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@hailsanta.bsky.social
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TTRPG illustrator, OSR pedant, space nerd. I love fielding questions about my work, worldbuilding, etc. and miss the old forum days.

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Yeah, though I don't sweat the details; warmup art is mostly free of technical questions.
December 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Yeah -- while my views on how the spacecraft in the Mothership 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘵 book aren't canon beyond my table, the ship was designed as an MMO Medusa and has a bit of math behind it WRT shielding, capacitor mass, etc.
December 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
'Morlock' is a non-diegetic name for the clade that makes up the Hall of Philosopher Kings.

As an initial matter, they are a project (one of many) of a long-dead civilization to escape an endless cycle of agrarian misery by creating woke orcs.
December 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Is the tree also a person here?
December 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It's remarkable to see how far you've come as an artist in such a short time. Great work as always!
December 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Infographic stylised to look like a grungy photocopied piece of paper. A sharp, gritty render of the ship shown previously is visible. Various blocks of text point to different sections of the ship. They read as follows (from left to right): "Hypermetric chamber | By leveraging the Igelkott effect, a region of ANEC-violating spacetime is created within the chamber. This is blown out to form a "bigger on the inside" space, often many hundreds of meters to kilometers in size. Useful for storing large amounts of materials in a space-efficient manner. Its throat is not a true (forbidden) wormhole, as it does not change the topology of spacetime." "Communication & sensors | The ravenous vacuum saps energy from any transmissions making the hours-long trek from ship to Home and back. Large, sensitive, ears are needed to pick up these distant calls. A lot of the sensors are mostly vestigial: we know there's nothing beyond Home, no point in double-checking." "Airlock & habitat | It's awfully cramped, yet strangely cosy. It can feel at times as if the confines of the living space is all there is to the universe. There are no windows, nothing to see out there anyway." "Reaction control system thrusters | A single Mystery Drive cannot provide sideways or rotational motion, so conventional RCS thrusters are still helpful." ""Mystery Drive" Reactionless thrust structure | The ship's main method of forward (and backwards) propulsion. After receiving only a moderate amount of startup power, the Mystery Drive is able to produce thrust from seemingly nowhere, and with no exhaust to speak of. It is a perversion of thermodynamics. The people who gifted us the blueprints looked as if they had seen a ghost." Underneath the ship is an arrow marking the length of it as 270 meters. In the bottom right is a portrait of someone with antennas atop their head. Besides them it reads: "OPERATOR | IND-33385421 Cassi | Feeling "decently positive about the whole thing"."
December 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM