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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 1h

Glide mode, with pivoting twin railgun mount and wing thrusters

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 1h

'Peregrine' Orbital Strike Fighter

Marker sketch of a craft designed to dive from extreme altitudes to deliver railgun sabot at incredible velocity

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 15h

Gundam does minovsky particles, Star Trek does di-lithium... everybody's got some crutch I suppose when it comes to explaining the tech. I think it's a balancing act of trying not to get too bogged down with the science to the point of making things boring

🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 22h

I was given a handful of style cues, from WWII and modern tanks, to Heavy Gear and WH40k, so I'm glad it came together as something coherent lol

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 22h

In terms of the beam swords, I just never mess with energy fields so perfect and shapable that they could make something like a blade, and definitely not so small they fit in the palm of your mech's hand. Seems like a leap made to appease folks who love seeing stuff get sliced in half lol

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 22h

I love trying to plot this stuff out and figuring out the path of technology. Separating their development into generations, figuring out how big mechs came to be more effective than conventional armor or aircraft, etc.

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 1d

'Rickoss'
Marksman Warsuit

Marker drawing of a warsuit, nicknamed the Rickoss. 1st-gen craft. Carries a long rifle and two missile pods

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 1d

I have never built so many kits so fast in my life lol

Messala, Quebely and Kshatriya kits on top of my display case

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 1d

Scraped my leg on a wooden banister 6 days ago and now it's a huge scab, and my other leg has sympathy bruising that I just noticed, what even is getting old

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 1d

As long as it's not this guy

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 1d

I had an idea where the mote scavenger-oriented groups would cut up old ship hulls and line them with more modern armor plating to create shields

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 1d

I've drawn a couple of PB's before, but it's definitely something to look into 🤔

The Krisi and Datura both have pile bunkers, and the Fulgore has one in each knee.

🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 1d

Melee in Outer Era is essentially "bonk, but with extremely hard materials and narrow impact area". Using swords against armor is kind of a ridiculous concept to me. And beam sabers are too Star Wars coded for my tastes. Melee weapons typically have mechanisms to swap out damaged "strike faces"

'Sonoria' custom melee warsuit. Built for closing ranks and eliminating enemies with it's massive sword, the Sonoria also carries a shotgun slung under the left forearm, missiles in the shoulders, and a small shield.

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 2d

You might not like what they designed it for as much, but yeah I went very purpose-built with this one. Thanks ^^

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 2d

🤖

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 2d

It might be a little simplistic but I got this cool new rule for government that I think will fix a lot of problems, here goes:

If you're a dumb, corrupt piece of shit, or if your goals are anything but solving problems for the lower class working up? Get Fucked 👍

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 3d

How did you make pipes sexy

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 3d

Like, that's very clearly a Sister of Battle from 40k. You announce in your bio that it's inspired by Star Wars, Trek, Dune and others but it's literally just ripping style points from talented people. I'll never understand that level of Duning-Kruger man

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 3d

Bagged another AI page following me, apparently building a tabletop called Starvinity. A bunch of very obvious AI-generated scenes that couldn't possibly tell a coherent story, a bunch of the content of which was directly ripped from other stuff. WEAK SHIT

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 3d

It's basically impossible to interpret anything this administration has done as anything but an act of sabotage against the US. We let old libertarian circle-jerks team up with Nazi memelords and now they're stripping the copper out of the walls and blaming whatever convenient minority they see

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10d

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 3d

Almost as cringe as the bots trying to frame AI as a leftist tool of revolution

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 3d

So glad I redrew this one

Juno, Interdictor Warsuit

Digital Illustration

Imagine jack-booted cops, but in space

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🌒Cosmic_Flotsam🌘 @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social · 4d

Abstracting a humanoid form farther and farther from its natural base to get that Weird Squat Artillery Guy vibe

Pulled in references, lowered the center of gravity and messed with weapon alignments

Redraw with full loadout and camouflage colors. Squat artillery craft with twin guns, each with magazine-based auto-loaders.

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