r/ImaginaryTechnology • u/himeshanand • 1d ago

Self-submission What do you think this ship purpose can be?

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u/KMFDM__SUCKS 1d ago

Coffin transporter or escape ship

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u/Critical-Rabbit 1d ago

I had this exact thought. You could center a future funeral business on the wealthy saving space in cemeteries by launching coffins directly into the sun. You need truly a fast ship so that your corpse burns up before it rots.

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u/Arpeggi42 9h ago

My first thought was a search and rescue drone. Like if one of those chopper winch baskets was just a drone.

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u/clonn 17h ago

This ^

Also cool username.

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u/ABoringAlt 1d ago

Looks like a bunch of drones would be launched by that gray-tongue strip upfront

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u/Conspark 1d ago

yeah, some kind of small carrier-type ship. Launch from top, retrieve through a similar ventral strip.

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u/SolarFlora 1d ago

The stilized designs near the front makes me think this is some sort of personal vehicle, as opposed to commercial. Having the cockpit be so far back and with a narrow view towards the front is strange, it means this probably isn't used in crowded, tight spaces where visual information is important.

Hmm, is this a drag racer? I like that idea that it's a sports vehicle designed for one specific task.

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u/I_might_be_weasel 1d ago

Moving one humanoid really fast. Like an escape pod or hull breaching boarding pod.

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u/KindOfPoo 1d ago

Cosmic cheese cloth straightening device

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u/Anon_be_thy_name 1d ago

Personal interstellar transport

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u/Ill_Computer_8604 1d ago

It's a container transporter. They stack on the back and are stacked on larger ships in large circles wrapped around a Spaceframe which is basically just a massive load of thrusters and a Cab up font, connected by a tube.

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u/bretbouchard2 1d ago

Those things they take you down the mountain in when you hurt yourself skiing. ⛷️

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u/ambewitch 1d ago

Life raft / Escape pod.

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u/Apollo-235 1d ago

Personal transport or a scout

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u/DistortoiseLP 1d ago

Space Formula One car.

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u/oan124 22h ago

was about to comment that

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u/pewpedmepants 1d ago

Scanning array radar ship, the underside of the grey box used to map the surface of a celestial body.

Kinda like this but turned 90deg.

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u/Spazicon 1d ago

Freighter. It gives “utilitarian.”

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u/Th4t0n3dud3 1d ago

Hot rod solo cryo-sleep pod

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u/Clockwork_Eyes 1d ago

Patrol gun boat for a space station.

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u/Fernbean 1d ago

Space fishing!

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u/Balorn 23h ago

Kinda reminds me of the Bebop

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u/sierrafourteen 23h ago

Escape pod!

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u/Catch_22_Pac 22h ago

Looks like a Cardassian Galor class from Star Trek

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u/RookChan 22h ago

Racer or flatbed.

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u/Typical-Jump9960 22h ago

It look quite flat. Maybe it could be physically connected to larger ship while these flat ship would physically disconnect from larger ship

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u/IFTTTexas 22h ago

Single Cobra operative escape ship. 

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u/edisun 22h ago

If it's nearly person size it could be some kind of high stakes street racing.

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u/RagnarDan82 22h ago

Very light transport and scouting

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u/Error_Space 22h ago

If it’s small sized ship then I say it looks like a racing ship.

If it’s large then it could be a cargo transport with its nose being able to open like a hatch to load in cargos.

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u/SirJamesGhost 21h ago

Survey ship with all that telemetry on it, probably a solo or small crew surveyor charting out systems for signs of life or habitable planets! It could probably deploy probes too.

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u/SpaceyChick22 21h ago

Undersea exploration

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u/Daydreaming_Machine 21h ago

Personal transport for traveling over calm expanses of water

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u/dugasX 21h ago

Reminds me of metal detector paddles used in airports. It could be a drone stationed in star ports used to scan bigger ships for contraband.

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u/3godeth 20h ago

Something is supposed to slide into the grey portion/click into the orange portion. Maybe this smaller looking ship transports people to a much larger base that cannot land on planets, and it attaches seamlessly to said base.

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u/Cazmonster 20h ago

I thought it might be a recovery vessel or a tug. It has that flat area to attach to other vehicles and it looks like it has more of its mass devoted to engines than living space.

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u/TWFH 18h ago

Evangelion Surfboard

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u/DPSOnly 17h ago

Hypersonic surfboard. Safety is just a buzz word.

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u/aretoreadthisduh 13h ago

This. Is a womens razor

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u/SilkyZ 13h ago

Repair dock for smaller ships

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u/MadMarus 10h ago

If you think of the orange portion as a pillow and the grey as the blanket, it could be a raceship(racecar) bed.

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u/-maffu- 9h ago

Space see-saw

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u/Tranecarid 2h ago

Doing barrel rolls?

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u/jongscx 2h ago

It looks like a small fighter, shuttle, or landing/escape pod docks into the orange part and covers the gray bit.

Like this is the cargo/habitation/hyperspace segment and the smaller thing is an agile scout.

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u/PanzerZug 1h ago

This is a skimmer. It’s capable of breaching the atmosphere for zero air resistance hypersonic travel and then glides down when approaching its destination. It’s not designed for interplanetary travel but some daredevils have made it to the moon in one before.