Gallery of Landscapes
Some
landscapes from the worlds
of the
Orion's Arm Civilisation
The dry ocean floor of a postgaian world, Xanthe, and the local star, which will become a red giant in the not too distant future
Helium gathering balloon
in the atmosphere of Adams, Beta Virginis V. The balloon itself
contains heated hydrogen, which is generated as a by product of the
filtration process. The factory module is seen below. It contains a
small nuclear isotope reactor, an active He3 isotope filtration system,
cryosystems to store helium, navigation equipment and a set of shuttle
canisters. When the factory has extracted enough helium, a shuttle
canister brings it up to a high atmosphere rendezvous with a manned
shuttle. Due to the gravity well and complexities of navigation within
giant planet atmospheres, new canisters cannot be supplied and the
balloon is retired once all have been used; the reactor is turned off,
and it sinks into the depths of Adams.
A Tube City floating in the atmosphere of Keil, a water-cloud Jovian orbiting 55 Cancri
The tube is supported by heated hydrogen balloons, and kept in place by atmospheric drag anchors far below
Above the clouds on Daleth Ring habitat , orbiting Alpha Aquarii
A flying city on Cronus; actually these cities are supported by utility fog and loadbearing members, concealed by phased array optics
Binaria Minor, the giant moon of Binaria Major (Gliese 783)