Captioned Images
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 9:23 pm
This thread is to images to give you glimpses into the world of the Terran Sphere.
(Terran Sphere) Novan Centurion class Destroyer firing off an energy broadside to do what Destroyers do best, Destroy Frigates. At the same time, it is taking a broadside from the Intersteller Protectorate frigates which it is engaged with, although the Destroyer is much more able to take damage than the frigates in question due to better armoring and improved internal redundancy. Laser impacts cause plumes of burning metal and ceramics to burst from the hull. The steam being ejected from the laser cannons is part of the cooling system. The Centurion class is fairly large for a Destroyer, massing it at about 400,000 tonnes and has the typical conical prow of a Novan Warship. Unlike Frigates, the Novan Imperial Navy assigns names to their destroyers instead of just hull numbers. This one is named after a figure from classical North American fiction who first appeared in the last decade of the first century BT.
Salicia Cheng (3rd Graf Cheng) poses for a photo in a commercial district of Bahiaopolis, a major capital city on the Planet Belém (conquered by the Novan Empire in 2158) to which she has control over. Belém was a divided world upon the arival of the Novan Fleet and had suffered from a low-scale nuclear conflict 40 years earlier. As such, after it's conquest most of the cities were rebuilt to Novan Standards. Bahiaopolis is among the most notable, with it's dominating features being several districts built in Nova Atlantean Style with a central skyscrape circled by rings of buildings divided roads, parks and artifical waterways. An Automated passengerboat makes it's way past her.
(For the sake of the veiwer, the sign has been translated from Novan into English, Strips n Chips is a typical Novan fast food composed of strips of meat (usually beef or bison) lightly breaded served with fries and gravy)
(Terran Sphere) Imhotep 19th, 2289 After Tranquility, an Intersteller Protectorate Fleet holds under the command of three star admiral Giuditta Horvejkul orbit over the planet Volksland after the world was retaken by the Intersteller Protectorate from the Novan Empire in one of the numerious wars that have marked the Novan Empire and surrounding space over the course of the 23rd century. The planet itself would be retaken by Lord Admiral Mikhail Ramzy (Eleventh Graf Ramzy) in 2296. Not including it's conquest by the pirate warlord Zhe Jorgston Volksland itself has exchanged rulers nine time over the course of the 23rd century (five times by the Novan Empire, four times by the protectorate and once by the Union of Free Socialist Worlds).
Colonized in the early 16th century by members of an ancient political movement that was notable for starting the Western Eurasian section second of ancient Terra's world wars in the last years of the 1st century BT based around a flawed pre-genetics understanding of humanity and germanic nationalism, Volksland devolved into a state of political fragmentation over finer details of their ideology and quickly degenerated into several waring states which frequently engaged in vicious planetary warfare at a basic mechanized level. Many sociologists beleived that the population would have either destroyed itself or devestated itself to the point of technological regression to fuedalism long ago if it was not for the planet's lack of fissile materials and high birth rates.
Due to it's backwards nature and the unpleasant local ideology it was largely ingored with the onset of the FTL age beyond a few minor attempts at trade by a handful of minor merchent ships until the planet was taken under threat of orbital bombardment in 2219, who used what industry it could offer to assemble a basic shipyard in orbit and serve as a base for commerce raiding over the next twelve years, eventually bringing it to the attention of the Novan Empire, Intersteller Protectorate and Union of Free Socialist Worlds. While the petty national diferences have become less sugnifigant in past years and education programs by occupying governments have managed to break down the racial ideologies of the planet, it remains a backwater with a trifiling population of merely 320 million, a lower than average standard of living and a high rate of crime and insurgency by radical fringe groups. The most valuable asset of Volksland remains it's shipyards, which have over the years supplied Frigates, Destroyers and Cruisers to three nations.
(Terran Sphere) Novan Centurion class Destroyer firing off an energy broadside to do what Destroyers do best, Destroy Frigates. At the same time, it is taking a broadside from the Intersteller Protectorate frigates which it is engaged with, although the Destroyer is much more able to take damage than the frigates in question due to better armoring and improved internal redundancy. Laser impacts cause plumes of burning metal and ceramics to burst from the hull. The steam being ejected from the laser cannons is part of the cooling system. The Centurion class is fairly large for a Destroyer, massing it at about 400,000 tonnes and has the typical conical prow of a Novan Warship. Unlike Frigates, the Novan Imperial Navy assigns names to their destroyers instead of just hull numbers. This one is named after a figure from classical North American fiction who first appeared in the last decade of the first century BT.
Salicia Cheng (3rd Graf Cheng) poses for a photo in a commercial district of Bahiaopolis, a major capital city on the Planet Belém (conquered by the Novan Empire in 2158) to which she has control over. Belém was a divided world upon the arival of the Novan Fleet and had suffered from a low-scale nuclear conflict 40 years earlier. As such, after it's conquest most of the cities were rebuilt to Novan Standards. Bahiaopolis is among the most notable, with it's dominating features being several districts built in Nova Atlantean Style with a central skyscrape circled by rings of buildings divided roads, parks and artifical waterways. An Automated passengerboat makes it's way past her.
(For the sake of the veiwer, the sign has been translated from Novan into English, Strips n Chips is a typical Novan fast food composed of strips of meat (usually beef or bison) lightly breaded served with fries and gravy)
(Terran Sphere) Imhotep 19th, 2289 After Tranquility, an Intersteller Protectorate Fleet holds under the command of three star admiral Giuditta Horvejkul orbit over the planet Volksland after the world was retaken by the Intersteller Protectorate from the Novan Empire in one of the numerious wars that have marked the Novan Empire and surrounding space over the course of the 23rd century. The planet itself would be retaken by Lord Admiral Mikhail Ramzy (Eleventh Graf Ramzy) in 2296. Not including it's conquest by the pirate warlord Zhe Jorgston Volksland itself has exchanged rulers nine time over the course of the 23rd century (five times by the Novan Empire, four times by the protectorate and once by the Union of Free Socialist Worlds).
Colonized in the early 16th century by members of an ancient political movement that was notable for starting the Western Eurasian section second of ancient Terra's world wars in the last years of the 1st century BT based around a flawed pre-genetics understanding of humanity and germanic nationalism, Volksland devolved into a state of political fragmentation over finer details of their ideology and quickly degenerated into several waring states which frequently engaged in vicious planetary warfare at a basic mechanized level. Many sociologists beleived that the population would have either destroyed itself or devestated itself to the point of technological regression to fuedalism long ago if it was not for the planet's lack of fissile materials and high birth rates.
Due to it's backwards nature and the unpleasant local ideology it was largely ingored with the onset of the FTL age beyond a few minor attempts at trade by a handful of minor merchent ships until the planet was taken under threat of orbital bombardment in 2219, who used what industry it could offer to assemble a basic shipyard in orbit and serve as a base for commerce raiding over the next twelve years, eventually bringing it to the attention of the Novan Empire, Intersteller Protectorate and Union of Free Socialist Worlds. While the petty national diferences have become less sugnifigant in past years and education programs by occupying governments have managed to break down the racial ideologies of the planet, it remains a backwater with a trifiling population of merely 320 million, a lower than average standard of living and a high rate of crime and insurgency by radical fringe groups. The most valuable asset of Volksland remains it's shipyards, which have over the years supplied Frigates, Destroyers and Cruisers to three nations.