Polaris – Other Ship Concepts

As promised, here is a collection of other ship designs for the Polaris project. These are still under review and subject to change, but they were still fun to do regardless of how or if they wind up being used.

United Worlds Ship Concepts

There are some common elements to these designs, all inspired by certain characteristics of the Polaris. They all have disc shapes in various configurations, which I am interpreting as a key element of United Worlds FTL drive technology. Also, the two on the right follow the Polaris trend of a “vertical” profile, taking traditionally horizontal shapes and turning them on-edge. Another feature common to all but the upper left design is a longitudinally-stacked deck configuration. I suppose the one in the upper left could have that, too, but it makes less sense with the way its hull is shaped. Perhaps that one could turn out to be a Transhuman Authority (the opposing faction in the Polaris universe) design.

On an artistic note, I really had a blast with these sketches, trying out a few new techniques, and I actually completed all of them in less than two hours. I made a deliberate effort not to overthink them, which I have a tendancy to do, to just let the pencil flow and see what came out of it, and I think I wound up with some fairly original results.