#ship design

[evan-collins90]

Interiors of the Carnival Ecstasy cruise ship, designed by the legendary Joe Farcus (1991)

Mainly designed in the Deco-Luxe style popular in the 1980s-early 1990s, along with Diner-Kitsch in the Metropolis Bar, and the a sort of 'Victorian explorer's lounge' look in the library. The ship was remodeled in 2009, and then scrapped in 2022.

[scopnotes]

My favorite villain dynamic right there

[secretly-a-catamount]

Something about characters who ascend in the eyes of the people in some manner, and their lover who is the only one who still sees their humanity, and the god who loves them for it

[assassin1513]

⚜️🩶🤍⚜️The Beauty of Layers of Fear 2⚜️🤍🩶⚜️

[mahoganyrust]

The Black Dahlia

I present to thee, the Black Dahlia, finest of the Golden Empire’s fleet.

Y’all who aren’t reading FIMT yet 🫵 LOOK. We have cookiesssssss. 👀👀👀👀

[pinkiexneomorph277]

The Black Dragon.

Captain Ingo’s ship.

(Ever since i drew Pirate Ingo i had to give him a ship)

[bagog]

It bums me out when I see how much hate the 32nd Century Fleet from Star Trek Discovery gets. Partly, it's because it's hard to parse who hates the ships, and who hates the show and is just taking every opportunity to get some hate off.

My basic position is that: Star Trek uses aesthetics-over-practicality as a STORY-TELLING choice, as well as a design choice. The Federation is such a cool, future place, we can build ships just cuz they look cool and not cuz they make any sense.

People saying "It doesn't look like anything like ships we're used to" are like people complaining the space shuttle isn't built like a horse-drawn chariot. Technology AND aesthetics have evolved over the last ELEVEN CENTURIES, what makes you think we'd even recognize their standards of beauty OR practicality?

Images from thetrekcollective.com

[peter-wartman]

Doing something a bit homeworld inspired

[grayrazor]

Colin Cantwell's original concept design of the T-65 X-Wing from Star Wars was like a WWII experimental fighter like a Ascender or Shinden, with the super long nose of a drag racer, then with the “cowboy drawing his gun” motion of the S-Foils as an extra fun surprise.

And then Ralph Mcquarrie's revisions filtered that shape through the lens of 1970s angular supercar aesthetics.

[the-helixverse]

Medusa-Class Battleship

Creator: Thai'Qul Length: 798 Meters Width: 378 Meters (Widest Point); 70 meters (Narrowest Point) Propulsion: Nuclear Pulse Drive; Five Fusion Drive Thrusters Crew Complement: 5,000-7,000 (Normal complement); 10,000 (Max. Capacity) Radiator Type: Solid-State/Droplet Armaments:

x8 40mm Point Defense Cannons (PDCs) (Aft)

x4 Cargo/Torpedo Bays (Aft)

x2000 5-kiloton driver warheads (Aft)

x4 Ultra-Relativistic Electron Beam (UREB) Cannons (Bow)

Interior

Because the Thai'Qul are an aquatic species, their ships are unique in being almost entirely filled with water. This pulls triple duty in protecting the occupants from intense G-forces, radiation and heat; providing resources for the fusion reactor and torpedoes, and in the event of a hull breach, lost water can be more easily retrieved than air. The consequence of this is that it increases the ship's overall mass, requiring more energy for any kind of acceleration or deceleration. This is also another reason for their ruthless pragmatism: the lack of air pockets outside the cargo sections prevents them from easily taking prisoners or taking larger ships aboard.

Creators

An average Thai'Qul male. Roughly 85% of the species is male, carrying out tasks for the rarely-seen matriarchs, who outsize them significantly. On ships such as the Medusa-class, prepubescent matriarchs- referred to colloquially as "Countesses"- serve the role of captains and admirals.

