Confiance-Class Frigate | Official Ship Breakdown | The Sojourn 

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A note for the animators: In the sequence at 3:35 where the larger turret swivels and fires a salvo, the trail that the projectile leaves wouldn't stay attached to the barrel of the gun if the ship was under thrust as it appears to be. The trail would immediately fall away in the direction of thrust as the ionized gasses aren't accelerating any longer once they leave the coilgun.

"It looks like a god dam stick, but its a beautiful god dam stick." My first words upon laying eyes on this ship. (Seriously it looks so cool)

Theo Bouvier really is an amazing animator

I love the realistic design of these ships, and the way that they actually move through space like spacecraft. Most books/movies use a two-dimensional plane as the stage in space, like an ocean. But The Sojourn actually uses all three dimensions of space.

I love that all the guns are placed in logical superfiring positions so they don't cock up their lines of fire. By chance did the Honor Harrington series provide any inspiration for this series? Cause I loved those books and this series really gives me those vibes.

4:03 "Engage the enemy more closely." I understood that reference.

So... nobody other than me is intrigued by the fact that centran captains still carry decorative swords as part of their uniform. That's cool. That's cool. Just checking. BTW: I really like how humanity in the Sojourn-verse seems to have a very deep maritime culture. Even though nautical terms are often applied to space travel we don't usually see it the extent that this series takes it. Great worldbuilding guys.

I really like how both this frigate and the tripathia look a lot alike as they are both centran warships. Great content as always and I wish you the best Spacedock

Am I the only one who wants a Nexus: The Jupiter Incident styled game set in this universe? I'd love to be able to take part in some of these events!

Those radiators... Beautiful, just beautiful. Awesome ship!👍

I had a similar concept of a centrifuge layer out as a flat horizontal like the one here. What's amazing about this is that you can have the habitat module reline itself to meet gravity means doing acceleration or deceleration. I'm glad the idea is out there and that I can lead to unique designed ships.

Suggestion, sell your ships design as a 3d printable file, MANY people would love that.

This is such a beautiful frigate design it might be my second favorite out of the tripathia which is my most favorite I love that centrifuge!

While I like the idea of a more simplified version of the Tripathia’s centrifuge system, the way it has been animated seems like it has a massive problem, because when the segment is rotating, gravity will act opposite to the axis of rotation, meaning half of the decks will be oriented in the opposite way to each other, but thrust gravity will act towards the engines, so all decks must be oriented in the same direction

I _love_ the use of old sailing ship terms.

This is one of the best realistic spacecraft designs I've ever seen, (and I watch a lot of sci-fi), I envy any 3D artist that worked on this.

Someone need to make this in to a TV series

Getting Theo on board for the animations is an excellent decision :D

The animation in this video was absolutely stunning. You guys get more talented the longer this series goes for.

Gotta say, I love the ship design. The turret style especially reminds me of Homeworld and I love it. Keep up the good work

This is a stunning ship design. Well done!

I've been eagerly waiting for a new Centran warship design, since I absolutely adore the Tripathia, and the Confiance did not disappoint. I love how the Broadhead-Lock coilguns are used to sell the size and power difference between the two, as in, the Confiance only has a third of the big guns compared to the Tripathia. I also love that the ships looks mostly the same, as ships have done throughout human history, but still have distinct design elements that help them stand out. I love me a streamlined design language *chef's kiss* Though the inclusion of the very cool Swivel Gun Emplacements just makes the Tripathia look a little more stupid for not having any point defence whatsoever but that's not the Confiance's fault. She's a solid frigate design.

This audiobook series is awesome. Can’t wait for more

Absolutely gorgeous renders in this!

As with most of your designs it is a very cool ship and while there are some major oversights and failings (e.g. the retrograde engines would slam everyone into the ceiling and half the habitat hub will be upside down under thrust gravity) it's nice to see an effort being made for realism.

Beautiful work. Enjoying the lore that is given with these ship breakdowns.

Commodore Hawker keeping her flag aboard a Confiance class frigate reminds me of General Martok on DS9 keeping his flag aboard a Bird of Prey. Excellent touch to show why she was so beloved by her crew.

