RRoan's Stuff

[RRoan]

First off: I'm not good with thread names.

Second, I figured I'd post what I'm currently working on. Warning, it's an enormous picture, in terms of both file size and dimensions.

It's a gun*. A big one. The scale is 4pixels/meter. Obviously, it's nowhere near done. Feedback would be nice.

*If anyone's interested, I can provide a more detailed explanation of it and its purpose.

[RRoan]

Nobody likes it?

[svobomil]

Seems to be good so far. Keep working.

[RRoan]

Fairly major update.
Work continues...

[svobomil]

It´s coming along.

[RRoan]

Update! It now has some RCS thrusters (there are also some at the bottom, not just the ones at the top).

Linky.

[Jimi James]

That's pretty cool. It has a very realistic, like this is actually something that we might build kind of look to it. And the level of detail in the pic is cool to. Nice.

[bbzwbbzw]

Wow that's big (you have no many idea how many women have said that to me over the years (rimshot)), what is the backstory? Your eye for detail is extraordinary.

[RRoan]

Originally Posted by bbzwbbzw

What is the backstory?

It's your standard outer-system rebels story. Except the rebels are out around Eris, so it takes a few years for your overgunned-spaceship-of-doom to even get near them. Oh yeah, they've got a big-ass minefield full of Bomb-Pumped X-ray Lasers, so when you do get out there you have two options. A, you try to get close and get blown into your constituent atoms. B, you sit outside their range and glare at them ineffectually. Oh, and they keep chucking these hilariously over-fortified comets at the inner solar system, so you have to do something. Of course, that damned minefield again limits your options.

The first thing you can do is just accept the losses it would take you to get through the minefield. Since they can pump out mines faster than you can pump out ships, this doesn't really work. Sure, you've got all the resources of the inner solar-system behind you, so you would eventually win. Eventually.

The second thing you could attempt to do is sneak in undetected. Since you can't hide in space (for far too many reasons to list here), you'd just get blown up. Lovely.

The third thing you can do is attack them so fast the defenses don't have time to blow you out of the... well, I'm not sure what they'd be blowing you out of, but they would. Anyways, the only way to do this means you have to make a relativistic weapon, so by the time they see it coming the projectile is nearly upon them...

Originally Posted by bbzwbbzw

Your eye for detail is extraordinary.

Several years of practice tends to do that for ya. A lot of that detail actually has a purpose, too.

[RRoan]

Finally got Paint back and decided to work on something other than the giant space gun. Namely, a modern-day battleship.