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Crusade: The Ghost of the Cerberus (part 3)

The Shadow Hybrid strikes.

Its first beam rips across the Excalibur. A second follows, tearing through the ship from another angle. The hull shudders. Explosions race across the superstructure.

There is no formation anymore. No battle plan.

Only survival.

Hell has broken loose.

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Credits:

Excalibur, Shadow hybrid shipand red planet by Amras Arfeiniel 👏🏼

Shadow hybrid by Andrey Kurin 👏🏼

Thunderbolt by (don't know)

Scene and render by me, Digital Era Studios

Based on the television series Babylon 5, created by J. Michael Straczynski

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Crusade: The Ghost of the Cerberus (part 2)

The Shadow Hybrid fires first.

Its beam sweeps toward the Excalibur, carving a path across the darkness. The enemy is closing fast.

The crew realizes there isn't enough time. The fate of the Cerberus is about to be repeated.

All around them, unknown fighters—unlike anything ever encountered before—race into weapons range and open fire. Their first volley finds a Thunderbolt Starfury, blowing it out of the sky.

The first casualty.

The battle for survival has begun..

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This is the first of a series of images from this battle. Hope you enjoy it! 😁😉

More on:

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Credits:

Excalibur, Shadow hybrid shipand red planet by Amras Arfeiniel 👏🏼

Shadow hybrid by Andrey Kurin 👏🏼

Thunderbolt by (don't know)

Scene and render by me, Digital Era Studios

Based on the television series Babylon 5, created by J. Michael Straczynski

#babylon5 #crusade #excalibur #shadow #shadowhybrid #jumppoint #space #planets #scifi #SciFiAdventure #Starfury

Recently a friend of mine reminded of the importance of light warships for power projection and showing the flag, so i just had to draw one.

Lore:

>"Commander Freeman: Aurumite vessel, you leave me no choice but to open fire. Gunnery, how is our firing solution?
Senior Spacer Quraz: Commander, I think they might be all dead.
< See attached image of an Aurumite Skiff glowing orange>

Transcript of the first Tronarian combat test of the CR-25 "Lantern" Phased Array Radar

The  Pedant-Class Interceptor-Brig was made in a joint venture by the Free World Compact and the United Nations Interstellar Directorate nearly 60 years ago to commemorate their alliance. The ship was designed to be a multi-role light combat craft intended to fill any job desired, and with enough longevity to do long term patrols in constested systems or showing the flag missions. Even today, they stand strong, the result of countless modernizations.

To that end, the ship is covered in modular Hot-Wet hardpoints across its entire body. These hardpoints contain weapons, deployables, sensors, cargo, propellant or whatever else a crazy engineer can bolt on it. This allows the Pedant to switch roles as needed, going from carrying many high powered sensors as a sort of space AWACs to a bunch of mines to deny a Leap Point to electromagnetic rocket guns to become a highly effective gunboat. Additionally, its use of powdered diamond-like-carbon as propellant allows it to use any fine dust or storeable liquid in its tanks, making refuelling easy.

Their sheer versatility and endurance made them popular, and they have both become the most common Torchship within both fleets. It also used to testbed new module concepts for other ships, with escort class UREBs being first tested on a Directorate one.

When the Liberation War began, surplus Pedants were given to rebel forces to give them a good escort combatant for their nascent fleets. While not rare in the Periphery, Pedants are prized for their reliability, powerful sensors, and modularity.

The one pictured is that of the Schiltron in its general purpose/ electronic warfare loadout, a loadout it stayed with for 3 decades of the Liberation war until it was transfered to the Tronarians and got new missiles.