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(n)TCV-AC 1414 Ot Yahusk"Husk" parasite assault drone
Length: 19.62 meters (64.4 feet)
Height: 5.1 meters (16.7 feet)
Variable mission module - 4 human capacity/7,500kilogram storage
20mm HPVR
[REDACTED] DEW
2 Tentacles (25.7 meter)
Husk parasite drones are deployed by larger vessels to augment their defensive abilities, and to provide low risk assaults on distant targets. The 20mm HPVR weapon system is gimbal mounted for wide coverage, and has enhanced discharge mitigation, enabling it to be fired within an oxygenated atmosphere without risk of catastrophic firestorms. (Of course, if this is a desired effect, the discharge baffles can be removed by the Husk's own tentacles relatively quickly.)
Commonly fitted to the TCV-AC 114 Silka fast attack corvette, it shares several features of its host craft. Its Biotek sentience is such that it can preform advanced assault and defensive roles without need of human oversight. Additionally, the Husk can remain undetected while maneuvering, due to the non-Newtonian nature of the Syden-Küsche drive. This relatively high degree of passive stealth allows it to not compromise their host craft when launching and returning at the completion of sorties.
For personal defense, the Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) system provides up to [REDACTED] output for point and area targets. While only minimally effective at targets protected by gravitational lenses, it is effective against unshielded targets.
Lacking personal gravitational manipulation capabilities, the Husk is grown instead with a set of multipurpose tentacles. These allow fine manipulation, allowing it to preform repairs, handle equipment, and assist Human personnel as required. Husks find tea delicious, and are more than delighted to make it when requested.
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I don't suppose the drone is also equipped with a near light speed railgun? I mean, it would kind of invalidate the use of it's tentacles to strangle a target if they can be destroyed half a system away hmmmm
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Got a serious question about gravity shields, well several, first does the thing rely on the existence of gravitons? Or does it simply curve space-time, in which case it's really a warp shield, also even small nudges mean the nudged vessel has to compensate for this, so do grav shields work that way for an incoming massive projectile for example? Would you consider them a handwave in your universe?
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I Love how beautieful and sleek this is ;-; also so sorry about the fav spam, gathering inspiration for a project and your work is just THE BEST
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No problem. Feel free to be inspired!
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Love this Tea Loving Husk(y!)
They are about the size of a fighter, no?
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Yea, they're pretty big. A little larger than those NATO fighters.
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I'll get right on that.
Actually, probably not for some time, if ever. I have too many other projects to work through. I like to show sketches of tech and such, since it's what people seem to like watching me for... but I really don't appreciate people essentially demanding I do something.
As it is, I would like to produce more images, each (attempting to be) fairly unique from each other. But most of the time, I just have to move on once I've reached a certain point, or I'll never even finish a single image.
My workflow more or less works for getting these sketches to this point. Getting overly wrapped up in over-rendering concepts has never been my thing, unfortunately. Sure, I can spend hours and days on rendering this, but it's essentially just a rough isometric concept, with lots of flaws, that serves mainly to provide a basic concept for an idea.
I appreciate the interest, hopefully my response to you wasn't too abrasive.
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Google SketchUp is quite simple program for beginners and does not require much time
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I know Sketchup. Not really my favorite application to use though, I prefer Cinema4d, which is what I use for all my actual meshes.
Sometimes I use Zbrush, as well, for the more organic designs in my setting, such as the Silka corvette, and other craft...but really more often than not sketching stuff is many times quicker than going through the entire 3d modeling or sculpting process.
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Thanksss. I'll probably do a few more color schemes for this lil' drone. Anti-camouflage is fun to design.
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And they called me crazy when I told them tea belonged in the galactic market place! Do they learn the finer points of tea ceremonies?
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"They called me MAD! But I showed them..."
Depending on where the Husk serves, and whom it interacts with. Plenty of varieties of personalities and customs can arise.
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It's the ones that are a bit mad that get remembered.
Such a vibrant universe you provide for your many colorful characters and/or objects?
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Thanks!