I always love these ship designs and the short videos detailing them in the setting!

It'd be great to see these models and such in mods for games such as Stellaris and Sins of a Solar Empire, or even Nebulous!

The fact that these ships can be so realistic and yet still so gorgeous is truly awe inspiring.

Love the narration on this one!

More sojourn ship breakdowns, just what i was waiting for

Ur ship breakdowns for the sojourn are too good!

YAAA! I love ships at this scale

Absolutely GORGEOUS animations of the ships. Very much gives me ALL the vibes. Almost EC Henry quality! (i hope that is taken as the compliment it is meant to be!)

There she is. My new favorite starship.

I was hoping you were going to announce the live action tv show or anime. One day...😊

Love your ship designs Dan.

What a beautiful breakdown!

Interesting that a Commodore was permitted to keep to a frigate as her flagship. Made sense against the Frontier Union and it's outriders, but nice little quirk of the Centran Fleet that they aren't totally welded to their ships of the line as the end-all-be-all of warfare.

Love the Nexus the Jupiter Incident influence! Looks great!

Great design! like the lore and the look as well. I have always been a fan of the term Frigate, and this sound like the space version of a napoleonic war frigate.

22 seconds in and I'm already drooling 😝 over that cross section

I love the animation. Hats off to those designers who took so much time and effort to make such a realistic looking SCiFI Ship we can enjoy. I'm sure I could spend hours just looking over all the details.

Why isn't this a movie yet? I swear you will have some of the best sci-fi going.

Yet another banger ship. Every part of this universe makes Sence and is just awsome! Keep it up your doing a truly excellent job. I’d also love to see what a dreadnought/ first rate would looks like.

these get better and better

Wonderful!

I quite like the double-barrelled coilgun turrets and am thinking of implementing in my own spaceship design.

The grav deck is an interesting part. It certainly makes sense, but part of my engineering sense tells me its a little inefficent? I'd be thinking that a full ring inside the area would provide more usable floorspace rather than just a pair of arms.

lookin great

I feel like people are not quite understanding the gun size on this ship. 4x 15inch gun turret, 8x 10inch turrets, all twin linked. That’s on pair with some of the biggest battleships of ww2 like the Iowa class, or the Bismarck. A broadside from this would evaporate other ships, and turn stations into slag. I mean christ, with shells that size, you could carry a load out of pure tungsten shells for planetary bombardment. I absolutely adore how hard Sci-fi these ships (retrograde thrusters, spin gravity, etc) are whilst still pulling from the age of sail to the extent they do.

Someone needs to make a shipset for The Sojourn for both Stellaris and Nebulous.

yay!

Whoever makes a space engineer video of these Sojourn ship designs being put to battle would be a winner in my book.

man all the sojourn ships are so rad!

Great video guys, definitely reminds me of the Golden Age of Wooden Sailing Frigates, such as the USS Constitution.

you all should do a video on the different weapons show them firing and how they work .

I've been waiting for this I also want to see a destroyer maybe it's got like three of those little things in middle and it's weapon can use one of those metal things is to launch projectiles with spin gravity or something so it doesn't get exposed/ run hot .. you ignite my imagination

Ok I'm buying the book!

Why are their production values so high?! I don't understand how they can do such incredible work.

Very well done, I see one minor problem with the design though: If the centrifuge is locked, one half of it would point the wrong way.

Gives me some pre-dreadnaught vibes. Two different sizes of gun in the main battery and arranged for coverage rather than being able to point everything at one enemy all the time. It's a good classic look. Leaves room for other designs that are more of the all-big-gun Dreadnaughts or copying the all-turrets-forward layout of the Nelson class.

Here's to hoping we see more of the Centran Defense Force's fleet in the future!

At first I honestly thought this was something from Homeworld 3 or something. Well done.

I WANNA! That is cool.

Can we get some of these stills as wallpapers? An absolutely beautiful ship that I would gladly do the honour of putting on my desktop.

I wonder if will see these within the expedition in the series

Damn I’m early for this one haha

The ship the lore and animation are amazing

Totally need to make a tabletop fleet battle game.

the idea of a armoured centrufuge sounds amazing. Are there any other ships in science fiction that has the same design?

you should do a vid on the longboat.

the looks give me nexus the juptier incident vibes

Nice ship!

