9 years after the USS Carl Anderson entered Luna Shipyard, the improved UNESS Carl Anderson leaves the shipyard and prepares for its builder's trials. In the years following "The Saturn Incident", science made major leaps of understanding in many fields of physics. New areas such as Tachyon Field Mechanics and older fields such as Super String Theory made quantum advances in our understanding of the natural universe. We now know exactly what happened to the USS Carl Anderson during "The Saturn Incident". Two experiments, one involving high energy physics in relationship to relativity and the other, a search for gravitons, combined to draw tachyons around the ship. Tachyon particles drawn to the ship released high amounts of gamma radiation which caused the matter-antimatter engine to surge to 75 percent power. This surge acted as an attractant to more tachyons and as the engine was shutdown and power dropped, the tachyons accelerated forward carrying the ship with them. The Tachyon Field which surrounded the ship accelerated more and more as power dropped, pulling the ship out of what we think of as our universe and into the realm of multi-dimensional membranes and super strings which it has been proven, lead to everywhere! Every piece of matter in the cosmos is connected to every other piece of matter in the cosmos. We are now able travel anywhere in the universe by following these connections. When all energy output on the USS Carl Anderson ceased then the ship returned to normal space and the Tachyon Field dissipated. The Tachyon Field which surrounded the ship wasn't completely successful in enveloping the ship and the areas of the ship which weren't in the field showed microscopic structural failure. Advances in Tachyon Field Mechanics showed that the field can be shaped but that the craft creating the field should be optimally shaped for its configuration. These are some of the reasons for the radical new appearance of the UNESS Carl Anderson. The ship has been radically altered specifically for "Sub-Space" travel. Editor's Note: In the years following the Anderson's return to Luna Shipyard, many changes have been made on Earth. People have set aside their differences and look to the stars for man's future. The United Nations of Earth was created 4 years ago. It was stipulated that the compact joining all nations together that the compact must be ratified after 2 years. The delegates of all the nations on Earth were unanimous in this and 1 year later all nations signed the constitution of the United Nations of Earth. The UNESS before the ship name stands for United Nations of Earth Star Ship. Man has finally matured enough to begin its first steps towards its cosmic destiny. Moon map from Planet Portal, Starfield from Universe, Ship and shipyard all Bryce. Thanks for taking a look :o) P.S. This is the seventh image for this story line and if you want to know the whole story then go to my gallery and start with "Maiden Voyage of Revolutionary Propulsion System".