Starships 1

I love me some starships, and I love me THESE starships. I might have mentioned how I'm into a groove with my art, but I am into quite a groove with the art for this project. The first two ships are different common ship types (among the shuttles, escort ships, and light freighters that are most available as junkers) that the third is a basic interceptor class ship (your no-frills BSG Viper class ship, or maybe an A-Wing with less maneuverability). At least one more ship to come later today...

I think that the first ship is a light freight hauler. It seems that freight would be packaged in box-like storage pods, and the hauler (think of the cab for an 18-wheeler) would use magnetic riggings to sit atop and lift the cargo. Most cargo would be transferred from space dock to space dock - you do all the hauling in zero gravity. Taking cargo from orbit to a planet's surface might be done by another craft; I'm thinking that heavier lifters would be required for that, but in zero gravity you don't need a huge ship with a lot of muscle to carry things across long distances. Therefore, these smaller, light haulers would be pretty common. The second ship is more of an escort ship or a rich person's personal transport; it's a very fancy mobile home in space, or a small interstellar yacht. That third one is a short-range interceptor: your basic patrol craft. I'd think that these would be very common, and even minor warlords may have been able to get hands on a few to use for routine patrolling of their small nations.    

By the way, I really, really like that these ships don't look like they necessarily belong in Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica, but they do look like they come from the same shared universe. That's all win to me.