Makes me to have one like this really bad. *hums and will have to remember this pic*

Makes you want to have one what like this? Picture? Print? Spaceship? Pet dragon? Nerdy girl in a belly shirt hitchhiking at night?

Actually a part 2 to this pic. So yeah.. all of the above.

Did you pack your towel?

RULE #42!

Yeah, I've had moments like this.

So have I. if only we could just pack a duffelbag and hitch our way off this planet to someplace better...

Hell yeah.

Scrounge: *perks a brow* Heheheh.... >:3

I'd pick her up... of cousre knowing what i'd do to a spaceship if I had my own, not sure if she'd WANT me to pick her up.

Still wonderful though.

I'm curious now... what would you do with a spaceship of your own? There's a lot of possibilities...

and thank you.

Some of Greg Panovich's pics come to mind...

I remember Greg Panovich! I always liked his stuff. Does he have a page here?

Yeah, couldn't find anything I rememebred though...like the old pic of the floating drone thing with the different dildos/vibrators, that's the pic that came to mind XD

I would start by segmenting off the powerplant, depending on what it may be. Calculating the minimum operational power for emergencies and giving it a computer routine to take one dedicated plant. From there I would have at least two more generators which I would further segment off into some form of standardized unit measure, those units could then be optimized around the ship as I saw fit creating a Dynamic power system and allowing for the rest of my modifications to work.

After that I would concentrate on the superstructure, using a combination of salvaged hull plates from bigger heavier ships to use for outer plates, most likely creating a redundant secondary shell both to hold secondary equipment that would be built into the ship and making a redundant buffer once shields fail.

Likewise the main weaponry would most likely consist of a salvaged capital ship weapon routed into the bottom and a series of lighter weapons on automated turrets flanking key points to provide a light blanket of cover fire should it be needed. These would be matched with a set of salvaged ship enignes arrayed around so that in space they can act as a maneuvering system, relying less on a set of 'rear' mounted vectored engines and more on multi-directional kinetic energy.

Accommodations would be scarce with most of the internal structure dedicated to tirtiary bracing for the superstructure, Cargo space, a workshop/'play room', gally and a single bedroom.

Really the whole thing would probably look like a giant rough angular polygon made of patchwork metal with wires, engines and gun batteries hanging out all over the place at seemingly random angles. Function over form every time!

you should have been in our old Traveller RPG campaign...you would have fit right in! A lot of the players had the same kind of mindset when it came to spacecraft, only they might have added a few laboratories and subcraft...

But the girl and minidrag would probably still take the ride. You can't be choosy when you're hitching!

Even when the ship in question looks like its held together by spot welds and string?

Still any RPG that uses starship combat, or better yet lets you MAKE ships is great in my book. I know a few poeple working on such a project in fact, and I really wanna try something more expansive than Starwars D20 ships.

Chewing Gum and Baling Wire, m'dear. Even in the twenty fourth and a half century, these are still the improvisational engineering materials of champions.

yes they are, but when you don't chew gum and can't afford bailing wire, yet still feel you can do better than glue and string and staples, Spot welds and string all the way.

This looks like the beginning of a long and beautiful story. I like!

That's the kind of pics I like drawing best, the ones that seem to have been plucked out of an ongoing story...

and thanks!

Actually... I hope you don't mind if I wax rhapsodic here a bit. I haven't written anything worth a rat's derrière in a while.

The battered sedan pulled up with a squeal of brakes, and the window rolled down. The figure in the car popped her head out, glancing the hitchhiker up and down a few times, before rereading the sign.

"Anywhere?"

"That's the idea." She nodded, and the dragon on her shoulder chirruped happily.

"Even... oh..." She racked her brain, thinking of the worst place she could - sans Hel, of course. "...the Trandis IV research station?"

"I've got a heavy-duty parka in the bag, and I spent two years in the Yukon." The hitchhiker didn't seem flustered in the least, still smiling that weary, but confident smile she had. Her eyes were calm, her entire demeanor collected.

"Touche. Well, luckily for you, I'm not headed that way..." She reached over, flipping the latch on her door. "I'm going to Sirius II. Ferry class, of course - got a cabin waiting for me. Long as you don't mind taking the upper bunk, I don't mind if you hitch along."

"Oh, thank GODS!" She dashed around the car, hopping in, slamming it behind her. A chuckle, and the sedan moved along the road towards the spaceport once more. Five minutes of conversation were filled with meaningless nothing about the hitchhiker's wait for someone to slow down, and the fact that the weather was generally quite nice out on the cape this week, before she finally brought up the one thing she was nervous about.

"You know, I'm surprised. You didn't ask if I was on drugs, or if I was running from something, or anything. Most hitchhikers-"

"You want to get off this rock, right?"

"Yeah."

"Well, so do I. And I'm not going to ask questions if you don't." A trace of something alien, something frantic, had seeped into the other woman's voice.

The ride to the ship's boarding ramp was made in relative quiet.

That's pretty good actually. Don't be afraid to keep going. = )

Love this one. What is that in the bag.. is that an electronic thumb? or is that the Guide? Excellent.

Thanks. and it could well be both in that bag, plus who knows what else...

Well, I'm making a cargo run out to the Colonies. I can take you as far as Liemann's World, if you don't mind sharing space with a crate of self-balancing widgets.