*pours more ice cubes on the Husk*
It's working guys! Keep it up!
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Somehow I have to wonder how big a teapot you need for a combat drone this size... I love the idea of sentient vessels with quirks of their own.
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Oh, I imagine a regular sized pot of tea would do just fine. Those tentacles have sub-manipulators, that split off of the main branch, allowing fine control over things. We can't have tea that's too strong or sweet... that would just be wrong.
Yes, is one of my favorite little quirks I came up for the setting. Sometimes the vehicles end up being almost more human than the humans themselves, what with the wanton murder, genocide, rape, etc.
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It's a good thing that they have very fine manipulation it'd be a shame if they accidently cracked their favorite tea cup. Although the sight of four or five drones sitting around a table covered with silk doilies and nibbling n cucumber sandwiches as they take after noon tea is going to leave somme people scratching their heads.
I have several major NPCs in games I run, and a couple of long forgotten bits of writing, that are AI with serious "quirks" including an autonomous AI dreadnought that decided to go walkabout and discover himself....coming back later to start a band, as lead singer and songwriter. Of course, he can't make personal appearances, the fleet keeps trying to repo his shell.
another had a fondness for munching on packing peanuts, with ketchup. and the one I am using currently talks like a two-year-old on a sugar rush doped with caffeine never shutting up unless someone shoots at her..then OHHH boy it's on...she also talks about body parts like they were clothes..."Does this butt make me look fat?", or "Oh I have just the outfit to go with those legs"
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Ahahaha! That sounds like a hilarious campaign, and something of that sort wouldn't be quite out of the norm for the setting I'm establishing here.
Thanks for sharing, wbyrd.
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The humor makes up for the fact it is set at the beginning of a genocidal war between humans and a very old, very aggressive race...It gets very dark when entire species get bombed out of existence and the population of earth has been reduced to 2 billion by warfare on occasion...
I'd love to know more about your setting...feel free to message me.
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Nothing like a good genocide to start things off. I am partial to the nuclear holocaust option, myself.
Really, there is quite a bit of weird stuff going on in the Bright Future setting, only made worse by virutual universes, alternate dimensions, and time travel fuckery. I guess maybe the best place to start would be the timeline?
daemoria.deviantart.com/galler…
But the 'reference' folder is a good way to learn more about the technical aspects of the setting too. I'm constantly updating and refining the lore, so some stuff will change over time.
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well, there was something detonating Yellowstone, a pandemic or three of a virus not native to earth, then a few wars engineered by alien infiltrators, followed by a full-scale invasion led by genocidal religious maniacs. A short break then an AI uprising, followed by a second attempted invasion....when that was over the bad guys decided invasion were out of style, infiltrated ships into the Oort cloud and sent a few thousand big rocks at Earth... I kind of hit Earth with everything but the kitchen sink to motivate them to get ehe hell off the planet as fast as possible.
by the end of the 150-year sequence, Earth has a population of four billion and half of that isn't Terran-born or human...and at least one billion are Sentient Synthetics/robotics.
and after two hundred ears of off and on scuffles they discover an ancient entity with megalomania and penchant for genocide who kicks off "the Genocide War" yeah not a real original name but hey what else do you call it.
I have to say you have a very well worked out timeline, the Bright Future seems almost as dangerous, and convoluted as "Pax Bellum" only on a much larger scale. I do like the addition of virtual realities, and time fuckery, considering a good portion of Earth's population is synthetic I should look into developing that.
I would just be concerned for the safety of any ship from Pax Bellum that mistranslated into that particular quantum level.
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Not quite, I think. Those drones look like they're the size of a large bird in that game. This drone is actually around the size of a multi-role jet fighter.
Herpaderp. Sketchy WIP thing.
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Ookay sorry ! Then it's more like Drone-Apache...
Okay I'll just stop saying this.
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Heh, no problem. It's a little hard to judge scale on this image, without any context, that's really my fault.
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I bet Newton is not going to like this. 
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Shhssssh. No spoiling the fun! I want to knock his socks off. And watch them slide away with no regard to friction of inertia.
