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Movie clips from Orion's ArmVery short clips created using
Celestia and other software. More longer clips to follow in due course
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![]() Dragonfly Class Click image for movie download |
Dragonfly
Class Spacecraft this antimatter drive vessel from the First Federation era used antimatter stored in numerous Penning traps arranged along the length of the craft. Large diaphanous radiator wings cooled the powerful motors at the rear. |
![]() Rosalyn Franklyn (YouTube link) |
Gravity
Tug This vessel, the Rosalind Franklin from the Barnard Belt is a typical gravity tug craft used to slowly alter the orbit of asteroids, using gathered asteroid material as extra ballast. Over time, a proportion of the thrust applied by the gravity tug is transferred to the asteroid, altering its orbit without physical contact. |
![]() Artificial Planet (YouTube Link) |
Artificial
Planet Using an artificially created planetary mass black hole as a source of gravity and power, this structure consists of a supramundane shell supporting an Earth-like rocky surface. The orbital rings are arranged in the so-called Ball-of-string' configuration; three more shells above this layer in the so-called x-y-z configuration provide additional support. |
![]() Wormhole Click Image for movie download |
Wormhole A trip through a wormhole showing first, the region of space-time distortion known as the Vortex; light from surrounding stars and from the far end of the 'hole is distorted into a whirl-like pattern; then the thin shell of exotic matter and control technology known as the Caustic can briefly be seen. After passage through the Throat of the 'hole the stars at the far end become visible. More details of wormhole technology here |
![]() Betelgeuse (YouTube link) |
Betelgeuse The vast red giant Betelgeuse has a diameter of roughly 5.8 astronomical units, but the vast convection cells are constantly churning, making the shape of this vast star irregular. This star has been partly stabilised by Sun Miner technology to delay the inevitable supernova explosion. Betelgeuse is the centre of the Betelgeuse Volume |
![]() Dschubba Click image for movie download |
Dschubba
(Delta Scorpii) The main component is a rapidly spinning B-emission star, notable for the emission disk visible around the equator. Two other very bright stars and another more distant companion make up the rest of the system. The total output of these stars is more than twenty thousand times that of the Sun; this energy is used commercially by the cross-cultural Triumvirate metapolity, and was the home system of the Civilisation Ship the Futurological Congress |
![]() Space Fleet Click image for movie download |
Space
Fleet a short animation by by Grant Thomas showing a typical interstellar fleet of the Consolidation War period. |
Bishop Ring (YouTube link) |
Bishop Ring An open rotating habitat 2000km in diameter; more details here |
![]() The Terragen Sphere Click image for movie download |
The Terragen Sphere A short movie showing the locations of some of the Orion's Arm polities in 3D |
![]() Bullseye (YouTube link) |
Bullseye A tidally locked planet with a permanent hurricane at the substellar point |
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Some 3D Models - ships, a vehicle, and so on, by Michael Figarelli |