By nogoodnames
10/18/2013 - 02:36:14
Type: Spaceship
Rating: 0.14 (Not rated)
Tags: nogoodnames, xandor
Description
The creators of the xandor became aware of their impending doom a few mere decades before the death of their civilization. With an admirable cooperative effort they created this ship and two others like it. Equipped with an experimental Alcubierre, 200 cryogenically frozen colonists and a library of genetic code, these ships were meant to preserve the race by creating new homes among the stars. Unfortunately, the speed at which the ships were designed and built meant they lacked any rigorous testing. The Salvation's reactor suffered a catastrophic failure shorter after its departure due to flaws in the containment structure which were exacerbated by the stresses of the warp drive. With the area too irradiated to repair, the ship was left adrift without power at the edge of the solar system. With no rescue possible and life support failing, the crew gradually succumbed to radiation, carbon dioxide poisoning or the cold of space. Eventually even the cryosleep chambers and DNA records failed, leaving nothing but a pockmarked wreck.
However, there is a silver lining . Millenia later, the xandor found the wreck and were able to reverse engineer its FTL drive, taking to the stars their precursors died trying to reach.
By AnkhAnanku
:( not much of a silver lining, but I guess that depends on which one you are. I love the shape and the style of this ship.
By TheShipBuilder
Very cool :)
By twistingwinds
ace! very nicely put together ship.Has a good sence of scale about it also
By Fenrir_22
Organic looking? Well that was exactly what I wanted to have. Thank you! Nice sleeper ship, and interesting story behind it. It's the consensus, that AGI-controlled robots are always evil, but the Xandor seem to be quite nice.. ;)
By krcmar
Nicely made, I like the ring
By JamesV00
Nice ship. :-)