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Toouch it, nothing bad will happen. Probably. I actually don't know how that drive even works actually, it just lightly glows, and breaks all standard rules of physics.
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..........I'mah touch it.
!ZOT!........
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A ravening wolf indeed! It travels in packs and thinks for itself... and has a lovely Silka to come home to at night.
250kW/tanar is pretty good for a little thing like that... but how do you mitigate the discharge? I'd expect any Nitro/Hydro/Oxy atmosphere to ignite (at least locally) under that kind of assault (not to mention an ammonia/methane atmo). Does the HPVR have a physical projectile/ion stream component or is is pure energy? If it's got a material component, what's the 'muzzle velocity'... if it's pure energy, how does it fare against ablative carbon/plasma based thermal armors?
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Wolf pack fighting might be a good way to use these, but they're fairly analogous to current Reaper or Predator drones. You only typically need one to assault a ground target. For defensive missions though, sure you can use as many as you want... they'll be happy to fly around and protect you.
For igniting atmospheres,the problem is actually opposite to the weapons you listed. The DEW has multiple internal heat sinks that it discharges waste into. Once the heat sinks become thermally over saturated, you have no choice but to stop using your energy weapon, until you can discharge the heat safely. The HPVR is the weapon that typically has problems with turning skies into fireballs.
That specific HPVR fires a 20mm round, at near-luminal velocity. The projectile is protected by a thermal sheath to reduce its mass loss. As to how much foot-pounds of pain the round provides? Not sure on specifics, since I don't want to nail down its projectile velocity. The majority of its damage is from thermal expansion of what ever the target is, what's behind it, and behind that. They're very much a precision weapon, capable of defeating dense armor, taking out specific targets.
Its up-scaled cousin on the Silka is the one that fires massive rounds without regard for atmosphere immolation. Seen here firing on a Raeke-Ho class freighter, piercing its armor, any energy shielding it might have had, and igniting the atmosphere on-board.
One question remains though.
[]?Does Sirrah take his tea with milk, orren without[]
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Ah... mass driver, not ion stream or 'lasing' type weapon... so it's waste heat we're disposing of. Really difficult to stop that sort of thing once it gets moving... which is, of course, the point. I bet a over-saturated heat sink would make a hell of a flare... or incendiary weapon... there must be some way of ejecting the sinks, if only for 'emergencies'.
One drone for attacks, many for defense... sounds good to me.
Alas, poor Raeke-Ho... I wonder what it did to piss off the Silka, Horatio?
Oh, milk, of course!
And a bit of sugar, if you have it.
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[]?Wouldnee you rather have a cuppa tea instead[]
[].Attempting to steal me would make my mistresses and masters quite distraught indeed[]
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Heh, I can't stop you from being inspired Alexi. Keep in mind, I'm still working out the form of this, since it's purely 2d sketching at this point. I don't know how this specific design would work in 3d.
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Cool!
It looks like a perfect landing craft, with those legs and little wings!
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Earlier studies for this craft ->
Yea, the vehicle was actually designed around the legs as being one of the core elements. I wanted this to be very obvious how it interacts with planet surfaces. Legs definitely help. Also, the tentacles are good replacement for arms and hands, much more versatile than rigid mechanical devices.
I pictured the 'wings' as actually being some form of antenna structure, the amount of aerodynamic lift they provide would be minimal. And somewhat pointless, since this creature/vehicle doesn't even obey the laws of Physics anyway.
It's perfect for the wacky topsy turvey fun-times in Bright Future land. And any other setting that doesn't care overmuch about specific technologies, I suppose.
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The tentacles are a great touch!
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Tentacles are the very definition of "good touch".
Or am I getting that backwards, again?
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I always love your innovative shapes and I especially like your paint schemes.
In this case, the description is really intriguing too.
Very creative!
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[]?And what is yourren favorite type of tea Sirrah[]
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Thanks! My paint schemes are luckily already determined by past-me. That guy is so swell, always making color guides and design sheets.
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