Commissar Tarkin
@commissar-tarkin.bsky.social
37|M| Aspiring scriptwriter, worldbuilder and general nuisance. Our comic: https://crimsonstars.org
crimsonstars.org is back online, if anyone cared. Do I, as a systems engineer, hate living in an era when shitty AI models look for exploits everywhere 24/7/365? Yes. I do.
- Crimson Stars
A Vampire Space Opera. Join Brigadier Takara and her motley crew of subordinates from the 170th Mechanized Brigade as they navigate the perilous labyrinth of supply issues, interservice rivalry and ot...
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PHPocalypse still ongoing, will post when it's over.
Had to take the website down for a bit, since it runs on PHP and the hosting provider hasn't updated the available versions yet. Will be back as soon as that happens.
Glossary truly is the champion of silly lounging. As is pretty much every other cat that can lie on its back. #catsofbluesky #cats #glossary
Goddammit Wikipedia, why did the example for the chart had to look like that
Tiffany, in November@tiffanyturrill.bsky.social · 3w agoevery photo of red sprites is so sci fi horror, wow
Apparently, there's a meme going around on bluesky, demanding to post vampires that aren't Dracula. So I'm using it as an excuse to post Susie again: #vampire #art #crimsonstars
30. Homage My last contribution is an homage to the one and only @pushfreight.bsky.social and battlecones. Not sure if it's even a Crimson Stars design, but maybe I can think of where to put it. It's essentially an oversized reactor and four heavy lasers. #spaceshiptember #SST #SST26 #3d #blender
27. Guns! An older model of an Alliance cruiser that I spruced up a bit. It goes all in on kinetic weapons: two turret-mounted twin heavy naval railguns on the ring, three light ones on the main hull, 17 point defense turrets, the works. #spaceshiptember #SST #SST26 #crimsonstars #3d #blender
25. Missiles! The LRM-SP-11 is the Alliance's newest shield penetrator missile. This expensive warhead can generate its own power field, thus disrupting the target's defenses for a moment, enough to release submunitions into the breach. #spaceshiptember #SST #SST26 #crimsonstars #3d #blender
22. Huge The 'Amaranth' is a jump-capable space habitat almost a millennium old. Millions of people, including some of the Alliance's best scientists, live onboard. Security is tight, and residence permits are issued very sparsely. #spaceshiptember #SST #SST26 #crimsonstars #3d #blender
21. Organic Despite looking like it, this is not a flowerpot stuck in an asteroid. The Ancients tried to grow Dyson trees, and some results still survive. Atmosphere in the "garden" is retained by a field projected from the rim of the pot. #spaceshiptember #SST #SST26 #crimsonstars #3d #blender
19. Armored The Linebreaker is the League's assault ship, designed to quickly close with the enemy, protected by its armored shell, and then let loose with short-range plasma cannons and missiles when it's passing through their formation. #spaceshiptember #SST #SST26 #crimsonstars #3d #blender
17. Variant The Stiletto is an up-gunned version of the Dagger: small craft hangar replaced with a particle cannon, number of gun blisters increased, casemate turret attached. The already overtaxed reactor did not appreciate this development. #spaceshiptember #SST #SST26 #crimsonstars #3d #blender
Today is my birthday, so I'm depressed and doing fuck all. Shiptember posting will resume tomorrow.
Some people are so smug about their cynical acceptance of AI as "something we can't change anyway, so we can only adapt", that it pisses me off. Like, as a separate thing, not even related to 'AI' pissing me off.
16. Green The relic destroyer 'Cetonia Elegans', formerly of the Auric Kingdom's famous Cetonia Squadron, is now a notorious pirate ship, usually preying on shipping in the outer reaches of the Jeweler's Run star systems. #spaceshiptember #SST #SST26 #crimsonstars #3d #blender
15. Luxurious This unimaginative design, an unholy offspring of a vibrator, a submarine and a Cadillac automobile, is the 'Dura Navis', a relic space yacht belonging to the Margrave of planet Xanadu, a neutral porto franco of sorts. #SST #spaceshiptember #SST26 #crimsonstars #3d #blender
Way behind schedule, but not giving up. 14. Asymmetry The Acinonyx is a Customs Patrol version of an Alliance destroyer with less armament, more autonomy and two gigs for inspection. The living quarters' counterweight houses a sensor array. #spaceshiptember #SST #SST26 #crimsonstars #3d #blender
13. Carrier The Cervid K-77 serves as the mainstay bulk orbital lander of the Three Stars Alliance. Not designed for combat drops, the K-77 sports four articulated engines and has most of its midsection occupied by fuel tanks. #spaceshiptember #SST #SST26 #crimsonstars #3d #blender
12. Slender/thin The Prosaic Angel, a heavy cruiser of the Auric Kingdom. Flagship of the Duchy of Lacerta during their brief independence and war with the Alliance. Still at large. Not exactly slender, but it's thin! Just not from the side... #spaceshiptember #SST #SST26 #crimsonstars #3d #blender
11. Dropship Finally caught up with the date! This is a Canid-class dropship, capable of carrying a platoon of infantry, or two armored vehicles from high orbit onto the surface. High speed, low life expectancy. Lots of unflattering nicknames. #spaceshiptember #SST #SST26 #3d #blender #crimsonstars
10. Creative Freedom The product of pre-Collapse space exploration programs, the Enquirer scout vessel was converted en masse into the Dagger-class frigate. Thousands were made before GalCom was overthrown by vampires, hundreds still survive. #spaceshiptember #SST #SST26 #3d #blender #crimsonstars
9. Space Station A fairly run-off-the-mill Three Stars Alliance waystation, which can have up to 12 capital ships docked simultaneously. The habitation ring has rotational gravity. Kubrick probably did it better... #spaceshiptember #SST #SST26 #3d #blender #crimsonstars
8. Red The 'Carmine Queen' was the flagship for one of the most notorious vampire warlords of yore, Gabriela Claudia Oxtas. Merely a cruiser, this ship could easily go toe-to-toe with a dreadnought. Its current whereabouts are unknown. #spaceshiptember #SST #SST26 #crimsonstars #3d #blender
7. Mining It took way too long to make it relative to how plain it looks. A crew of three is packed into a tiny command section, but it has it all: lasers to cut rocks, harpoons to tow them, manipulators to pick them up. No FTL drive though. #SST #spaceshiptember #SST26 #crimsonstars #3d #blender
