playing with some more biotech esque forms and shapes for the fancier and teched robot frames, the more futury, the more organic thats just how it should b

jovia runs on a hybrid democractic socialist esque technocracy with a limited suffrage based on merit/expertise, so advanced voting rights basically gives you the ability to engage with the mid to high levels of the government

now that ive mostly finished the designs of the major factions goons here's a lineup of em (i still need to do the final polishing on em but im lazy)

Tream... (Truth Beam)

soviets paintd em in cockpits of aircraft, in theory it reduces eye strain and stress since the color is soothing

robot that pushes the freight, she can take heavy loads also we need to bring back soviet teal it's so cool and functional yet we are stuck with grey and orange for industrial type colors for some reason

cont'd

a tritonian DAA sailrocket checks up on a new mining ecosystem strain

some gravtanks of my own, expect the things they're fighting against soon-ish

very true but i think the functionalists have alot more mainstream appeal in a sense, when people think of hardsf they are more likely to think of tlw style ships

my working theory on a history of coneships

figuring out a design for an un mook trying to capture that "knights of the old world" vibe

the partially automated, kinda luxurious, pretty gay, not really space communism yet faction felt like i should intro some of the factions for the setting since their ideas are a bit more solidified in my head now

i was thinking of doing some short comics like very early in the year though they never got anywhere(and likely never will) past some concept covers so here they are

figuring out the design style for the spaceships of saturn