Starship - Blog Posts
During my extended stay from home, I found this model. I just finished it the other day.
Happy Birthday Patrick!💚 That smile and that voice😍❤️😘😭🙊
As the war rages on between the Commonwealth and Auridia, various divisions of the Commonwealth Initiative Starfleet are deployed to numerous planets throughout Concordia to conduct a variety of operations.
One such division, stationed at a remote base on a far-flung planet, receives reinforcements to better counteract new threats that have popped up in the area.
The Commonwealth raining down hellfire on unsuspecting enemies.
Due to the nature of their Starfleet lacking any sort of heavy bomber, the Commonwealth commissioned the Cavalier-class (shown front and center) as a multi-person, multiple bomber that could both be used in hard-hitting assaults and more isolated exploration/search-and-rescue type missions due to it featuring a spacious interior.
The Legion of Axis, a fleet devised in secret by the Astral Archmage, now known as Axis, to take the Commonwealth by surprise and conquer Concordia once more. It was comprised entirely of one class of ship, the Arbiter, which numbered in the thousands. This was because the ships could siphon power from each other when arranged in a certain way, allowing one ship to draw energy from others and fire a beam of plasma that could disintegrate any ship in its path.
Honestly there's a lot more to the Legion of Axis that I'd love to talk about, but it's been a while since I posted anything so I thought I'd add in this little snippet of lore for things to come. I'd love to hear ideas and feedback if you have any!
Hence I crawl out of my cave once again to post a little something I made while procrastinating on college work, an animation I made in Blender showcasing the Commonwealth SF-38 Longsword's supermaneuvrability against any similar air/spacecraft of its type.
Commissioned to the Dawnbreaker Company by the Commonwealth Initiative, the Longsword was made to be a cutting-edge starfighter that could outmatch any of its Auridian counterparts, and as such was equipped with shields, was hyperspace-capable, and featured new repulsor technology that allowed it to perform complex maneuvers in both the air and space.
Please tell me about your thing. I want to know more, cause right now you haven't talked enough about this thing bud
Oh boy this is going to be long, where do I start
Okay, so...
In a distant galaxy created by the ancient Astral Beings, the nation of Concordia, spanning several star systems, is thriving. The nation had just returned from the brink of a civil war, between the Empire of Auridia, led by an evil Astral Archmage wielding immense power, commanding legions of armies and starships, and a renegade group seeking to overthrow him and bring an end to his evil reign.
In the end, the renegade group won, and established the Commonweath of Planets, a new democratic government meant to represent the will of the people, contrary to the tyrannical rule Concordia had faced under the rule of the Astral Archmage. The remnants of the Auridian Empire, now without a leader and without purpose, aptly surrendered to the new Commonwealth of Planets, and a peace treaty was thereafter struck, where the Remnants would establish a democratic government of their own representing the will of the people formerly subjugated under their tyrannical reign.
The Remnants of Auridia then became a well-established democratic nation, with its residents having mainly positive perceptions of this new rebirth of a nation with a terrible past. The Commonwealth established a new Capitol on Concord Point, a binary planet system consisting of a larger and smaller planet, which were called Magnus Frater and Parvulus Frater, respectively.
The Commonwealth was facing certain hardships. There was recently a plague that had taken it by storm, and the current acting Commonwealth chancellor had done little to move the nation forward. Fortunately for the Commonwealth a new hero was seemingly stepping up for the task, a man by the name of Brenold Arcadia, heralding from the more aristocratic side of a lesser-known backwater world, had garnered the attention and admiration of all of Concordia with his promises of progress, his visions of grandeur, and determination to elevate the Commonwealth to a state it had never seen before. After an extremely successful campaign, Arcadia won the election and became chancellor. The phrase "Keep Moving Forward" was a prominent line by which his successful campaign had been run.
Chancellor Arcadia worked quick. He immediately went to work spending extremely large amounts of money on research and medicine, on technology, on innovation, just about anything that would get the voters to like him. And it worked, the people revered him like never before, and the Commonwealth was thrust into a new golden age.
