Klingon B'Rel "Bird of Prey"
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Klingon B'Rel Info:
Perhaps one of the most beloved of the Star Trek advesarial craft, the Klingon B'Rel "Bird of Prey" made it's first appearance in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock". The original story drafts for the movie called for the antagonists to be Romulan, and ILM designed and built a modern version of the BoP from the OS episode "Balance of Terror". When writing the later drafts of the script, however, Roddenberry and his team decided that the Klingons would make more appropriate villans. Although the characters that crewed her changed, the Bird of Prey herself stayed the same, and her old nickname stuck.
This rendition of the B'Rel sports the marking scheme I've used on each of my plastic kits. I was never quite satisfied with the solid green on top / red on bottom of the wings, so I painted the "feathers" in a different pattern. In terms of performance, this mod is nearly identical to the ingame B'Rel, as I used the original shp file as a template. The only difference is that the guns have been broken down into three-burst disruptors, so each bolt has been adjusted to be 1/3rd as powerful as the original. Also, I've changed the alert status to only include the shields, so the weapons can be fired while the wings are in their raised position, K'Vort style.
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