The Cison class Patrol Corvette is one of the most well known ship designs ever fielded by the Coalition of Independent Planets, as not only does the CIP themselves use it, thanks to its simple, low cost design and easy maintenance, many smaller backwater planets will license the design and build their own since they couldn’t afford a Republic force to defend them. This makes the Cison by far the most common warship in the Galaxy, with hundreds of thousands of these things being found everywhere. They are 330 meters in length and 75 meters at their widest with a crew of 200. It is armed with 6 duel 240 railgun turrets, 2 100cm heavy rail guns, a single heavy GamPDEWS (Gamma laser guided Plasmatic Directed Energy Weapon System), which is a powerful plasma beam weapon, and 20 M903-1 Atlas duel 8 barreled 30mm rotary cannon point defense turrets.

I made this design as part of a series I’m working on called “Tales from the 33rd Century” Here’s its lore:

This is the Xiphos class corvette, one of the main ships utilized by the United Republic Interstellar Navy. Often deployed along side other larger vessels as a defensive ship within large fleets, or used as a patrol vessel either alone or in a small group, these small yet fiery little ships can serve a variety of roles and can last long times with high reliability, making them highly favorable by Navy officers. At a length of 1,478 feet, it carries a compliment of 800 crew members plus a potential addition of up to 50 Republic Marines or Cosmarines (soldiers trained for combat in space, known as EVC or extra-vehicular combat). It is armed with 2 MK64 400mm heavy Hybrid-plasma rail cannons, 28 MK16 120mm railgun turrets, 4 MK24 200mm duel barreled medium railgun turrets, and 6 launchers for AISM-16 “Star Wrangler” Anti-Ship missiles, with a magazine of 24 total.

Is there anywhere to buy ownership of cool stl files of spaceships for resin printing? I’m working on a game system and while I can sculpt there’s so many talented spaceship makers I thought I’d see what’s around. The other option is commission work of course but thought I’d explore this option. Thanks in advance!

Made with toy astronauts repainted and a second Zeus rocket model on a diorama base.

My friend has been working on this for a couple years and I think it's pretty cool, thought some more people should see it since he doesn't have reddit. Thanks for checking it out!

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Would this patent on spacecraft: US20060145019A1 be possible to actually create or is this math wrong? If this is possible I think it needs to be created ASAP. This could develop into personal spacecraft for the common man if it actually works. Obviously I understand the concepts but the math to prove it's functionality are out of my sphere of complete understanding. This is not my patent or idea, but I find it interesting that recent UFO sightings fit the design of the spacecraft in this patent and lead me to believe it is already in production.

I've been working on a game as a hobby and as part of this I've been trying to work out a design philosophy for the ships in it. I was going for a modern military meets semi-plausible far-future but I am not sure this is unique enough to not just look like BSG-Deadlock or from that new Fallen Frontier game.

Sorry about the poor quality of the render was well, I am very new to 3d modelling - would greatly appreciate any advice as well!

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Recently, I came across this YouTube comment on a video about the possible roles of frigates in space combat - "Corvettes punch down, Destroyers punch up, Frigates swing at anything in sight. Battleships don't punch. They bodyslam. Cruisers are a one-ship fleet. Carriers sit back, take a smoke, and let others fight." I take that to mean that (in this person's view, at least) corvettes are anti-fighters, destroyers are anti-capital, frigates are multi-role, and so on.

I love the variety of classification systems out there. One of the most in-depth that I've seen is Winchell Chung's system from Atomic Rockets (a hard sci-fi site; if you're into that, you've got to check them out). It uses a triangular (or ternary) plot to classify ships based on the percentage of mass that's devoted to propulsion, offense, and defense. For example, a ship that's 30% weapons, 50% propulsion, and 20% defenses would be classified as a frigate.

On the other side, the most creative one I've seen comes from the old hard sci-fi space combat game, Attack Vector. There, ships are classified by the type of propulsion systems they're equipped with, here simplified by the number of dimensions (or vectors) they're able to easily traverse. There usually isn't much overlap between the vectors, since the propulsion methods and equipment requirements are wildly different and there are wildly increasing costs to adding more stuff. So someone might take a V1 shuttle to an orbital platform, then a V2 cruiser to a space station, then a V3 generation ship to the next star system over.

• V1, One-Dimensional Orbital - Equipped to move between a planet's surface and its orbit; essentially a single dimension (up/down), though there's obviously more of a curve to the trajectory IRL
• V2, Two-Dimensional Interplanetary - Equipped to move between planets within the same star system; describes the roughly two-dimensional orbital plane in almost all star systems
• V3, Three-Dimensional Interstellar - Equipped to move between star systems in three-dimensional interstellar space

What are your favorite systems?

Hi! I’m new to the group so I apologize if this is irrelevant. I was just curious if there was any digital art programs or app good for drawing out spaceships or creating designs.