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Shard Concept Art (Patreon)

Published:
2023-12-19 07:05:25
Edited:
2023-12-19 07:07:18
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2026-06
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"Early designs of the Drake can rightly be said to be the template from which all other designs were born.Though the original variant's air-frame was made of lacquered wood, it wasn't long before advances in elemental alchemy allowed the creation of variants with aluminum fuselages. Leading to many jokes about coating even later designs in gold.Slower, but sturdier than the wooden designs that preceded them, the new Drake variants were for a time all-but invulnerable to enemy bolt-bow fire - with only a direct hit to the cockpit being the only real means of downing them.An advantage that was used to great effect in repelling early incursions by both Lunite and Solite reclamation forces from the Elven homeland.

Over time, the Drake's reputation for invincibility has been somewhat diminished with the growing proliferation of enchanted-ammo-belts, but the variant still remains a workhorse design amongst many Lindholmian noble houses. One of the main criticisms of the design is its rather lackluster armament, with only two aether-powered 20mm repeater cannons mounted in the nose. A deadly armament in a time where it was the only aluminium skinned beast in the skies, but decidedly lackluster in the modern age."- Artwork by Fortune Clement.

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Mario Beretic

What powers the propeller? Petrol engine or more aether shenanigans?

Blue Fishcake

Aether shennigans. It'll be covered. Suffice to say though that they are in a very real way, 'steam planes'.

Lord Dave

I love to picture. The one question besides, but related to, the propeller question from above relates to the wings. If these aircraft are power by Aether shenanigans (which I refer to its technical term of Magical BullSh*t Devices) and also provides the lift how did they develop what appears to be a functional lifting surface? With the inclusion of Aether in your stories there would have been no need or pressure to develop the science and math behind heavier than air lifting surfaces. While I can see developing a powered propeller to move what is now effectively a solid balloon through the air I wonder just what their power to weight ratio is? I honestly wonder what an engine with enough power to lift and move a traditional earth plane would do to another similar object with the same air resistance an volume but effectively zero mass. When you were describing our hero as coming from our world to their world filled with M.B.D.s and wanting to shift the balance of power I pictured him introducing the concept of lifting surfaces matched with powered flight enabling anybody to fly a plane even those without magical abilities to fly. When a Nations power is derived from the ability to dominate the skies through magically powered flying devices and is partially limited to people with sufficient magical ability a person who can provide the technological knowledge to open up the skies to everyone would change the face of the world.

Trilobyte9364

I do love the push prop design. I'm looking forward just how involved the aether is on the shards. It seems so far it runs literally everything, giving a interesting thought of, do they loose power when shooting? If the aether tanks are hit, do they explode like a ruptured steam tank? I'm guessing they are a elf design, which is why it hasn't changed much outside weapons the fuselage.

Blue Fishcake

Ugh, you've tempted me into talking about stuff I prefer to leave in book :D Unlike an airship which floats like a zeppelin, a shard is basically just a prop plane with the 'capacity' to float if it cuts down on prop speed. The same aether generating pressure to turn the prop piston is also what fills the aether-ballasts on the side. And aether, being summoned from the void, only exists in our reality for about two minutes. Use it or lose it. So the main issue is power generation. In order to float, less power to prop and guns. Star trek 'more power to the engines' comparisons abound. Of course, all this requires a mithril core - which generates aether - which is both very finite and in some ways literally priceless. The 'Shard' bit of the name relates to the size of the mithril core (engine). One only needs a shard of what would power an airship to make a prop plane. A mithril core is a hell of an advantage and makes for a very nimble turn fighter with its ability to fuck with weight. The main limitation though is quantity. Word vomit over (I'm very excited about all this)

MarakEvans

1. No obvious reason why they wouldn't experiment towards designs that generate lift in conjunction with aether. 2. Less need. Less pressure. Focus is on aether, but other studies should still exist in the background. 3. Indeed ailerons, flaps, braking surfaces, airfoils, redundancies, checklists, etc. would be something a Modern pilot should know enough to suggest to his new isekai. I expect most pilots to possess some degree of engineering knowledge; enough to diagnose, fix, or mitigate faults in the craft to safely land. To be clear, not speaking for Blue.