However, his methods often had dark origins. The money to invest had to come from somewhere, and that was money the Commonwealth did not currently have. So, he resorted to often illicit deals with shady business partners under the counter to get the money for his grandiose projects. So when he was offered a partnership with the Dawnbreaker Company producing warships, he accepted without hesitation, since he knew it would help bring in more profits for the Commonwealth, and as such keep his perception high in the eyes of the people.
However warships would not be profitable without war, and the people would most likely get suspicious if hundreds of warships were produced solely for the purpose of "security" from existing minor pirate threats. Hence, Arcadia orchestrated a ploy, framing a small uprising on a city of his home planet of Pulveriss as a deliberate attack by the existing Auridian Remnants trying to take back the Commonwealth territory and re-establishing their tyrannical rule like they had in the days of the Astral Archmage. He then sent a new prototype Stalwart-class Battlecruiser to Pulveriss, which razed the entire city, killing peaceful protestors and 4500 innocent civillians in the process. Back at the Commonwealth Capitol's Golden City, the people were patriotically supportive of Arcadia's actions, since they were under the impression that the Auridians had tried to invade the Commonwealth.
Soon the Dawnbreaker Company was producing warships on a massive scale, Arcadia was raking in profits due to the deal he made, and all-out war had broken out between the Commonwealth and the Auridian Remnants. In response the Commonwealth Initiative was created, which served as the formal military force for the Commonwealth and spearheaded its war plan, under the uniting motto, which was also Arcadia's campaign slogan, "Keep Moving Forward".
Arcadia's actions were not without consequences, however. Soon tales began to spur about a mysterious Auridian knight who killed without mercy, and especially had a bloodlust for Arcadia.
His name: Artemis Castor, who was among one of the innocent people hurt in Arcadia's attacks on Pulveriss. Seeing his friends die around him to cannon fire from the Commonwealth, Artemis swore to avenge them, and made it his life goal from then on to kill Arcadia, and make him feel the pain and suffering he'd caused others, no matter the cost. What's more, Artemis Castor was rumored to be armed with arcane power, perhaps originating from the fallen Archmage himself...
So at present Concordia finds itself engulfed in another civil war, with one side led by a fraudulent Chancellor Arcadia, and the other side led by an unknown entity pulling the strings, as well as well-meaning separatists who were forced to take arms to combat a money-hungry Commonwealth. And on the edge of it all, a new threat lurks, perhaps a fragment of the evil Archmage that once was...
So yeah this was the basic premise of the story I'm working on, there's a lot more story-wise but this is the main exposition and world behind it. But I'm glad you're interested! I hope I didn't bore you too much with all the information lol. It's meant to be an animation project, I've already started working on it but I'm not sure when I'll finish, but until then I'll probably post more about it on this account, and edit the story as I work more on it because this isn't final.
Also if you have any questions feel free to ask!
Here's another ship I made for the Commonwealth of Planets, an interplanetary government from a worldbuilding project I'm working on. This one's called the Bulwark-class Supercarrier.
At 3 times the length of the Stalwart the Bulwark was made for a different purpose, to carry starfighters into battle. It could hold a combined total of over 250 starfighters, far more than the 45 carried by a single Stalwart. Although it lacked Arc cannons it still featured an extensive point-defense and flak system designed to combat any attacking squadrons that may be looking for close-range attacks. It also featured two underslung hangar bays that could hold a Vanguard-class Corvette each for rapid deployment against enemy threats.
Although less famous than its smaller cousin, the Stalwart, the Bulwark proved to be a crucial asset to the Commonwealth and was often seen leading Battlegroups.
Hey guys! First post here, just thought I would share a little spaceship I'd made a while back, the Stalwart-class Battlecruiser. the main Ship of the line created by the Commonwealth of Planets.
