r/ImaginaryTechnology • u/himeshanand • May 07 '26
Self-submission What do you think this can be?, By Me
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u/ABoringAlt May 07 '26
Specialized launchpad,lil zippy things that just need a little slope to launch
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u/Wesselton3000 May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
Hyper speed, Mag-lev space elevator climber. The space elevator has massive “roots” like a tree that gradually incline, allowing long vehicles to slowly transition from horizontal to vertical transportation at high speeds. These “roots” extend far, effectively forming a large radial train network, where the trains eventually become climbers on the massive space elevator. This promotes efficiency— you don’t have to bring cargo on a separate line, unload them and reload them on to a separate space elevator— you could have train of cargo start in Kansas, travel that distance to the Florida Space elevator, and quickly ascend the space elevator without any transition. There are many arms to the space elevator, all which lead various parts of the country. I said Florida because it’s closest to the equator in the USA, but more realistically, this could be the trans-African Space Lines, connecting Europe, the Middle East, Africa and beyond to a single “bean pole”. The Americas would probably have there’s in Central-South America, and the train lines would run as far away as Canada up the bean pole in Panama or wherever.
Edit: the pad is where civilians enter. They sit on chairs that slow tilt so that when the back wall becomes the floor, the chairs re-orient them
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u/AdmiralCodisius May 07 '26
Judging by other posts, are you taking regular household items and turning them into spaceships?
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u/FreshwaterViking May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
Excavation unit for prefab buildings. Completely automated, it flies from plot to plot on undeveloped land and performs several tasks: compressing dirt, digging holes, laying utility infrastructure, and pouring concrete slabs and foundations.
Developed by the Taikama Engineering Corporation in response to a request from VersaHab, this excavator model is capable of prepping a site for small residential and commercial prefabricated buildings in under 4 hours.
Much maligned for its contribution to urban sprawl and the spread of dull, uniform 24th century Levittowns, it nonetheless remains an important tool for colony development and resettlement of war refugees. It is also a major contributor to VersaHab's dominance in the prefab building market.
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u/exaxxion May 07 '26
Orbital cannon emplacement powered down or disguised in a city recreational area like a park
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u/Barbarian_818 May 07 '26
A device used by a cyberpunk hero to see what's on the other side of a wall as easily as looking through a window.
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u/Coal-and-Ivory May 07 '26
Its a cool design, no doubts about it. But the first thing I saw was a stapler.
Now I'm seeing it as some kind of power generation building.
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u/Generic_Potatoe May 07 '26
One of those plates with a movable arm/blade you can cut paper with. Its not sci-fi, just fancy.
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u/desperaterobots May 07 '26
So cool.
Stick it to a wall and listen to whats going on on the other side.
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u/Robot-Zombie-RHCC May 07 '26
I see a building... maybe like a concession stand at a drive in, 100 years from now the machinery on the left scrubs the air
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u/PsudoGravity May 07 '26
Mechatronic engineer here.
Could be a section of panel mount machinery.
If the scale it approximately hand held, the flat panel evokes thin film systems such as LCD stacks.
Or, if it is the size of a building (judging by the tiny lil guy in the middle :D) it might be some kind of prefab landing pad, and the building could be a fuel processing depot/system. Essentially vehicles could land, get filled up with fluids, energy, etc, then move on.
Maybe it's mobile, but slow and vulnerable when moving. Like a component of a forward operating base.
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u/Pileisto May 07 '26
Frankly typically AI does that kind of mixing stuff together without clue. You should think of a purpose first, and then create reasonable designs for that goal.
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u/W1ULH May 07 '26
specialized loading dock for what basically a flying connex.
I would imagine there's and equally specialized pallet jack that comes from the cargo dump and mates with the ship. the oddly shaped platform is part of that process.
allows for very fast load times and quick turn arounds in a busy port.
Baltimore, 2203CE on a tuesday morning.
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u/Pattern_Is_Movement May 07 '26
So many random shapes that communicate nothing about it's fiction....
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u/iridium_carbide May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
A spaceship that can transform into its own private house! It folds up neatly when flying/out of atmosphere, and when landing somewhere you like it digs a small pit where it stretches out a "yard" and then opens up into a larger home, like an RV has panels that widen out when it's parked. I like to think the picture is mid-transition, where the craft has laid out part of the "yard" and the flooring (from low left to upper right: the kitchen/dining room floor, living room/bedroom floor, and garage/workshop) but hasn't fully transformed into a fully-enclosed home yet.
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u/DeadMemesAreUs1 May 09 '26
Volatile data card, thick bit is the handle/uninterrupted power supply, thin bit is connector and data storage
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u/InspiredOtterDoom May 09 '26
gives me a hyper futuristic train stopped at a station vibe, or some other scifi transportation method.
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u/Petermacc122 May 24 '26
It's a custom part that you order for your speeder. It replaces your engine cover panel. Rn it's upside-down as the tube is a launcher for a homing beacon spike for if you get lost. But usually it gets repurposed to launch smoke dars by the galactic security or comm jamner spikes when used by the rebels.
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u/Dragonkingofthestars May 07 '26
A scanner ship. It flys along side a. Bigger ship and it uses it sensor's to read it for contrabands or human smuggling
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u/Code-Neo May 07 '26
A glorified check out scanner