngest even AG pro pilot to dispute a race.
Early years
Miko Akita was born in year 2192 from Shinji Akita, an AG-Systems employee and, later, engineeer, and Fuyu Asai.
Miko debuted in the world of motorsports just 8, in the Japanese AG Karts Championship. She won her first race by the age of 10. She achieved to win three KJ4 class championship in a row, scoring an impressive 12 races/ 10 wins during the last championship. However, she announced her retirement due to school absorptions, refusing to sign many contracts that well-known national semi-pro teams offered.
When 13, her family moved to Tokyo, where AG-Systems HQ is. She attended Garatsuyama High School; she partecipated to many academic athletic competitions, winning the 2208 softball nation-wide league and scoring podiums in several track & field region-wide events. She graduated with honours, excelling in Physichs; however, the need for speed was still strong.
Debut in AG leagues
She moved her first steps back in the world of AG-racing by the age of 17, when the sudden sack of the AG-System's test pilot John Nakamura left the test ship's seat empty. Her father managed to persuade the testing director to let her daugther to drive the ship during the pre-season tests. Akita managed not only to equate Nakamura's lap times, but even to lower 'em of some millesimal of seconds. She was recruited as the new team's test pilot. She signed the proposed contract, without "deeming about how it would change my life".
She debuted racing during the Anulpha Pass race of the Meltdown event, one of the latest of the 2209 FX400 League. Soichiro Ishibashi suffered of severe wounds when his ship's canopy glass exploded, after beign hit several times by sharpnel and cannon shots during Moa Therma race. Since he wasn't capable to drive an AG ship, he had to left the seat to her young colleague. She scored a 4th place in her first race, and got other promising results scoring another 4th place and then her first career podium on the final championship's race on Sol 2 track. Her young age and strong willing gained her much popularity over the crowds, a popularity of wich AG-System should benefit. She was signed as the main team pilot for the 2210 FX450 League.
But her experience as an AG-System pilot was ill-fated, and didn't least long. After a retirement in the first race on Vineta K caused by engine failure and a 6th place in the second event of the championship caused by airbrakes issues, she suffered a bad spine injuried caused by a ejection system's malfunction: she was expulsed while the ship was going top-speed; the hard impact on the ground of the survivance cell caused her several non-permanent spine damages.
Days after, the sport magazine Tech-G told about an internal sabotage commissioned by the ex main pilot Ishibashi, demoted to the role of test pilot after 4 years of so-so results. The young pilot decided to terminate her contract with a team wich wasn't even "capable to protect their own pilots".
FX500 League
Miko is rumored to be Team R.zen pilot for the 2211 season. Any statement from the Italian team's director, Giuliano Badoer, is yet to be issued.
update - bad news i'm afraid
We are sad to announce the death of Arjan Tankaria, a valued team TD-T pilot and celebrity of the FX450 and FX500 leagues.
Communication reports reveal Arjan to have been hiking on Everest when he fell to his death. The Post Mortem revealed Arjan to have switched his pain receptors off, shortly before impact!
The death was deemed accidental, no further investigation is underway. A memorial service is planned for the very near future. We hope you can all attend.
Thank you!
Fellow pilots,
Thank you a lot for the suggestions ... evolved design to be found later in this thread.
That looks strangely like something very familiar....;) IMO, you should bring the back into one point, like the back of the HD EG-X, an dditch the back wings, but that's just me.:)
I agree, the backwings look fragile - The body is brilliant..Great looking ship :D :+
FX500 League datacast
Update on Arjan Tankaria's unfortunate demise.
After a thorough investigation, we can now reveal to you details of the accident which led to the death of Arjan Tankaria, pilot to the Tez Dharkan Team.
He fell at the point of Mt Everest where the Anti Gravity track circuit "Startus 4" resides. Strictly speaking, hiking on that quarter of Everest is out of bounds and illegal. It just so happens that he fell to his death at the point of the track named "The Shortcut to Hell"
A.L.T.E.R.N are on the scope for new talent, to replace the legend who was Arjan Tankaria. All applicants are to apply directly via mind - comm.