Designed to effectively combat the Auridian threat. Equipped with 16 large quad-barrel Arc Cannons and numerous other smaller flak and point-defense cannons, as well as 6 large hangar bays to accommodate various squadrons of SF-38 Longsword and ASF-10 Longbow fighters. It featured an advanced main reactor system that ran on Cane fuel that would allow it to travel through hyperspace at unprecedented rates, and a large plasmic ram that could be extended for head-on attacks and doubled as a shield.
This was created for a worldbuilding project I'm currently working on, it's set in a sci-fi/fantasy environment with a slight steampunk theme, more starships and vehicles to come!
It’s February, like the person, but a month
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I JUST FOUND ONE OF MY FAVORITE STARKID COSPLAYERS FROM TIKTOK ON HERE!!!!!!!!
I’m here to get the job done!
Bug, from Starship
Starship consepts!
So here's both Quasar's HWK-290LB (large body) starship and Korar's smaller RZ-1 A wing interceptor
Korar's fighter had a normal paint job but after Leyc got his hands on it, it got a little bit ✨spiced✨ (Korar did not agree to it)
Quasar also gets a heart attack every time he looks at that junk pile, it's living on hopes and prayers and the back of the cockpit is busted. If that welding comes loose, Korar would be toast. He probably stole it originally from some poor soul
Then Quasar's ship :D so the base model is an HWK-290, but it has quite a lot of size variation in canon. Some sources say it's 16m and some say it's 29m. Well I personally need it to be larger and I like this one fan idea that both of them exist and there's just two different standards
And the way to differ between them would be adding that "LB" code to the back of the name. It's also a little wider with than the smaller one
Quasar has moded that thing to hell and back. it's a lot more nimble and reactive than a normal fraiter would be, he's basically made it more similar to how jedi fighters controlled. Only Korar is also allowed to fly it, but only if Quasar is unable to, trust me, it ain't easy
He's painted it with a mirror silver to add more camouflage to it and also has a totally "legal" hyper drive mod installed
Then there's the inside, with the different rooms highlighted
The planet I used for colour reference to showcase the mirrored surface a little better in this pic is called Christoph
Elon Musk says Raptor engine production is a ‘disaster’ that puts SpaceX at risk of bankruptcy.
As of now Starship is now the largest rocket ever made!!
Can a Mars colony be profitable?
Many have stated you can not have a profitable mars colony, over all. At best some will make money profiting of those who invest in it. Here are some of those that will profit stetting one up. If it is enough for the Colony to be profitable or not, depends on decision not yet made.
Cover artwork I created for Issue #27 of Frontier Explorer, a free zine for the Star Frontiers rpg. This was an homage to Larry Elmore's original box art for the rpg, this time using the setting's main baddies - the Sathar - as the subject.
This was also an earlyish attempt at a large digital painting. For me, it kinda works in places and generally was good practice.
ADHD moment, wanted to warm up before really leaning into a piece for a client and, uh, two days later I got this! I am a little less angry with myself than usual on account of REALLY liking how this one came out!
The two are far from Earth.
My other poll is about to run out, so i present: Starkid poll‼️
12 is the max, so i pushed the series into one option sorry
My thoughts on the upcoming IFT-3 flight of Starship-Super Heavy
As of writing (12th of February), IFT-3 is currently scheduled to occur later this month, but it could still easily get delayed.
My prediction is that IFT-3 will probably achieve orbit and will probably conduct an internal propellant-transfer, but that the upper stage (SN28) will probably suffer a failure of some kind during reëntry, either being destroyed or deviating far from its targetted splashdown-zone.
It's safe to say that successful reëntry is unlikely on IFT-3. Here's why:
The Starship upper stage will be the largest reëntry-vehicle ever built.
This reëntry profile (a belly-first reëntry with four fins used for stability) is unique and has never been done before. Starship's belly-first orientation is inherently ærodynamically unstable, which is why it needs constant corrections from the four fins. It could get trapped in a nose-first or tail-first orientation, both of which might be more stable. Else, a loss of control would just result in endless tumbling.
