Not everything I’ve done this past year has been writing related. Though I guess that depends on what you mean by “related”. I keep going back and tweaking my future history, and that includes tweaking ship designs. I think this is the third design for the Cityship Atlantis. By far the most massive and sturdy-looking version of an interstellar colony ship intended to take 5,000 people to Alpha Centauri at about 12% the speed of light, using a combination of nuclear-pulse, ramscoop, and magnetic sail propulsion. Mainly, this image was made to convey the scale of the thing, 1 kilometer in diameter, more than three long, nearly 40 million tons fully loaded. Now back to eBook formatting... --- We’ve been free of Astra Station for more than a day. All systems have checked out. Again. All but one. For that, the dignitaries are leaving and we’ll finally be on our own, ready to begin our journey to the stars by diving inward, using the gravity and magnetic field of Earth’s sun to aid our journey to other suns. The last shuttles are clear. I’ve given Engineering the green light to unlock the bunkers. We’re going to make our own suns. In ten minutes, the first bomb will detonate and we’ll on our way. --Alexander Tate, Captain, Cityship Atlantis, 16 January, 2065