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I made this little collection of space-themed minifigure wallpapers! Definitely an emateur when it comes to editing, but I think they turned out great! Please, feel free to use them for whatever you desire. Just send me photos of whatever once you have! Thanks

This is a redesign of one of my older MOCs. Back in 2024, I started designing what is now called the UNSC Terminus, my current Valiant-class USC ship model. As time went by, I learnt a lot more and made improvements, but I also received feedback that has been included here. While the design looks similar, a lot has changed. From the outside, it's much more detailed and also much more faithful to the original design. To achieve this, I redid all of the original 'armour plates' and completely overhauled the engines. But I didn't stop there, this time I wanted to include an interior that adds to the look and gives the ship more life. While doing that, I adjusted the panels so they can be easily removed, and I also cleaned up a lot. On top of that, I'm about to fully rewrite the instructions.

For those who don't know the ship, it's a Valiant-class super heavy cruiser from the Halo universe. The UNSC Everest served as Admiral Preston Cole's flagship. This particular MOC is currently 85 cm long and has 9,000 parts, many of which are small. Oh, and also the ship is much darker IRL!

Well, enought talking, enjoy the photos and enjoy your day! Cheers!

Length: 1658 m

Height: 410 m

Width: 483 m

When The Great Insectoid War emerged, Galactic Federation faced severe lacking of modern big battlecruiser/carrier type capital ships that were much needed to the war effort. Existing battlecruisers, such as Brutus-class, although were cheap to build, but also obsolete and was too highly specialized as artillery ships, while light spacecraft played a huge role in combat; dedicated spacecraft carriers also had flaws, being underarmed, underarmored and straight up too small to manage combat without a support group, which is a big issue when whole fleet experience a huge lack of vessels.

So engineers rolled up their sleeves and started to design new multipurpose capital ship class, that would serve roles of both battlecruiser and spacecraft carrier. In its development designers used the experience of their colleagues to the fullest: new vessel featured a hull that partly consisted of large sections - much like in Brutus and a plethora of earlier designed cargo vessels; design team also actively used pre-war battleship projects to reduce the overall cost and fasten the development.

Most difficult part was in creating engines that will provide this behemoth with enough speed and agility. In original project Sarissa ought to be driven by two colossal engines that also feature thrust-vectoring for maneuverability, and although those motors were an engineering marvel, but two of them wasn't enough for certain scenarios, so design team added 4 more engines, much smaller though, that gave Sarissa additional trust and served as back-up engines.

Although this vessel meant to be sort of a blend of battlecruiser and a carrier, it featured solid armament, which would be the envy of any other battleship. It had numerous heavy rapid-firing turbolaser batteries, a plethora lighter plasma cannons, rocket launchers and anti-spacecraft guns and dozens of torpedoes and ballistic missiles, all of which would be more than enough for a ship of its type... But it also mounted 4 artillery pieces originally designed for planetary defense systems that could destroy in one shot vessels of up to a frigate size. Even navy officials rated all this weaponry as a bit overkill for such ship.

Even though many vessels from first production series came into service underarmed and sometimes even lacking four additional engines due to logistic issues, their combat performance was excellent and they swiftly became flagships in many fleets. In conditions where warships often had to operate in very small groups due to a general shortage of vessels, these multi-functional battleships came in very handy, providing both overwhelming firepower and good protection as well as a considerable spacecraft group.

However, it was not without drawbacks: the huge firepower required an incredible amount of energy, just like the engines, and this created a lot of problems. For example, heavy fire from all the guns overheated the reactors very quickly, and if the ship maneuvered at the same time, then overheating could occur in a matter of minutes. Because of this, the captains tried to use weapons quite sparingly, and the four main guns were hardly used at all, with rare exceptions.

Also, despite the high degree of automation of processes on board, there was hardly enough space for supplies and personnel on board - most of the space inside was occupied by weaponry and spacecraft. All this led to the fact that at the beginning of the Sarissa-class operational use the crews either had to constantly replenish their supplies by entering ports or intersecting with supply ships, wasting time, or abandoning part of the ammunition, spacecraft groups or even rescue capsules. Because of this, very often ships of this type were not on long-range combat missions where they were sometimes needed the most.

However, when the situation for the fleet ceased to be so deplorable and the Federation fully established the production of ships in the required quantity, small groups of supply ships were assigned to the Sarissa's, which provided their crews with ammunition, supplies and fuel during long patrols, and during the battle went to the rear, which fully revealed the potential of Sarissa-class.

Despite the fact that until the second half of the war there was no more than one Sarissa in a single fleet, their combat use as flagships was extremely successful. As the fighting took on a larger scale, the Federation fleet received more and more ships of this type, and subsequently they became the basis of the fleet. Even though these ships were expensive to manufacture and repeatedly tried to replace them with newer vessels, Sarissa-class became the most numerous battlecruiser of the entire war.

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So I decided to try posting my stuff here on Reddit. Usually I post only on my Flickr page but it feels like it is slowly dying. We'll see how it goes. May post more of my previous builds later.

It is Stepola's unpublished build that I tweaked to my taste, mostly by reducing number of artillery points and designing completely new set of engines.

All new members of the sub will be asked to pick a role too. I think it's fun.

The roles have been chosen according to the type of posts we receive. Loosely, but still. If you have suggestions on more roles, related to what you think gets posted here, you can comment below!

Thank you all!

Both MOCs are ships are from The Expanse franchise, one being based on the MCRN Orion-Class Frigate (orange) and an the unknown-class Destroyer (blue).

The bulbous head of the Orion-Class frigates are high-density missile batteries capable of pumping out up to twelve torpedoes at once, allowing this little frigate to punch way above its weight and overwhelm other vessels of similar caliber. It's five Point Defense cannons give it a full sphere of protective coverage against incoming torpedoes and make it a reasonable danger for anything that decides to get too close without a railgun.

The Destroyer is a little less special. It carries four single-tube torpedo magazines and four point-defense cannons. Unfortunately, it's PDC arrangement leaves a large blindspot around the main engine. It is, however, disproportionately small compared to its main engine and is therefore much quicker and nimbler than one would expect for such a cheap production.

Animated in Blender because why not? :D

I guess for me it is Archangel class ship from Hyperion and...
whatever the Belters were flying in the Expanse