**Backdated for historical purposes**
I’m actually surprised this survived. This is the earliest evidence I have of consistent worldbuilding digitally.
At the time, I had the idea for this space-faring organization with their own motives. While they generally were good-leaning, they weren’t goody two-shoes like most heroes of the time. While I had no concept of this at the time, you can equate them to gray-area special ops teams like in this modern day and age.
I was aware of Star Fox at the time, and this drew partial inspiration from that. There was also a video game I have no idea was that I’d seen on the NES, which also lent to its inspiration.
Either rate, this organization employed ships known as Cannonballs; rightly named for being able to ram through smaller ships and disintegrate them. They were very difficult to shoot down to having strong hulls to make such a feat, but they had trade offs. Very simple weapons that might’ve been useless, no cargo space and barely enough room for two. I very much thought of them as a sports car to a point, much like a Mitsubishi Lancer or the like.
Little did I know growing up, that Northrop would test the XP-79, which was a specialized aircraft to ram enemy bombers in 1945. I only became aware of this concept in 2023, which I’m sure I have in my “to-do” bookmark pile somewhere.
I guess bright minds can come up with similar ideas.
Also again real funny business going on with this file; it’s last edit date was after midnight. Something special had to be going on then