#tiny spaceships

[spacecadet2k]

Romulan Spy ship on trumpism era Earth seeing possibilities …

San Simeon State Beach 2025

[spacecadet2k]

Mothership pickup 🛸

[shadesofmauve]

Alliance Normandy SR2 redesign: Deck 2

All of the decks are longer and skinnier than what we see in game. (This isn't a complaint; running through a long skinny map is tedious!). The command deck is a particular puzzle, because it doesn't need to be as long as it is, and we're supposed to believe it's much longer — extending all the way to the nose, which it can't do unless the deck curves down:

Aesthetically, I'd like the command deck to extend farther forward than I've drawn it. Practically, I can't think of a reason why it would.

CIC & cockpit

Spaceships fly by instrumentation; you can steer from anywhere, so there's no reason to hike an extra forty-four meters to the cockpit. There are also far more work stations shown in game than seem reasonable: 14 in the CIC and corridor to the cockpit. What are they all doing? When you take into account capable Virtual Intelligence systems (the Alliance didn't know about EDI, but would have designed for a VI) it's even sillier, so I drastically reduced the number of stations in the CIC, and removed them from the corridor entirely.

The corridor needs to stay to keep the feel of the space, so I used it for escape pod access. In the CIC itself, I kept the shape but oriented the workstations forward in case of inertial-buffer overloads*. There are two doors to the CIC, so the Officer of the Watch doesn't have a door directly at their back.

I also added a ready room, the office for the Officer of the Watch (accessible from the CIC), which also serves as a briefing room. In Sunset and Evening Star, this is where Shepard and First Office Nguyen have their morning meetings.

*Any system can overload. The trick with inertial overloads in fiction is convincing the reader that there's enough overload to feel without mashing everyone inside into paste, which is an astonishingly narrow window. It's an even narrower window if the human is sideways to the inertial force; we are very bad at surviving that.

The awkward middle

I stretched out the area forward of the elevator as much as I could. As well as the two new offices, there's a head for the CIC crew, another escape pod, and access to the secure areas aft. Moving that access here reduces traffic through the CIC.

(It's still a big waste of space).

Moving aft: from tactics to strategy

While the Captain commands the ship in the Combat Information Center, the Admiral leads the fleet from the War Room.

Turning starboard from the elevator, there's a security station (so Private Campbell can remain the most put-upon person in the Alliance Navy). Past that is the Admiral's office, which wasn't finished when the reapers attacked Earth.

The Alliance is actively trying to take a larger role in galactic affairs, so there are some concessions to other species. In addition to the conference room, there's a head with a stall big enough for a krogan, and a beverage station set up for both dextro and levo species. Please click to embiggen and admire my stupid little coffee mugs.

The war room is centered, in the most protected part of the ship. It keeps it's general layout, but with fewer stations (focused inward so staff can see the strat map holo display). Only one is usually manned. The Strategic Map is the grand-scale equivalent to the Tactical Modeler in the CIC. (The names are wishful thinking; in a real military both would be impenetrable acronyms).

The QEC is the same Mystery Communications Circle it is in the game, but only a quarter of the way around the War Room from the entry instead of on the opposite side.

Normandy SR2 redesign posts

Intro

Loft

Command

Crew

Engineering

Hangar

[mawsnclaws]

Day #1 of Voretober - Space

Stranded in the cosmos on your damaged ship, trying your hardest to fix it from the inside. You're terrified of what lies outside the ship. You realize there's nothing you CAN do..you're forced to go outside..

As you go to suit up, your ship's ai suggests that you don't go. You frantically tell them that you must, or you'll run out of air. You step into the chamber to change and suddenly the flooring panel slides from beneath you. You're pulled down..down..as you struggle frantically and helplessly.

Your ship's ai once again repeats their suggestion, a bit more commanding this time. You find yourself stuck in a small padded chamber..you cry out for them to release you. They explain that this is a ship function that was supposed to have been abandoned, but they feel that it's appropriate to use it now. You'll be totally fine here..lean back..close your eyes..they'll take care of the damage.

[narianders-gt-hell]

Back to posting art once a week let’s freaking go

[spacecadet2k]

I have this ship!

Photos from 2016

Paul Alexander

[docbe]

I have over 1000hrs in Rimworld but I don’t know if I’ve ever really talked about it here, BUT there’s a big update/DLC coming in like 2 days that I’m v excited for 8>

Any rimworld players around here? I need rimworld infodumping

[seriouslycalamitous]

STARFALL’S GETTING AN UPDATE SOON 🚨🚨🚨🚨

Guapoduo space au - my loss of hyperfixation could never make me abandon you probably

ANYWAY!! wrote 8.7k words that i now need to edit!! Will be posting it soon!!!

(I’m excited for this chapter because i get to ramp up the romance now)

[spacecadet2k]

I had one of these. Very similar if not the same pods as Zoids 🤓

Transfer Rings - Starriors (Tomy)

[spacecadet2k]

“Attention citizen; you are not authorized to set camp on these lands by order of the galactic senate. Disperse immediately or we will open fire.”

[choccorin]

found an alien on the street, took care of her, and named her plum :3

[short-circuit-the-great]

A Decepticon jumbo jet who can only fly if he combines with his tiny best friend has appeared.

For Smoke | Commissions/Tips

[blueberry-beanie]

cuteness overload or claus in miniature wonderland

[ittybluebell]

HA! you thought i was a normal human person, but actually i am 30 borrowers in a scarecrow! you fool!

[orcboxer]

bro WHAT is up with these creepy owl fuckers

[mythologicalthearter]

Strange dream part 2 (two)

I had a dream where we were in space (my crew- I can’t remember who was in my crew but I think deadpool was there) and for some reason we had rocket the racoon on our crew and tgotg came to rescue him (successful) then they went to their ship and we chased after it until it crashed and exploded. Scene cut to my house utility room and a long chubby white cat with small ears was in there and when it jumped onto my chest (probably to attack) when I went to pet it, it woke me up at 4:58 am.