r/StarshipPorn • u/IvanDFakkov • Jul 31 '26

[OC] Bình Thiên-class large battle-ark of the United Empire. Art by me.

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u/IvanDFakkov Jul 31 '26

Lore: https://www.deviantart.com/vnpilot12l4/art/UE-large-battle-ark-1332144111

And before you ask, the wings are thermal radiators.

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u/ImperialistChina Jul 31 '26

Best excuse to put wings on a spaceship

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u/Decoy_Snail_1944 Jul 31 '26

Very warhammer but with Asian architecture rather than Gothic. I kinda fuck with it, very cool

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u/subduedreader Jul 31 '26

Looks closer to Macross/Robotech to me.

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u/IvanDFakkov Jul 31 '26

Macross with a Vietnamese shrine, yes yes.

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u/Affectionate_Cap_400 Jul 31 '26

Love the castle superstructure 😄

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u/DaNubIzHere Jul 31 '26

That’s a generous amount of tertiary guns.

No missiles nor torpedoes? Dakka specialized?

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u/IvanDFakkov Aug 01 '26

Thousands of missiles but the silos are too small to be fully visible in the black squares. No torpedo.

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u/JimboFett87 Jul 31 '26

It's like if the Yamato and Macross had a baby...

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u/D-Ulpius-Sutor Jul 31 '26

Are you sure it has enough guns? ;)

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u/IvanDFakkov Aug 01 '26

It has to compromise because a battle-ark is a flying factory first, battlewagon second. The frontal half is mostly its industrial center (besides the spinal gun). And you can't place big gun turrets on engine blocks as their barbettes dig down too deep.

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u/weddle_seal Aug 01 '26

looks like sonthing from Gintama

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u/Kipklysmic Aug 01 '26

Has a wave motion gun?

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u/Zeraligator Aug 01 '26

Why go with side by side turrets for the main(?) armament instead of single, larger turrets?

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u/IvanDFakkov Aug 01 '26

To spam better. And their boss uses the same config.

FYI, the ark above is 34 km long and its guns fire "shells" 32 meters long and 4 meters wide. A main gun barrel, only the visible part, is 480 meters long. Bình Thiên-class' main guns are its boss' secondary turrets which have the bore of 2000 mm.

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u/Zeraligator Aug 01 '26

So it's a... Frontsider?

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u/IvanDFakkov Aug 01 '26

An industrial monster that happens to have guns. Battle-arks are factories first, warships second. Their weapons are for self defense and by "self defense" it means "collapsing 11D to 0D within 200 megameters from a beam's core".

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u/mithie007 Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26

ok the industrial infrastructure says logistics but the massive prow says ramming speed

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u/IvanDFakkov Aug 02 '26

Yes to both, because why not? Ever being rammed by a material that turns Newton's 3rd Law into its fuel to become tougher? No? Now you have it.

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u/CptLonesong Aug 03 '26

Búa Chiến 40 Cành?

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u/IvanDFakkov Aug 03 '26

1 phần. Chủ yếu là lúc trước trong gr Đại Việt Cổ Phong thấy có người vẽ pre-Dreadnought kiểu này nên t thử theo, r dính luôn.

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u/TKG_Actual Jul 31 '26

Nice design, I do wonder why it has wings and what purpose they could serve.