Rejoice, ye people, for my horrendously ugly diagram of the Marlinspike-class MAV is no more, Winchell Chung of Atomic Rockets having made a much better one, which he is kindly letting me use here, too.
So, since I’ve just described the nature of boarding actions, I might as well go ahead and describe the ship used to carry them out when necessary, the Marlinspike-class MAV. And yes, this does mean that it’s horrible diagram time again. …or rather not, because Winchell Chung of
From: Capt. Idris Mariseth, Flight Administrator To: Lt. Loric Kantinomeiros, Tactical (Security) Suboperations Subject: Proposals for future exercises Your proposal of 5/13, for inclusion in exercise designated ROARING EDGEWINDS, has been rejected for the following reasons: 1. Ancyran units are not trained in microgravity operations and space safety. 2.
The classical image of the aircraft carrier remains that set by the Third, Fourth, and even Fifth Oceanic Dominances - from the flush-deck carriers common at the start of the Third, to the V-deckers that dominated its ending, the Fourth, and into the Fifth, the romance of the flattop continues
I'm still getting my next piece to gel, while being dogged by garage roofs and uncooperative kernel builds, but in the meantime, have some art. It's not perfect yet and will require a little artistic working-over to clean up the lines of the depicted prowler, but
Just been making some adjustments to the Imperial Military Service Table of Ranks today (specifically, adjusting the enlisted ranks to correct some seniorities and fix the missing E-9 grade), so here's the current version, screenshotted from my internal wiki for your convenience: For those playing the game at
I saw this picture today, via an Astral Codex Ten post on distinguishing human art from AI art, but that is not the context in which I reference it: Instead, I merely point out that it would be an accurate representation of what the Royal Alatian (later Imperial) Navy would
LANCET-CLASS FEL BORE Operated by: * Blue-Green Ecociates, ICC * Atalant Materials, ICC Type: Orbital Bore, Free-Electron Laser Construction: Starflight Shipyards, Seléne Length: 1.2 km Beam (primary hull): 72 m Beam (storage rings): 324 m Gravity-well capable: No. Atmosphere-capable: No. Personnel: 18 Drives: Nucleodyne Thrust Applications 4x1 "Sunheart VI"
Seedships Heirs to the massive sublight colony ships pioneered by Kasjan Lyris and the Deep Star program, the modern colonial seedship is as difficult to characterize individually as its predecessors. While the Deep Star ships were differentiated by the rapid progress and therefore updates to the design - sometimes even
There is, in short, competence and competence. The Accord on the Law of Free Space is rather generously written, to cover all our polities at whatever stage of progress they may be and however much investment in training they can afford. The Imperial Navigation Act is rather more tightly written,
The most distinctive feature of any frameslip drive is its ring. Unlike the simple vector-control core which can be tucked safely within the parent ship – the microtides accompanying too-close exposure to a vector-control core have been responsible for little more than a great deal of nausea among engineer apts – the