Shipwreck

by David Auden Nash

There are massive warships. Things that are the size of stations but that can move more swiftly through hyperspace and real space than any other object created by humans or gods. They're not like the warships you imagine, they're like entire divisions of the military, some of them have the populations of small planets, the largest of them have populations higher then earth had before industry came to it.

It only takes one of these ships to comquor a system. Though they often have smaller ships swarming them, like the microorganisms on your skin. And when they fight eachother, holes are torn in hyperspace, and heavily bodies become asteroid belts. Even the weapons that can destroy planets can't take ships like this down in one hit.

Inside the ships are entire societies, of humans, cyborgs, robots, and strange organisms generated by human science. Many of them soldiers who exist to serve as the ships troops, especially since a boarding action is the fastest way to take them down, but many are there for other reasons. You need an entire society to support a ship like that and all the troops it can carry, from workers who maintain the ship, to traders who bring new recourses on, to artists and teachers and lawyers and all the other things that end up as needed when there's that many people.

Some of these ships are so large and so deep that there are people on there who've never seen the world outside their machines of war. And some isolated parts of those ships, who've been within the depths of the endless machinery for so long, that they've lost contact with the more outwards facing parts of the ship society. Tribes and towns within the dark mechanical labyrinth who don't know they're on a warship, who don't even know planets exist.

And they say, that as the loyalty of a ship fades from the empire that built it, that the ship may come to be controlled by many nations, vying for control of the ship's flight. They say that within the depths of some war ships, wars are fought.

Star Wars: Starships of the Galaxy (Saga Edition) - Ginivex-Class Starfighter by Mark Tedin

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BENNY!!!!

Cambrian critters are actually spaceships, their battles where epic.

Here an Anomalocaris cruiser is attacked by the hit and run tactics of an Opabinia.

Some photos I took of the Columbus Module at the National Space Centre

I’ve probably forgotten some very important ones but these are the ones you get to choose from.

Spaceship art by Noriyoshi Ohrai

1. Foundation 2. Nova 3. Genma Wars 4. Foundation and Chaos 5. Not sure 6. Akira publicity art

The cityscape of Philippe ‘Manchu’ Bouchet. Concept art for the film Blade Runner (1982).

Rainy Night commission ⛈ Remember you can reach out to me via DM or email for work info ✨

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by Anastasiya Landasseln

The Rocket Building in Saitama, Japan, built in the 1980s to house an astronomy museum, now mostly apartments.

(Sabukaru)

Killer Station Cover Art by David B Mattingly

Alien (1979)

Boris Vallejo, “Across the Heavens,” 1993