Multi-Purpose Drone Mk-2 by NefariousDrO

Bryce • Science Fiction • posted on Mar 08, 2015

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During the last decade before "Humanity's First Interstellar War" the nations with access to the Rephi Portals raced to survey every new star and planetary system they could. The sheer size of these systems and the cost and dangers of sending humans to a relatively unknown system meant that there was a surge in the development of autonomous and semi-autonomous drones, etc. These could be built and operated for far less than a human-supporting vessel, and could be placed in far more dangerous settings as well. They did the bulk of the work, while the humans concentrated on the more interesting places. When the war broke out, these drones were often adapted to serve as scouts and even weapons. The Vanguard Industries' Mark-2 drone appeared just before the war broke out, but in the later stages of the war could be found in nearly every engagement. -Excerpt from "The less exciting parts of space" by Lawrence Lidstrom ------------ I've been itching to re-examine my basic missile and remote probe ideas for a good while, and after 3 days of tinkering feel like I've finally got something I like. As always, the model is my own creation, assembled in Bryce 6.5 out of primitives. Most of the textures are my own, as is the texture on the planet in the background. The stars, composting and other post-work all done in Photoshop. And comments/critiques are encouraged!

Comments (13)

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Faemike55

12:30PM | Sun, 08 March 2015

Very wicked and deadly looking device

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Ancel_Alexandre

1:13PM | Sun, 08 March 2015

One of your bests model, planet and starscape! ;)

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woodywoo

1:53PM | Sun, 08 March 2015

Awesome creation !

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Renderholic

2:03PM | Sun, 08 March 2015

Excellent image!

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geirla

2:24PM | Sun, 08 March 2015

Nice! I like the non-streamlined utilitarian look. How does it work as a weapon? Equipped with lasers or just ram speed ahead?

NefariousDrO

9:45PM | Sun, 22 March 2015

That's the great thing, depends upon where/when in the "ecosphere" it happened. During the war the manufacturer added a warhead by expanding the front module. People doing it on the side either used it like a "javelin" to ram a target or strapped a warhead on the front. The central concept I had was making it modular and adaptable.