As you might guess from the fact that this thing is floating in space, here’s another spaceship.

Now, you might think this is just another spaceship, but it’s not.
I mean, it’s obviously a spaceship, just not any spaceship.

It’s a beginning, a prelude, a precursor, a vanguard. Good or bad, it’s the first of a long series of concepts. Hopefully. (Is a group of 1 things already a series? You know, I tend to drop projects at the sight of the first shiny new thing. I’d like to think that I’ve done a series of things for a personal project).

 

 

Anyway. As I said in my last post, I would like to make an attempt at designing a Sci-Fi setting without using common Sci-Fi stereotypes. I might fail miserably – I don’t know yet where I’m going to with this – but who cares.

So, with the help of the usual friend I put together some guidelines for a storyline that should be supporting my next series of concepts.

I considered to share here the bunch of notes I wrote down, then I thought they are a bit too messy to make it an interesting read, so I came up with another plan.

One thing I LOVED of the books I read when I was a kid (Around The World in 80 Days, 20000 Leagues Under The Sea and such) were the illustrations you got every chapter or so, with a quote from the page the illustration was depicting.

I mean things like this of course.

I thought that writing a small background story after the images, as if they were part of a consistent body of work, will be slightly more interesting for whoever is going to follow this and, MOST IMPORTANTLY, more fun for me.

Furthermore, this way I can reveal the setting little by little, and also (ah, the joys of non-commitment) I will have the freedom to change my mind about the story halfway though, without nobody noticing.

Back to my spaceship, the idea of writing a proper background came after I did this, (actually it occurred to me like 20 seconds ago) so I can give you nothing at the moment. Nothing!

To be honest, in this particular case I didn’t even give much thought to the design, so let’s take this as a concept that is part of the project but actually isn’t.

Does it make sense?

The only really peculiarity lies in the design, as well as perhaps that there seem to be Solar Sails instead of thrusters.

This will indeed be quite an important part of the project. I’ll expand on this in the future, I promise.

by Paolo Puggioni

2 Responses

1. maffa says:

   August 7, 2013 at 22:16

   solar sails were a concept also on Battletech universe

   you may want check BN novels, along with drop ships, jump ships and lagrangian points

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   • Paolo Puggioni says:

     September 15, 2013 at 16:26

     Lol I knew I couldn’t have been original:)
     I’ll look into it, thanks!

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