The Ophelia

Aka - Let's show off the new BGs we've acquired so far!

The RS Ophelia is a 150 metre long deep space research vessel. Top of the line and owned by a private business based on Pelmiri IV, it's not a very big ship comparatively speaking.. It is top of the line and very well cared for.

There are hexagons everywhere and more lens flares than you can shake a stick at. But we embrace that stuff here. Are you even in space if you don't have some lens flares?

The one direction I tried to hammer home to the BG artists (both of them) is that I did not want everything the same texture and I didn't want it the same colour.

A lot of times in science fiction settings everything feels really sterile and monochromatic. Everything is shiny or everything is the exact same level of matte. Everything is grey, or everything is white.

I don't want to hate on any aesthetics but in order to differentiate WSC, I really wanted the ship to feel a little more alive than that. So I'm trying to make sure that we get some colour and texture into these backgrounds so that there's a little more vibrancy to this location since the player is going to spend a bit of time here and I don't want it to be too dull.

The Crew

I think Noel may say, in the current demo, that there are 15 crew members aboard but its full compliment is 30. This is somewhat altered in the current version of the scrip where the full compliment is still 30 but the crew is 22 members strong (about 10 of these crew members, will probably never be seen or interacted with).

Many of the senior staff have multiple specialities and functions - such as Noel, who is the captain but is also an astro-geologist.

Named Crew:

Captain: Noel Romero ✨

First Officer: Fraise Eriks

Pilot and Virtuoso: Asher Dioscuri ✨

Operations: Daazlon Cree ✨

Communications: Gates Rhiner

Life Support Specialist: Yren Ladon ✨

Xeno-Tech Specialist: Kav'isari Tiaine ✨

Head Engineer: Raif Atlas ✨

Assistant Engineer: Cimryn Alexei

Chief Medic: Lirin Eriks

Armory Officer: Kayto Rui

Propulsion and Travel

Like most ships, The Ophelia has several means of propulsion. It has a sub-light speed engine that it uses when travelling in normal space.

It can travel in the "meridians" (a sort of gravitational superhighway that flows through the galaxy and is powered by...basically everything that possesses gravity.) The meridians are used to achieve super light speeds as the ship essentially coasts through on the gravitational current. However, even at 4-5 times the speed of light, this is still really slow travel and would take months or years to get anywhere. It's generally used for short distance travel between gates, worlds or important locations in deep space and far outside the wormhole nexus.

It also has a hyper gate resonance system that allows it to resonate with the hyper gate system and enter the wormhole nexus for extremely fast travel through the galaxy.

And finally, it has something called a "sympanian" chamber that is used to amplify star song to facilitate Asher's folding ability for instantaneous travel across long distances.

Life Support

The ship uses a bio-organic life support system that uses plants to create breathable air for the crew. There is a vast garden in the centre of the ship with a thriving ecosystem, including some small animals and insects. There are plants found throughout the ship; sometimes for decoration and sometimes as part of the life support.

Interesting Areas

In the game (as of right now), the areas the player gets to see are the bridge, several corridors, cargo 02 (maybe cargo 01 too but realistically...they're the same BG LoL), a decontamination room, space lab 01, the galley/mess hall, medical/infirmary, MC's bedroom, the observation deck, the maintenance ducts, the engine room, and the central garden.