Orion One solo explorer
First of a new class of solo explorer ships equipped with antimatter drives able to make interstellar transits, the Orion One was the vessel that made the first human transit of the hyperspatial leyline between Sol and Tau Ceti. Since this was the first ever human interstellar flight, Captain Michel Laval's Orion One has gone down in System history alongside other celebrated vessels like Naomi Chang's Antares 5 Marslander and Yuri Gagarin's Vostok-1 capsule.
The Federation government insisted on a new white and black livery to serve as a cautionary marking that Orion One was fitted with an antimatter power plant. The antimatter drive being necessary to reach the interstellar leylines' threshold velocity, the new colour scheme became associated with the ships and equipment of the new colony world in the Tau Ceti system, codenamed Futuro.
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Obviously, this is Futuron colours, but I still don't have any Futuron astronauts so it has a red-suited pilot. Even in Real World Classic Space sets, there was a brief overlap of a few sets that were like this before the Futuron faction really got up and running, and it makes sense for a Federation future history that there would be some sort of transitional period as well.
In developing a sort of vague overarching backstory for my version of the Classic Space universe, I feel a need to explain things like how the Futuron got their name. "Planet Futuro" was what I came up with, tying in to that history of Classic Space Federation worlds ending in -o (like the ice planet Krysto or Peter Reid and Tim Goddard's Panduro).
And I worked out how to make a ringed planet. Which was obvious in hindsight. It would have looked better if the rings were brown or tan, but I think black's the only colour I can currently make a complete ring in. Certainly not brown or tan.
And this creation marks my first use of the 1x1 round plate with handle. And what do I use it for? Attaching an antenna :P.
Orion One solo explorer
First of a new class of solo explorer ships equipped with antimatter drives able to make interstellar transits, the Orion One was the vessel that made the first human transit of the hyperspatial leyline between Sol and Tau Ceti. Since this was the first ever human interstellar flight, Captain Michel Laval's Orion One has gone down in System history alongside other celebrated vessels like Naomi Chang's Antares 5 Marslander and Yuri Gagarin's Vostok-1 capsule.
The Federation government insisted on a new white and black livery to serve as a cautionary marking that Orion One was fitted with an antimatter power plant. The antimatter drive being necessary to reach the interstellar leylines' threshold velocity, the new colour scheme became associated with the ships and equipment of the new colony world in the Tau Ceti system, codenamed Futuro.
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Obviously, this is Futuron colours, but I still don't have any Futuron astronauts so it has a red-suited pilot. Even in Real World Classic Space sets, there was a brief overlap of a few sets that were like this before the Futuron faction really got up and running, and it makes sense for a Federation future history that there would be some sort of transitional period as well.
In developing a sort of vague overarching backstory for my version of the Classic Space universe, I feel a need to explain things like how the Futuron got their name. "Planet Futuro" was what I came up with, tying in to that history of Classic Space Federation worlds ending in -o (like the ice planet Krysto or Peter Reid and Tim Goddard's Panduro).
And I worked out how to make a ringed planet. Which was obvious in hindsight. It would have looked better if the rings were brown or tan, but I think black's the only colour I can currently make a complete ring in. Certainly not brown or tan.
And this creation marks my first use of the 1x1 round plate with handle. And what do I use it for? Attaching an antenna :P.