25.7.04
Spaceships in Snow
Another bit of design illustration, this time with spaceships as the theme.
The links here go to the much larger versions posted on DeviantArt (the same description is posted there).
Private Ships
The ship in the upper left is Gaia's getaway yacht. The disc on the bottom is the detachable escape spore. The ridges on the engine mounts are fixed joints - they allow for easy jettison of the volatile slip foil drives.
In the lower left is the Snowboys' purchase, an armed and armored freighter fit for high-risk privateering.
To the right is a more typical freighter with a very short train of cargo. I ran out of space on the paper, but a more typical load would be 50 or more units.
Military Ships
The large vehicle on the left is the Blackbie Communications Corporation heavy carrier passing through a diatherine-charged jump gate. The orange arrows indicate how the main drive booms retract for a slimmer jump profile. The colored nodes at the edge of the gate are proximity warnings.
At the top is the the Turnbull Red pursuit cruiser. The large broken arrow indicates the primary direction of thrust. The smaller arrow indicates the direction of a jump (taking advantage of the smaller profile). The "spray paint can" and "salt shaker" on either side are heavy weapons clusters - the main gun and torpedo launcher, respectively.
The two smaller ships are unspecified zero-atmosphere fighters.
For scale, each bay on the Turnbull Red cruiser and each of the small bays on the Blackbie carrier holds a squad of four light attack craft like the two fighters pictured.
As before, I'm also posting some of my older drawings. Most of the scans are very low res; I'm hoping this conglomeration won't be too small to make them out. If it is, I may go back and rescan the pictures I can find.
The links here go to the much larger versions posted on DeviantArt (the same description is posted there).
Private Ships
The ship in the upper left is Gaia's getaway yacht. The disc on the bottom is the detachable escape spore. The ridges on the engine mounts are fixed joints - they allow for easy jettison of the volatile slip foil drives.
In the lower left is the Snowboys' purchase, an armed and armored freighter fit for high-risk privateering.
To the right is a more typical freighter with a very short train of cargo. I ran out of space on the paper, but a more typical load would be 50 or more units.
Military Ships
The large vehicle on the left is the Blackbie Communications Corporation heavy carrier passing through a diatherine-charged jump gate. The orange arrows indicate how the main drive booms retract for a slimmer jump profile. The colored nodes at the edge of the gate are proximity warnings.
At the top is the the Turnbull Red pursuit cruiser. The large broken arrow indicates the primary direction of thrust. The smaller arrow indicates the direction of a jump (taking advantage of the smaller profile). The "spray paint can" and "salt shaker" on either side are heavy weapons clusters - the main gun and torpedo launcher, respectively.
The two smaller ships are unspecified zero-atmosphere fighters.
For scale, each bay on the Turnbull Red cruiser and each of the small bays on the Blackbie carrier holds a squad of four light attack craft like the two fighters pictured.
As before, I'm also posting some of my older drawings. Most of the scans are very low res; I'm hoping this conglomeration won't be too small to make them out. If it is, I may go back and rescan the pictures I can find.
// posted by Wray Davis @ 2:28 AM 
