Space Ship Engineering Game

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[i][b]Lynx-C[/b][/i]
A combat version of the Lynx with nuclear missiles.

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>>405215
Lynx Monx is a ship created to accompany the ordinary Lynx ship. Lynx Monx replaced the cargo bay with a mechanical arm. The mechanical arm can be used to construct spaceborne equipment.

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>>405320
Lymonx is a modyfication of Lynx Monx. It was created due to sending a construction into space every single time is very expensive. So, Lynx Monx ships were used to construct spaceborne Lymonxes. These new ship cannot land, thus they can only operate in space. Wings were removed and small exhausts were added to perform intricate moneouvers.

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The Lobster has two arms instead of one and gets rid of the internal bay the arm was previously stored in.

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And the Lander is a version which swaps out the arms for legs so it can land on the Moon.

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The Lancer is a militarized version of the Lymonx with a spinal mounted smooth-bore cannon.

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>>405357
Nuceomonx is a modified Lymonx, whose hand has been moved out from the compartment is was stored in. The internal compartment now contains a miniature nuclear reactor. This mobile nuclear reactor can now power the International Space Station and can also power the other ship near it, by sticking its arm into them.

When the reactor is about to blow, it can just take a trajectory towards empty space and get as far as possible before detonating.

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The Lion. A larger version of the Lynx using the Nuceomonx's reactor and maneuvering jets. It can carry more cargo and passengers and support larger equipment.

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>>405215
SYNX

Due to the increasing accesibility of space, and as result increasing space tourism, a new ground to space vehicle is designed to carry more people at a time.

>>405934
You didn't change the title in the picture.

Also, wouldn't Sphinx be better?

>>405953
yea, I forgot to change the title in the pic
and, yea, Sphinx would have been better, but alas it is already Synx.

But nothing stops Synx progeny from being Sphinx.

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Lancer R, three times faster than the normal lancer.

These are some elaborate butt plugs

>>406032
Blame the OP for giving us a but plug with wings as a starting shape.

We need new hull types.

>>406060
If you want different hull shapes, modify an existing design's hull shape, anon.

As I said, evolve the designs, one small change at a time.

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>>405934
An improved version of the SYNX with a better name , more engines, and greater capacity.

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>>406009
Lancer D, additional jets for mobility

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>>405215
Maine Coon; an illegally copied variant of the lynx. Attempts to reverse engineer it using lower quality machine tooling were compounded further by converting the metric measurements to standard/ imperial.

While the Lynx manufacturers initially considered leagal action, the overweight and under-powered Maine Coon offered no real threat to their business and was often just purchased by those too poor to afford a proper lynx, or those seeking outsized cargo capacity.

Frequently Maine Coon owners will outfit their ships with components from salvaged Lynx derivatives in an attempt to "hot rod" their ride.

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>>409770
After a year of catastrophic altitude loss incidents (re:crash) the Main Coons were recalled for a one time retrofit. It seemed the larger capacity for cargo, weaker engines, and smaller wings, with a less aerodynamic body apparently...was not so good.

Thankfully, a surplus of old military atmospheric transports had wings to spare, with an acceptable rate of estimated failure. With the refit done, new Main Coons were rolling out with old Delta Six wings. The tooling for D6 wings was also obtained legally, despite all reports contrary. Besides. Its an obsolete design.

No longer will a lack of lift be cause of crash for the elegant maine coon.

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>>405600
a dramatic modification of the Lion relocated the cockpit into a dorsal hump mounted on the top of the space craft. this allowed for a more lightweight craft and reduced manufacturing costs for the type. It should be noted, Lion2s can still fit a standard crew module to increase crew space, but should never attempt to fit an aftermarket part like a Maine Coon cockpit.

The front end normally serves as a cargo loading ramp now.

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>>408139
the Sphynx 2 is actually a recapitalization effort of battle salvaged Lancer Rs By podding the engines and attaching the fuselage, extra passenger and fuel space was gained. The military engines are less fuel efficient, louder, lighter and more powerful than the stock units. This results in a net zero, after factoring in the extra fuel gained, and additional revenue generated by extra passengers.

>>405532
>>405400
Looking at the Lobster and Nuceomonx, with both being utility ships, it was reasonable to foresee the creation of the Scorpion.

