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Okay, I really need to start doing daily doodles before streaming art for nearly 11 hours and not after. ^^'

Anyway. Whilst the primary lift technology which powers all large craft requires periodic resting at sea level, the secondary technology which powers small ship's boats does not share this limitation. It thus sees much application in inland skyships for interior regions. This system is much, much bulkier, consuming as much as half the interior space, and the raw materials are in short supply, so most skyships of this type are quite modest in size. As sources and production increase, no doubt larger ships will become possible, likely supplanting the older, more limited lift systems. The bizzare 'inertial drag' of the big lift systems is also drastically reduced, so powerplants can be much reduced in size and output; alternatively, greater speeds can be reached.

I don't know which nation, but this would not be an atypical inland patrol vessel of the early 1780s. Coal-fired, with two 150mm or so mountings topside and three ~80mm guns in ventral mounts allowing some depression fire, but rather limited in traverse. I should have bulged out the lower hull to the sides, but even so, some of the arc of fire limitation of certain ventral mountings quickly becomes apparent.

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Clip Studio Paint, Cintiq 22HD. © Avatar Z Brown
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Description
Okay, I really need to start doing daily doodles before streaming art for nearly 11 hours and not after. ^^'

Anyway. Whilst the primary lift technology which powers all large craft requires periodic resting at sea level, the secondary technology which powers small ship's boats does not share this limitation. It thus sees much application in inland skyships for interior regions. This system is much, much bulkier, consuming as much as half the interior space, and the raw materials are in short supply, so most skyships of this type are quite modest in size. As sources and production increase, no doubt larger ships will become possible, likely supplanting the older, more limited lift systems. The bizzare 'inertial drag' of the big lift systems is also drastically reduced, so powerplants can be much reduced in size and output; alternatively, greater speeds can be reached.

I don't know which nation, but this would not be an atypical inland patrol vessel of the early 1780s. Coal-fired, with two 150mm or so mountings topside and three ~80mm guns in ventral mounts allowing some depression fire, but rather limited in traverse. I should have bulged out the lower hull to the sides, but even so, some of the arc of fire limitation of certain ventral mountings quickly becomes apparent.

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Clip Studio Paint, Cintiq 22HD. © Avatar Z Brown
Tumblr Twitter Picarto Patreon