- CS-370 - HARPY -
_Cargo Spaceplane is a term coined by NASA while developing the Space Shuttle program and is used to describe a craft that can haul cargo both through space as well as to the surface of a planet flying through it's atmosphere with standard modes of propulsion.
_Harpy In Greek and Roman mythology is a half-human and half-bird personification of strong storm winds.
Their name can also means 'snatchers' or 'swift robbers' which is perfectly suitable for a smuggling ship.
Their name can also means 'snatchers' or 'swift robbers' which is perfectly suitable for a smuggling ship.
_INSPIRATION
_Placed a few more decades in the future, after the series ended, CS-370 is a cargo shuttle with a design mainly based on civilian designs from the series like Lunar Shuttle, UN One, or Razorback, but the main organic shape is inspired by the original Roci concept art by Jeremy Hanna from Weta Workshop.
_PENCILE Sketches
_It is also utilizing a Blended Body Design that reduces drag and improves fuel efficiency which also makes it easy to add stealth capabilities since it's shape already reduces radar reflections.
_DIGITAL Sketches
_MODELING Clay
_3D_MODEL SubD Modeling
_NURBS Adding details
_DETAILS, stripes and decals
Adding markings and a new transport union _independent faction logo.
_SIZE, PROJECTIONS
Having a crew of 3,
This Chonker of a cargo ship is lengthwise almost the same as the old relic _C-130 Hercules, though her cargo space, being much wider is also shorter and a bit smaller in capacity - up to _17 metric tons allowing for a tiny space to combine a crew _rec and sleeping quarters. Which are absolutely necessary while on a longer journeys through the _Ring Network, on it's hauling missions to far away colonies and Galaxies.
_RENDERINGS of a finalized design.
_BACKGROUND - Screengrab from the final season of- The Expense - Where Roci is exiting the Ring Gate.
_CS-370 -HARPY- While bringing it’s cargo, medicaments and necessary materials for constructing settlements and creating machinery to start local productions, She can land on improvised, damaged and neglected landing strips and pads using Her Atmosphere VTOL Capabilities.
