The Armory - Guns, Knives, and Axes

[Montegriffo]

Earth in a sunbeam, one of the last photos we got from the Voyager missions.

[Smitty-48]

Like real Jupiter instead of movie Jupiter.

[Smitty-48]

It's like Spacemarica tech is all in a NASA motif. It's inspired by the Saturn V and the Space Shuttle

It's futuristic NASA, but it still has the NASA look to it.

[Montegriffo]

The shadows of the moons on Jupiter's surface are awesome. Total eclipse.

[Montegriffo]

It's like Spacemarica tech is all in a NASA motif. It's inspired by the Saturn V and the Space Shuttle

It's futuristic NASA, but it still has the NASA look to it.

It needs to look real, we don't need anymore Transformer movies.
Big CGI machines fighting other big CGI machines has been done to death.

[Smitty-48]

Yeah, the real space look, not the movie version.

That's how I see space in my head, I don't see Star Wars / Star Trek movie space.

And the weapons and whatnot are just updated versions of what we have now.

So there's no "blasters' nor 'laser-bolts'

When the Apollos spring an ambush in the rock fields, it's tracer fire. Tracers work fine in a vacuum.

[Montegriffo]

More Kubrik less Lucas.

[Smitty-48]

It's like Spacemarica tech is all in a NASA motif. It's inspired by the Saturn V and the Space Shuttle

It's futuristic NASA, but it still has the NASA look to it.

It needs to look real, we don't need anymore Transformer movies.
Big CGI machines fighting other big CGI machines has been done to death.

For the XV-11B I just started with the concept that it's sort of like a Gundam, except it looks like the Space Shuttle

The head looks like a compressed Space Shuttle 'face" with the windows as the 'eyes', the heat shield black nose cone part is more like a face mask

So it doesn't look like a cartoon, it's not like anime style,

[Montegriffo]

Looking back at Saturn in the rear view mirror.

[Smitty-48]

Looking back at Saturn in the rear view mirror.

Okay so see that shadow? Now that ring is all rocks. Some are big, some are small, it's debris.

That is where the XV-11 Bravo fights, the rings of saturn are like jungle. everything is close quarters in there.

But in that shadow, it's pitch black, so that's the space jungle at night.

It's war, so nobody has their lights on, so you can hide in the dark in that shadow,

And there's so much dust in there, all your thermal imagers and whatnot are degraded

So you are picking your way forward through the rocks with no light, no radar, and grainy imaging.

And behind any rock, there could be a close contact.

Most mil sci fi does Normandy Beach in Space, this is Vietnam in Space,

To include hand signals, since you can't use your radio, that will give you away.

Apollo Eleven Bravo. Space Infantry.