#Starbase

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Incredible, SpaceX

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[elswif]

Am I the only one who just realized they're all by one of their ships? Because I doubt I am.

Aidlyn (Ashlyn x Aiden)

Benlor (Ben x Taylor)

Starbase (Logan x Tyler)

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7: Starbase in a nebula

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[siryl]

"Dione Station" by Tryingtofly.

[syntecx-alistar]

Meet A fan Starbase kid!

So- he kinda originally comes from a one off bit from a fandub of sbg discord server Im in.

Unfortunately(/j) for me my brain heavily latched onto said bit and I did a shit ton of drawings for him, so I may or may not be developing a semi-Next Gen au for sbg because of it..

He has a name from his time as a one off bit but I will be changing the name slightly while kinda meaning the same thing!

His name was originally Orange. (Like i said- one off bit. was not taken very seriously.)

If anyone has any suggestions I will happily take them. Until then however I will be posting some more au designs of the main cast + fankids for the rest of the ships that will be included.

[eliotqueliot]

Thoughts That Breathe, and Words That Burn

Thoughts That Breathe, and Words That Burn - C A LeSabre (EliotQueliot) - Star Trek: The Original Series [Archive of Our Own]

Spent a number hours over the last few days reediting this. Adding some things, etc. I'm not only so much happier with this as a Star Trek story (as it was meant to be), but with this new version. Hope you enjoy!

Don't worry--I'm still making Queliot behind the scenes--just so slowly right now with other life events, and I'd been wanting to get this to you anyway. I have one more Star Trek story to clean up and post after this.

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test flight 6

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Saw a photo thing of it and had to draw my boys

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SpaceX Starship Test Flight Mission Patch by jurvetson https://flic.kr/p/2oCX2Zt

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Homecoming by Jetfreak-7

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Okay, here's a thought: you've probably noticed from posts by now that I'm working on some original space-fantasy material and I just thought I'd throw this your way—I've noticed that in film and television interior design for starships and starbases with simulated gravity tends to exist on a single-axis spectrum from "Grand Faux-Marble Hotel" to "Metal Piping Everywhere," neither of which strike me as particularly good actual design ideas for a place that people are going to live in for extended periods, not when there's no real outside to go and spend time in. So I'm just curious if you have any thoughts on what good urban design would look like for, say, a starbase. How could perhaps green-space be brought in to create a feel of going outdoors in hallways, for instance? What other solutions do you think there could be for making a sealed environment like that look more like something real people would be able to thrive living in?

okay. so i did some googling as to what a star base is and I am still confused, but I will endeavour to do my best anyway.

First of all, the practicalities. They need oxygen, they need food. Guess what creates both of those? Plants! And you've heard me talk about hydroponics: it's a super water and nutrient efficient way to grow All Things Green and I imagine that a starbase or whatever would want to be as self-sufficient as possible and won't have a problem getting solar energy either direct to their plants or to power artificial UV lights that do just as good a job. Also, seeing as there are humans there breathing out carbon dioxide: basic evolutionary science says, get the plants in first, get them as numerous as possible, that way they make oxygen pretty much on their own and you're saved from having to cart the stuff in which is an expensive and dangerous process (carbon dioxide is a lot more inert and safer to transport: when near a fire it will put the fire out rather than Big Burn). You could also utilise human, um, waste products in some variation of hydroponics that's a bit more like aquaponics. Nutrient cycling. Or bring in some fish and just have aquaponics as well?

So that being said, you've got the required Green Stuff in order to feel like you're going outside. Green plants growing all up the walls and bright light and the sound of running water. Maybe it's light and humid enough to grow some sort of ground cover as well with stepping stones so it doesn't get too worn by passerby? You could definitely make hallways and hallways of this, because space is so limited just utilise anywhere you have to grow food. And it will mean the air is fresher as well. You can get design inspo for this by looking up anything along the lines of 'green building' on any image search or Pinterest. Faeriecore meets futuristic technology: my favourite kind of vibe. Plants in the bathrooms, wherever is practical really, what you really want to think is: everything has to be super efficient, because gravity simulation is no doubt expensive and energy intensive to run. No silly extra space like the Grand Faux Marble Hotel. PVC pipes are a lot lighter than metal and won't rust when you've got all your necessary salts running through them to feed your plants, but they're not the most attractive so you want green to cover them wherever possible. Think of the plumbing: you want everything to flow from source to sink as efficiently as possible, and no nutrient, water, etc to ever be wasted. And then, on top of this basic skeletal framework, somewhere that feels liveable. Blues and greens to calm the nervous system when you're so far away from actual soil. A basic compost plant going on somewhere that recycles some of the nutrients fed back into the little soil pellets used for hydroponics and the juices that run through as fertiliser. Lots of chemical testing but make it cute little glass or plastic probes that are super quick and you can test anywhere. Everything sealed off well for the inevitable day that gravity does fail, and you want to make sure you don't lose all your water and dissolved nutrients when that happens. You probably just make entire walls out of growing green things, honestly, not the structural ones but between most rooms this will do. Herbs growing on the kitchen side of the wall, that kind of thing. Mint in the hallways that you can just pull off and chew to freshen your breath: access to chewing gum and the like will be limited.

Anyway, hope that gives you a few ideas! What I love about urban design as opposed to just interior is it sees the inside and the outside, the buildings and their layout and surrounds as a whole system and it's easy to slot in the framework of how do we meet all of our users' needs within this system as a whole? And to do so you want to create an ecosystem. You want to include both practical needs and the need for beauty; efficiency not only in terms of resources but also accessibility (I assume your dwelling population are hard at work doing Starship Things and don't have time to rush back and forth in a poorly designed area); and diverse areas for a diverse set of users: in real life cities, think of animals as well as people. On a starship/starbase, you have the possibility of having to house aliens for a while. Where would they feel safe, have their needs met, and if miscommunication does occur and they break something, where and how would it have minimal impact?

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Magical Moonicorn at Starbase a week or two back