Irulian Freighter

This medium sized freighter is a common long-range cargo ship that travels throughout the Spur delivering goods and services.  It is lightly armed and primarily designed to avoid fighting.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wcotr1oab4vh2hp/Irulian_Freighter_D8B373FC439C406A99EBB2361EA7BCDE.zip?dl=0 

Irulian Freighter looks nothing like a Freighter.

I may try to conjure something up tonight.

Space Virus SC1N1

A reason why it's dangerous to travel through the unknown areas of the galaxy.

Rumor has it that, long ago, a virus found a tiny rip in the fabric of space and was able to cross from this universe into an alternate universe.  There it found several forms of life that were similar to life found in this universe, but were also different.  Attempts to infect the life there were not always successful. Some virus particles made it back to this universe and were eventually able to modify their appearance to look like the most formidable ships of the most formidable form of life in that universe in hopes that it would make them more formidable in this universe.  According to the rumor, they still make occasional modifications to their appearance in hopes of increasing their strength.

Again, all this is only rumor.

Space Virus SC1N2

Another reason why it's dangerous to travel through the unknown areas of the galaxy.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/edaz4xst27r3xrc/Space%20Viruses.zip?dl=1

The Drained

I call this ship "The Drained" because it is has a green and black design with spores and tentacles on and around it which give it an infected and manipulated look. The story behind it is that this was one of the many gypsy (traveler) ships that made their way around space until one day they discovered a (unidentified) parasitic species that took control of their ship and its passengers. After taking control of the ship, it was modified to best fit its purposes: adding a spore gun to help spread the infection; attaching spore seeds to back of the ship for germination; adding tentacles to help grab floating matter (as well as other ships); adding a huge camera at the top of the ship so that some unknown source could monitor the ship's every movement; and finally putting a ring around the ship that is theorized either to mark it as a Drained ship or to help keep the infected passengers under control. After these modifications were made, this ship was designated to explore the galaxy, searching for and infecting any ships it may come across.

The Drained Dropbox File

Servant Ship

This ship is simply named the "Servant Ship" mainly because it looks like a little spaceship butler. This is a jack-of-all trades service ship, designed to do anything you need to a basic extent: recon, defense, transport, trade and whatever else you could dream of. However, they try to avoid violent conflict and will often reject offensively-based jobs, as they see such jobs as a lose-lose situation. Servant ships tend to most enjoy serving fledgling civilizations that cannot explore outer space well themselves, as not only are they the most interesting to the servants, but also provide the most lucrative and safe jobs. Conversely, they tend to have bitter feelings towards serving advanced space faring nations, as they very often request offensive or defensive aid against ships that may eclipse the servant in fighting ability. Due to their peace-preferring nature, these ships are generally viewed neutrally, and for better or worse, can traverse through many territories relatively safely. 

Servant Ship Dropbox File

El Ratón (I would be fine with calling it "Mouse Ship" or "El Raton" in the English version, but you guys have control over the naming so) 

I call this "El Ratón" which means "The Mouse" because it looks like a mouse to me.

One day in a solar system far away from our own, a spaceship crash landed on a planet that hosted all of its life on a single Pangaea-like continent. In the crash landing, everything was incinerated save for one fateful item: a mouse used for one of the computers on the ship. It just so happened that at this time that the first civilization on the planet was forming, and when members of the civilization found the device, they took it as a commandment from the gods to live by its design. The mouse came to be an essential guide to the way of life of the society; everything from the very first huts to their eating utensils took some form of inspiration from the mouse. After around a short 3,000 years of development spurred by the mouse, it was natural that the mouse design became an integral guide for the design of their first spaceships, and from this came "El Ratón." Far beyond the idea that the mouse was a sign from the gods, the species tirelessly looks for the species that the mouse came from, in hopes of fostering a close inter-species friendship and a strong alliance.

El Ratón Dropbox File

Note: I don't know much about the SC:O year-wise, but I am going to assume that 3,000 years before the start of SC:O, humans didn't have mice. It's not really hard to imagine another species developing mice though, and what I was thinking is that when the species meets the captain, the captain could falsely claim that the mouse was their design (because, well, they have them even if they didn't 3,000 years ago), which would allow the player to ally with the species.

This is the Parthaw & Peewo inc. cargo transporter. It is the equivalent of the 18 wheeler on Earth.

Easy design by nature, it was meant for quick loading and unloading. When arriving at destination the front and tail section detach from the cargo pods and can reattach to other pods for the next transport job. The 5 pod configuration is shown in the image below. But there is also the single, 3 and 9 pod configuration available. It is only armed with defensive weapons and will try to escape as soon as possible in a fight.

P&P will sell this design to anyone who needs to transport a large quantity of goods. So the contents can vary from ship to ship. They could transport construction materials, toys, blankets, relief efforts supplies, volatiles, sewage liquids, etc. Multiple military use this ship to transport sensitive cargo. Such as prisoners, weapons, explosives, vehicles and others. But they are always escorted by other ships. Also, since it is so common, a lot of smugglers use it to transport illegal cargo and sell it to the highest bidder.

Zip file

The Core:

The Core is found almost drifting in space, it has a direction, it has a purpose, but so far, both are unknown, it just seem to wander at it's leisure, any chance to contact it will result in the following message: "Unknown. uNknoWN. NwOnkNu. HERE."
Theories range from: an empty ship on auto-pilot, an probe gathering unknown information or that the structure itself is somehow sentient. 
The ship seems to produce it's own energy and fuel, as it never seems to recharge or refuel. 
More research needed. 

Dropbox Zip Link 

Great stuff! Thank you!

Keep them coming.

Some great ships here!

I'll work on getting them in.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7qskp0lulrz9jks/StarControlByKate.rar

Most of these ships, as I've designed them, are pretty darn nasty, although one or two were done mostly for looks.

A lot of them are intended for long-range use, launching nastiness at the enemy like boarding parties while staying far out of range of any return fire. One or two were designed for close-up work.

And one was designed to rip off of totally awesome TV show.

Like 'em, do ya? I got, like, a double-wide buttload more; those were just the most picturesque of the lot...and some of the best-armed, as well. (The Gormon-Dagon Interceptor is almost unbeatable, if used right. Try it.)

I certainly don't mind if the prettiest ones are re-armed by you lot, especially if you want some of the ones that look good but aren't quite as well-equipped.

Well, I have a lot of experience; I've worked in games before, and I do CGI, so...

Khmeli Hyperlab

Khmeli, a scientifically apt dendroid starfaring race, are known for their frantic search for any data on planetary systems with brown dwarfs. Khmeli seem obsessed with an idea of utilizing brown dwarfs as an energy source for their future colonies.

Ship purpose: Space/Hyperspace lab ship meticulously designed for astrophysical research on gas giants and especially brown dwarfs. Despite being armed to the teeth with various scientific tools, instruments, drones and gadgets, the medium-sized Hyperlab possesses a decent speed and maneuverability, as well as capability to protect itself during unexpected skirmishes. It is equipped with a charbroiled primary and a decent shield as a secondary ability.

https://www.upload.ee/files/8457045/Khmeli_Hyperlab_by_Ashog.zip.html

As a basis I took my earlier Strogg Immolator design and handed it to a freshly invented Khmeli race (i envision them as thin, tall, tree-like slendermen). I have added lots of equipment and two docked drones to the front of the ship and decreased the ship size to medium, as well as changed the color scheme to be less aggressive and hint the purpose of the ship.