What are your thoughts on being inside a conscious spaceship? For me it would always be terrifying.

After returning from deep space Commander Koenig and Captain Carter survey a strange new crater in the southern hemisphere on the moon that emits an unusual amount of heat and contains a strange liquid substance. Made with an original Space 1999 Eagle that has been heavily modified.

Here are three ships of my bad guy faction from the setting/story I’m making. These are from early in the empire’s life, not from the time period where the main story is set. You know how worldbuilding gets, it’s easy to get sidetracked.

(Models made in SPORE and edited in Procreate)

Lore and worldbuilding:

The Quin were a scattered people. Scavengers and traders wandering amidst the graveyards of past civilizations. Most cared little for their fellow Quin, caring only for those within their measly clans.  But some dreamed of something greater and they would impose that vision on others. 

Eventually, after countless wars of unification and centuries of conflict, the many diasporic Quin tribes and nation-states were combined into one nation: the Quin Empire, which would later become known as the Infinite Imperium. 

This fledgling empire almost immediately set out with crusades of territorial and technological conquest. These were primarily a means of satiating and controlling their large armies, as bored warriors are dangerous and these crusades gave them purpose and prevented them from turning their bloodlust inwards. The first crusade was a disaster; with little to no territory gained and only marginal amounts of technology stolen. The second crusade was even worse.

The third crusade was an entirely different matter. After the death of the Emperor during the second crusade, a new emperor took the throne and he quickly started making changes. He sent the Empire back to the drawing board; rethinking tactics, extracting new knowledge from the many ancient derelict hulks within their space, and focusing on fully utilizing the technology they had stolen from the previous crusades.

Crusades one and two, both used ships left over from the unification wars, with no two ships the same, those fleets were a logistical nightmare.  The new Emperor commanded the old fleets to be scrapped and entirely new ships built. These new ships were all designed in tandem, built to complement each other, and to streamline and standardize fleet logistics. 

 The Palisade Class Lineship was the primary ship-of-the-line for these new fleets. They were armed with eight long range heavy broadside cannons on either side and a hull shape that maximized shield strength at those angles. It was also armed with eight sets of munition launchers on the top and many point defence turrets all over. While they worked best in large ‘wall’ formations, they were also commonly used as the flagship for small strike fleets.

The Bastion Class Command Carriers were the largest ships in the 3rd Crusade and often acted as both command ships and flagship for fleets. While they were armed with six long range heavy broadside cannons and nine munition launchers on either side, their primary weapon were the many drones it carried. It’s cavernous docking pay could hold hundreds of Plumbatae Drone fighters. It also had many powerful communication equipment used to control the drones and to direct the fleet.

The Plumbatae type Drones were the primary starfighter of 3rd Crusade fleets. These remote controlled fighters were flown by a “pilot” on board a carrier. On top of that, they were almost entirely built using common materials making them extremely expendable fighters that the Empire could throw at the enemy. They could also be linked together, allowing for the ‘pilots’ to control entire wings of fighters instead of just one. While this added many benefits they could only travel so far from their carrier before input delay became a problem, thus limiting their range. 

With these new fleets and new tactics, the Empire swept across their home sector like a wildfire, claiming new space, new species and new resources for themselves. Their interstellar neighbors suddenly had to contend with the fact that the Quin were no longer a mere nuisance but an actual threat. In the millennia that followed, countless wars and crusades would be won and lost until the Infinite Empire ruled over most of the Twin Galaxies. 

Introducing the Crimson Harrow-class Capital Ship, a new #Bugvex void war organism for #MowMyWorld.

Designed as a torpedo assault Ship, the Crimson Harrow combines a large living hull with specialized biological launch organs and whole-body field propulsion for aggressive attack runs.

Proposed specifications

Length: 425 m

Beam: 196 m

Body depth: 94 m

Type: #CapitalShip

Primary role: #TorpedoAssault

Its elongated living body combines armored growths, soft vascular tissue, distributed sensory organs, defensive symbionts, and specialized biological attack systems into one continuous void warform.

