Niðavellir Shipyard: B12 - Greenhouse space station

Niðavellir Shipyard

The Nidavellir Shipyard is a large UCM Shipyard hidden far away from any planetary system.
After the scattering of humans after the first Scourge attack many ships used their ftl drives and made an random Foldspace jump just to get away. Many of this ships found themselves alone in the dark, to close to a star or a black hole and perished but some made it to an empty place in space. And that’s how the Nidavellir belt was discovered. A collection of large rocks, asteroids in different sizes and collection of dust and sand. Exactly how this place come to be, far from any sun, placed in between systems is not known. It is believed it was created after an extremely unlikely collision of two larger celestial body, with no stronger gravity pull in the vicinity this collection of minerals and rocks have held together by their own combined pull of each other. The scatter of large rocks and the natural background radioactivity have created a hiding place. After the survivors made contact with the now formed UCM the area have been put to good use.

Named after the Norse mythology Nidavellir, the world of the dwarves, for its rich mineral and metal resources. Perfectly for foundries and a large shipyard complex.

This is the place to produce ships...

Friday, 28 September 2018

B12 - Greenhouse space station

The B12 was and still is a Greenhouse space station. Originally constructed to offer fresh vegetables to the serving men and women of the growing human space population.

This is an luxury that strengthen the moral of the troops.

The B12 is an civilian space station with lots of specially design rooms, giving each crop or vegetable its optimum living condition. With large solar panels and a huge water tank this ship is able to provide the humans with food for an uncounted future.

I painted the "glass" windows with gloss varnish after the miniature was done to get that nice shine to it.

Seen here is a New Orleans class Strike Carrier resupplying with some freshly grown food.

Niðavellir Shipyard