Hope this is in the last part of the first season of The Sojourn

This is gorgeous, game when ?

"Hold on tight guys, we'll bring them into the 6,3's range" Commodore (at the time Captain) Ariana Hawker, battle of Atticus (possibly, I guess)

One thing is that the front half of the centrifuge would be upside down when under thrust gravity

This is interesting and I contrast it with the very short ships of The Expanse. This frigate is half a Donnager in length if I understand it correctly.

i was curious, noticing the differentiation between "bodkin-lock" and "broadhead-lock" coilguns, if these are meant to delineate between different ammunition types (since broadhead and bodkin are types of arrowheads) or if they refer to hull placement and strategic role perhaps? its an interesting little bit of worldbuilding that has me curious, and i was hoping if you could explain further. great work as always, such an elegant and thorough design and lore, keep it up guys 👍

ya know it would be really great if the sojourn is more widely available outside the us and uk

"Confiance class frigates are adaptable in the roles for which they are employed" talking about expressing a simple concept in the most complicated way ;)

The sojurn designs are never not amazing, but this might just be the sexiest looking frigate in all of sci fi

Yo I have been trying to watch the sojourn on audiobook but I am only on episode 3. Is there any more episodes that are out or do I still have to wait.?

B E A utiful.

I see everyone's loving the ship and narration, but can we just appreciate how good the artwork and animation for The Sojourn has gotten? I remember when the Guinevere was nothing but a few sketches and a rough deck layout, and now we have full cut-away artwork and animations of ships and torpedoes launching and guns firing.

So, armored cruiser we got huh? Time to battlecruisers next!

I like the Expanse-style PDCs.

Nifty

You should poke 2nd Dynasty on MMF and see if they could turn this into an STL, it'll be a lovely playable space!

Absolutely love the design of the ship! I have a nerdy question however. If the witdth of the ship is only 54, 25 meters, doesn't that make it to small to create a viable spin gravity environment with a rotating segment within the dish? With a radius that small I calculated that the rotating segment of the ship would need to spin at something like 56 rpm in order to create an acceleration of 1 g at its outermost points (feel free to correct my math, I likely made some errors). I feel like this would create a considreable coriolis effect if nothing else. Also the compartments closer to the center of spin would have almost no gravity at all. Is this adressed some way in universe or is it just a case of don't think about it too hard?

How does the centrifuge work when under thrust gravity? Surely either one of the walls in both sections is going to become the floor under thrust or one of them is going to be upside down? So either every piece of furniture in those sections is going to have to be detachable and carefully rearranged when changing gravity directions or it's all going to have to be nailed down and everyone evacuated from one of the two sections, neither sounds like particularly good options

Do the frigates keep with the rating system? If so, what rate is the Confiance? Fifth Rate? Sixth Rate? Fourth Rate?

Wouldn't it be better to have all of the turrets mounted center-line of the ship? As it is now, only 6 of the 12 main guns are available for broadside at any given time. Also skeptical of the centrifuge design, one being that it would be unusable while the ship is under thrust, and second being that it's enclosed in a fairing adding unnecessary mass to the ship. Curious what the retrograde thrusters are for and why not use the progrades. I don't know if I'm sounding rude with all of my points, just some thoughts I had. I really love these ships though. You guys are giving me ideas for my own designs. :)

So do the decks in one half of the rotational section somehow re-align with the engines when under thrust gravity? Like, isn't one half oriented the wrong way for thrust grav? ("up" under rotational gravity is towards the center right?)

Love it but why is the center rondel not fully used? I get the armor casing but at that point the whole thing could internally be a full circle providing more internal space?

I love the spin gravity segment of the ship, but it does confuse me. If it locks back into the ship's structure while the ship is under thrust, half the section would be, from its perspective, upside-down. What is the perspective of the crew in the unlucky segment? Do they have to stick all the furniture down and evacuate the area while under thrust? Given that that's the crew compartment and sickbay, that seems like an enormous problem?

So when do we get a TV series from Amazon? Or how about an RTS in the spirit of Nexus: The Jupiter Incident?