Although it came of a bygone era, the Chasiv Yar class has clinged to life. Many of these short-ranged Monitor-type destroyers where build during the 40's- and now, 60 years later, just as many still serve. To say this class is unpopular with crews is an understatement. The ship lacks modern inertia dampening system, making almost ever combat manouver unbearable ( including firing the main weapon ). Due to it's very heavy and highly dense armarment, space inside the ship is a luxury. Most decks are not high enough to stand upright. The ship has no bunks or crew spaces, as it was originally intended to serve as space station monitor; the crew was not supposed to spend much time in the ship. The ship remains popular in the navy- Despite being only ~150m long, it's armament rivals that of Martian and Sirian light cruisers.

I'm planning to showcase my space adventurers vehicle here too, but not sure if they can be called spaceships or not :-)

Now, don't get me wrong, I LOVE sci-fi, I love the idea of spaceships, I live for it. Sure the ships look great, and I get that's the point, but they just don't work. By that I mean, there is no way these ships should fly. they usually pack massive thrusters on the back, but have little to no thrusters on the front or sides. This is space - there is no air resistance to slow you down.

Take the Star Wars Venator class. Any star was ship will do, but the Venator is the one I'm using for this. It has massive engines on the back, but little to no thrust on any other sides, at least not that we see. It should have an equal amount of thrust backwards as it does forwards, but there is no indication in comes anywhere near that. While these may be used for hyperdrive, a ship of that size would still need considerable thrust, especially given that we see Venators and Star Destroyers hover over cities.

In that same line, if we were to look at space engineers vessels, such as the IMDC Hyperion class or my own EOD Kuiper Class, the majority of thrusters are in thruster pods or nacelles on the sides of the ship, with jump drives (the SE version of a warpdrive/hyperdrive) buried deep inside it.

Images:

IMDC Hyperion Class vessel, built ingame and uploaded by High Ground: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3339742848

EOD Kuiper Class: Built by me, minor inspiration from youtuber Captain Jack and several Halo ships:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3337849531

I have an idea for a space ship/fleet that I think would be cool but I want the design to be "realistic" and I simply don't know enough about space ship design to do it justice. So I thought I'd pop a post down here and if anyone feels inspired to doodle something be my guest, or if you wanna collaborate on a design together filling in the gaps with me that would also be rad.

Here's the concept:

• Built in space for space. Not designed to launch from or land on planets.
• Perhaps there are other emergency vessels that are capable of landing on planets safely and and leaving again should there be a sudden need to do so.
• Used by people who live in space and have done for generations, so the ships have evolved with the needs of the population.

-Would they have given up on bothering with rotational gravity or is it key to some aspects of their lives?

• Ability to interlock/tessalate/form lattices or otherwise connect to one another and break apart again. Could be cool for each of these modules to have distinct properties, or if theres a bunch of the same ships that once connected create a fractal.
• Designed to travel, not just as a stationary space station, so some fuel or energy source needs to exist.
• nondirectional? One of my biggest gaps to understanding how this design would work is understanding how propulsion would shape the design if theres no need to escape an atmosphere built into it, and space has no up/down/left/right, so in theory the ships could be designed with anydirectional propulsion with no front/back/top/bottom but idk what that would look like.
• Domestic. People live here, there should be a food, water, and air source that is sustainable/recyclable without having to land on planets to resupply.
• Patchwork/scavenged/reclaimed materials could be fun.

Pfft who knows about any of this I just think its a cool concept. Hoepfully it resonates/inspires someone