Here is my streamlined version of the Belter Defender, the Aquarius class -- useful for landing on worlds with atmospheres and significant gravity. I took all the components of the previous model and dropped or modified them into a streamlined hull. I made the radiators solid curved panels, with the design consideration that they had to fit into an eighty meter cross-section (airliners have a similar restriction today - terminal layout standards). I added four triple gun turrets for atmospheric combat (x-ray lasers don't penetrate an atmosphere worth squat and kinetic impactors melt before they hit Mach 30) and that long "handle" in front is a streamlined landing platform with an airlock facing aft down at the bottom -- the ship can land on the forward platform and the bottom edge of its radiators. Neptune is composed of four spheres - a plain blue one, a mostly transparent cloud level and two layered fuzzy blue spheres. Thanks once again for your views, comments and favorites. --- Obviously, I've pissed someone off. Can't see another reason for it. I got my command and then I got my orders. Neptune. There's no more than twelve thousand people in the entire system, most of them on Triton or in Neptune's skies, working the gas platforms. I can't get a decent drink of coffee out here. Sooner or later the stash I brought from Ceres will be gone and I'll be stuck with the reprocessed piss they're drinking. And liberty in New Lassell isn't exactly a bowl of excitement; even after six month's passage, within two days, half the crew was back on board with wires in their heads. I guess VR is more interesting than prowling the miner bars and entertainments of that nest of ice tunnels. Our only action is going to be patrolling the skies of Neptune, looking for some desperate pirate or smuggler. But who would bother? The Marvins aren't even interested in raiding the place; we'd see them coming for months, even if they came. It must have been Admiral Kirkova. She must have been pissed when I tore apart her picket fleet in that sim last year. That's it -- she's off my Christmas list. -- personal log, Commander Josev Kahn, ABG Vulepecula 4 July 2519