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'Angry Cartographer' scout shuttle
I don't consider myself particularly good at technical design drawings or anything (notably lacking the requisite points in 'drawing remotely straight lines'), but all the same I get ideas and images in my head for spaceship designs every now and then and have to get them out somehow. Especially when I've been playing too much Mass Effect 2 lately, and/or have a commission in progress of myself as a space freelancer that I'm way geeked about (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5583359/).
So. Pictured here is a modified Reactive Industries SS-1019 'Idrisi' class Scout Shuttle. This particular example served as a fighter and dropship for a small pirate crew, who outfitted it with a magnetic accelerator cannon of a size that would be modest on a heavy battlecruiser, but on a small personal shuttle is freaking enormous. As such it probably needs at least a minute or two to recharge the capacitors between shots, but packs a heck of a punch for a ship its size. After a brief unintentional stay with these pirates, my space-faring counterpart managed to liberate this ship and use that mass driver to leave some negative feedback over the state of his accommodations with his would-be captors. He then went on his way with the shuttle opening up a number of freelance employment opportunities. Eventually he earned enough money to afford a sensor pod that could be mounted beside the mass driver, making the modest shuttle a rather capable craft for planetary science and survey work.
Given the quirky duality of a high-tech planetary sciences platform and a stupidly big railgun, my space-faring counterpart decided that the most appropriate name for the ship he now called home was the 'Angry Cartographer.'
So. Pictured here is a modified Reactive Industries SS-1019 'Idrisi' class Scout Shuttle. This particular example served as a fighter and dropship for a small pirate crew, who outfitted it with a magnetic accelerator cannon of a size that would be modest on a heavy battlecruiser, but on a small personal shuttle is freaking enormous. As such it probably needs at least a minute or two to recharge the capacitors between shots, but packs a heck of a punch for a ship its size. After a brief unintentional stay with these pirates, my space-faring counterpart managed to liberate this ship and use that mass driver to leave some negative feedback over the state of his accommodations with his would-be captors. He then went on his way with the shuttle opening up a number of freelance employment opportunities. Eventually he earned enough money to afford a sensor pod that could be mounted beside the mass driver, making the modest shuttle a rather capable craft for planetary science and survey work.
Given the quirky duality of a high-tech planetary sciences platform and a stupidly big railgun, my space-faring counterpart decided that the most appropriate name for the ship he now called home was the 'Angry Cartographer.'
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I do indeed! Good level. Fond memories. May have subconsciously influenced the name used here. Appropriateness questionable, given that the shuttle is anything but silent when that gun goes off. Inside the ship at least. Outside the ship will usually just be space which wouldn't transmit sound. Even so, not in the habit of stealing names. ^^
Space DOES transmit sound. The laws of science fiction break those of physics, remember.
And...mh. Not so sure I liked it. Golden 1337ie around the corner...that blade is awful. On the upside, though, SPNKR. And that elite only needed a plasma grenade punched in his mug, anyway.
And...mh. Not so sure I liked it. Golden 1337ie around the corner...that blade is awful. On the upside, though, SPNKR. And that elite only needed a plasma grenade punched in his mug, anyway.
Hehe. My Halo buddy and I always enjoy wriggling the Warthog up to the peak of the island so we could use it against the Hunters up there. Good times.
And the laws of scienc fiction vary according to who's telling it, but for my part I always like it when a work of fiction at least makes a reasonable effort to follow actual physics. One of the things that separates proper science fiction from fantasy after all. Keyword here: Science.
And the laws of scienc fiction vary according to who's telling it, but for my part I always like it when a work of fiction at least makes a reasonable effort to follow actual physics. One of the things that separates proper science fiction from fantasy after all. Keyword here: Science.
Oh awesome :D I love the design of this spacecraft. I'm not good at drawing spacecraft either, I'll admit, but I'm doing a sci-fi comic so I pretty much have to learn, and I am learning, gradually. XD But I like the idea of a spaceship having a small living area as well for those long distance journeys.
I like this sort of size too. :) It's about as small as a ship can possibly be and still be actually lived in, I figure. Sort of like the space-faring equivalent of a camper van or something. It'd be a bit cozy but it'd get you around and feel like home. ^^
I have a few starship sketches from various ages, maybe I'll stick more up sometime. I love spaceships and really enjoy picturing them in my mind, but trying to solidify a design enough to actually flesh it out on paper tends to take more technical skill and attention to detail than I tend to have. But it's still fun to try! I'd certainly be interested in seeing any designs you ever felt like sharing.
