Sometimes, after I dream, I write down or type up what I saw in as great as detail as I can, as fast as I can, before the images fade away. Some of the dreams are wonderful. Some are terrible. Some are beautiful. Others terrifying.
Some are just fun.
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Had a Guild Wars 2 dream that was a pretty far jump in terms of story. Possibly based on the hint phrase they tossed into a recent dispatch "Where you can build your [Redacted] for your [Redacted] in [Classified]" or something to that effect. (Author’s note: This was just before the Sun’s Refuge was officially announced. My mind had taken the bleeped out phrase from the dispatch, and had cooked up...well, everything below.)
I saw a cinematic where the camera panned through a massive skydock where ships-of-the-line...Airships... were being readied for launch. Each race had a representative type ship in dock; The Consortium and Black Lion companies both had ships that looked like massive, MASSIVE galleons studded with giant, medium, and small sails that stood out from the hull like solar collectors. (look at the DS9 solar sailer for a similar design based off arrangements, and possibly the Zephyrite fleet as well. The patterning on the sails was probably something like the holo-panel effects currently used on airships as armor).
Asuran ships were angular stone things lit with green or red lighting (Green for normal Asura, Red for Inquest. I don't know if Peacekeepers got their own design, but that's what I saw). Their ships were long, and resembled spark plugs made of cube sections, with orbiting bits and hovering mechanisms.
Charr ships were as flamboyant and baroque as their armour and their tanks, only on massive battleships. Giant lion heads opened to revealing rotating steam cannon barrels; docking chains hung from edges of the hull. Great sweeps of shield-like armour, edged in blade or spike, and adorned with Legion symbols (and stylistic changes) abounded. The Emperor of WH40K would be proud of their designs.
Sylvari ships looked born, not built; much like their weapons and clothes, each one was a massive plant, tendrils and leaves around a gem-like hull structure that ran the length of the ship. Pods along the skin would open up for weapons, and the tip of the gem, where it protruded from the organic material, was a beam weapon.
Norn ships reminded me of Norse longboats welded together into massive conglomerations, hull-side out. Kinda like how their buildings, even the Head Lodge, look like Longboats stood on edge. WH40K imperial-scale inside to fit the bulk of their crew, with broad sweeps of windowed areas nestled between hull sections, and heavily protected by weapons I couldnt see but knew were there.
Finally, human ships in two flavors: Ebonhawke and Krytan. Both looked almost the same, though Ebonhawke ships were black and gold and had flares that resembled hawk wings, or prows that resembled beaks. Krytan ships were wedge or spearshaped, with rising, shield-like prows studded with turrets, on a kind of standard battleship frame. There was no exposed command tower, but I knew the crew were in a heavily fortified section just back of the giant beam turret cannon protruding from the upper hull, which hid itself behind a secondary shield-armour section on the upper hull. I got the impression that they were based off the Krytan Focus design, with its many folded panels.
As awesome as this was, watching the camera turn and see FLEETS of these in formation, of all sizes and shapes, heading into a fractal-like image that reminded me of the cover of Glory's War, made it click for me. The uncensored phrase was" Where you can build your Base for your Ship, in the MISTS". They were heading en-masse into the Mists to do combat... to explore... to save.... Whatever! And each one would be controlled by a player, as a mobile home and battle fortress. Better than EVE.
(Author’s Note: I still kinda have hopes for something like this in the future for like, the Unending Ocean. Or a specific zone where you have to fly ships. But it’ll never come to pass. It’s still a neat idea though, and I REALLY wish I could draw, because I want to draw out each ship I saw.)