What is "Startus 4"? :lol
a typo. sorry mate lol.
it's STRATUS 4 ! Situated on the summits of mount Everest, a custom built race track, placed to be provident of breathtaking views - best glimpsed from the spires of A.L.T.E.R.N head quarters.
STRATUS 4 is poised to be the most fearfully competitive track on the FX500 circuit!
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Transmission 120001/175: Announcement of Tez Dharkan Technologies racing team
Big news regarding the newest developments in TDT. After being thrown back by the sudden, shocking death of our legendary pilot Arjan Tankaria, the team gained new strength and hope by the discovery of a new talent in AG-racing.
We are proud to introduce Jade Alorea , a young but nonetheless amazingly focused pilot originating from former Nepal. Her special knowledge about cybernetics and computer technologies will definitely define a new interaction between machine and pilot.
The Tez Dharkan Technologies prototype race craft is ready to leave concept stage. A.L.T.E.R.N R&D are proud to showcase the latest designs which are anticipated to have the potential outperforming all contenders within the upcoming FX-500 racing league. Prototype production will soon begin in our new cutting edge production facility hidden within the Mt. Everest base. Worried about the latest data hacking and technology theft happening these years before FX-500 the facility's database and communications channels are totally secured.
Therefor this might be the latest public presentation of the crafts overall appearance before presenting the first built prototype in the next months to come.
With best wishes to all the fans of the sport, the tech-geeks, and especially to our supporters
A.L.T.E.R.N. board of directors
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designer_79, your ship is really cool :+!
The Tez Dharkan style is absolutely unique and I hope that your ship will be taked from Studio Liverpool as a new WipEout team :).
This is the new Veleno prototype ship, with the new logo of the team.
FX500 Season, Giulio Galletti, founder of "Veleno Technologies" AG Racing team, talks about the debut model of his team, with the strange name of "Vendetta":
"We're ready, we've got all...our speed, powered with the accelleration at the top of the rank will be the example to follow in the future racing leagues....ok, this represents a serious sacrifice in terms of handling and shield, but we don't have nothing to fear under this points of view, because we've joined all the best pilots from the the MAGEC laboratory, and some Piranha's pilots leaved the brasilian team to comes in this new exciting speed experience....the shield is low, but we'll be faster than every automatic missile....have any doubt about Veleno technologies? We'll seeing again at the end of the league, at the top the rank!"
Galletti gives an answer about the Auricom and Feisar's provocations:
"Ahahahah the americans....we're mad? Our ship represents a serious risk for the life of the pilots? I can't believe at them words, this don't have any sense, but this probably is happened primarily because Auricom has a lot of money in their banks....they speaks with the money in their mouth uahahahah!!!!! And Feisar? We're too stupid to be indipendent from them projects? But...WHAT THE F....Bah! The European Union has disconnetted Italy from their project without any reason to justify this ridicolous action....yes this is a vengeance, otherwise what's the reason to call our ship "Vendetta", huahahahah?????....they're simply too slow to be compared with our ship, the AG snails!"
I love that ship design designer_79 :g
I'll do a v.2 soon for BAI.
Team Tez Dharkan Technologies datacast: 120993675858/ACD99
Pilot Update: As mentioned in a previous datacast, a new pilot has indeed been selected for the team. After vetting the candidates, a clear distinction had been made between those who fought and flown well, and those who excelled in their given tasks.
Jade Alorea, 5ft 9inches of anger, 28yrs of age, a total head for speed. She doesnt talk with you - she screams her lungs out till you cover your ears and cower away. Her pilot tag is "Jaded Blade", sprayed on the hull of her helmet, defying the rules of the FX500 with undue reckless abandon. Her profile paints her to be troublesome, which is why at Tez Dharkan Technologies - we feel she is at home. Her knowledge and use of weapons since childhood, and her insatiable desire and lifelong ambition to be the fastest pilot in the world since the tender age of 3, have more than prepared her for the world of High Speed Anti Gravity of the FX500 Racing League. Coupled with that is her knowledge in Cybernetics and humanoid/bioroid technologies help to ensure that the partnership between "Pilot & Craft" are more than just a matter of POSIX (Positronic Interactive XIOS engine) re-mapping in humans...
