@LymphOwned god ekranoplans are so fucking cool. I made one of my lancer worlds an extremely flat salt plain planet just so i could excuse making GEVs the primary form of transport
Close up of an S-11 medium civilian Ground Effect Vehicle usually referred to as the 'Hopper'. While they fill a wide variety of roles from disaster relief, to mid-speed civilian transport or, in this particular configuration, ecological survey.
#Aircraft#scifiart
Europa? No, never been, stranger. You must have me confused with someone else. But if I had? If I had felt my skin freeze to my thermsuit? Faced down zealots in the icefields? And survived? Why, that'd make me an awfully dangerous man, now wouldn't it? Think on that, stranger.
You gotta laugh where you can. You gotta find the little joys in life. You gotta imagine the look on the admiral's face when the Venusian icebreaker fleet crumbles against a pykrete bulwark. What else can you do.
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