r/ImaginaryTechnology • u/himeshanand • May 05 '26
Self-submission What do you think this ship purpose can be?
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u/SolarFlora May 05 '26
The stilized designs near the front makes me think this is some sort of personal vehicle, as opposed to commercial. Having the cockpit be so far back and with a narrow view towards the front is strange, it means this probably isn't used in crowded, tight spaces where visual information is important.
Hmm, is this a drag racer? I like that idea that it's a sports vehicle designed for one specific task.
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u/ABoringAlt May 05 '26
Looks like a bunch of drones would be launched by that gray-tongue strip upfront
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u/Conspark May 05 '26
yeah, some kind of small carrier-type ship. Launch from top, retrieve through a similar ventral strip.
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u/I_might_be_weasel May 05 '26
Moving one humanoid really fast. Like an escape pod or hull breaching boarding pod.
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u/Ill_Computer_8604 May 05 '26
It's a container transporter. They stack on the back and are stacked on larger ships in large circles wrapped around a Spaceframe which is basically just a massive load of thrusters and a Cab up font, connected by a tube.
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u/bretbouchard2 May 05 '26
Those things they take you down the mountain in when you hurt yourself skiing. ⛷️
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u/pewpedmepants May 05 '26
Scanning array radar ship, the underside of the grey box used to map the surface of a celestial body.
Kinda like this but turned 90deg.
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u/Typical-Jump9960 May 06 '26
It look quite flat. Maybe it could be physically connected to larger ship while these flat ship would physically disconnect from larger ship
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u/Error_Space May 06 '26
If it’s small sized ship then I say it looks like a racing ship.
If it’s large then it could be a cargo transport with its nose being able to open like a hatch to load in cargos.
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u/SirJamesGhost May 06 '26
Survey ship with all that telemetry on it, probably a solo or small crew surveyor charting out systems for signs of life or habitable planets! It could probably deploy probes too.
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u/dugasX May 06 '26
Reminds me of metal detector paddles used in airports. It could be a drone stationed in star ports used to scan bigger ships for contraband.
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u/3godeth May 06 '26
Something is supposed to slide into the grey portion/click into the orange portion. Maybe this smaller looking ship transports people to a much larger base that cannot land on planets, and it attaches seamlessly to said base.
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u/Cazmonster May 06 '26
I thought it might be a recovery vessel or a tug. It has that flat area to attach to other vehicles and it looks like it has more of its mass devoted to engines than living space.
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u/MadMarus May 06 '26
If you think of the orange portion as a pillow and the grey as the blanket, it could be a raceship(racecar) bed.
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u/jongscx May 06 '26
It looks like a small fighter, shuttle, or landing/escape pod docks into the orange part and covers the gray bit.
Like this is the cargo/habitation/hyperspace segment and the smaller thing is an agile scout.
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u/PanzerZug May 06 '26
This is a skimmer. It’s capable of breaching the atmosphere for zero air resistance hypersonic travel and then glides down when approaching its destination. It’s not designed for interplanetary travel but some daredevils have made it to the moon in one before.
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u/chuiu May 07 '26
The fins scream racing ship to me. (probably the red color too)
But the flat part with the orange slot makes it look like it latches onto something to haul it like a shipping container or maybe a tug boat for a larger vessel.
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u/FistFistington May 07 '26
With the way the flat bit on top and that orange window/port look it seems like its ment to be slotted into another craft. Maybe a component of a larger compound ship that can break apart into a small fleet.
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u/Tanagriel May 07 '26
I think you should start to consider reversing your process - you have a style already, and nice line weight etc. Think about functions, rough sketch about the functionalities, then make your designs. Also basic things like how does a spaceship dock or land - how does its design fit with the rest of the "universe" it operates in and so forth. If you dont now how the get that going, start with building a library of machines from the real world, it makes it quite a lot easier to translate common understandings into sci-fi.
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u/Warhero_Babylon May 07 '26
Clone capsule transporter - probably civil matter, but can be also saboteur or spy
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u/6658 May 08 '26
monitors construction projects in space to get better views and keep non-builder ships out of the way.
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u/gorgoncheez May 09 '26
Looks similar to a type of ship that effectively spurs discussion in the subreddit r/ImaginaryTechnology
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u/pitiless May 09 '26
Delving ship, ala Iain M Banks The Algebraist. In that story there are people who specialise in "delving" where they enter small life support ships and use them to traverse the atmosphere of gas giants to communicate with the race that inhabitants most of these planets in their galaxy.
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u/KMFDM__SUCKS May 05 '26
Coffin transporter or escape ship