"I wouldnt have accepted any less than a position with the Tez Dharkan, If I had it my way, I'd snatch that bitch Preeti's spot and let her be the 2nd Pilot. She aint my senior! So I don't take orders from her - get that straight Ace... and before I forget, once I win my first 5 races - you have to give me her spot, remember that Mr Chairman, or you'll be sufferring not only from an over inflated ego, but over inflated cojones too - comprende amigo?!!!" - Jade Alorea.
Datacast end!:dizzy
Back in the junior-high school days when i was completely obsessed with Wipeout 3, I came up with a craft named Zytaca, and drew out hundreds of blueprints for it... sometimes on my math homework papers lol... I should probably pick that back up, I had a Wipeout 3 version and a Wipeout Fusion version a made later on...
I love this thread, Chill. I did something similiar about 6 or 7 years ago when I doodled the Piranha logo on compliment slips at work. I guess we've all been there more or less.
So Chill, when does your team make a debut on this thread? We need more teams!
I have a lot of work to do hahaha... will get back to you on that!
ps: I'm in england now man!
A.L.T.E.R.N officials have acknowledged the launch of the official Tez Dharkan Technologies logo and catchphrase.
The logo features the mighty tiger, symbolizing the way TDT envisions determination to rule above all and achieving domination on the race tracks of the soon-to-come FX-500 AG League season.
The motto of TDT is "Bye Bye Kitty", which is destined to everyone who would dare to challenge TDT top pilots and which evokes nothing less than inevitable doom into a flaming wreckage for the enemy.
Finally, the logo and catchphrase feature the traditional colors of New Indian flag, as a pledge to the ancestral cultural heritage of the Indian empire which can be felt in the fervor that TDT team put into creating the new dominant species of anti-gravity racing.
Wow, you guys are going all out with this and with awesome results. I'd love to see 1 of these teams in a DLC/new WO game. Keep up the awesome work.
:+:+:+To us all - I re-read the entire thread just now and honestly, I am impressed at the efforts of all who have contributed their team ideas here.:+:+:+
So far we have many teams submitted here, Venom should be real proud of this thread. It has won the imaginations of us wipers after all!
So big up to the following:
Venom: I do like the Veleno team concept and ISIS advancements logo rocks. Kyonshi did well here.
R.J O'Connell - I dea for an Indian team, Siva Engineering was a good one. It was small teams like this one which forced the combined govt. of New India to invest heavily into a world class leading team. So thanks for setting up the ground we now walk on.
Galactic Spartan, Your Team Titan, though briefly described, begs to be exposed in more detail... and excellent idea here.
Kyonshi - Buddy, I am eagerly awaiting your superb new entry into the FX500 in the form of Harfang... cheers!
Jan709 - yeah! I agree with the addition of a bright orange dutch team in the fray... make one dude!!!
Haywire_Guy - your Kaishi Systems is the team which captures my imagination the most out of the other entries. This team needs to be developed further imo. Also, thanks for working with me on the Team Tez Dharkan project, your input helped to shape the team to its current form.
Btw, the Helicon is still an amazing craft...
Dr Angryman - IPAG D, from the solar system, based on the moon right? and why not? this is the FUTURE peeps!!!
WolfKill01, your team "Wolfbane" form the USA is a cool concept imo. I absolutely loved the backstory, any sketches of concepts should be posted here if you have any.
Ah, DJ KYOTO - BoostAkira Industries, wow - from the high rise towers of Hong Kong come a team who defy convention... I must say, the BoostAkira ship concepts look amazing! We are waiting to see your next installment here in this thread buddy!!!
LINI-R, dude, Love the animated Logo mate... It really feels like it should belong up there on the advertising boards! Very very wipeout friendly imo.
Andy - Team GEIST, a good in depth but brief back story to the team, complet with concept logos... nice work here too.
and finally, NordSchleifer2200 who bought us an Italian Team, called R.Zen. another interesting team...
