r/StarshipPorn • u/IvanDFakkov • 9d ago
[OC] TK-7 carrier-based multirole anti-grav craft. Art by me. Link and lore in comment.
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u/JRL101 6d ago
Did you put this through a photocopier?
also sorta looks like a Hornet or F/A18
For some reason the wings made me with of the F14Tomcat
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u/IvanDFakkov 6d ago
No, just using my phone's and laptop's filters. It's based on VF-1, which is a transformable F-14 so yes.
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u/JRL101 4d ago
Oh err thats "Macross" right? Or "Robotech" as i remember it. But i thought they were different, but someone told me they were just japanese and english names
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u/IvanDFakkov 3d ago
Macross is the OG, Robotech is the bastardized, frankensteinized version that combined 3 different series into one and ran into a deadend.
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u/IvanDFakkov 9d ago
Link to DA: https://www.deviantart.com/vnpilot12l4/art/TK-7-carrier-based-multirole-anti-grav-craft-1338666857
And because I know a lot won't click it, here's the lore.
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Dimensions:
Armament:
Material: Pure Aetherite.
Complement: 1 pilot, 1 drone operator.
Max operational range: 1 light minute normally.
Sensors:
Shields: 2 independent layers of force fields.
Engines:
Acceleration: "Yes."
Gravity manipulator: Big YES.
Thiên Dực TK-7 carrier-based multirole anti-grav craft, mainstay "naval fighter" of the United Empire. Manufactured by Thiên Trường Z115 Arms Institute, they come in various versions with the carrier-based variant, used by the Imperial Aerospace Force, being the most numerous. They're well-known for their "biplane" configuration: A larger, upper pair of wings play the role of active thermal radiators, cooling down machines from all the wasted heat, while a smaller pair located below is used as extra weapon mounts. Same for tail and back fins, which are also radiators. The wings can sweep back to save space inside hangars, they swing independently so the upper pair can spread out while lower pair stay closed.
Powering this monster of a plane, which mounts two rotary 30 mm heat ray guns whose each barrel can vaporize 70 metric tons of tungsten in 1 microsecond, the TK-7 has 2 Bagua mini arc-reactors connected to 2 Thiên Trường TTR-17 gravity impulse engines, resulting in a total output of 400000 kN. Acceleration is insane, to the point that even though they have gravity manipulators, pilots must wear special protective suits that borderline on power armors just for G-force tolerance alone. However, not all of that energy goes to engines and guns. A considerable chunk is sucked up to its force field generators, which are the "baby" version of Imperial ships' boundaries: Each force field curls 20 dimensions into an ever-shifting topological defensive layer based on Klein bottle theory, combined with pure Yang energy from Bagua arc-reactors, forming both a mathematical and metaphysical defense. Attacks go off right on top of a force field then get "sucked" into another dimension entirely. Because "time" is also included in this 20D structure, pilots, crafts and ships do not suffer time dilation even when moving at extreme speed. Quite cheating, indeed. To break through, either overload its generators with sustained attacks or a single, concentrated heavy strike to break the bottle's bottom. And it has a backup layer below.
Like pretty much everything else of the Imperial Armed Forces, TK-7 crafts are made of Aetherite. Materializing strong/weak forces under extreme gravity, they have a stupidly low density, only a half of helium, yet gets notoriously HARDER when hit by both KEWs and DEWs. On top of that, the bare fuselage and radiators are protected by a hull-hugging wave-force resonance, made by resonating pure Yang energy with electromagnetism to form an invisible defense specifically made to counter DEWs and Yin entities. The resonance is useless against solid projectiles, but assuming they can break force fields first, then meet Aetherite plates. Besides rotary heat ray guns, they carry a large array of missiles, going from small "mini missiles" in double box launchers, 32 missiles per box, being only 100 cm long and 20 cm wide, to the big Thất Tinh TLN-13 missiles. Normally, they use conventional (read: compressed antimatter) warheads to form plasma balls to erase hostile missiles, but in rare cases, gravity warheads will be brought out. By utilizing bosonic fields interacting with higher dimensions under extreme gravity, they expand at light speed into gigantic dimensional anomalies with blackhole-like properties, such as an event horizon with proper time dilation, yet its gravity only happens inside: One craft can hover just a few meters away and suffer nothing bad at all. Intense gravity inside cut and collapse dimensional constructs, forcing conventional objects down into 0D before shrinking and imploding. Truly one of the few Aquarian weapons that can directly challenge a warship's boundaries.
Thiên Dực crafts are made to be not just a naval fighter but a multirole platform, especially to be a "leader" for the Empire's numerous Thiết Ưng TK/D drones. Because of that, they have advanced electronics, using a combination of quantum-gravity supercomputers to push computating and processing power into the realm of yottabytes per zeptoseconds, effectively making autopilots that can PREDICT near future. In operation, the pilot flies and holds highest responsibility, the AI accompanies and supports by handling situational awareness and weapon systems, while the drone operator commands companion drones.
Due to Aquaria's nature, being a star system-sized half-liquid, half-vapor sea of primordial water where gravitational resonance of tidal forces lift planet-sized floating islands, extreme plasma, electromagnetic fields, heat and stellar matter like a star's corona, normal radars die in here. The Empire, and basically all advanced enough Aquarian countries, use gravity sensors that scan for gravity footprints on 20D structure, bypassing "reality" to look from higher dimensions. That is why they do not care about radiators glowing like stars: Boundaries and force fields cover that already, but they themselves leave faint traces that can be tracked down. Infrared and lidars are used in the outer region, far from the blue giant at the center of this natural Alderson disk, since it's much colder and thus easier to pick up thermal signals.
Remember, it was made to dominate "airspace" of Aquaria. Take this craft outside of its cosmic ocean and it becomes a different beast immediately.