Titan Speeder
Kronos Colony. Primary outpost of the System on the Saturnian moon Titan and one of the most populous and important colonies in the outer Solar System.
Situated on the shores of the Ligeia Mare close to the mouth of the hydrocarbon river known as the Vid Flumina, Kronos began as a harvesting operation for Titan's exotic hydrocarbons and nitrogen, but has grown into an important and diverse colony.
Titan's liquid hydrocarbon rivers, lakes and seas make the usual mechs and rovers less fully useful for getting around, particularly in the polar regions where the majority of the lakes and flumina are. More than anywhere else in the System, Titan's Kronos colony employs ground-effect speeders for the majority of its local transport.
Recently, rumours of a secret Blacktron separatist base in the Xanadu region of Titan have prompted an increase in patrols, and Keyshawn Friedman and Jan Meyerdahl pilot their R22 Avalon speeder across a spit of land jutting out into the Ligeia Mare. Titan was a big moon, however, larger than the planet Mercury. Surely the Blacktron couldn't be anywhere close to such a large and important System outpost...?
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Okay, technically I built the speeder and then decided to locate it on Titan, but Titan's an interesting place to put a Neoclassic Space outpost, and I decided it needed to be done.
All the locations on Titan are real astronomic features of the moon, for added realism. I'm not sure that black is necessarily the right colour for Titan's liquid methane seas, but it works for modelling purposes.
Anyway, here's my Titan-speeder.
Titan Speeder
Kronos Colony. Primary outpost of the System on the Saturnian moon Titan and one of the most populous and important colonies in the outer Solar System.
Situated on the shores of the Ligeia Mare close to the mouth of the hydrocarbon river known as the Vid Flumina, Kronos began as a harvesting operation for Titan's exotic hydrocarbons and nitrogen, but has grown into an important and diverse colony.
Titan's liquid hydrocarbon rivers, lakes and seas make the usual mechs and rovers less fully useful for getting around, particularly in the polar regions where the majority of the lakes and flumina are. More than anywhere else in the System, Titan's Kronos colony employs ground-effect speeders for the majority of its local transport.
Recently, rumours of a secret Blacktron separatist base in the Xanadu region of Titan have prompted an increase in patrols, and Keyshawn Friedman and Jan Meyerdahl pilot their R22 Avalon speeder across a spit of land jutting out into the Ligeia Mare. Titan was a big moon, however, larger than the planet Mercury. Surely the Blacktron couldn't be anywhere close to such a large and important System outpost...?
~~~
Okay, technically I built the speeder and then decided to locate it on Titan, but Titan's an interesting place to put a Neoclassic Space outpost, and I decided it needed to be done.
All the locations on Titan are real astronomic features of the moon, for added realism. I'm not sure that black is necessarily the right colour for Titan's liquid methane seas, but it works for modelling purposes.
Anyway, here's my Titan-speeder.