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Published: 2020-12-31 14:06:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 2268; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 0
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That's not the ship's name, it's just the name of the image for these refined meshes:


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I added on some new modules so Starship Dynamic's MAV could fit inside a pair of doors on each module, with an airlock to launch probes, satellites, telescopes, and so forth.  The MAV could either have a deployable heat shield, one that uses a series of ballutes like the Alexis Leonov did on, "2010: The Year We Made Contact," when they tried aerobraking when they entered orbit around Jupiter, or even just use the nuclear VASIMR engines to slow their speed to land and take off.


I also adjusted the habitat module because the nose cone couldn't fit inside the warp field.


And right now a small fleet of these ships examining the nearby star systems that shows the most promise of alien life including Gliese 581.


It'll be a while till these ships are big enough and fast enough to explore the primary stars of constellations and dropping off probes and telescopes to examine the cosmos.


Though nearly as long as a Constitution class starship, habitable volume is still substantially smaller.  So it won't hold 430 people.

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