#spacescraft

[artsy-hobbitses]

How does the city speakers thing windblade and lightbright work in this au?

I honestly need to collate all the info bits I've put out before this, but basically, Cityspeakers are coders. Like, computer coders. A very specialised set of coders first pioneered in the Caminus outpost on Venus.

TLDR: This goes back to the Titans (Caminus, Antilla, Velocitron) basically being MASSIVE spacescrafts designed to be turned into interstellar outposts that serve a multitude of purposes for the countries (only large superpower countries OR a collective of countries, like is the case for Caminus, can afford to fund one of these--the costs are, pun intended, astronomical) that launch them, usually mining, but all are part of a larger galactic defense system to prevent another Quintesson-like invasion now that earth KNOWS life is out there, and it isn't always kind.

These spacecrafts are created/equipped with a central AI that helps with the colonisation efforts, whether by terraforming or performing something like the sabatier reaction (a loop of this is how Caminus runs/has a water supply) on a mass scale. They are also very deliberately designed in a way that makes them resemble, at times, literal titans ie. head (usually the administrative centre/where Cityspeakers do their work), body (often the residential sector), arms (sectors such as tech and farming), etc that form different divisions of the settlement and can be retracted if necessary for travel or security purposes.

Because the AI needed to perform these functions is so advanced, it has, to an extent, something resembling near-sentience and due to the massive library of information it retains so it can keep an ENTIRE CITY running, basic coding is not enough. Thus, Cityspeakers became a thing, where exceptional coders would be chosen to bond/link with a Titan and help with the coding for say, new districts, and also general maintenance/upkeep. Windblade and Lightbright used to share Cityspeaker duties for Caminus, roles that were passed on to proteges after Lightbright helmed Lodestar and Windblade began to divide her time between Earth and Venus as Earth's First Delegate. Antilla's Cityspeaker's died at the controls during the end of the Antillan War (timeline in first link below) and as a result, Antilla's coding became corrupted after it melded with his rage and grief, and that in turn twisted it into Unicron.

More information on the Titan Antilla can be found here, while the Titan Metroplex (A runaway titan which did not have an assigned Cityspeaker) is discussed here.

[quarkmaster]

Split Destroyers in the Clouds

Joshua Viers

[flipthecanvas]

A very merry space Christmas, space mercenary concept with a bit of Christmas added.🎄🎄🎄 . . . Digital painting done in #clipstudiopaintpro using a #huionkamvas13.🖍️💻 . . . #digitalart #digitalpainting #art #space #spaceconcept #conceptart #characterart #characterconcept #cyborg #furture #roboticarmart #christmasart #mercenary #spaceart #storyconcept #spaceship #spacescraft #contract #paintingmetal #femalecharacter #illustration #digitalillustration #spaceillustration (at Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJRdevKpLm4/?igshid=sew0nvmalfdp

[thebadtimewolf]

i should shut up

i can't talk about girl in the fireplace ep. i just can't. its literally just joan redfern: french edition. gorgeous scenery, lovely spacescraft, cool creatures but, madame de pompadour looked at the doctor and projected louis onto him - much to the obliviousness of the tenth doctor. what her failure in this regard is that the doctor - at the end of the day - will always think he is right and you are wrong and if you are right, then its impossible and or brilliant. A direct foil to King Louis who always thought he was wrong and relied on others based purely on shyness versus the doctor's outgoing. the doctor interjects while louis sits back. and because both reinette thought she was in the right - she failed to realize that the doctor wouldn't be like louis. louis would've stayed but, the doctor? in that year? with no tardis? surrounded by rich aristocrats that were doomed to be beheaded?

baby thats why he left gallifrey in the first place and they were worse!

reinette would've been abandoned before she could do any thing remotely romantic with him even if there was no way back for him.

he would be stuck but, that romance? would've been the same romance as jessica rabbit and marvin acme from who framed roger rabbit (aka literally playing the game patty cake), much to reinette's growing irritated frustration. even reinette had to kiss him (yeah he kissed back blah blah but this is twice for ten someone that wasn't rose herself kissing him and yes, a cassandra!possessed rose isnt rose. neither is a tardis!possessed rose kissing nine. i want genuine rosenine and roseten alienhuman kisses ya cowards!) and at that point of the season, if anything, only reinette would've shoved it into romance. ten showed time and time again that he is fine with not kissing (unless the impenting threat of a situation that requires it because he loves running his mouth more)

just like joan, reinette was never a contender. sad that she died, yes, sad that she left the letter we got to hear from dw: lockdown, yes. but if it had been beyond that? her traveling with him? in the show? girl wouldve been given the cold shoulder fast and swift. just like rose got mickey to catch on what they actually do when landing somewhere and dr runs off, it would be rose telling reinette what to really do to be a fellow seasoned dr travelling company.