We've already seen heatshield-tiles falling off during IFT-1 and IFT-2. In fact, more fell off the latter than the former due to higher ærodynamic pressures and engine vibrations.
A failure during reëntry would be consistent with the general pattern of testflight-failures established so far. Essentially, each flight is a failure, but less of a failure than the previous one.
Honestly, I don't know what could happen to the first stage booster (B10). SpaceX knows how to do boostback-burns and propulsive landings. It's seemingly just a matter of preventing the vehicle from blowing itself up. Engine reliability will probably determine the booster's success.
It'll be interesting to watch nonetheless.
The fate of the Artemis Programme now depends on the success of these test flights and in SpaceX rapidly developing and utilising this reüsable launch-system. Development has been ongoing for over five years now, and the vehicle has yet to reach orbit. The landing of astronauts on the Moon is scheduled for September 2026. How likely is it that SpaceX will have humans on the Moon in just two and a half years from now?
Long time no art!
Even corporate paramilitaries need warships in TTT -- this express freighter has been refit with a much more power-dense reactor and AShMs (lasers weren't in the budget) -- it's actually substantially better than the typical patrol craft fielded by first rate naval powers (and that's the point). It's the sort of vessel that is mean enough to ignore anything short of an actual warship without causing undue concern to the people who do have actual warships. It's also vastly superior to most craft fielded by pirates and criminal organizations.
The reactor refit would've been a no expenses spared item bought off a great power's navy with a lot of concessions and begging. Very humiliating for a huge organization but the results are undeniable.
That was ambiguous. Like, they mostly aren't shipping stuff. It's more like a '''fun''' combination of agribusiness and extractive colonial projects. The East India company was bad enough without a nuclear arsenal as large as USA's [on this vessel alone 24x 500 kiloton warheads and 40x 2 kiloton defensive warheads (dialable down to >.1 kiloton but rated to carry as many as 3x that number]
I am still settling on the exact details but the engines are high end PIT or MPD so there's enough thrust for a decent amount of operational maneuverability to set up favorable fights or run down targets with empty tanks. The missiles themselves are fairly impressive post-revolution designs -- bigger than the standard MBE-pattern AShM and capable of doing between 15-17km/s depending on payload and a sensor suite that supports a long chase. The sort of people this ship is meant to fight are mostly not capable of reaching out and touching somebody from that distance and don't have the tools to engage (moderately) sophisticated submunitions from long distance. People who want to do something about a ship like this will either bring a destroyer, suck up to a bigger friend who can bring one, or try to jump it well inside its reach (probably suicidal but undeniably effective). It's not really viable as a mainline warship but conventional patrol craft fielded by actual states are often NTR/NEP hybrids for similar reasons. They are not very capable warships but are designed to cruise efficiently and (like this ship) meet their targets when they have mostly empty tanks. You don't really use ships like that in a peer war but the space traffic environment in TTT is hellishly complicated so you need to be able to efficiently cover a lot of ground to ensure customs, biosecurity, and access to strategic resources.
I like the look of it.
A slightly spookier revision of yesterday's ship in poster form. Bone white, pitted metal, and copper is a better look for a necromantic spacecraft.
I was going to do a setting writeup on Ten Thousand Empty Tombs but instead, I have created implied a Stupid Thing: a strangereal world with murder cone spaceships, 70s retrofuturism, elves, dwarves, and wizards. Horrible stuff.
Tragically, I have to admit that this has forced me to give some thought to Dwarven corporate law in order to name the prime contractors. Please send help.
SpaceX Test Flight 5: Mechazilla Catches Super Heavy Booster in Epic Landing!
Watch the mind-blowing moment during SpaceX Test Flight 5 when Mechazilla successfully catches the Super Heavy Booster! From launch to landing, this marks a major breakthrough in reusable rocket technology. Don't miss this historic catch!
