A Quick Sketch

I did this sketch at breakfast the other day, so it’s not really detailed or clean.

It has the usual engines on the shoulders, plus additional units in the hips (right next to the center of gravity). The long booms on the thrust pods are the housings for the deployable heat sinks. The latter can be retracted because you really don’t want such fragile yet vital structures to fall prey to collisions or enemy fire. The circle in the middle chest is the universal docking adapter. The boom behind the head is to give a better field of vision to the comm laser (the thing on top of the boom — I should have put a sort of lens there).

Problem I have with this design: still too needlessly humanoid. There’s no sensible reason why you would need a single head unit instead of distributed sensor pods. Also, I just realized that I haven’t thought about the hardpoints for the fuel tanks, tools or seekers.

Back to the drawing board.

Posted by vman at September 24, 2006 05:39 PM