MarakEvans

Mass Effect Element Zero Short half-life Highly commercialized Highly weaponized(cuz humanz)

Mario Beretic

This is tickling all kinds of good things inside my broken engineer brain, all I can think of now is how your reaction aether turbine is designed. Does the aether need to go through a compression stage first or is it already at sufficiently high pressure to get the job done?

9 o’clock

Probably pretty hard to ambush anyone with all that vibrant blue smoke trailing from behind

DownhillRabbit6.1

Ok, so with the precedent established that the Drake is the progenitor aircraft of Lindholme, I'm guessing most other adjacent designs are also going to be unconventional designs; that's cool! A contra-rotored flying wing, a Push-Pull Do-335 styled Attacker requiring two pilots or a pilot with massive reserves (or the ability to use raw and refined aether at the same time), dead-ends like "tail-sitters" and wingless planes... lot's of ideas to play around with.

Marcin

Im pretty sure 20mm APIT rounds will take down everything that flies...

Blood Raven

It took me a few moments to realize it was pusher and not puller design. Thats bold for a starting full monoplane design.

Small Town Games

Not good enough Blue. You need to upload full schematics as to how every part of this plane works!

GoshDarnYouPlucium

Eh, technically an A-10 is rated for 23mm, but I’d imagine that becomes more of a theoretical distinction pretty quickly

Mario Beretic

I did mention my broken engineer brain didn't I haha

VolkMek

Was just asking in a much later post how airships look, and this shard gives me an idea. So the Push propellar design is interesting and ingenious. If the back release of aether means that it's a steam push turbine in the back with the shard core likely being in or closer to the front, then this thin's is highly maneuverable. I admit the wings are a bit larger than I imagined. The whole thing if it's ussing lighter than air methods of flight instead of speed based propoltion I imagined would have had simple maneuver wings in the back to not cause undo-lift so they would not have to slow down to stay in the battle. However, I do like that you added in a lot more maneuver fins which a high speed lighter than air aircraft could exploit in the same way as a space fighter. I appreciate that it looks areodynamic without looking like a dart. I half imagined most would look like a bullet with tiny tailwings because it's an effeciant desing that is easy to make and does not use a lot of material... but it also would have looked terrible. Where as this gives fancy hotrod feels. I am intensely curious as to how and where the weapons are mounted. Also it's interesting that these things would have need of a carrier. Do shards have a fuel time limit? Say a half hour in the sky and the pressure tank the Mithril core is refilling would be depleted enough that they have to land and let it charge as not to entirely drain the tank and drop out of the sky? The reason for the question above being that generally the nead for current aircraft carriers is fuel. It just makes aircraft patrols and missions more possible if your fuel and ammo source is right there. However if we reach the point where you can make a plane fast and hard hitting while still having the fuel capacity to take off from the states, fly across the world, patrol for several hours, and land back in the states? Aircraft carries would not be as important.

MarakEvans

Hey, Blue. I'm sorry for what I am about to post. Remember that cursed mid-mounted prop-plane? If you ever decide you want to design or fly some concept planes, there is this game called FlyOut I saw a YouTuber using to design suggestions from his chat. Chat can be a horrible master to have sometimes. https://youtu.be/ltCb-YM5cdA?si=b5N2cD_jZeLZsw-y This Stealth Cessna is one of the more recent suggestions. Don't know if you will see this, but I hope it will be a useful experience, if not a blursed one. Sincerely, Nerded-out YT-Blackhole-Victim

Trevayne

The problem is that even if the plane can fly for a couple of days straight, the pilots would have issues. You don't want pilots flying for 10-12 hours before a dogfight because they will probably lose. Range is a major reason for bringing aircraft to sea, but it isn't the only reason.