The Roman Empire...In Space!

[Sushibones]

Great design! Looks easy to put together too!

[blueyeppoon]

Fantastic rocketman

[Maverick65]

Found this on your deviantart site had to come check it out. Great job Bryan. What a cool concept. Thanks for sharing.
Rick

[chrisstahl]

Is there any particular reason, why the design is so box-like? It looks a bit like a Bauhaus (I mean the famous design school) -design. When I read "Roman Empire in Space" I had imagined something more classy and less functional. In my Impression the Romans always liked beautiful things, I would expect them to have somewhat more ornamentation and aesthethics (which I'm not necessarily a fan of...), even in a realistic spaceship design.

Maybe I'm just too preoccupied with two other more-or-less versions of "Roman Empire in Space": The Romulan Empire in Star Trek and the Centauri Empire in Babylon 5 (The latter of which is a crossover of Roman Empire with the Austrian Danube-Empire)

[rocketmantan]

Originally Posted by chrisstahl

Is there any particular reason, why the design is so box-like? It looks a bit like a Bauhaus (I mean the famous design school) -design. When I read "Roman Empire in Space" I had imagined something more classy and less functional. In my Impression the Romans always liked beautiful things, I would expect them to have somewhat more ornamentation and aesthethics (which I'm not necessarily a fan of...), even in a realistic spaceship design.

Maybe I'm just too preoccupied with two other more-or-less versions of "Roman Empire in Space": The Romulan Empire in Star Trek and the Centauri Empire in Babylon 5 (The latter of which is a crossover of Roman Empire with the Austrian Danube-Empire)

I think it has to do really with my affinity towards the Bauhaus design philosophy, to be honest, so I'm pretty glad you noticed that! Choosing where to go with the design of the ship was certainly a hard decision, but I felt from the start that I would go towards a more functional design. I mean, if you look at the Triremes of the actual Roman navy, you'll see that the only flourish was with graphical decorations - e.g. the sails and the apotropaic eye, end even then those were used sparingly.

But yeah, I was certainly going for a 'form follows function' philosophy when I was designing the ship. While obviously it's not completely functional, I feel that adding a sort of real-world basis to the design lends a little more realism to the subject at hand.