u/Pythania

Concept art for a film I'm scripting regarding a speculative crewed interplanetary flight with 1968 technology

I was trying to think about what her "utility terminal" area would look like but it ended up looking more like a CM than one of the cylindrical models that makes up the actual flyby vehicle she's living in (the CM is used only for operative and settling burns as well as docking/transfer at the end of the mission). At her terminal, there's a teletype (to print out daily instructions/tasks from ground) and readouts for many of the life support systems. There's a turn coordinator (it looked cool but idk if it'd be useful in the utility module) and a modified dsky that helps diagnose and perform observation on ship functions unrelated to propulsion

The size is about right, just about tall enough for her to be able to stretch out entirely (no risk of getting stuck because it's always at least something to grab onto), the CM would be much more cramped in comparison (since she's not supposed to be in there for anything but mission-critical procedures)

A shitpost for a Romanian friend of mine that got out of hand. The text references a time we both visited Monument Rock in Kansas on a rainy day and had a real bad time lol

Latinized text: Noroîul stânchii a pătat să acopere acește ose și mi-a schilodit palankinul. Compatriotul mieu, Sf. Pablu, s-a înecat în ploaie, asemenea și calul său. Spălat de apă, rămas-a aceast dor de a merge mai departe. Într-o sară rece și ploioasă a lui Noemvrie, leat 2025, trăit și dat întru veșnică pomenire de cărturarul Kostov.

Translated text: "The flooded bog of Monument Rock stained and covered these remains, and it claimed my palanquin. My companion Saint Pablo was drowned in the rain, and likewise was his horse. Washed away by the torrent, there remained no desire to continue. On a cold and rainy evening of November, in the year 2025, he is lived on in spirit and was given unto eternal remembrance by the scholar Kostov."

Edit 1: had to do a small correction in the english text orz

Edit 2: The horses btw are meant to be our cars that got fucking trashed by the mire lol

Five years between revisiting an old species of mine, they got a lot less cute and lot more large (from 20 feet to 200 feet long lol). First art is 2026. The other two arts are from 2021.

In the setting, engineers (little green frog dudes) wanted to populate gas giants and the vacuum of space with various artificially created ecosystems. This is one megafaunal, spacefaring species.

This is the hagallus (plural, hagalli), an interplanetary migrator, and it uses methalox chemical propulsion to carry it between planets. Hagalli are ambush predators and prefer to extract materials from other spacefaring organisms (so that intake is already pre-processed and ready to use in the body). They are designed to withstand atmospheric entry (regenerative ablation) to scoop up materials for future propulsion. To replenish heavy metal alloys, they can visit certain asteroid groups and "land" while rolling around and digging up material to consume. They stay far away from manned space stations despite the great amounts of oxidants in the nutritional desert of space.

They are extremely long-lived (700-900 years, bottleneck is mechanical stress from burning), K-selected (individuals are hermaphroditic but "mothers" will nurse and raise a single calf at a time for 20-50 years), intelligent but not sapient, and tend to be territorial around transfer windows and favored parking orbits (very loose pods of ~10-15 hagalli will form but individuals can occupy large volumes of space. Total star system population is around ~1000-1200). Their internal sulfur redox biology runs ambiently pretty cold, similar to their gas giant cousins.

All spacefaring life (even much smaller species that don't do much outside of "sessile" low orbits around atmosphere-bearing worlds) was designed quite politely. They clean up various micro and macro debris, only release (the very rare) waste pellets on suborbital trajectories, and announce via radio broadcast when they're about to change velocities.