Latest blog post: Redraw of chapter 1 is happening (2024-05-11)
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Don't mind this, just a copy of the spread to keep the correct page count...
When Iss became members of the Alliance, their cryonic technology (developed for the sleeper ships they sent to the system where they encountered Alliance), became a significant addition for long-range and long-term spaceship voyages, allowing to both drastically reduce the necessary amount of supplies for the travel and sustain high-G burns for extended periods of time while the crew is in hibernation and immune to the effects of heavy acceleration. The process of entering in the hibernation, though, is not pleasant and differs for every species, so it doesn't see widespread mundane use except for the courier vessels and some long-distance charter lanes.
Spider Forest collective continues it's application season!
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Nice work on this page!
I wonder what the upcoming proximity to Earth will do to Quantum's abilities to interact with Terran communication networks ...
"I PWN ALL TEH CATZ NAOW!!"
"... uh, Quantum? You do still keep our lunar orbit stable, right?"
"Don't fret, commander, your onboard AI asked me to take over the controls whenever the ship's out of the Moon's radio shadow. My name is ChatGPT and ... [sudden static]"
Both the big ship and the 20 shuttles owe a lot visually to Babylon 5.
The spread looks great!
I like the shuttle attached to the small cuiser. Is it the same as the one that was shot down over earth? Does it have any defences now?
It's the same model, Dawn has 20 of them onboard (well, 19, now).
Beautiful page. Love the ship design.
I'm not sure if Zane considered this, but there's a lot of people on Earth who look towards the Lunar moon and unless he keeps on the dark side of it and deploys a smaller relay, I doubt their existence will go unnoticed by the general Earth public.
The (light) cruiser will a 266-meters-long object orbiting a 3470-kilometers-diameter moon, I don't think that anyone'll notice it with the naked eye (provided that the Raharrs finally think of turning their position lights off ).
Then, you can choose a low orbit to zip along the atmosphere-free surface faster (anyone have the free-fall speed of the lowest possible orbit around the Moon handy?), pick a time (new moon) when astro enthusiasts can hardly see anything on the surface, anyway, or even pick a polar orbit (and expend some fuel to rotate your orbital plane in sync with Moon's orbit around Earth) so as to never be positioned "over" the surface of the Moon WRT to Earthbound observers at all.