# Shchit

- Model: FLUX 3 Image, `POST https://api.bfl.ai/v1/flux-3-image` (version latest)
- Parameters: aspect_ratio 4:3, resolution 2k, safety_tolerance default (2), grounding default (true); seed not supported by the endpoint
- Request id: 0dc0303b-c1b5-4ebf-9c52-28f9559434b8
- Date: 2026-10-08
- Composition: global block, faction block (Zhestokost), ship prompt verbatim from Ship Prompt Bench 4

## Prompt

Concept art of a small working spacecraft from the Aetheria universe, made by a named manufacturer for one pilot or a small crew, with a human-sized hatch, a handhold rail and a cockpit window no wider than a person setting its scale against the hull. It is a material argument for what it does: magazines sit behind square hatches, sensors in recessed round apertures, guns in small turrets on thick armoured mounts, cargo at a heavy docking collar, and its protection is thick layered armour plate with bolted seams, with any further protective equipment sitting in its own visible housing, an emitter, a ring or a flat panel array, bolted to the hull like any other gear. It is owned, insured and repaired: scuffed handholds and hatch edges, one replaced panel in a slightly fresher shade, a stencilled registry number and a maker's plate beside the cockpit, engines cold and at rest. The whole ship is one continuous cast body, thick and closed, with rounded edges, mirror-symmetric along its long axis; every fin, blade and wing is a chunky rounded slab, and every part swells out of the main mass through wide smooth fillets so the outline is one solid silhouette. All surfaces are matte and opaque, painted metal, ceramic and rubberized composite, rendered like a painted studio scale model, with interior light shown only through small round opaque ports and painted bands. One complete ship, centered with clear margin around it, three-quarter front view from slightly above showing the dorsal surface and one side; moderate lens; plain seamless light gray background; soft key light with gentle form shadows; matte finishes throughout.

A Zhestokost ship, poured in a state foundry: a piece of the arsenal that learned to fly. The register is serious: every feature is plausible vacuum engineering with a visible job. It sits low and broad like a cast-iron stove, built from stepped rectangular masses with deep seams between them, thick overlapping armour plates around recessed machinery, and square hatches, towing lugs and bolt rows repeated down the hull like a production line. Its guns are short, thick barrels in squat boxy turrets, and its ammunition feeds and magazine hatches are the largest features on the body. Finish is rough sand-cast iron under baked-on industrial enamel. Charcoal on the main armour, iron gray on the underside and machinery, dull oxide red on magazine hatches and ammunition doors, small cream stencilled serial numbers and safety chevrons on every plate, and large block-letter unit codes on the flank. Soot around every gun mouth, chipped enamel at hatch edges, one bolted replacement plate in fresher charcoal. It looks like a square-shouldered forklift of a warship that keeps firing until its tender calls it home.

Design the Shchit, a two-crew Zhestokost escort that parks its shield face between its tender and any threat and keeps turning to hold it there. The bow is one broad, flat, square projector face set square to the spine, broader and taller than the rest of the hull: a thick stepped charcoal armour frame around a recessed grid of square emitter panels, with deep bolt rows along the frame and oxide-red power trunks feeding it from behind. The shield faces forward only. Every other face carries thick overlapping charcoal armour plates, and behind the frame the hull drops away sharply, thinning to a short, plain stern. Two small, squat turrets with short barrels sit low behind the frame on the shoulders, peering over it. The cockpit is a narrow armoured slit cut through the top of the frame. Four large square turning-thruster blocks sit at the four stern corners, facing sideways, and one modest drive sits between them. Chipped enamel scars the frame edges, and one bolted replacement emitter panel in a fresher shade sits in the grid. One complete ship, centered with clear margin around it, three-quarter front view from slightly above showing the dorsal surface and one side; moderate lens; plain seamless light gray background; soft key light with gentle form shadows; matte finishes throughout.
