Space Jousting

an unfinished thing i made
heavily inspired by The Expanse and Children of a Dead Earth
I got to this part then realized that I have no experience with making my own audio for it.
everything made by me, except for the moon textures which i found on nasa's website i think

Some notes/behind the scenes:
I've worked on this on and off for many months by now, so stuff has changed in between. The spaceships and space combat are heavily inspired by The Expanse, Children of a Dead Earth, Breachway (especially the radiators), and probably a little of Delta-V: Rings of Saturn mixed in. The original idea was to make just that missile scene, with a cluster missile that splits off interceptors before coming in for the killing blow. Then I made the spaceships in a bout of inspiration, and it snowballed.

Each of these space craft are ~120 meters long, and are equipped with multiple fusion drives. The "science" behind how mine work is a bit iffy, I'd imagine its a nuclear thermal rocket but with a fusion reactor for the heat. This means that the radiators should probably dim when the drive is on, because the heat can be dumped into the propellant, but I inconsistently did that. Its briefly shown in the interior shot, but the Undying Ember has a delta-v of approximately 60-80 km/s when fully fueled, this is pure guesswork on my part, I didn't want to have anything super crazy, although this probably is.

The armament are large torpedoes and interceptor missiles that can accelerate to dozens of g's, with railgun PDCs as a last defense. Not modeled, but there are probably laser PDCs as well. The Undying Ember also has coilguns for CQC.

The ships have huge radiators because the weapons are very power hungry (railguns accelerate millimeter sized slugs to 10 km/s, at hundreds of rounds per second. The coilguns fire slower, but they shoot massive (a few kg) slugs at slightly less than 10 km/s. Not shown (but you can see the vents on the side of the ships in some shots), but the ships also have smaller liquid droplet radiators (magnetic radiator fluid is poured out, rapidly cools, then is sucked back in) as a backup and also for when the heat load is too great for radiators.

These ships are not capable of atmospheric landings.

Some super basic lore ideas: VN, or Void Navy is basically a militant terrorist group from the outer solar system, and are banned from going anywhere near Earth or the Moon, hence why Undying Ember is immediately deployed to just blow them up, no questions asked. UESN is United Earth Space Navy.