I thought it was a gun at first

Me too :V

Yeah, it's a little ambiguous at first glance

Technically it still is

It's a Gunship.

Geddit? GEDDIT?

That's usually how ship designs work anyway :p

Is it? A sleek profile for military vessels to not have important bits be easy targets while allowing room for weapon emplacements, sure, and other types of ships are shaped for whatever purpose they need. If they never need to enter atmosphere, they don't need to be aerodynamic either, so they can have all sorts of dumb shit sticking out at weird angles. But with this concept specifically, I think it's because it literally looks like it has a shoulder stock and trigger guard lol.

Honestly it's the same principle Bungie used for every ship in the Halo games, and before them James Cameron did it for the Sulaco in Aliens. Nothing says business like a giant ship that visibly resembles a gun and/or is visibly build around a giant ass gun.

i love it.

also love that these ships all nest in each other

Very interesting design. Love the nesting design, as well as the way you incorporate the Alcubierre Drive, using an actual ring rather than an unconventional nacelle or “fully integrated” design.

I'd be insanely leery about having the bridge and CIC separate (and indeed even having it in a location that can be discerned.) I'd expect that, instead, the bridge/CIC would be deeply buried and well-protected, while a specialized heavy strike craft and may be parasite-docked to the upper hull, with said parasite craft carrying something on the order of, oh, a boarding / assault shuttle. Assuming the use of quantum entanglement communication, you can thus maintain detailed control and communications, allowing for the parasite vessel to perform long-baseline interferometric telescopy, DRASTICALLY increasing their passive sensor ranges. The parasite craft would likely count as part of an embarked task force, and commanded by a 1st Lt. or Lt. Cmdr.

Oh, and on a side note...

YEET!!!

Eh, it can always have its own bridge internally, the three units all need to be able to operate independently anyway :p

Aye, true, true. Don't mind me critiquing, I just tend to be a sci-fi nut. Also, if I do critique, it's because I REALLY adore the stuff you've got going here.

Oh not at all, I appreciate the critique :)

I kind of adore geeking out in ideas and concepts, especially anything resembling hard sci-fi. ^_^

Kinda looks like a gun.

Nice ship, has some flair of water based ships while still looking made for space. And does look well designed, not just cuz pretty, but from space faring usefulness standpoint. Would command such a thing with pleasure o7
And the detachable command part reminds me a bit of the Caterpillar I have in star citizen, versatility is always good.

To quote the astronaut guy from the LEGO Movie: "SPACESHIP!!"

I love the concept of multiple ships in one.

Looks neat, i wonder if i could recreate that in Avorion, though it would be hard to do that engine type in the game since circles are not quite Avorion's thing x3

Actually shares a lot of design aspects of the federation Galaxy-class although none of its aesthetics. That ship had a fairly large craft called the Captain's Yacht that shared part of its external profile with docking bay exposed after launch (It was located center underneath the saucer section) And that ship as well could separate into two major craft with each one having its own bridge, though one contained virtually all the armaments and the warp core and was headed to danger while the other section pretty much needed to retreat and keep the civilian/scientific crew safe.

Its bad I'm wondering if this would be build-able in Space Engineers :P

"You see, if we make the ship look like a gun, then the enemy would be like 'look out, they're gonna shoot us !' and then we win !"

I like it its a really nice ship tho i would say it fits well into the Frigate role by its looks any way's.

also with a bit of tweeking it would make a neat looking rifle too.

I honestly thought this ship was a gun [like some other folks] and read "Hivemind" as meaning THIS IS A GUN THAT CHANGES SHAPE BASED ON THE USERS THOUGHTS, THE hivemind WEAPON WITH THE USER AS THE "QUEEN"

So, necessity is the mother of invention when it comes to naval design. This ship is clearly not an explorer or a trailblazer, but the product of a people who have decided to weaponize. That doesn't happen without a foe, a threat or a danger, lessons of the past learned from. I'm curious what history led to the making of this ship, is it one-of-a-kind or is it typical of a fleet? The features should reflect the imperatives of the designer.

I imagine, given it's a FerTech product, that every ship in the battle fleet is experimental. They're very aggressive about things like that. :p

This is a lovely. I applaud your prose.

Ooo very nice.

Looks like a flying gun. I like it.

Hang on! Those are ships? I thought they were weapons XDDD

I'd be interested to see this done up in 3d!
Though who/what would it be fighting? o3o

It already got done up in 3D, it's the ship in the last part of the latest Space Vixen episode ;)

Oh yeah! Nicely done! :D

I really do love the design of this ship, especially the feature which allows to separate it's bridge. Loved seeing it in the actual comic as well I think you did an amazing job!

Thanks :3