An illustrated backstory for the Orion's Arm Universe Video created by Arik Images by Arik Anders Sandberg Chris Shaeffer Matt Johnson Bernd Helfert Darren Ryding Juan Ochoa Felipe Brando Steve Bowers Keith Wigdor
Betelgeuse, a giant red star in the Orion vector More information here (Steve Bowers)
Skalosak
Here's Skalosak the Siberoo and her joeycub Rantreleka. (Darren Ryding)
Urchinstar
New footage of the giant world-brain Urchinstar. The living structure is so vast that it has a moon lodged in its spikes. (Darren Ryding)
Orion's Arm Animated Logo
Orion's Arm Animated Logo (Darren Ryding)
Hoopworld
Hoopworld, an artificial, self-gravitating torus in the MPA (Steve Bowers)
Geminga
Geminga - a nearby pulsar, 552 light years from Earth; this video is slowed down somewhat, as the pulsar in fact rotates once every 0.2 seconds.
(Steve Bowers)
Waverider
A Waverider Single Stage to Orbit spacecraft. This vessel rides the hypersonic shockwave created by its own velocity to gain lift when leaving the atmosphere
(Steve Bowers)
Bullseye
This tidally locked, but otherwise Earthlike planet has a single hurricane in the centre of the starward face.