Visual Inspirations

Goodness, don’t get me started on EvE. Here’s a few that might port over:

Unstable wormhole in front of a nebula:

These next two might make a good Firedrake frigate:


A carrier:


Same carrier:

Freight hauler with all the external pods removed:

Noble’s pleasure skiff.

This one strikes me as being somewhat in the Cerberus class of ship.

Another beat-up smuggler/cargo hauler.

Mining/industrial:

Lovely bit of space station over an inhospitable moon:

I’d lean hard on the Hegemony using Caldari designs, maybe, but this might also make a good Firedrake frigate…


More of that same faction’s ship design:

or this:

Big ol’ warship:


Another hauler sort of thing.

Annoyingly, one of the coolest ship designs in the game, you can’t actually fly - it’s an NPC drone deployed by incredibly expensive ships that can’t really be deployed without a full fleet backing it up as escort. For me, though, it makes a really nice one or two-person fighter, though I could easily map it out to have a basic bunk, galley, and such for longer flights.

In case we need civilian passenger craft to hit…

And finally just a pile of pix I like:

Coming into a station badly in need of repair. MAN I miss the pvp in that game.

Think this is a dedicated mining ship in the game, but it sure looks cool. EvE is pretty.

This screenshot is named “I don’t know what you’re doing, but…”

Here’s a promising one, to kind of go with the second lego one I shared:

“A modified hull, originally manufactured - probably - in the Indri workshops. The ship was a bulky thing, hunched like a vulture, with a blunt nose and fat thrusters mounted high on her flanks. A stubby tail assembly, the hump of a gun emplacement, and wings that swept down and back. She looked as if she couldn’t decide whether she was a light cargo hauler or a heavy fighter, and so wouldn’t be much good as either. One wing had been recently repaired, and she needed scrubbing down.”

Rolling a crit on Helm/Resist:

And finally one of dozen different jump gate designs:

Some possible helpful/inspirational character imagery: https://www.pinterest.com/bhopson16/space-adventure/

This image is a bit less grim-gritty-space-will-kill-you …

A few more:

And a few more commercial:

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Filed under “Probably Not”:

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(That said, I will give Doyce a shiny nickel if he incorporates any of that imagery along the way.)

Having come to scum and villainy Via blades in the dark, it’s been very difficult not to picture all of this happening in a steampunk/Airship/Lady Blackbird setting.

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The Tom Swiftian Raygun Gothic aesthetic is the mass media representation of Procyon elsewhere in the Hegemony.

  • It’s how things were originally and the meme is persistent
  • The Hegemony enforces the perception through tax credits to show creators, to keep the populace happy and discredit critics
  • It’s a deliberate recruiting tactic to lure people to the sector, either to become corporate wage slaves or easy pickings for pirates and swindlers, thus allowing a law and order crackdown
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Here’s an idea … even comes with its own map!

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A lot of fun SF character concepts here: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/145522631689313825/

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While not purely visual, this is probably my favorite example of how I imagine folks in the Counting Guild operate. Or for a slightly less serious example from that same game…

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I normally don’t recommend people watching what I’d consider New Age woo, but to their credit, sometimes there’s some poetic nonsense and lovely visuals to be found, especially if you’re in a space future where there actually is a mystic force field. Example:

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From this thread: https://imgur.com/gallery/7xZzE7t

What a planet-side space truck might look like? Not every world is Earthlike.

Planetside cargo hauling.

The rebels made their camp inside, because everyone else was afraid to go in there.

We’re not sure if it’s a Way creature or not, but the bones showed signs of high-tech nanosurgery.

There’s no place like home.

We lost contact with this planet precisely 24 hours after delivering the new Terra-Gene product. When we came back, this is what we found.

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Those are awesome. Also, terrifying.

Retro science fiction art: https://imgur.com/gallery/SiJbF20

This looks like a Hegemony bigwig to me.

This is someone’s Muscle PC.

Other than that, there’s some neat “zebra-stripe” spaceships and other 70’s-era aesthetic.

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A video showing what happens when you piss off the locals.

Also some concept art for some ground-based vehicles.

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Links to a couple more retro scifi dumps on Imgur:

Margie liked this one for some reason:

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The Way (and its Creatures)

I don’t know anything about the game “Prey” aside from the very cool art:

A Stitch

A Mechanic

Muscle

A Speaker, perhaps …

Etc.

More character concepts …














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Alor, barkeep

alien-elephant-multilimb

Noting that multilimbed elephant alien needs a bit of work to not be very bad appropriation of the Hindu religion.