I have a few starship sketches from various ages, maybe I'll stick more up sometime. I love spaceships and really enjoy picturing them in my mind, but trying to solidify a design enough to actually flesh it out on paper tends to take more technical skill and attention to detail than I tend to have. But it's still fun to try! I'd certainly be interested in seeing any designs you ever felt like sharing.
Thanks! :) It isn't specifically meant to be from the Mass Effect universe, but I like to think it certainly -could- be. A lot of my imaginings take place in a kind of generic future science fiction sort of setting, that sort of could be Mass Effect or Firefly or Star Trek or Halo, with appropriate tweaks. Trek always takes a few more tweaks since there you've got transporters and replicators and ballistic weaponry widely agreed to be utterly useless, but you figure out something. ^^ Very glad you like!
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes we've seen bits of life outside the Federation that looked a little bit more rough around the edges, but by and large there is that really sleek, clean, polished look to everything. Especially starfleet ship designs, which I always love!
Aw gosh, cool design. I really most enjoy the interior layout, because from alla sailing/boating magazines (that's another thing to share!) I LOVE how so much, like a head, galley and even lil' staterooms can be crammed into otherwise small spaces. I'd SO >_< love to live in this little space and be all homely. :> And I bet the engines and drive as it were are a pain to get to. X3 They need to be, otherwise it'd be just too perfect X33 *shows you boating magazine, flips through tiny boats that somehow have like three berths and a shower and everything*
I totally didn't think of sailboat cabin layouts for inspiration here but I totally should have! Because yeah, it's really that same sort of thinking. I was thinking of a friend's old VW camper van as partial inspiration though. I really love that cozy feel of sailboat cabins, everything is so close together and seems like it would get claustrophobic after a while but being in there for short periods at least (all I've ever had so far) they just seem like such neat and intimate spaces where it's tiny but you've got virtually everything you need right there. So it's fun picturing this ship having that same feel to it. :) I'd love to investigate such things wiffya.
As for engine and other mechanical systems access, yeah, it's naturally a pain to get at. ^^ In order to really do any in-depth work the ship pretty much has to be landed in a pressurized garage or drydock or on a hospitable planet, so workers can remove exterior armor/body panels to get at them properly. Access for emergency maintenance and repairs from inside the ship while in flight are possible, but geometrically complicated. There are some access panels in the floor plating, and probably removable wall panels allowing access in the back of the environmental suit locker, in the bathroom and above the kitchen counter/sink/cooker. Some access from within the airlock too, though you'd want to be careful about maintaining pressure seal integrity back there.
As for engine and other mechanical systems access, yeah, it's naturally a pain to get at. ^^ In order to really do any in-depth work the ship pretty much has to be landed in a pressurized garage or drydock or on a hospitable planet, so workers can remove exterior armor/body panels to get at them properly. Access for emergency maintenance and repairs from inside the ship while in flight are possible, but geometrically complicated. There are some access panels in the floor plating, and probably removable wall panels allowing access in the back of the environmental suit locker, in the bathroom and above the kitchen counter/sink/cooker. Some access from within the airlock too, though you'd want to be careful about maintaining pressure seal integrity back there.
Ahh, well I'll tell you this. Sailboats don't get claustropobic. I'll tell you a stroy once time of how late dinner with all the comforts and radio crackling make a tiny living room so much home, and how even when you're in like 400 square feet barely of space, it'e never small because you have just... university campuses worth of open water all around you, and everything feels big. Oh I need to tell you stories. X3 p.s. spaceship with a kitchen sink, that.. makes me smile somehow--
I'll be excited to hear your tales sometime. :) It does seem like it could be an awfully strange dichotomy... on one hand, your world is a tiny boat with a cramped living area where you can barely stretch your arms out. On the other hand, your world is THE ENTIRE FREAKING OCEAN AND SKY to any given horizon. I could see that being at once terrifyingly claustrophobic and terrifyingly the opposite of claustrophobic.
Unless you had a close friend or special someone with you. Then, I suspect, it would be absolutely incredibly wonderful.
Unless you had a close friend or special someone with you. Then, I suspect, it would be absolutely incredibly wonderful.
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