The other day I decided to model a spaceship in 3D. It’s a lighthugger from Alastair Reynolds’ epic Revelation Space series of novels. The name of the ship is Nostalgia For Infinity and it’s four kilometres long, it can maintain a constant acceleration of one gee up to near-light speed (hence ‘lighthugger’), and its leading edges are coated in a ablative covering of hyperdiamond-reinforced water ice to protect the ship from dust particles moving at relativistic speeds.
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