Beyond the Edge of Light by geirla

Bryce • Science Fiction • posted on Feb 10, 2008

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I built myself another explorer ship, the Thule, designed to replace the Archimedes class for journeys to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. Here it is at Pluto, where things are dark and gloomy. A friend who actually managed to graduate with a physics degree suggested that my previous spaceship wouldn't be particularly stable when spinning, so I sought to rectify this with my current design. Here, the habitat and reactor modules sit at the opposite ends of a hundred meter swing arm, with fuel tanks in the outer walls of each module to help balance the weight and provide shielding. An annotated schematic will follow sometime soon, though I don't know how much progress I'll make during the work week. Thanks for your views and comments. --- I always wanted to be the first one to a planet. When I was a kid, I thought it might be Mars, but that happened too soon. The Chinese beat us all to Jupiter while I was still on my first Mars voyage. My first command was the second expedition to Saturn. But the other gas giants fell to other commanders, and then we were out of planets. When I was just a child, Pluto was still a planet, but then they found a bigger chunk of ice farther out. And then more. Now it's just another Kuiper object, but one more famous than the rest. After twenty-eight months of travel, Pluto and Charon and Nix and Hydra await us now, here far beyond the planets. At least I've led the first expedition to the Kuiper. Only worlds around other stars beckon us now. - Personal journal of Captain Jonathon Steed, 17 May 2048

Comments (13)

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DarkStormCrow

10:53PM | Sun, 10 February 2008

Nice image well done model and the lighting is great excellent piece of work...

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nosawayne

10:58PM | Sun, 10 February 2008

Cool!

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grafikeer

11:05PM | Sun, 10 February 2008

Great concept and modelling on this one,lighting is excellent...a perfect combination of science and artistic design...well done!

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Madbat

11:11PM | Sun, 10 February 2008

Not only a nice piece of modeling but very nicely rendered scene!

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Seaview123

11:13PM | Sun, 10 February 2008

Again, really excellent work! Your space ship is fantastically detailed and precise. The back story you write makes me want to read the rest of the novel. Again, another 5++

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kjer_99

12:40AM | Mon, 11 February 2008

Another fine spaceship and render.

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drcebolleta

5:18AM | Mon, 11 February 2008

Superb scene!!! Amazing atmosphere.

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lordgoron

2:23PM | Mon, 11 February 2008

Most excellent sci(fi) scene! A really fast ship to reach Pluto within only 28 months, the actual Pluto probe 'New Horizon' (which I should do an image about for you) started in 2006 and will reach Pluto/Charon/Nix/Hydra system by 2015 :) Wonderfl work

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