Strategic Overview

If there's any way to describe the Thai'Qul military doctrine, it would be ruthless pragmatism. Rather than engaging in widespread power projection, heavier ships are mostly concentrated within their own systems, while smaller vessels are the most commonly encountered. These represent the first line of defense, focused on patrolling defense perimeters.

Should a perimeter be broken and an enemy force infiltrate a Thai'Qul system, either by evading or destroying lighter vessels, this is when battleships such as the Medusa-class are deployed. This typically follows barrages of Thai'Qul frigates and corvettes, which will try to guide invaders into designated kill zones, where the Medusa-class will engage them at close range, such as near large asteroids, space stations or ring systems.

While these battleships lack high speed or fine maneuvering, they make up for it with powerful defenses and overwhelming firepower, particularly their UREBs. Once the invader's shields and other defenses have been exhausted, should they refuse to surrender, attacks from these beams will irradiate and effectively sterilize the target.

This is done because, rather than simply blowing up bellicose ships, the Thai'Qul will always try to salvage as much technology and information from them as possible, either to assess motivations or reverse-engineer whatever they discover. Of course, should a ship surrender instead, the Thai'Qul will gladly accept, taking the time to analyze captured ships just as thoroughly.

This doctrine has proven to be quite effective in multiple engagements and ensured invasions of their systems are rare.

Ship Diagram

The Bow Shield is a large dome entirely covered in ablative heat-resistant armor.

The nose of the craft houses the four UREB cannons, which cover a large hemispherical field. While the beams lose effectiveness over time or when fired at an angle, time dilation effects prevent them from completely dissipating over longer ranges. Maximum energy from the bremsstrahlung resulting from impact has been measured at over 5,000 Sieverts.

The UREBs are only possible via the battleship's length, where the linear accelerator (Linac) runs along the central axis of the ship.

The Medusa-Class doesn't have a designated bridge or command module, but instead 36 large windowless spheres, where most of the crew resides. Commands, controls and sensor readings are instead performed using holographic display interfaces that crew members can pull up at any moment. This ensures damage to one area of the ship will not compromise control, and that key staff can be moved into the interior.

The ship uses a combination of solid-state and droplet cooling with liquid lithium, firing the molten coolant into space, where it condenses into larger drops before being recaptured in a dish section for recirculation. Additional radiators vent excess heat to prevent the lithium from completely vaporizing. In times of duress, this coolant can be used as everything from makeshift flares to additional thrusters.

The aft section consists of a large octagonal cylinder, which houses bay sections designed to be drained of water so cargo, torpedoes and other craft can be sent into space. This is also where the ship's fusion reactor is housed.

The PDCs, nicknamed "Barnacles," allow the ship to fire at targets behind or beside the ship.

Contrary to popular belief, the piston supports are only painted blue and not transparent, though they are full of water to help cushion the impact following a pulse.

The pistons and their shock absorbers are attached to a set of electric motors, which extract a small, but not insubstantial amount of power from every pulse.

The Drive Cone is fitted with flexible rings and is even colored bright white to take advantage of as much radiation pressure as possible. Usage of this drive is why the battleship can't be used in a planetary orbit, as the risk of creating radiation belts poses a threat to orbital infrastructure.

[ryucreates]

star wars ship :)

[kingsabr3]

All of my ships Ive worked on for your viewing pleasure including my upgraded A class version of the Star Eagle.

Heres my main ship it has since been slightly modified from this picture.

One of my first original ships long since left behind in another universe.

Star Eagle C class posted below.

Syracuse Posted below.

And Phalanx work in progress also posted below.

Enjoy.

[rexstewartoriginals]

Artist hands are most sacred and should never be taken for granted. Without them, the artist is nothing.

[kingoflesserminormages]

[bookofsecretstotell]

#inktober day 11 "Star catcher"

Inspired by those Nasa telescope buildings.

[raphaelpinna]

UHM Shockwave in Space https://www.artstation.com/artwork/aoJaqX