Hard Sci Fi - Blog Posts

Working on more excavation equipment, this time the prototype for the molten iron thrower - made from a repurposed Nuclear Thermal Rocket torch with pipe-fed iron particulate for maximum heat transfer toward whatever this thing is pointed at ! Lots and lots of radiators and payload storage for the purposes of not melting down when this heats up way more than any reasonably engineered device should ! They also happen to look hella cool

Seeing something I made be put in a game I enjoy is an immensely cool feeling :) Presenting the Obonto Construction Platform 209 ! A decommissioned work ship entering the second-hand market in the rings of Saturn, with a huge side-loaded cargo bay, 2 heavy hardpoint mounts, and a cool rotating habitat section Ship model is mine, backgrounds by Koder of Kodera software. HUD by both

I’ve been playing a bunch of DeltaV: Rings Of Saturn lately and it’s gotten me into a very intense hard sci-fi mood! So I tried to follow the game’s visual language (and roughly stuck to realism) to make this beast! The THIILSRRRF (Titan Heavy Industries Inter-Lunar Search, Rescue, Refuel and Repair Foundry) - if you get stranded in deep space, one of those is what would come and rescue you (...if you can be found) Has all the nice features like: - 4 heavy manipulator arms for holding the ship in place, complete with fuel hoses for attachment by EVA mechanics - A heavy manipulator arm and a laser cutter on linear rails, for... detaching unneeded ballast - A docking bay with a dedicated fuel fuselage and emergency fissile fuel in case of fixing a reactor failure - Propellant tanks heavier than your mum, and encased in a resilient frame that doubles as a faraday cage, just in case - A guiding rail for ships to easily dock, complete with electromagnetic launch systems for undocking without fuel burn - A robust sensor array for locating distress signals over vast distances Tried my best to make it look like a technical drawing :) Thank u for reading!! I hope you never need to call for one of those