A fusion-powered fleet carrier and conventional NTR fast attack craft wrap up a plane change maneuver during a military exercise in a contested white dwarf system.
For this composition, I wanted to combine some of the things that I had learned over previous renders, along with some more custom textures. This time, the planet has a ring, there's different radiator materials for different heat sources, and more visually interesting fuel tanks.
To start with the fleet carrier, it uses a fusion propulsion system inspired by the NASA Discovery II study, which required a field of radiators along its spine. Its most notable features are its forward cargo bay, which houses smaller spacecraft like the fast attack craft in the foreground. Beyond that, it's largely my standard fare, just with improved detailing work.
Moving to the fast attack craft, it bears another image texture livery (again bonus points if you can guess what it's based on), with higher-temperature radiators on the bottom and larger, lower temperature radiators further up. While lightly armed, the fast attack craft still makes for an agile combatant, especially in lighter skirmishes and altercations, where the volume of projectiles is low enough for it to evade and intercept them.
In lore, the LP 728-14 system has a series of metal-rich planets (something that I cannot guarantee in real life) that neighboring polities are interested in for a series of megascale infrastructure projects. These ships are part of a coalition (though I never fleshed out the constituent polities) going against the Lambda Hydrae Consortium, a relatively influential major power.
And with this post, I have finally caught up to the initial wave of gallery posts, so expect completely new images from here on out!
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