Star Explorer Core of Curiosity - FSFS Version by dcmstarships
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Description
Star Explorer "Core of Curiosity" was the first Galactic Exploration Corps vessel with 4th Era star-faring technology. It entered service in 1644 FCE (Founding of Commonwealth of Earth) and employed a perfected reactive catalytic hull shell in the place of hull plates built from reactive catalytic hull material. Reactive catalytic hulls consist of artificial silicon based lifeforms combined with a metallic-ceramic matrix and are capable of rapid self repair. A total of 306 "Core of Curiosity" class vessels were built from 1644 FCE - 1697 FCE with most enjoying unusually long periods of service. The most famous member of this starship class was "Gazelle of Gravity", the first GEC ship to tour key Fellowship of Star-Faring Sentients members throughout the Milky Way galaxy. The last "Core of Curiosity" class Star Explorer was retired in 1899 FCE.
The "Core of Curiosity" was initially modeled in early 2004 using TrueSpace 6.6 and an earlier version of the vessel appears elswhere in my Renderosity Gallery. The FSFS (Fellowship of Star-Faring Sentinents) universe version shown above has a new logo and some extra bulges. The background used came from a Hubble Space Telescope website. The design for "Core of Curiosity" was inspired by the work of fellow speculative spaceship designer Jeff Robb. Samples of his wonderful artwork appear on my website: www.dcmstarships.com.
Comments (7)
Very cool design !!!! ;)
Excellent artwork buddy!!!
Fine looking ship I especially like the font you used for the insignia and the platings
Actually, my first thoughts on seeing the lines of that machine was Peter Elson. And your tongue-in-cheek description above reminds me strongly of those Steven Caldwell edited collections of SF art. I thought I recognized that HST pic in the back, too. Great site, that!
Nice ship, David!
She's lovely... :-) As conctructive suggestions on the backdrop? When using an image like this I'd spend a good deal of time on image enhancement first... Maybe making a copy of the image, overlaying it (overlay mode, 75-100% opacity), then adjusting the whole image for brightness (-10%) contrast(+10%), and intensity (+5-15%) or, conversely, get into HSL adjustment and just amp up the saturation a good deal and tone down the lightness. I always have a difficulty with the "blue of space" in come NASA nebular images (I want pitch black)... but that is -very- tricky to try to fix. ;-)
Wonderful ship and textures ! Lovely background. Great concept friend ! Congratulations !