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The Inter-Exploration Corporation:The ISEC ORION, the first of the nine Venture-class ships of the exploration fleet, was a Venture-class designed with the purpose of exploration and discovery of new planets or cosmic phenomenon with a colony crew to inhabit the discovery site for studies. The ISEC ORION was the first to be built and the first to find a new planet system, within 14 light years away from the Alpha Centuri system (approximately under 140,000,000,000,000 kilometres away from the third star).
The ship is also a product of a familiar design of the project Valkyrie theory: [link] But at first did not use Antimatter anniliation engines on it's first few voyages, but instead relied on nuclear propulsion engines, but after finding systems with a planet load of antimatter elements, (such as elements that creates Antihydrogen) the ISEC ORION and it's sister ships were retrofitted with newer Antimatter/ matter engines which gave a more substantial plume and thrust. This gave the ORION a new design, one that included:
(in order from front to back)
-Two Antimatter/Matter propulsion engines
-one Antimatter core
-radiationand coolant system pod
-Mirror shield (each refractive mirror is less than 0.001 inch thick)
-Antimatter-matter/coolant tank ring (6 tanks lining the inside ring)
-Guidance/ communications pod
-secondary shield/radar
-Tensile structure/ docking line ( dock holds, crew quarters, walkways cargo drop-off)
-Habitable living quarters/ cargo hold
-Colony/ sleeper ring (includes fabricated colony lab and equipments
-lab pod/ solar sail deployer
Even with scientific breakthroughs found by the ship, The Ship itself is a breakthrough in terms of spacecraft engineering and colonization of labs.
Now here's a bio of the ISEC ORION
BIO:
ISEC ORION
(Inter.Stellar.Exploration.Craft)
~Created by: Inter.Exploration.Corporation.
~Used by: Scientists and energy companies/ I.E.C.
~Usage: To Explore and discover new Planets and worlds and to set colonies for studies and development
Length: 6,887.99232 m
Width: 862 m
Height: 354 m
Speed: 210,000 miles per second
Crew: 25 originally, now only 10
Passengers: 300
Cargo:
- 3 Trans-Atmospheric Vechicles
- 540 tons of cargo and consumables
- one fabricated colony lab center
- 25 extra life pods
That's right I actually did research on stuff invloved with this. XD
Hope you like it! ^^
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Comments: 19
Nuclear propulsion engines, like using the shock-wave from exploding nukes to propel the ship forward?
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Awesome concept. Would you mind if I made it into a model?
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Sorry about the late reply; But Thank you.^^ of course you can, if you still would like to.
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Wouldn't you be able to make the ship a lot lighter if the engines were at the front, so you would have a tensile truss instead of a long pillar? Then you could just have a shadow shield aft of the engines to protect the people tank.
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the engines are actually at the front, but the reason the Orion doesn't have a tensile truss structure is that it holds more sensitive components that would be at a higher risk of contamination from radiation, so it's protected by the pillar structure. ^^
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Ah,OK. I thought that the nearer end was the stern.
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Damn that thing is LONG! And insanely awesome! Reminds me a lot of the ISV Venture Star from Avatar because of all the detail put in it. Are you going to do more drawings with those shuttles?
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looks great love the structure. and the logo.
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Inspired by it, but mostly on project: valkyrie. ^^
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This is increddible. Absolutly incredible. So incredible, in fact, that I am absolutly convinced that real-life intergalactic starships will look and function almost exactly like the one you drew here! Great job!
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Besides, it makes sense!
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Wow, nice work! I applaud to your sense of realism (or at least internal consistency). Only a couple of things border on magitech, other than that it's a fairly plausible hard-SF design.
But first of all, 210,000 mps? Isn't that 113% the speed of light? How does it achieve that, does it have some special technology or something?
I've been researching the Valkyrie design too, but at first I thought you were inspired by the ISV Venture Star from Avatar, until I saw the date say January '09. I think James Cameron kinda... stole scenes from this drawing for his film. 
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Thank you! ^^
Well, to answer your question, from what I learned about the Valkyrie, is that since it runs on a "train" design, the weight of the ship would be substantially much less than that of a spacecraft that uses a "push" thrust. (I think having to do with the more weight, twice the fuel needed idea), and since it's "lightweight" the ship can devote most of it's structure to the engines instead of the fueltanks.
I think it also has to do with the antimatter thrust the engines would be able to produce; since antimatter is highly volatile in energy when "annihilated" with just a small amount, an enormous fuel supply of matter would be used to react with the antimatter to produce an enormous thrust, and when projected correctly with powerful magnetic coils, the engines can produce a velocity thrust of up to 12-20% the speed of light, and would gradually increase until in switchs to (I guess what the theory calls) "Pure matter- antimatter annihilation", which would be used to reach to 113% speed of light like you said. ^^
But in general, this is a theoretical spacecraft.
I was actually inspired by James Camerons' ISV Venture Star, but mostly for the overall sense of design.
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Actually, no object with any rest mass whatsoever can approach the speed of light if you follow general relativity. To overcome the speed of light you would actually need to have negative mass, which is impossible without some very speculative future physics, and any conventional reaction drive is limited in speed to the speed of the particles it launches from the exhaust (for example, the real Valkyrie would be using pions, which travel at near-light speed, and it can reach 0.92c), so to travel at 1c, you would need use photons in your exhaust, because they're the only ones that travel at such speed. Unfortunately, since they're practically massless, there is nothing "faster and even more massless" in the universe that you can use. To reach near-light speeds is to encounter infinite resistance.
In addition, due to time dilation, time would stand still inside the ship if it travels at 1c, and if it would travel at more than 1c, it would effectively be traveling back in time due to causality (which I'm sure you don't want for this ship to be able to).
Now, there are many science-fiction shortcuts around this pesky Einstein thing, but it usually involves bending space, creating wormholes, etc.
Atomic Rocket is a nice site for speculative realistic space sci-fi, and it's very easy to understand even for non-science people like us, so take a look if you want.
[link]
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Wrong,scientists around the globe are discovering sup atomic particles going through the earth reaching past the speed of light.So it may be imposable right now,But technically you can go faster than light you just have to wait about 2,000 more years of human ev
evolution of physics and wallah past light speed!!
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They haven't discovered such particles. They've discovered specific particles and wave packets which travel AT the speed of light and have no mass. What you're referring to is Tachyons; which haven't been actually discovered, just suggested as potentially existing... and if they do, they are already moving faster than light and thus could never be used for propulsion since they cannot be created with any known method.
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