Richard came up with this while working on a graphic for the "Rel Pilots Make Dock" congratulations card. I have quibbles about features on rel-fighters and my notions of hullsteel as "memory metal" and the (mostly) featureless sphere as the best shape for withstanding extreme structural stress. But I loved the picture! So decided rel-fighters would have looked like this in the early days of their development before hullsteel as it exists in the "present day" ORU (time of the main series of books).

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• Enlarged version of the labelled detail shown above
  


• Full sketch in graphics gallery
  


• Main menu of web graphics gallery
  


• Flash player gallery of graphics
  

Labels: art, rel-fighter, Richard Bartrop

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