A futuristic train speeding to a starport on
an airless moon.
Two Sulieman Class Scouts prepare for launch (raise
landing geer)
An Empress Marava class frieghter landing.
The domed city
that the tube train is heading for, seen just outside the tube. Off to the left is a starport landing area, but nothing shows up in this picture.
An Empress
Marava class starship landing near the domed city. This is probably the starport at Paya. (The ship has to be landing, if you look closely, it doesn't quite touch the ground.) There's a tanker truck next to it, and some fuel storage tanks in the background.
Inside an O'Neil space colony, looking at the curved end. This is actually based on a spherical design, but could be the end of a cylindrical one.
The green terraces are about 30 meters wide, and I fit 180 single or multi-family houses on the first terrace. Above that are apartment buildings and offices. On the third and fourth terrace are manufacturing and warehouses. Above that (although I don't have anything here) would be lo-gravity recreational facilities. The sphere has an internal radius of 495 meters. Towards the left is a black band that is a window for reflected sunlight, and a green, speckled band, representing the 1-G park. (In this computer model, the other hemisphere would look like this one. However, in rendering the picture, POV was running at a blazing 2 pixels per second, so I "removed" everything that wasn't actually in the picture. That got the speed up to 8 pixels per second.)
This picture was rendered at 1280 X 1024 pixels to serve as the background on my computer at work, and to give an idea of the size of such a structure.
If you have comments or suggestions, email me at tarach@my-deja.com