{"id":3239,"date":"2016-04-17T13:09:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T17:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2016-04-17T13:09:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T17:09:42","slug":"the-usn-orbital-interceptor-is-9-raven-crow-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2016\/the-usn-orbital-interceptor-is-9-raven-crow-crap","title":{"rendered":"The USN Orbital Interceptor IS-9 Raven (Crow Crap)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When\u00a0the USSR launched its first piloted orbital nuclear warhead into orbit in 1959, the United States responded by electing Richard M. Nixon to his first term as President. Nixon buoyed by the fear of existential crisis, boosted\u00a0the United States&#8217; military space program to orbit and left\u00a0President Goldwater with a\u00a0legacy of\u00a0programs he would need to meet the Soviets face-to-face on\u00a0the Moon \u2014 and to contend for Mars.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3241\" style=\"width: 1820px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/I-9-Raven-Crow-Crap.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3241\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3241 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/I-9-Raven-Crow-Crap.png\" alt=\"It's literally the cheapest spacecraft the United States Department of the Navy could build.\" width=\"1820\" height=\"1106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/I-9-Raven-Crow-Crap.png 1820w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/I-9-Raven-Crow-Crap-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/I-9-Raven-Crow-Crap-768x467.png 768w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/I-9-Raven-Crow-Crap-1024x622.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The I-9, designed to be used by conscripted American pilots to intercept Soviet spacecraft. It&#8217;s intensely dangerous.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now, in 1979, the night sky is filled with glittering necklaces of warheads, satellites, and orbital interceptors. Dangerous and unreliable, these craft are crewed by conscripted, coerced undesirables from both the Soviet Union and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The IS-9 Raven, known as the Crow Crap by those who have to handle it, is an orbital interceptor based on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boeing_X-20_Dyna-Soar\">Boeing&#8217;s\u00a0Dyna-Soar<\/a> return vehicle.\u00a0This production model is designed to destroy\u00a0Soviet satellites and orbital interceptors. In practice, it&#8217;s also used to ferry American saboteurs to Soviet spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0American and Soviet conscripts might find they have more in common with each other than with the nations of Earth that have ejected them from the cradle of humanity.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is one of my early concept sketches for Fate Space. I&#8217;m\u00a0having a ball working on these settings with the Evil Hatters and look forward to presenting you with the complete work! You&#8217;ll see more as the project takes shape!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When\u00a0the USSR launched its first piloted orbital nuclear warhead into orbit in 1959, the United States responded by electing Richard M. Nixon to his first term as President. Nixon buoyed by the fear of existential crisis, boosted\u00a0the United States&#8217; military space program to orbit and left\u00a0President Goldwater with a\u00a0legacy of\u00a0programs he would need to meet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2016\/the-usn-orbital-interceptor-is-9-raven-crow-crap\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The USN Orbital Interceptor IS-9 Raven (Crow Crap)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":3242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,67],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-set-of-all-sets-that-do-not-include-themselves","tag-fate-space","tag-space-1979"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3245,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions\/3245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}