Departure of the Wanderer

August 4th, 2003, 01:30 AM

The spaceship Wanderer is ready for departure... the flying archology consists of two biospheres connected by a technical section, which includes also a small spaceport. The civil spaceship is accompanied by a destroyer and a fleet of HornetB long distance fighters/explorers.

This picture was inspired by the cover of the Perry Rhodan mag. 2181, which was created by R. Voltz. The scene was also a great opportunity to figure out how to create space objects such as the planet and the nebulae with Vue. Thanks for viewing!

skyhawk223 · August 4th, 2003, 06:53 AM

Looks good. I think of Rama when I see this. Must be a huge vessel.

August 7th, 2003, 04:10 AM

skyhawk,

yesterday I tried to calculate the Wanderer's dimensions. I ended up with about 1km in diameter and 5km in length. Not that big, at least in comparison to the Tula described in PR 2181: 11 x 42km...

Commodore-SirJohn · August 12th, 2003, 02:35 AM

I could easily see this as being the Wanderer from David Gerrold's Trek novel, The Galactic Whirlpool...

HawkHart · August 20th, 2003, 05:29 AM

Very nice indeed. I like it

August 25th, 2003, 01:38 AM

First of all, thanks to all of you for your nice comments!

BGEN-SirJohn: that's cool... I haven't read that novel yet, but sometimes imagination goes amazing similar ways

August 26th, 2003, 07:18 AM

HEY that's so cool, they had one of those ships a few months ago on discovery!

August 26th, 2003, 09:02 AM

Looks like a Dune-Style Ship...