Been wanting to do this for a while, just to get my designs out there. For over a decade now I’ve filled books with scribbles, sketches, and drawings of spaceships for my planetary romance setting, so I’ve decided to do a digital lineup and timeline now. In this case, 'Spacecraft' refers to mostly reusable/continuously usable vehicles that rely on internal power to get from planet to planet/moon/body. (The Bonaventure is a bit of a cheat, needing extensive eternal power for departure boost, but is notable enough to be included). Lots of shuttles, historical one-off craft and so on aren't here but do exist. List is not exhaustive of course and some measurements/depictions are approximate for the sake of art than detailing.

There were going to be a few more ships up there but I wanted to get this done so I could finish the Thanksgiving piece I’m doing for another project, I mostly struggled with the Bonaventure and want to add like six or seven more ships, so keep an eye out.

Trivia of note:  


• The ESM is basically the TMK-E.

• I've previously done the Fram here (scrap now) and here.

• The Fold Drive is the One Big Lie of the setting, a Slower-Than-Light Alcubierre/Space Warp drive, this allows for fast transit around the system. I juggle between using this or antimatter/VASIMIR, and most of the sketches were assuming antimatter/vasimir/mini mag drives, but the travel time stretches into months and weeks with those when going between planets. Which isn't bad perse, but I want to focus on planets and planet hopping in the story - so voila, Fold Drive. I try to give it a lot of limitations as seen in the boxes in the image - can't operate too close to a planet, so no automatic popping out over the big worlds and dropping in, consumes a lot of energy (negative energy? So, '-energy'?) and has a speed limit of sorts (so it's not TOO fast), and runs out of -energy fast (gen 3 drives can do a 250-300 AU run in one go but not much more). May also need a cooldown/spoolup period as well for some tense moments.

• The Perchta was inspired by/fills the niche of the Battlestar Galactica for the robot war. It can jump fold out and away and that gave it an edge in that war.

• Mother's Gift uses Woodsteel, extrapolating from [stuff like this](https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/55957), fitting her and the Scourge's biological aspect.

• To no one’s surprise, there’s not really a lot of interstellar designs that fits the niche of Humanity’s coffin (specifically, no useful Fusion). There’s some enticing numbers using antimatter beam cores, mini mag/z pinch Orions, fission fragment engines, maybe antimatter catalyst fission - so I just based the Bonaventure off of the designs and papers pertaining to those technologies while trying to invoke the Discovery from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Maybe one of them or a combination, matured, could get the Bonaventure to Alpha Centauri. To further deal with this, the Bonaventure does have mag and plasma sails and i[s shot out of the system with beams](https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/460c36555a8d7). Whatever works.

• I assume a standard of \~10m wide lasers for combat, but it’s approximate.

• I’ve drawn the Imperium Class twice before, it’s my take on a Star Destroyer esque design.

• The High Order ship is one of my oldest designs and basically was my attempt at making a literal brick. Some variants on it are tubular, but it can work as a brick.

• I’ve shown off the Ishtari designs before, along with the Darwin Class. I noticed that humans are bilateral symmetrical, so if we pair that up, roughly you can get a spaceship from that. Ishtari designs are often double-faced - either the same or different people, like a couple - but can be triple or quadruple or even more (I've imagined a octuple one). And yes, some can T-pose.

• The Civilian ship and the Venture were inspired by Star Trek. The Freedom Class, Solar Order ships, System Guard Cruiser were inspired by StarQuest Online, the game that closed in 2013. The Xon ship is a mix of being inspired by SQO and the cabbages of Starfleet Museum.

Made in Gimp over two days or so, though the circular orbits in the Kyrie Line chart were made in MSpaint because GIMP uses a different algorithm to make circles I don't like (much like how I did with the big solar system map before). Tripled the size of the image for clarity. Used a new font - 04b\_08 - to try to look a bit more scifi-y.

  
Many thanks to Winchell Chung Nyrath/Atomic Rockets, the Rocketpunk Manifesto, Centauri Dreams, hard scifi community in general, Masao Okazaki of Starfleet Museum for inspiration and information over the years.

Spacecraft of note in Solyoke by Eshanas (OC)