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Another in a series of concepts messing around with what the more common and workaday ships might look like in some sort of space opera setting.
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Mood: Love ~Sagittarius-A-star Mar 8, 2013  Student
Very cool spaceship, Mike!! :) I like the idea of the FTL drive being an external quick-change unit. I guess the FTL drive isn't radioactive or powered by unusually unstable power sources, as it is located right next to the crew habitat. The cargo modules fit into the ship, I take it? I always liked the obsolete tramp freighter/DY series spaceship from Star Trek- it had modular cargo containers that latched onto the outer hull. There are some design sketches here: [link].

People always like the warships, but it is the common working-class freighters that are the backbone of an interstellar civilization. XD No trade and travel, no interstellar civilization. It is always fun to see this sort of ship...
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*MikeDoscher Mar 17, 2013  Professional General Artist
Yeah, it's the regular working vessels that really tell you the most about a civilization. The FTL here is basically not thought out at all, though I figured that since it's not classically kinetic that there's some sort of field or effect that engulfs the entire ship. I saw fit to place the drive where I thought it would be convenient from an engineering and maintenance standpoint, based on this. The remember that Star Trek design, and thought that it made an abnormally large amount of sense for that universe.
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~mattyginger1212 Jan 31, 2013
Really cool man wish i could draw would help with my sci-fi novel lol anyway keep up the good work
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*Sokolniki Aug 13, 2012
The addition of the manipulator arm/crane and the reasoning for it was a very nice touch.
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~hotwaxonlobsters Dec 31, 2011
I like the concept of an external module FTL drive.
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!retroboy78 Mar 17, 2010
This is so good! Did you happen to use photoshop to make this?
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*MikeDoscher Mar 17, 2010  Professional General Artist
The drawing is pencil, but the rest (coloring, text, etc.) was done in Photoshop, yeah.
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~Borgel Apr 2, 2009
I love the gritty practicality of the ship. Plus, its nice to see someone using fusion as their theoretical power source (its the only thing that seems to make sense to me for practical power generation).
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~Max-CCCP Mar 30, 2009
Nice ;)
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~inmc Oct 28, 2008  Professional Digital Artist
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