Hi all,
I've had this design knocking around in my head for a while now, and I've finally gotten around to building it.
It's a speculative idea on what Earth's first true interstellar ship might look like. Something that not only could achieve warp, but also has the multi-year endurance to reach Alpha Centauri and then travel back home again.
From cannon sources, it seems like interstellar capable warp ships started cropping up pretty quickly after First Contact with the Vulcans, so I've made Reliant look like parts of it have been cobbled together from older ships - notably the spherical tanks and four chemical sub-light engines are refurbished components from a pre World War 3 Earth-Moon cargo hauler. Likewise, the ship is not matter/antimatter powered, but instead utilises plasma from a fusion tokamak to power the warp nacelles. This limits it to low warp velocities.
Clearly the Daedalus is an inspiration in this design, but I wanted to make it look more primitive, like it was bolted together in sections, whilst still maintaininng the Daedalus design linneage.
I've depicted Reliant here approaching the Alpha Centauri system , working its way past the comets of its Oort cloud.
https://imgur.com/a/5j46I
Hope you like it
I've had this design knocking around in my head for a while now, and I've finally gotten around to building it.
It's a speculative idea on what Earth's first true interstellar ship might look like. Something that not only could achieve warp, but also has the multi-year endurance to reach Alpha Centauri and then travel back home again.
From cannon sources, it seems like interstellar capable warp ships started cropping up pretty quickly after First Contact with the Vulcans, so I've made Reliant look like parts of it have been cobbled together from older ships - notably the spherical tanks and four chemical sub-light engines are refurbished components from a pre World War 3 Earth-Moon cargo hauler. Likewise, the ship is not matter/antimatter powered, but instead utilises plasma from a fusion tokamak to power the warp nacelles. This limits it to low warp velocities.
Clearly the Daedalus is an inspiration in this design, but I wanted to make it look more primitive, like it was bolted together in sections, whilst still maintaininng the Daedalus design linneage.
I've depicted Reliant here approaching the Alpha Centauri system , working its way past the comets of its Oort cloud.
https://imgur.com/a/5j46I
Hope you like it
