Vega Battle Fleets Take To The Skies

Here's some fun shots of Mike Peters' WC Vega film project with a photoshopped starry background. The results are surprisingly good considering these were made out of simple household materials in his high school film class. This is the progress he'd made with ship designs through this past summer, but we're hoping the project resumes this fall with his new students. You can find more photos that document the ship construction as well as preliminary story chapters at the project website here.

It is a bright time for the Confederation in the Vega Sector. Since the Terran Navy routed the vicious Kilrathi from these systems, there has been no sign of the Cats – until now.

Lulled into a sense of complacency, the Confed has stationed only one strike carrier to defend the sector – T.C.S. Tiger’s Claw. When the Kilrathi embark on a crusade to secure a religious relic at the heart of the Vega Sector, the pilots and crew of the Claw find themselves outnumbered and outgunned...

And things are going to get worse before they get better.