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Cloud Skimmer - Immolation Rider
In the future, space travel is ubiquitous. These ships run upon an economy based upon Helium-3. He-3 is concentrated in the outer layer of stars and in gas giants. The preferred method for collecting He-3 is to build a large cloud mining platform in orbit of a large gas giant as a permanent industrial node. This allows for a stable and efficient mechanism to collect large quantities of He-3. On the downside, cloud platforms require a significant industrial investment and a relatively sophisticated level of industrial maturity.
For systems that do not yet have the industrial maturity or the economic resources to invest in a large platform the next best option is a purpose built set of ships called Cloud Skimmers. These ships make fast low passes through the upper atmosphere of gas giants to collect and process He-3. The lower these ships pass through the gas giant the higher the density of He-3 available. But the lower a ship goes the more resistance, turbulence, and heat is encountered. So there is a balance between getting the He-3 quickly and risk of not returning. The pdf should be available soon in the scifi area of the downloads section, or you can get it here as well:Model Plans It is something I cooked up out of my own head after reading some novels that described the scenario. |
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file has been approved
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Awesome model, David!
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Cool design!
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Very nice! It reminds me of a futuristic concept plane from the late 1990s. Thank you for the templates!
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pretty cool idea and model. add to my to do pile
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I'm trying to figure out what to do next. I have a sketch of a futuristic Nasa ship or maybe the IXS Enterprise... I'm not sure which way to jump next.
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HMM my i make a suggestion? i would love to see what you could do with it with your skills i know it would be magnificent.
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I think I've settled on a nice ~1/100 sized IXS Enterprise as the next design. (That makes the rings 40cm in diameter IIRC.) |
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