This is a concept piece for what I intend to be a more ambitious boarding action rendering. I've tried to represent being inside Saturn's rings by using volumetrics to simulate dust particles. If you look closely you will see faint shadows. The bad news is that even on my new dual quad core machine this render took 18 hours. For your edification I only ran this on normal priority, which uses four cores. In my testing I only got a 12% increase in performance by using all eight cores, so Bryce is obviously not optimized for that many processors. But since the computer should be good for the next four years, I expect software to improve. And the good news is that during those 18 hours, I could still use the other half of the computer's processing power for other tasks. --- We can pick up transmissions from the inner system even when we're deep in the rings. They say that the Martians control Saturn. I've seen images of the Imperial banner fluttering on Titan. I've seen the shattered ruins of our base on Janus. But what I have not seen is footage of any ship refueling at Saturn. We still control the Rings. The three of us have been on this gunship for four months. It smells little ripe, but you get used to it. Mostly we patrol alone, but we are in communication with the Wing Commander. We coordinate our attacks and swarm against the enemy. We disperse when we have to. We hide and we wait. We've taken out fighters and transports and even a corvette. We've got two and a half kills to our credit, and we've taken very little damage in return. In a way, this is just like being on a small mining ship. Except the rocks are a lot closer together and the view is often a lot better. Most of our depots are still intact. At this rate we can last for years. If we keep harassing them, or if the Venusians or the Lunars will help us, then we can outlast them. I just wish our food tasted better. - Flight Lieutenant Harvey Shore, inside the A Ring, 12 August 2520.