More work on Orbital Elements. Some Blender work to boot. Having toiled over a spreadsheet for a few days, I can now create Orbital Element space vehicles up to a few thousand tons. This means that the stuff I build in Blender is underpinned by a consistent specification, which is good.

The trusty old N-9 Aleut. For fifty years, this ubiquitous 600-ton heavy patrol rig has allowed occupants of stations and settlements throughout the system to sleep soundly, knowing that they had a yard dog with a mighty powerful bite. Today, most N-9s are entering retirement, or they are being mothballed. A few have fallen into the hands of troublemakers.

The results of the design sequence: