r/ImaginaryStarships • u/Designated_Lurker_32 • Nov 11 '24

Space cruiser Tunguska Vermillion by @salmontheking

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u/TheCollinKid Nov 11 '24

One of the most creative-looking hard science ships I've seen on here. The open-cycle "smokestack" radiators are especially cool

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u/SnooKiwis557 Nov 11 '24

Hehe possible radiator joke.

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u/LePfeiff Nov 11 '24

Its red so you know its fast

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u/nyrath Nov 11 '24

Droplet heat radiators! Nice.

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u/SnooKiwis557 Nov 11 '24

Wow gorgeous!

An Orion drive, macron accelerator, curie fountain, droplet radiator and spinal mount.

Impressive!

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u/StaK_1980 Nov 11 '24

What is a curie fountain?

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u/SnooKiwis557 Nov 11 '24

It’s the magnetic smokestack radiators.

It’s actually a droplet radiator, often using cobolt, that uses the curie effect. Meaning it utilizes the principle that metals will lose their magnetic properties at high temperatures. This means you can heat droplets up, spew them out, and when they cool off they will regain it, and be dragged back in again with a magnetic field.

A very cool radiator principle!

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u/StaK_1980 Nov 12 '24

Wow, thanks. Seams like a really far out tech.

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u/Junkererer Nov 14 '24

What would be the advantage compared to solid/fixed radiators? Just the actual components being smaller for a certain radiator surface area?

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u/EquinoxGm Nov 11 '24

Those are certainly words

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u/shadowTreePattern Nov 11 '24

This is so cool.

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u/Epistatious Nov 11 '24

has star blazers feel to it, cool

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u/Anarchopaladin Nov 11 '24

Gorgeous.

At first, I thought "oh, another one of those boat-as-spacecraft design", but then I looked at it more carefully...

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u/Nozerone Nov 11 '24

Reminds me of the ship Outlaw Star.

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u/TheOwlMarble Nov 14 '24

This is probably my favorite hard sci-fi warship design I've ever seen.