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MShadowy
Sep 30, 2013

dammit eyes don't work that way!



Fun Shoe
I've been enjoying this thread for a while, and was going back through now that it's back. I got a little inspired to imagine what early MOSA ships might look like, so here's an arbitratily selected side profile of our messy defenders, the DS-001:



Stern to the left side, bow to the right; I figured for such an early version of the tech the spinal railgun might need it's own dedicated heat-sinks. Roughly amidships would be radiation shield right ahead of the sorium fuel tanks and some exposed capacitor banks.

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MShadowy
Sep 30, 2013

dammit eyes don't work that way!



Fun Shoe
I was kinda specifically thinking of the Soyuz, with a bunch of liberties taken by emphasizing the truss and girder descriptions of the first survey ships, and just sorta generally deciding to try (for once) making a sorta semi-realistic design.

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