Work Study: Templar Spear Cutter

I thought pre-production was done- then I remembered that I needed to work up a conveyance for the Templar squad. Knowing a bit of Shalun Law and some of its tenets, I don't think they're big fans of automation, necessitating a crew. The Cutter has three decks, a twin shuttle bay, cargo and vehicle ramps and retractable docking collars. Weapons come in the form of quad torpedo tubes along the forward centerline and retractable dorsal and ventral guns in the wedge-shaped section forward of the bridge.

Work Study: Leviathan Powered Armor

At the risk of revealing part of the plot, I needed to put together a technical model of the Leviathan suit, so here it is. Eventually I will need to add a view of it open for Egress the way I did with the Samson suit. The Leviathan will open similarly from the front,: the difference being the helmet must be removed first before the torso glacis plate raises up over the head. I may also add a detachable Manned Maneuver Unit pack that mounts over the standard power and atmo pack. I think I read that the Leviathans use miniaturized void reactors as a power source so I thought to include them, the reactor shielding, coolant and 12 hour air supply to the service pack- with perhaps a 30 minute backup supply of atmo in the suit itself.

This is the standard suit: the scout suit looking functionally identical but less bulky. Andrew's helmet's for the scout and Neptune are detailed enough that I didn't really need to work them out.

Cephalic Courier 4

Cephalic Courier

An ongoing story serially posted at the forum for Trese Brother's Games
Set in the world of Cyber Knights RPG
Written by shards

Trese Brothers Forums

Here goes nothing.

My name is Calico Hotomatsu. I work for Cyberdyne Medical Tech. This is my job. I am supposed to be here.
Walk through front door. Say hi to security guard. Ignore the gun don't pay attention to the gun. Place clipboard on the conveyer belt, followed by a pack of gum, four paper clips and a pile of lint. Turn out my pockets in front of the guard. I unhook my ExecuTazer from the complementary leg harness it came with and add it to the pile, flash the cam my permit. Calico's permit.
I had to leave my DX4 at home. I feel naked. How I'm going to hack into anything from anywhere I have no idea.

Cephalic Courier 3

Cephalic Courier

An ongoing story serially posted at the forum for Trese Brother's Games
Set in the world of Cyber Knights RPG
Written by shards

Trese Brothers Forums

"I don't like it."
"That's fine, Clive. I don't pay you to like it."
Scorpion solemnly cleaned his rifle.
We were camped out at Kate's in the shadow of the I-93 in the one place the corps couldn't touch: The anarchic and iconic Free Streets of the NBZ. Amidst the turbulence and oppression of gang violence and corp wars, one stretch of New Boston had managed to carve out a little segment of autonomy and free rule; but not without bullets, and not without blood.

Cephalic Courier 2

Cephalic Courier

An ongoing story serially posted at the forum for Trese Brother's Games
Set in the world of Cyber Knights RPG
Written by shards

Trese Brothers Forums

"Bacto," I say, slipping into a booth in the back of the Killing Naga club. A raise of the eyebrows tells him I've uncovered some dirt on Yakashima. I'm still a little sore from the ambush a few days ago. It seems unlikely to me that it was a setup- but somebody wasn't guarding their information well enough, and it nearly got my runner killed. That deserved retribution.

Cephalic Courier 1

An ongoing story serially posted at the forum for Trese Brother's Games
Set in the world of Cyber Knights RPG
Written by shards

Trese Brothers Forum

2:30am and I'm wired on cramshot. There's a quantum cryptochip fused to my spine that is in turn wetwired to an internal circuit complex containing a metric slagtonne of Yakashima paydata. And there's three guys following me.

Custom Star Traders forum avatars

A mix of Game officers, web comic characters and equipment models for the comic.

Work Study: Weapons, Support and Ground Vehicles

The Multi-purpose Armored All-terrain Vehicle- model Five is a House Thulun light military armored rover with a wide range of features and highly imported in both military and commercial/civilian markets throughout the quadrant. Armored access panels for the engine, sensors, and environmental control systems protect vital components. An air-tight door separates the two-person cab from the rear compartment, which can seat five (or two in powered armor) and allows either to function as an airlock. Emergency gear and provisions are stored under each seat or in floor compartments. Tools for field repairs can be found in armored wheel hubs and in lockers under the front doors. Emergency hatches are installed in the roof above either front seat. An 'open' turret can be installed above the front 'shotgun' side emergency hatch with a pintle mount for a light support weapon. A rear hatch allows access to the rear compartment, and an optional main turret can carry light support cannon, missiles, and so on.

The Outlander Haegan

This is one of the short stories that I wrote for the Heroes of Steel KickStarter.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tresebrothers/heroes-of-steel-fantasy-rpg

Andrew

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Hagaen’s loping pace was irregular compared to the orderly unit of soldiers moving along the road. He trotted to his own tune, moving ahead a little and then lagging behind. Sometimes he was ahead to look over the next rise in the cavern floor and other times falling back to watch for danger. Always he kept at a distance, maybe eighty paces, shadowing their progress through the rough and uneven territory. It was not proper scouting, Haegen knew. However, they had not hired him for scouting, nor sneaking nor for hiding. They had hired the Outlander for muscle, for the two short blades he kept drawn as he trotted along, but more importantly for the warhammer he kept slung across his back.

Work Study: Cadar Cruiser, Shuttle, and Goblin

The Cadar Standard is a military-grade utility shuttle for Cadar's navy. Usually armed with a turret or fixed weapons and features a pair of oversized engines, allowing easy boost to orbit. However its lack of wings makes for poor low altitude and low speed performance outside its hover mode provided by six vertical thrusters. The shuttle's normal crew is two with folding seating for an additional ten. The payload bay is modular, allowing for a wide variety of additional roles, from cargo and personnel ferry to electronic warfare jammer to ELINT.

The Goblin is a sublight extra-atmospheric light shuttle with a crew of two, fold-out seating for an additional 8, and can carry up to five tons of cargo into orbit. A pair of retractable wings provides stability and maneuverability in atmosphere. The cargo compartment is separate from the small cabin, and can be depressurized as an airlock. Usually carries a single fuel cell-driven 4-wheel ATV and 2 weeks worth of emergency air, survival rations and water for the crew as well as survival E-suits under the seats. Sanda's Slay carries one Goblin-class shuttle which is armed with a pair of 20mm Gauss rifles.

Other Fan Art: BattleTech

Work on the big webcomic is coming along nice but slowly. To tide people over- and to keep traffic going here I thought I would show some work I've done before that some of you might recognize.

BattleTech

Leopard class dropships