I wanna thank all the people who contributed to Venoms thread here, so far - and would like to add, if you like the teams here, then whats stopping you people from starting your own team here?
Lets see where this goes eh? :dizzy
At this point - I also need to give some thanks to members of Team Tez Dharkan, the AirLicker Group and A.L.T.E.R.N respectively...
SO BIG UP: Designer_79, MdHay and Kyonshi as well as an affiliated partnership with Haywire_Guy too... thank you guys, lets keep Tez Dharkan moving!!!
haha, I know the little back story was rubbish but I wasn't exactly taking that bit too seriously, and I got a bit bored, so whatever. xD I was mostly just doing it to revamp my old design, but it needs a bit more in my opinion to make it better, as I really didn't do enough on it - so I'll expect myself to atleast change that front end and make it much more aerodynamic. So, yeah, thanks ace :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ACE-FLO
Yeah mate, Kyonshi is an artist :+!Quote:
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Thanks for the compliments, Giulio Galletti gotta be happy for this (:dizzy) and...GO Tez Dharkan :D!!!!!
Thank you. Guilio has our kindest regards. We New Indians will not forget his rather sizable, charitable donations, which contributed to the relief effort during the Rajanathan Valley flooding. Many people owe a debt of gratitude to Guilio Galletti... I personally know him for his famous AG-CruiserCar brand. I drive one - an AL75 ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Venom
wow! really love some of the stuff that's coming out of this thread. ship designs and logos are fantastic! :D
thumbs up to everyone involved :+
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Message 1220/134-100758: Announcement of the official Tez Dharkan Technologies team colours
A.L.T.E.R.N. representatives are proud to announce, that the development of the FX500 prototype racecraft is fast. All planning related data has been completely digitized, and further discussions about the main theme and colour scheme yielded first results.
The color scheme will represent 3 main topics:
- Based in one of the most remote areas of the world surrounded by ice and snow the undertone of the skin represents our homebase location. On contrary, our weapons are hotter than those of our opponents. Orange and blue, hot and cool!
- The emblematic color scheme of New Indias flag: orange, green and white ... we transport the glory of our nation onto the racetracks of the world.
- In addition to our achievements in technology, our newest pilot Jade brought her knowledge of cybertech into the company. Our ship will get a design we relate to as cyber camouflage. To further stress the aspect of the battle in races.
May our competitors be worthy a challenge, we hope not to get bored on the tracks ...
A.L.T.E.R.N. board of directors, Mt.Everest HQ
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SO, the 2D version is almost complete - just the composites to be added, and some minor ammendments and the ship we shall be ready for the final phaze - 3D modelling for the Tez Dharkan !!! Designer_79 really went all out on this one!;) big hand to the man!!! :clap:clap:clap:clap
More developments regarding the team TD-T will be posted here in the near future. There is a lot I need to make public - but for now, I am still gathering intel before I make the datacast!!! Cheers, Ace!
I was just dreaming a bit ... but seriously, how realistic is the idea of a future download pack that consists only of teams created in this thread? ... :hyper ... Hear us SL , make contact with the creators :) I mean there were a lot of downloadable packs for Pure featuring corporate models, European only models, ''concept art'' models. Why not doing another one with fan art models??? Would be awesome!!
What a strong idea designer_79 :D:+!
But for this we gotta have someone involved into the 3-D modelling programs (ehm...Mu5?) and....ehm....teh SL approvation :|?
But....if this can be realized, why don't we gonna try ;)?
Yeah, now that would be something huh? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by designer_79
SL/Sony need to keep a look :sonar out for this thread right here.
@ Venom, Personally, I think a Manga or anime of wipeout would be better recieved, but hey - if I can pilot the Tez D in an online race - then I'm all for it.:)
Venom, the 3D stages are the next step for designing the ship - and we've got that covered already;)... Designer_79 will be doin the 3D modelling!8)
Sony need to, or you need/desire them to? ;)
Lance - I'm gonna attempt to explain this, my way lol - so it may not necessarily make any sense ok? ok!
