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[wbyrd]

A free trader delivers supplies to a remote facility.

model is a variant of a free trader I worked up for personal use.

 

[kilemall]

Any particular reason they chose to put the pad right on the center of an impact crater?

 

[flykiller]

actually it looks more like subsidence from underground construction.

'spose you could say it's at the pole of a high-temperature world, minimum stellar radiation at the pole and the depression shields the base from what does impact the region.

 

[Whipsnade]

Crater or land slip, it doesn't matter 'cause I'm saving it. You never know when a picture can save a thousand words around the game table.

Thanks for sharing, Wbyrd!

 

[wbyrd]

Any particular reason they chose to put the pad right on the center of an impact crater?

it would mostly for convenience. Less regolith to dig through and you can push the debris back up against the landing bay structure...and it sort of evolved that way as I created the model for the terrain and I liked the look

actually it looks more like subsidence from underground construction.

'spose you could say it's at the pole of a high-temperature world, minimum stellar radiation at the pole and the depression shields the base from what does impact the region.

The base itself is underground for just those reasons, protection from small-scale impacts, solar radiation...only the surface access dome, and landing bay are above-ground everything else has been backfilled and covered with regolith.

the portion of the dome that is covered in soil would most likely be from a slide caused by tunneling or weak ground tremors, since it's not interfering with the operation of the dome, they would probably just leave it.

Crater or land slip, it doesn't matter 'cause I'm saving it. You never know when a picture can save a thousand words around the game table.

Thanks for sharing, Wbyrd!

Thanks, that's why I posted it...