Another practice drawing of Dashie:
Battlewings (125th Stellar Defence Force) insignia prototype:
Rough concept for an enemy mobile logistics and carrier starship in Battlewings, which I've started construction on already:
Finally, something I had a dream about last night:
Alright, so this is what happened:
I was watching TV in my room, until mom called me out to see something on her's (which happens all the time in real life). It was a news broadcast and they were talking about how they decommissioned all of the old "Satellite Surface Lasers" as they became obsolete, and expensive to activate. They estimated about $900,000 every one time they are activated for use. They went on to give a little history lesson on their significance...
It seems this was the earliest method of communicating with orbiting satellites in space, shooting this binary-laser beam up to them which creates a channel for a feedback loop between the individuial satellites and the surface receivers. But it became obsolete recently now that they came up with a method closer to what we have in real-life. It's funny looking back on the dream, 'cause this thing sure looks very advanced, but it also looks "overkill" advanced, like the Star Wars project of the 80's. This is probably where they "old-timey" aspect of it came from.
They went on to explain that since their recent decommission, some have been scrapped and others sold to commercial agencies, who planned to use them as this expensive light show for special events. One was even used in a music video for a popular artist (which I probably hate in real-life, given the fact that even in the dream world I said "What a waste of money and good footage of that thing!").
The scale of the laser devices themselves are impressive (and bulky!). Think radio telescope big, but convertible into a building rooftop. The one in the particular broadcast was next to an observatory, so this one was probably a former NASA machine.
I then went back to watching TV unphased about the news. Then I woke up... and as I did, I felt very strongly that this thing had always existed and was a widely-known device, just as much as a TV antenna or a satellite dish.
