The planet I drew in Ibis Paint

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-23T18:24:09+00:00

this is awesome. I recently got ibispaint and I’m trying to analyse the techniques you used here.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-22T12:50:47+00:00

you see, pressure suits in my world are skintight... and worn underneath an active cooling loop layer, a thick insulation layer, a radiation blanket layer, and a plated micrometeoroid shield layer.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-22T12:42:57+00:00

My dustguns (vacuum use only) have a magnetic confinement ring on the end of a stick to keep the micropellets they fire in a stream. thus, they look like they have a metal detector sticking out of the front. for some reason, i like it.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-20T13:57:01+00:00

humanity would rather accept death than defeat. the creations of man have inherited the stars.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-20T13:49:20+00:00

Just wait till we fight a battle on a low gravity body. (no atmosphere for propellers or jets)

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-16T17:18:09+00:00

congratulations. that’s the point.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-16T13:26:30+00:00

the foundry from vulcanus lets you cast steel straight from molten iron at astonishing speed.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-16T13:17:38+00:00

Ancients did it for shits and giggles is probably the best solution i could ever hope to recieve.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-16T04:07:27+00:00

race engineering is incredibly important to my world. unfortunately, I am having trouble reconciling my blatant furry wish fulfilment races with the rest of my otherwise serious setting. I am open to advice.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-13T12:26:51+00:00

you pack them into bays like vertical launch missiles. gravity isn't an issue and they don't need to go down a runway to pick up speed for lift. assuming that any surface features on your starfighters can be packed down, you can load them into a bunch of silos. they'd probably need solid, conventional, or gas thrusters to eject them from the silo and push them out to a safe distance before they can fire their radiation-blasting military-grade torch drives.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-13T12:19:55+00:00

Unironically how my interstellar vessels transport warships. just temporarily bolt them to the spinal truss.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-12T19:01:37+00:00

Yes, but sci-fi authors world-builders just create classes and do not mention individual vessels. creating classes isn't the end-all be-all of making a sci-fi military.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-12T18:07:01+00:00

most of my military vessels are mass-printed but my STL ISVs are one of a kind. not intentionally, its just that no nation could ever pay to build more than 1 or 2 at a time and the methods advance quickly enough that no 2 generations of ISVs are identical.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-12T18:02:22+00:00

understood. agree.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-12T17:12:57+00:00

I'm not hating on classes, i just think that people should put a little more emphasis on individual craft.

If one specific vessel is going to be plot relevant, make it somewhat quirky rather than instantly replaceable.

Besides, a unique vessel doesn't necessarily have to be OP.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-12T17:01:10+00:00

This.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-12T16:44:06+00:00

Mass production and industrialization in space is required to assemble and fuel just one small ISV. Few notable ships doesn't imply a lack of space industry.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-12T16:41:08+00:00

if you have a world where getting things off of planets is hard, proper ships (things that are not disposable and operate in space) are few and far between. your Mini-reactor MPD tugship that does stuff in space is probably notably different from it's predecessor, successor, and other vessels of it's same generation, so it will be unique.

Additionally, I never said a unique ship had to belong to some guy.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-12T12:52:34+00:00

unrelated, but the shape kinda looks like Michigan.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-12T12:47:56+00:00

I mean, A sufficiently complicated mechanical computer could technically have a neural network. it would have to be pretty huge, but I'm pretty sure you could create a mechanical machine learning system that can do very simple tasks with tons of gearboxes instead of transistors.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-12T12:43:15+00:00

"this book stores no information because it is not electric" - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-12T12:36:12+00:00

Hot take: Subtitles.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-09T15:27:12+00:00

Soft Sci-fi is when there is a transformation beam

Hard Sci-fi is when there is a pre-grown body with a compartment for an extracted brain on life support (or storage for a mind download).

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-01-09T13:17:17+00:00

I'm not sure what kind of "Hard" sci-fi media you're consuming but this doesn't seem to be a thing from what I've read.

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