Many Nuceomonx were upgraded to scorpions due to the simple attachment of the grappler modules. However very few lobsters were upgraded due to the prohibitively expensive reactor.

Crew workload is higher in these vessels. To date the Scorpion is just an upgrade kit, and does not come as new build ships.

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>>405532
>>405400
The scorpion is an upgrade for the Nuceomonx, utilizing Lobster grappler modules. Crew workload is increased, but utility is also dramatically increased. A lobster cannot upgrade into a scorpion due to the complex internal differences resulting from the nuclear reactor and cost inefficiencies.

>>405215
Lynx-D was a military technology test bed. The only major difference of this one off prototype is the removal of the crew compartment and its replacement with an AI/ remote control and instrumentation module. Allegedly it also contained a small yield nuclear device in the event of control loss.

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>>410021

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OP here. (I may have a different ID, since my ISP uses dynamic IP's.)

Now, a new technology has been developed.

EMDRIVE

It is a propellant-less drive. It doesn't have to be placed on the back of the ship to function. It can be placed anywhere in the ship - literally anywhere. You can place it in the middle of the ship with no part of it portruding out and it can still produce force.

However, it still has a problem aswell. It produces a lot of excess heat. That excess heat must be removed somehow. So, the drive itself can be anywhere in ship, but there must be some kind of radiator fins on the hull.

Pic related is EmDrive. This drive moves towards the wider end.

This engine can take off from Earth and reach moon in 2 hours. Going from Earth to Mars now takes 4 weeks with that engine.

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>>409211
The Lunger is a refined production model of the Lancer-D with the extra engine pods placed more sensibly.

It has replaced the lancer as earth's primary space fighter, but the custom red paint job used by the prototypes has been replaced with a boring stock grey paint scheme. Booo.

>>410438
>EM drive.

Why.jpg?

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The Ion, kitbashed from a Lion 2 and a Nuceomonx, using the new engines. It is designed for deep space exploration and has lots of room for upgrades.

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>>405215
A prototype was made from modified Lynx as a proof of concept. It turned out good enough to replace the current Lynx vechicles.

A large EmDrive was added to the front of the ship. Two smaller EmDrives were added to the wings to provide means for self adjustments. Also heat radiators were added to the back of the ship due to increased heat production.

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>>409916
>>409886
>>410438
In the wake of the new drive technology there were casualties and successes in the world of industry and travel. The small transports just could not compete with the large now that fuel economy was no matter.

In an interesting turn of events, as the manufacturers of the Lion were about to buy out Sphinx Co, a reverse hostile takeover occurred, with Sphinx transfering some of their ship tooling to the Lion assembly line. The Massive cluster of three engines were removed for the EM drive, while the ship retains two rockets and a modest supply of liquid fuel for atmospheric flight, and to act as a heatsink in conjunction with the massive wings.

An enormous amount of surplus liquid fuel engines, and sphinx crew modules further drive down cost for the behemoth of the skies.

The Future is looking good.

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The rock lobster is an Ion with the Lobster's manipulator arms added. It is intended for asteroid exploration and mining.

>>410025
>>409985
The Scorpion's were an easy mark, being again retrofitted by scrapping the modular crew compartment and outfitting them with a drone core. As a fully automated ship, their increased initial cost was offset by decreased operational costs. Still the barrier to entry was too steep for many smaller outfits. The final nail in the Scorpion 2's coffin was the EM drive, which vented heat directly into the skin and frame of the craft, allowing it to operate in rapid bursts between moderate cool down times.

It would continue to see use throughout the years due to its robust design, but only among the wealthier corps. Serial production was never achieved, and the Scorpion 2 is built on truly old frames of heavily modified scorpion 1s and Nuceomonx. In a twist, this would give rise to the lobster as a cheaper alternative.

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>>411905
>>411899
<hivemind>

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>>409838
A dark horse, or cat in this case, came out of the EM revolution. The Main Coon was a bottom tier ship that had an overnight success story. By simplifiying the construction of the Main Coon with a monolithic non modular frame, production costs were slashed and assembly was streamlined. Original owners complained about the lack of interoperability with Lynx and Lynx successor variant parts, but they were a minority in a sea of new owners.

the new model is cheaper, lighter, and uses a novel thermo jet/ rocket which takes advantage of the EM drive waste heat to not only propel it in atmosphere, but also to propel it ahead of the competition in terms of raw speed in its class.

