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ARES Corporation outer sphere mining
support equipment. Modular design, increase/decrease cargo capacity.
Highspeed belt debris shield,
removable, different sizes.
High gain long distance main comm
antenna.
Habitation spaces, surface shuttle,
escape pod.
Large cargo containers, man door/ pods
door access.
Various cargo containers.
Spare parts skid, extra ship core beam.
Compressed fuel tanks, cooled.
Two main engines, yaw control, strong bracing.
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2: Engines, note core beam connection
joint.
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3: Fuel / cargo
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4: Debris shield, telescoping antenna,
other.
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6: Inhabitated spaces, shuttle, escape
pod. Note small yellow man for scale
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11: Manned work pod, autonomous work
drone, supervisor drone
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30: Debris shield centerline close up.
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31: Family photo.
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20: breaker in down position
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27: Open the pod bay doors HAL.
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28: Servicing the high gain antenna.
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23: Simplified jackhammer, classic SPI
style.
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22: penetrator reload magazine, rapid
reload for hard crust.
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17: Jackhammer hard crust penetrator.
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Ah, Saint Simonsen, if only you were here to see this stuff.......!!
ReplyDeleteI miss him, he is my "Mentor of Design".
DeleteI like to think that evolved, detailed stuff like this would be where he would have progressed to, if SPI / ARES had survived and he had not walked away from Manhatten in sadness and disgust.
I see many different games / articles / artwork of ARES No. 50, No. 75, No. 100, etc , in my mind. So long thinking 'bout all his proposals (musta memorized them). I see them as he may have done them, and then, I see them as something beyond that.
I wish I could publish them for real. Alas, the market, time, financing....