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alexine-pankhurst β€” CMV Moonwort space ship

Published: 2013-10-03 06:22:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 1322; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 0
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Description The CMV (Commonwealth Merchant Vessel) "Moonwort" is a deep space exploration and far range survey vessel that I designed in a minute of utter randomness.

Class: "Quasar" class Great Attractor, with heavy after market upgrades and modifications
Type: Deep space exploration and far range survey vessel
Registered: 16/19/721 after BsF at Confreia Port Commission, Republic of Sul, Commonwealth (Shenna L5 orbitals)
Registration: Tarath semiprivate, merchant fleet of magistrate Gogo'lassa
Length: 58 m (125 m with Hawking radiation cooling fins)
Height: 22.5 m (112 m before Hawking radiation cooling fins reach infinitesimal n-dimensional curvature)
Mass: 10.3 kmT = 10'300 metric tons
Crew: 2 - 8 (minimal crew: 2)
Troop: none
Design and manufacture: "Astrodyne Shipwright Systems" customized by "Nora Nurula Deep Space Ultraheavy Engineering Corporation" and "Zhi Shaar Cluster Factories"
Hull: Reinforced multilayer exotic laminate plating uder ablative armor
Power and Propulsion: 1 x Wunda Crate Inc. "Quark Star" magnetic monopole catalyzed full conversion drive - Mark III, 1 x Hamilton Institute Xenoachaeology Relics Reconstructs Department (HARD) "Quantum Singularity Manifold" solid state warp core (classified)
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Comments: 21

Jonathan-Bluestone [2014-10-13 10:58:55 +0000 UTC]

Flagged as Spam

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alexine-pankhurst In reply to Jonathan-Bluestone [2014-10-13 11:09:01 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, the big asteroid motherbases of the "Nora Nurula Deep Space Ultraheavy Engineering Corporation" decommissioned those ships in the 340th century, a shame if you ask me. But, seriously, I'm also all retro- futuristic, and always liked to design something like this. Glad you liked it !Β 

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Sacha31 [2014-01-16 12:35:52 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow, this is sooooo amazing!! Love it so much!!

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Zaarlika [2013-10-07 23:44:41 +0000 UTC]

Oh, yay, a spaceship!

The look reminds me of Starmade(Minecraft in space) and the tail fins reminds me of KSP.

Heh heh.

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alexine-pankhurst In reply to Zaarlika [2013-10-17 11:20:46 +0000 UTC]

KSP - that sounds like a gap to fill! Sadly, there's never enough time in this world to draw the spaceships you want to draw (let alone to build and fly them). But I really felt like doing this one, and I intend to do some more in the future - heh heh!

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Zaarlika In reply to alexine-pankhurst [2013-11-18 08:15:42 +0000 UTC]

Indeed. And sorry about massive inactivity, had to go deal with the nightmare realm known as 'Real Life'.

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alexine-pankhurst In reply to Zaarlika [2013-11-18 09:51:12 +0000 UTC]

I hear you, brother. This "real life" distracts me a lot lately. Hopefully, there will be an update soon.

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Zaarlika In reply to alexine-pankhurst [2013-11-18 11:11:14 +0000 UTC]

Real Life version 2.1

>Doesn't suck anymore

>Some other stuff

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alexine-pankhurst In reply to Zaarlika [2013-11-18 15:33:02 +0000 UTC]

Real Life version 2.1 hopefully retains some of the good features of RL 1.0, such as no monthly fees, well rendered NPCs, and decent resolution graphics.

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Zaarlika In reply to alexine-pankhurst [2013-11-19 06:34:14 +0000 UTC]

As well as cutting out some of the bad bits players suggested.

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MetalSnail [2013-10-04 02:36:32 +0000 UTC]

Cool!

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alexine-pankhurst In reply to MetalSnail [2013-10-04 06:08:04 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot - glad you liked it!

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mastercron [2013-10-03 15:12:59 +0000 UTC]

really awesome, xD!!!

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alexine-pankhurst In reply to mastercron [2013-10-03 15:37:39 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot! If you think this is awesome, wait till you see the finished version, assembled in low Earth orbit in less than 900 years... Oh wait... well this is probably as good as it gets !

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mastercron In reply to alexine-pankhurst [2013-10-03 16:12:28 +0000 UTC]

Haahahah... xD!!!Β 

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SergioKa [2013-10-03 13:26:13 +0000 UTC]

Beautifully designed spaceship.

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alexine-pankhurst In reply to SergioKa [2013-10-03 14:18:17 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot, I am glad you liked it!

Somehow I had for quite some time in the back of my head the story idea of a couple that steals a private deep space exploration and survey vessel. The ship's propulsion core (reconstructed by a team of archaeologists) is vastly of alien design, and the baroque mechanism of how this vessel warps space time is poorly understood at best.

As this couple decided to live in this rather small vessel for quite some time, they reshaped and redesigned the Moonwort by and large after their private taste, including an archery area/ shooting range, a botanical garden and orchid fern house in the life system deck, a Turkish bath and Finnish sauna in the living quarters, many guest rooms for potential friends and followers and so on... ( alexine-pankhurst.deviantart.c… ).

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SergioKa In reply to alexine-pankhurst [2013-10-03 14:49:06 +0000 UTC]

The story sounds quite interesting. I think the couple should have a strong motivation to make such a move like stealing the ship, leaving their former lives behind.

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alexine-pankhurst In reply to SergioKa [2013-10-03 15:06:10 +0000 UTC]

Motivation...ehm... oops, I knew I forgot something . Seriously, the story is at the moment still at a very preliminary state and is competing with other ideas. On the other hand, any opportunity to draw a star ship was very welcome! Β 

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SergioKa In reply to alexine-pankhurst [2013-10-03 15:35:25 +0000 UTC]

You're right; spacescapes and spaceship design are wonderful areas of art. Surely you have favorite artists on this subjects. Two of mine are Juan Gimenez and Chris Foss.Β 

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alexine-pankhurst In reply to SergioKa [2013-10-03 17:38:01 +0000 UTC]

I LOVE Chris Foss. I also have a great fancy for all those mighty artists of the 70's, such as Jim Burns, Les Edwards, Bob Layzell, Chris Moore, Cesare Regiani, but most of all Peter Elson. I wouldn't have started drawing star ships if it wasn't for him!

And, coming back to Chris Foss, his amazing influence was beautifully described by Alastair Reynolds in his blog: approachingpavonis.blogspot.ch…

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SergioKa In reply to alexine-pankhurst [2013-10-03 18:12:13 +0000 UTC]

That blog entry is quite good. Thanks! I'm familiar with Jim Burns and Peter Elson work; I'll do an image search of the other artists you mentioned.Β 

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