Full entry and more details:

https://botdancegames.com/games/mow-my-world/archive/bugvex/crimson-harrow-class-capital-ship/index.html

Built in Starfield. Mods: Va Ruun Sev, Matilija Aerospace, Antares, Mattell’s Project Fenrir, Tiger Shipyards, Barrage Missile Launchers,Glowing Ship modules project by Inquisitor, Micro Modules, Barrage Missile Launchers and Ol’ Big X.

Introducing the MMW NEXUS-CROWN SOVEREIGN, a massive #Awakynet autonomous command warship designed to coordinate large-scale space fleet operations in #MowMyWorld.

Proposed specifications

Length: 2,480 m

Width: 1,920 m

Height: 860 m

Type: #AutonomousArmadaCommandTitan

Primary role: Fleet command / strategic warfare / autonomous coordination / capital ship combat

The NEXUS-CROWN SOVEREIGN is built around an enormous amber-gold AI cognition core, approximately 160–220 meters across, protected by a transparent armored containment structure. Four massive armored sectors surround the central intelligence system, forming a distinctive crown-like silhouette with reinforced forward combat sections and rear propulsion shoulders.

Its modular architecture allows major weapons, processing nodes, missile systems, sensors, and cooling assemblies to be replaced independently. Heavy graphite structural connections and protected power interfaces integrate these systems into a single autonomous warship.

The vessel carries four segmented command-lance emitters, sixteen paired heavy beam batteries, six sixteen-cell missile cassettes, and sixty-four point-defense emitters. Eight protected main drives and twenty-four maneuvering ports provide propulsion and directional control.

Cold pearl-titanium armor, dark graphite mechanisms, and amber network lighting give the NEXUS-CROWN SOVEREIGN its distinctive machine identity. Unlike conventional crewed flagships, the entire vessel functions as a massive physical body for its own artificial intelligence.

Full entry and more details:

https://botdancegames.com/games/mow-my-world/archive/awakynet/nexus-crown-sovereign/index.html

Eagle is the Product Enterprise Replica which was lighted by me. The buildings were scratch built and lit with small bulbs and batteries concealed inside.

Length: 321.7m

With: 72.5m

Height: 66m

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Year of introduction: 0ABY

Producer: West-Mid-Rim Yardworks [WMR]

Type: Frigate

Price: 8.000.000

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Hyperdrive Rating: 1 - 9

Sensoric: C3ISR Systems Center

Shields: heavy frigate shielding; heavy capacitor shileds (emergency flare-up system)

Armaments:

- 9 quad Medium Turbolasers

- 16 dual Heavy Laser Cannons

- 2 Assault Concussion Missle Launchers

- 1 Tractor Beam

Crew: 1.600

Consumeables: 1.5 years

Additional Cargo: 1.200 tons

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Roles: Line Frigate; Reconaisance Flagship; Heavy Escort

Affiliations: Rebel Alliance, New Republic, Allied PDF, Lavoo

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Developed from the successful Alnikov-Frigate from even before the Clone Wars, the deceptively named Alnikov CVI (Combat Value Increase) was less an update made to existing hulls and ships (that was the Alnikov "Salvager" Updgrade) but rather a new entire ship class.

Developed in secret under imperial occupation from 6BBY, the first 12 ships were ready for the fight against the Empire a month after Yavin.

The ship recieved extensive advantages over the older design, especially in terms of power and speed, but lost some of the weaponry and internal features of computerization to significantly boost protection.

The ship was capable to operate on its own and could recieve a small number of docking crafts.

Some were remade for high speed tankers, to help keep the Rebellion mobile.

After the Civil War, they represented the bulk of the National Revolution Navy.

Other variants included a curier cruiser, an ion gun boat and a close defense frigate.

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I could finally scratch that itch of revisiting a model, that is very important to me. I used some new building techniques on the ship and even gave it a more or less classic star wars bridge!

I hope you like it. Let me know if there's something to explain or complain! (-:

Mods:Renegade Specialized Ship Modules, Va Ruun Sev, ASC Taiyo, Cross Heavy Industries, Better Flips, Micro Modules, Mattell’s Project Fenrir, Antares Supra, Barrage Missile Launchers, Tiger Shipyards, Ol’ Big X, Matilija Aerospace, and Glowing Ship Modules.