[MOC] Eridu-9 (Microscale)

[elfprince13]

Agricultural ring station and a major hub for trade and culinary tourism in the sector. 3 cargo transports are in various stages of picking up shipments, requiring that they transit the portal between the inside and outside of the station. An atmospheric rotor-craft can also be seen taking sensor readings over one of the fields. Despite being an engineered ecosystem, the resort hotel has difficulty keeping seaweed from washing up on its white sand beach.

[magureanpaul]

Interesting build.

Where is it from ?

[elfprince13]

18 hours ago, magureanpaul said:

Interesting build.

Where is it from ?

Thanks! It's an original design for Space Jam 2023, although the cargo ships bear a certain resemblance to Federation vessels in Star Trek (if a bit more colorful). A ring station has precedent in a bunch of SF settings including Halo and Larry Niven's Ringworld (or as a conceptual variant of Freeman Dyson's eponymous "Dyson sphere"). This one is actually small enough that it would probably need to be a spin-ring with artificial lighting + day/night cycles, similar to a cross-section of an O'Neill cylinder like Babylon-5 (the obvious inspiration for the name).

 

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BTW, also recorded a little video showing off how it all comes together:

 

 

Edited December 18, 2023 by elfprince13