I’m a big sci-fi fan, have been for ages, I’ve always enjoyed anything with a starship in it, and it was always my dream to be able to build them.

As a kid I used to make Spaceships from fairy liquid bottles and cereal boxes and a whole dollop of imagination. Then I found computer games.

The original Elite consumed huge amounts of my time, then Homeworld became the place I could build fleets of starships and send them into battle.

Life gets in the way of course, but eventually I discovered No Man’s Sky and Starfield and I have spent far too much time in both in my quest for the perfect starship.

I’ve been trawling the internet for tips, tricks and inspiration and building up a collection of ideas and resources.

It seemed to me that the next logical step would be to share what I’ve found (and continue to unearth) with like minded folk.

I decided that the best way for me to do that would be an email newsletter, so I messaged the mods at r/spaceships to check if it was okay to share that plan there first.

After a bit of discussion a new plan has formed, I’m going to post some sections of the newsletter on r/spaceships under my very own flair (thank you u/Vondrr) and then send out a full version of the newsletter at the end of each week or so.

The newsletter outline looks provisionally like this:

• What's new?

• Ship of the week

• Workshop

• Design Inspiration

• Sci-Fi Spotlight

• Build Challenge

• ICYMI

• Building Tip of the Week

• Community Hangar

And will try to answer these questions:

• What's happening? (new game content, mods, community news)

• What can we build? (tutorials, inspiration, techniques)

• Why do we love starships? (fiction, history, concept art, engineering)

I hope to bring you useful curated information and inspiration and look forward to seeing the starships you build and enjoy.

Thank you.

That's the latest from across the known systems. I've been Alex Rogan, and this has been Amanssky SpaceWire.

Look out for the next issue, coming soon.