The Sol system's Nicholl-Dyson beam being fired at full power. The reason for which remains unknown
Relativistic bombardment of an earthlike exoplanet. Each projectile travels at nearlight speeds, releasing more energy than its equivalent weight of antimatter on impact with the atmosphere.
A "light burial". A tradition inspired by the Viking funerals of history, but practiced only by a select few in the solar system.
A relativistic kill vehicle hitting a star, following a period of acceleration by a distant Dyson swarm
First Martian cylinder launch as seen from ground telescopes, August 12, 1894
The Blue Moon Human Landing System, moments before touchdown on the lunar surface
codylabs on Tumblr pointed out that the other designs were spinning around the intermediate axis and would end up twisting themselves, especially with anything docked to the hub en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_... This is an attempt to fix that with 3 ICPSs as counterweights #lego #spacestation #space
"Echopraxia" by Peter Watts had a similar paternoster setup in the gargantuan Crown Of Thorns spacecraft, though it won't help as much with cargo. Here's a version at 1.5rpm using an elevator for movement, and a spent SLS-EUS as counterweight #lego #space #spacestation
A simple (-ish) station for testing the health effects of partial gravity, and a later expansion #lego #space #spacecraft #spacestation #spingrav
Commission for @zinzrinz.bsky.social of a Quasistar, a hypothetical early-universe star-like object powered by a central black hole instead of a fusion core. #Quasistar #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Cosmology #Space #SpaceArt #SciArt #BlackHole #Art #Commission
WIP #2 of a new design idea for Lisse, featuring a 64m diameter laser focusing mirror array. Her dark hull provides stealth when moving into position and the large radiator panels can operate at up to 4000 Kelvin to dissipate the enormous heat produced while firing.
Having exhausted its aether supply, the TIAMAT Strategic Corpsemachine "Corsica Witch" stands locked in place following a sortie with a Moravec-grade Godmachine, awaiting TIAMAT extraction
Sarita P, well-known influencer on the Jovian internet famous for her travel vlogs to rarely-visited places, records her most dangerous vlog yet; setting foot on Jupiter's moon Io. Down here the radiation kills in mere hours, constraining Sarita's time on the surface to only a few short minutes.
Tryna give FF's "generic" assets a common design language suggesting even the combat vehicles aren't made for proper warfare (soft edges, exposed fragile-looking greebles). Figure they're all from the same manufacturer, either some alt-history spin on an existing defense company or just made up.
Some technical details as well as a comparison with it's UGDF equivalent, the Star Forge (2/2)
Emergency maintenance. Every once in a while an unfortunate series of events leads to the necessity for a launch engineer to perform repairs outside while in flight.