Sporty wing tip paint is optional. Speed has never been so affordable.

<MCI dismisses all rumors of substandard materials, construction, and bribery involving safety inspection and minimum margins of failure>

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>>406009
>>405277
>>410025
Rancor Dynamics was a new kid on the block, and also a user of somewhat dated designs, but what they did with them was in the vein of MCI and the Main Coon.

By taking obsolete Lunger hulls, and stripping them of all crew, life support, and safety equipment Rancor was able to create the automated berserker drone. Half hyper maneuverable fighter that can pull G's so hard it would liquefy a human pilot, and half tactical nuclear missile.

Heat management is achieved by dumping waste heat into the thermal beams, which will frequently melt each weapon after only a few shots, which is usually all the drone needs to get within range for its self destruct. Under transit and normal operations it will periodically fire a beam between long cool downs.

The lunger's nuclear reactor fuel is highly enriched and encapsulated in an explosive sleeve guaranteed to create a variable (inconsistent) nuclear explosion.

For those who are willing to risk it, the Bersker can also be used as a temporary power source.

>>410438
Can I take parts of other ships to make a new ship? Let's say the back of the Rock Lobster with the body of the Lambda?

>>412176
That's what people have been doing.

>>412010
>Dumping waste heat into an offensive weapon.
>Neuclear reactors double as nuclear weapons.

Fuck science!,

Then again we are already using fucking EM drives so whatever.

>>412176
Although I should point out, that the Rock lobster already has an EM drive, so all you would be doing would be reducing the crew accommodation and radiator capacity to give it an over-sized engine.

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>>410714
MAMBDA

With the success of the new engine one entepreneur wanted to make spaceships that are affordable to the common person.

To achieve this, he designed the hull to be more easily assemblable from easier to make materials. He based his hull production on flat metal sheets that can be welded together as desired in space.

Let it be known that the introduction of the EM drive killed this quest.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/EmDrive

>>422458
not OP, but I am going to restart this quest.

>>426203
Please do.

Remember many evolution quests have more than one starter shape, (We could have a capsule, station, and a spaceplane) because that's better than waiting for the base form to diverge.

Also, space opera technology is all fine, but nothing stupid like EM drives. Stick with something reasonable like chemical/ion/fusion/gravity.

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>>426316
>space opera technology is fine
>except this space opera technology

>>426714
There is a difference between space opera technology and a hoax.

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>>426949
what a fucking faggot you are, i bet you play kerbal aswell

what a fucking hypocricy, toxic scepticism and fedoraism. if it was named some sort of warp drive or any other normie tier faggotry, you would have been fine and suspension of belief would have been without question. Oh, but name it something that is currently nor confirmed and nor dismissed, and you jump on the armchair intellectualism hate train. This shows what a fucking tool you are. If you actually knew your shit about EMDrive you would know that NASA is actually researching that thing. The Warp engine dude in NASA has even commented that this engine DOES produce some sort of force that they cannot still explain. They are still trying to eliminate environmental factors that might give the false impression of thrust to make it absolutely sure, thus no offical stance has been given from their part yet.

you probably comment "ayyy lmao" on anything concerning extraterrestrial life aswell

And before you start the fedora sceptic characteristic "hurr durr EmDrive fanboy" charade I will also tell the following. I don't give a single shit about that engine. For all I care it could turn out to be bullshit. I just wanted to bring this thread an interesting spin on concentional sci garbage. I thought that having a drive that is good for interplanetary travel and can be placed anywhere on the ship, with a downside where that drive produces insane amounts of excess heat would present some interesting "evolutionary botteneck" to design around before entering interstellar travel. But instead, you little shitter decided to ruin it with your pseudo intellectualism fedora tipping. Stay to pleb tier Sci Fy and try not to have any opinions about anything in the future.

Yes, I am buttblasted as fuck by people like you.

>>427337
Hey different anon here, I would like to state I agree with you. Though I hope that something comes from the EM experiments.

The only reason I wish to speak with you is because I don't like you implying that KSP players would be such huge faggots. If you are implying that he is implying he "knows" about tech in regards to space through it fair enough then.


Kind regards, from anon, Scotland.

>>427337
It's also really dumb looking and introducing a reactonless drive right away is stupid.