Interstellar clipper ship

[selden]

The ships are radially symmetric, with the sails spreading out on all sides. They don't have an up-down orientation as ships floating in water have.

Obviously I'll have to figure out a better way of displaying them. Here's a face-on view.

clipper_faceon.png

[selden]

Here's a preliminary description of the hull and steering structures.

no sails.jpg

Hmm. Obviously some changes are needed, both to the structure and the illustration. Not to mention improving details of the underlying model.

The physics conceit is that the ship's sails, keels and rudders extend into a multi-dimensional "sail space". The 2D projection here can't easily display how the sails extend into a low density propulsion dimension while the keels planes and rudders extend into a higher-density steerage dimension to provide stability. Both dimensions contain their own currents affecting movement.