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This took a really long while, I had to completely redesign the entire ship as my knowledge of the engineering behind realistic ships improved after reading lines out of ProjectRho.

The proble with the first design is that it didn't have a way to succesfully and efficiently decelerate. I was thinking of the ship rotating 360 degrees but i would have to add a shied on the back and i'm not sure how roatating a nearly 2km ship would go.

SO I had to redesign the ship to now feature a dual front and back facing nozzle engine and remade the shield. The engines radiators are now built into it and thick plates of thermal shields are placed on the front shield to prevent overheating from the fusion/matter-antimatter plume during deceleration.

The front portion of the engine is also slightly angled to keep the resulting 30 km plume away from the ship. This would result in loss of deceleration power but at 3-Degrees and the ship only traveling at 35% lightspeed, It's shouldn't really too much of an issue.

I also replaced the two rotating torus hab to now just one, As it would already be too heavy to carry it considering cargo efficiency for traveling to 35% lightspeed. I also already did internal sections of the torus that already features a restroom, locker room, cafeteria, lounge, storage and recreational section.

The two rotating modules on its front are now the command and bridge only. And the other a space research and observation section where study of astronomical objects and star-mapping is done.

The vestigial attachment on the back is originally where another shield was placed fr the 360 degree rotation which can be seen here: www.deviantart.com/ashimix/art…

IA view of the ships hab can be found here: www.deviantart.com/ashimix/art…

Description

This took a really long while, I had to completely redesign the entire ship as my knowledge of the engineering behind realistic ships improved after reading lines out of ProjectRho.

The proble with the first design is that it didn't have a way to succesfully and efficiently decelerate. I was thinking of the ship rotating 360 degrees but i would have to add a shied on the back and i'm not sure how roatating a nearly 2km ship would go.

SO I had to redesign the ship to now feature a dual front and back facing nozzle engine and remade the shield. The engines radiators are now built into it and thick plates of thermal shields are placed on the front shield to prevent overheating from the fusion/matter-antimatter plume during deceleration.

The front portion of the engine is also slightly angled to keep the resulting 30 km plume away from the ship. This would result in loss of deceleration power but at 3-Degrees and the ship only traveling at 35% lightspeed, It's shouldn't really too much of an issue.

I also replaced the two rotating torus hab to now just one, As it would already be too heavy to carry it considering cargo efficiency for traveling to 35% lightspeed. I also already did internal sections of the torus that already features a restroom, locker room, cafeteria, lounge, storage and recreational section.

The two rotating modules on its front are now the command and bridge only. And the other a space research and observation section where study of astronomical objects and star-mapping is done.

The vestigial attachment on the back is originally where another shield was placed fr the 360 degree rotation which can be seen here: www.deviantart.com/ashimix/art…

IA view of the ships hab can be found here: www.deviantart.com/ashimix/art…