Orion's Arm Wormholes

As another distraction, I've been working on a Celestia Addon which displays the wormhole connections used in the Orion's Arm Universe

New Celestia Web site and Forum

With permission from Chris Laurel, the official Celestia Web site has been transferred to http://celestiaproject.net/

The new site is being run by a Celestia enthusiast in Russia and includes a Web Forum at http://celestiaproject.net/forum/

Algae and Fish Farming

Production of basic foods in space require plenty of sunlight as well as some gravity. While the plants and animals might not mind microgravity, production facilities work better when there's something pulling the product in particular directions. The toruses counter-rotate in order to minimize torques on the docking facilities.

ECS-5 Norway at Pell

Using Troutweaver's models, I've created a very preliminary and incomplete animation of the warship ECS-5 Norway entering the Pell system. It's about 98 seconds long. The original video is 1024x768.  By default, Youtube shows it at a much lower resolution, but if your browser has a video downloader plugin, you can download it at its full size.

 The video can be seen at
ECS-5 Norway at Pell (on Youtube)

 Here's a teaser screengrab: