Sarge's art-pile of art-stuff. Options

[Sargeant Rho]

O Hai...

So I remade the Tomahawk of CnC Generals to RA3 quality, I might at some point actually skin it...

[Sargeant Rho]

Sort of. It's possible to rotate the ship, producing a small amount of gravity. About 0.15g at 2.3 rpm, which is half mars gravity. It's not exactly optimal, but it is better than no gravity. It's possible to tether 2 of these together, producing Earth gravity without becoming the Vomit Comet 2.0.

The heat shield is made of a lightweight ceramic material that covers the entire craft's surface except for the magnetic nozzle extension of the combined cycle fusion rocket. The air frame itself is partially made of composite materials, and parts that may be exposed to reentry plasma are made of a titanium super-alloy. The windows are made of three layers, the outer layer is sapphire glass, while the inner layer is made of lead glass with a polymer layer in between, while the hull of the pressure vessel of the crew section is a sandwich of titanium, polyethylene, water, polyethylene and again titanium. The water tanks in the middle of that sandwich add radiation shielding and serve as fresh water tanks, with the waste water tank being behind the crew section.

Additionally, lead shutters can be deployed over the windows if it has to fly through high radiation zones, like Jupiter's radiation belts.


You can build big ships with big engines, but that's going to require more fuel. Square-cube law is a bitch, even when you're using fusion engines with their absurdly high specific impulse values. If you build a bigger ship, you need more fuel and bigger engines to get the same acceleration values, which requires you to carry even more fuel, since you have to not only accelerate the heavier ship, but all the extra fuel as well.

Dropship variant:


Has 12 heavy guided missiles, 2 retractable auto cannons in reentry-hardened pods in the wings, as well as enhanced sensors, and a pulse laser in a sapphire cupola under the nose.

This post has been edited by Sargeant Rho: 5 Nov 2014, 18:48

[Svea Rike]

Sort of. It's possible to rotate the ship, producing a small amount of gravity. About 0.15g at 2.3 rpm, which is half mars gravity. It's not exactly optimal, but it is better than no gravity. It's possible to tether 2 of these together, producing Earth gravity without becoming the Vomit Comet 2.0.

Centrifugal gravity, right? Interesting, but I do wonder do these small craft really need to be manned? Aren't they more effective as remote-controlled/unmanned drones?

The heat shield is made of a lightweight ceramic material that covers the entire craft's surface except for the magnetic nozzle extension of the combined cycle fusion rocket. The air frame itself is partially made of composite materials, and parts that may be exposed to reentry plasma are made of a titanium super-alloy. The windows are made of three layers, the outer layer is sapphire glass, while the inner layer is made of lead glass with a polymer layer in between, while the hull of the pressure vessel of the crew section is a sandwich of titanium, polyethylene, water, polyethylene and again titanium. The water tanks in the middle of that sandwich add radiation shielding and serve as fresh water tanks, with the waste water tank being behind the crew section.

Additionally, lead shutters can be deployed over the windows if it has to fly through high radiation zones, like Jupiter's radiation belts.

Oh, I thought something like graphene would be a suitable material since it's lightweight, nigh-indestructible and asuming this takes place in the future would be relatively easy to mass-produce. But I don't know jack shit about your universe so I could be mistaken. This is one of the gripes I have with futuristic settings: it always have to look futuristic yet recognizable, otherwise it would just be a mess for us.

You can build big ships with big engines, but that's going to require more fuel. Square-cube law is a bitch, even when you're using fusion engines with their absurdly high specific impulse values. If you build a bigger ship, you need more fuel and bigger engines to get the same acceleration values, which requires you to carry even more fuel, since you have to not only accelerate the heavier ship, but all the extra fuel as well.

Dropship variant:


Has 12 heavy guided missiles, 2 retractable auto cannons in reentry-hardened pods in the wings, as well as enhanced sensors, and a pulse laser in a sapphire cupola under the nose.

Sexy dropship! You are a texture artist, too, right? Cause I would love to see these vehicles in their final glory.

[Sargeant Rho]

Centrifugal gravity, right? Interesting, but I do wonder do these small craft really need to be manned? Aren't they more effective as remote-controlled/unmanned drones?

It can fly unmanned, like any self-respecting spacecraft should. But usually it's flown by freelancers, kind of like Serenity, flying all sorts of stuff around. It only has to spin on longer trips though, on a flight from Earth to Mars or Earth to Venus, it's constantly accelerating along its axis, providing the illusion of gravity as well.

Oh, I thought something like graphene would be a suitable material since it's lightweight, nigh-indestructible and asuming this takes place in the future would be relatively easy to mass-produce. But I don't know jack shit about your universe so I could be mistaken. This is one of the gripes I have with futuristic settings: it always have to look futuristic yet recognizable, otherwise it would just be a mess for us.

Graphene is used for a number of things - such as the heat shield of the fusion engine's magnetic nozzle extension, as well as electronics. But it's far more economical to use metals and ceramics for the hull.

Sexy dropship! You are a texture artist, too, right? Cause I would love to see these vehicles in their final glory.

Yeah, but I won't be texturing these before I finished all those ships I showed earlier.

This post has been edited by Sargeant Rho: 5 Nov 2014, 19:40