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The Lunar War

@thelunarwar.bsky.social

A speculative scifi worldbuilding project exploring the ships, technologies and stories of the first large-scale space conflict. Brainchild of L5Resident

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The Lunar War@thelunarwar.bsky.social · 2y ago

One of the main drivers for the second space race's momentum from the 2030s onwards has been the steady replacement of surface power infrastructure with Solar Power Satellites, and among the many designs out there, the Monolith-class SPS is the most common on American orbits.

A frontal view of the mentionned Monolith-class solar power satellite. It looks like a large sheet of dark reflective material, with white lined criss-crossing it. Below the sheet, a jungle of orange trusses, and on the far-side of the panel, a large structure made up of a large rectangular angled reflector and a big round white array.
The Lunar War@thelunarwar.bsky.social · 2y ago

- The Golden Marbles - A million new stars between two worlds - The Cradle's lights, both old and new, ever growing, joined by the dawn of the Moon, and the silent dance of solar collectors.

A distant view of Earth and the Moon. Both show a crescent of lighting, coming from the Sun slightly out of the right side of the image. On the unlit side of Earth, the shapes of Africa and Asia are discernible, made visible by the millions of small dots of light illuminating the night. Both continents are a lot more sparkly, lit by a lot more lights than than they are nowadays. The Moon too features its own golden dots, though they're a lot more sparse, sparsely visible near the equator, and more dense around the poles. The attentive eye can also notice small the dots of light of Solar Power Satellites, in neatly arranged, perfectly spaced lines, curving in wide ellipses around both celestial bodies. A small legend at the bottom says "The Lunar War - The Golden Marbles - L5Resident - Theo Bouvier"
The Lunar War@thelunarwar.bsky.social · 2y ago

- Blue Sky - For most spacecraft of the Lunar War, venturing below GEO is pretty much suicide. The rare units that still operate that low are easy prey for high altitude ASAT launches...

Three USAF F-15EX and one NGAD fighter at very high altitude, the dark blue sky fading into black, the fighters thrusting almost directly up, and dropping AIM-161 1B Anti-satellite missiles, some of which are igniting their engines.