I want sony/sl to be so passionate about it that "they need to" take notice of the teams in this thread..
(er, swivles chair 180 degrees, faces south) I am so passionate about this new teams malarky, that "I need for them to" take notice of this thread, and the teams which reside here... ;)
My work load is pretty full at the moment im afraid..Quote:
Originally Posted by Venom
Im building a new track and attempting a Pilot/inner cockpit for the Prototype Triakis. :beer
Good luck to Designer_79 with the modelling - look forward to seeing it when its finished! :) :+
Sony are passionate about profit. Unless someone at SCE or higher thinks that amateur/outsider design of teams would be extremely likely to produce more profit, they will not see a need. The dlc that they did release was all solicited by Sony from professionals in the game or the famous in the art 'business'.
[waxes philosophical]> I am not trying to squash idealism, but am pointing out potential for denied hope. The designing of itself is worth the effort for the satisfaction it brings to the designers and their fans. That should always be its raison d'être. The stuff that's done only for acceptance or profit is worthless. To me. :D
Yes, Lance I agree - SOny are most definitely thinking with their pockets and not their hearts - lol, so its probably highly unlikely that they'll take notice - but they should!!! It's worth their while imo - get the opinions of the pilots themselves, and their ideas on what constitutes a good ship design. Anyway, we're in the right place - Wipeoutzone! And I know that peeps from SL are on this site. ISo, ya never know...
Anyhow, we do this team design/team history malarky, because we love it! And a thing borne out of love, can only bring happiness (unless you're an impressionable young lady who fell in love with the devil and got preggers ;):o)... )
Yes, I desire for Studio Liverpool/Sony to take notice of our efforts here. I think that this thread also serves as a sort of a tribute to Sony/SL for bringing us the wipeouts , I guess. A way of saying "We liked what you did so much, now we're having a go".
Ofcourse - to nowhere near the level that they did, we're just amateurs here lol. But, we do like what we're doing here, and it's a great, I mean - 4 members of this site have contributed to the Tez Dharkan project already and ya know what ? Wipers banding together to make something happen like this - is really cool imo. So well done guys!8)
Beautifully said Lance ... that's exactly how a creative life / profession should work. But sadly enough, profit is what runs every business nowadays ... so although creating something is satisfying deep within oneself, if you do it for a living there's always the need to deal with clients and their sometimes not-so-idealistic view of the world :D ...
Of course it's just the tiniest of hopes that SL might take something out of this thread (and if its just the Idea for a new team , not necessarily the designs) but we all know Wipeout is no Little Big Planet, so user generated content will always just stay fan art. So this thread's particular raison d'être is to inspire the audience ... we hoped it might be an ongoing thing to keep ideas coming what future teams might be like :+
Maybe one day we will get Little Big Wipeout :D lol
Track / Ship / Texture / Billboard design........that would rock :D :+
Perhaps more likely to happen would be for a new 'homebrew' wipeout to be developed by the gamers themselves? :)
Yeah, well the thread is called "Imagine a New Team for Wipeout" - we are!!! ;)
Even I was surprised at some of the team ideas in this thread. And it made for such interesting reading, I started to day dream - next thing I knew, I had envisioned an Indian AG-Combat Racing Team, The Tez Dharkan...
One post led to another and before I knew it, The Tez Dharkan really was a team - Mdhay, Haywire_Guy, Kyonshi and Designer_79 all helped in ways I wouldnt have guessed at.
And wow, the Tez Dharkan Technologies ship is a beautifully aggressive "violent by design" example.
Lets keep the momentum going guys, with or without Sony/SL - we keep rocking :rock
@Mu5:
Ah - now that's an avenue worth exploring isn't it!!! Nice one MU5! :)
I changed the front end to make it at least look more aerodynamic and it is now longer, and I changed the colour scheme a bit too.
Does anyone know the best place to get information on the back story for a particular team?
I want to dig up info on Triakis, so I can try and create a credible backstory for the prototype :) :+
Cheers