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The cylinder was named Stella-I referring to it being the first interstellar ship built for humans.

At the front of the cylinder is a particle shield, made to withstand the bombardment of tiny particles that could damage the ship's hull at the immense speed it is going.

At the rear is where the ion drives are. These allow the ship to accelerate to 20% of the speed of light. The engines use argon as fuel and are quite efficient, so much so that they only consume a few dozen kilogramms per year.

The "spine" of the ship is the 10 kilometer long light emmitting rod that runs the entire lenght of the cylinder. It not only produces light, but heat also. To simulate a night-day cycle it gets dimmer and shifts it's color to red as if the sun is setting and does the same thing in reverse for the sunrise.

For the people on board, there are two communities they can live in, Hygros and Xeros. Their name means humid and arid accordingly. This is because the two ends of the cylinder are kept at different humidity levels to create a diverse habitat for plants. The two communities are connected with an electric train line that can move from one end to another in just a few minutes. They are also connected via internet cables. Of course some people live more remotely in agricultural stations where they focus on growing the food for everybody.

Food production is the number one priority on the ship. 5000 people require a lot of calories and those calories need to be grown. Emergency rations stored in the ship are enough for about 1 year, so people need to make sure there's enough food grown to go around. The most important crops are: Potato, sweet potato, sunroot, corn and soybean. Apart from these, a variety of plants are also grow both cultivated or freely. Insects such as crickets and silkworms also make up a large part of people's diet alongside fish and shrimp from the aquaponics systems.

The planet where Stella-I is traveling to is named Lithos. It is in the Epsilon Eridiani system, 10 Light-years from Earth. It's a rocky, desert world but subsurface water is abundant and can be brought up by digging wells. Surprisingly, the air is in breathable condition. Oxygen makes up 22.5% of the atmosphere due to the large amounts of titanium-oxide deposits on the surface, which produce oxygen from UV radiation. This will allow the first arrivals to take a breath of fresh air as they start their new life on an alien world...

Description

The cylinder was named Stella-I referring to it being the first interstellar ship built for humans.

At the front of the cylinder is a particle shield, made to withstand the bombardment of tiny particles that could damage the ship's hull at the immense speed it is going.

At the rear is where the ion drives are. These allow the ship to accelerate to 20% of the speed of light. The engines use argon as fuel and are quite efficient, so much so that they only consume a few dozen kilogramms per year.

The "spine" of the ship is the 10 kilometer long light emmitting rod that runs the entire lenght of the cylinder. It not only produces light, but heat also. To simulate a night-day cycle it gets dimmer and shifts it's color to red as if the sun is setting and does the same thing in reverse for the sunrise.

For the people on board, there are two communities they can live in, Hygros and Xeros. Their name means humid and arid accordingly. This is because the two ends of the cylinder are kept at different humidity levels to create a diverse habitat for plants. The two communities are connected with an electric train line that can move from one end to another in just a few minutes. They are also connected via internet cables. Of course some people live more remotely in agricultural stations where they focus on growing the food for everybody.

Food production is the number one priority on the ship. 5000 people require a lot of calories and those calories need to be grown. Emergency rations stored in the ship are enough for about 1 year, so people need to make sure there's enough food grown to go around. The most important crops are: Potato, sweet potato, sunroot, corn and soybean. Apart from these, a variety of plants are also grow both cultivated or freely. Insects such as crickets and silkworms also make up a large part of people's diet alongside fish and shrimp from the aquaponics systems.

The planet where Stella-I is traveling to is named Lithos. It is in the Epsilon Eridiani system, 10 Light-years from Earth. It's a rocky, desert world but subsurface water is abundant and can be brought up by digging wells. Surprisingly, the air is in breathable condition. Oxygen makes up 22.5% of the atmosphere due to the large amounts of titanium-oxide deposits on the surface, which produce oxygen from UV radiation. This will allow the first arrivals to take a breath of fresh air as they start their new life on an alien world...