by the time reinette would've gotten the hang of it with help, queen elizabeth i would've been had armies on her side with no help. just like in the 50th. thats the difference between being an historical advisor slash mistress who wouldve been treated just like how she saw those "little girls" (but in the doctor's case, she would've been dropped off in the middle of 2005 toys r' us christmas night and dipped for nearly 7 hours) and the most notable headstrong queen that (like heavily implied by everyone including ten himself) was able to not only get the doctor to consentually go all the way but, didn't demean other travellers thst were with him (travellers that were romantically in favor of him. also she journed missy's chat room and im just like! my oldest best friend-boyfriend versus the time lord king of england and scotland like she got bragging rights)

ten really said i'll fuck a royal conqueror before i even have one out our three quarters of a thought to even consider the possibility of fucking reinette. it took me to the point of marrying off my now-a-person hand to rose to even consider settling down with her when previous comics showed i would be more than happy to settle down with lucita marne (a witch), dr. grace holloway, and river song thrice (?) at a drop of a hat of my own alien volition.

like reinette? are you not embarrassed? ten saw reinette as a good 1600s 1700s flirt of a time and only flirting. like its second hand embarassment but worse because they really thought they were right. i think thats why ppl dont like reinette or rather how moffat writes dr x historical female figure romance.

chibnall did better on dr x historical female figure romance and still retained thasmin whereas moffat failed in this regard. he did get better with capaldi but only with 12 x river than etd ever did with rose x 9 x ten x tentoo (im saying we shouldve gotten tentoo earlier in torchwood and had episodes not just BOOM INSTANT ATTRACTION IMMEDIATELY JUST LIKE ROSE DID WITH JACK AND ADAM LIKE NO BIG DEAL SURELY THIS WONT GO WRONG AGAIN?? CROSS FUNGERS THAT HE DONT DIE LIKE THE OTHERS EHEHE 'does it need saying' FUCK YOU DOCTORROSE SHIPPERS????

we deserve better than time skips and montages if you're going build it up to a non possessed rose kiss and its not with the alien she had to be possessed by two different mind-killing entities to smooch? on the mouth? (yes i remembered nine's proud fatherly forehead kiss he gave rose) like cmon now. how you set up everybody else to be the monsterfucker but when it came down to it, she chose the human?

like. im immensely disappointed in reinette but, thats joan redfern in french so, we get what we got. but its ugh the only ones we know canonically chose and fucked the monster who is the dr while they were essentially the human in the scenario is queen elizabeth i. and river. nefertiti. the iconique matilda the painter and a king louis ii mistress unnamed. and cameca from the aztecs?? yeah. thats it really. maybe marilyn monroe. maybe cleopatra (though its implied by mickey and rose in school reunion that we were robbed of an strictly egypt adventure) and maybe... thinly veiled, charley and yaz?

yeah i can't talk about girl in the fireplace. i can't talk about stone rose because the bbc cut out a whole portion of the book in the audio that david read and im more upset over that.

[blippicrunk]

Interstellar Queen on Red Sky World by Angus McKie

Angus McKie is my favorite tronpunk era artist, for his renditions of spacecraft with a sense of gravitas and mass, and this particular spaceliner, here named the Interstellar Queen, is my favorite ship, and this is mt favorite of his many renditions of the Interstellar Queen.

This image wasn’t painted for the Terran Trade Authority series of books, but this and many other images of the Interstellar Queen appear in the series’ first book, Spacescraft: 2000 to 2100 AD, where it got its name.  This book has been mentioned already on Blippicrunk and is a milestone book of the 1970s wave British sci-fi artists.

Angus McKie’s image of the ship being fueled and prepped at a station also appears as the cover image of volume 16 of the 25-book anthology: Issac Asimov Presents the Great SF Classics, reprinting year-by-year the best sci-fi stories from 1939 through 1964.

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[spaceshipsgalore]

Durandal by Kailyze starship spacescraft spaceship alien landscape location environment architecture #spaceship – https://www.pinterest.com/pin/206321226659708807/

[quarkmaster]

Yo-Yo

FFIE YU

[quarkmaster]

Gateway: early concept art for the mmo

The Gateway mmo is based on the Gateway series of books by Fredrick Pohl and is currently in conjuntion being turned into a new Tv series by skybound

col price

[quarkmaster]

Starship Medusa

On a colonization mission to Eruza II

Dominique van Velsen

[quarkmaster]

2017 | Concept art | Book cover | Piers Platt

Geoffroy Thoorens

[quarkmaster]

The Vor Game

Book Jacket for Baen Books

Dave Seeley

[quarkmaster]

oblivious to oblivion

col price

[quarkmaster]

Explorer

Fan Gao