Someone on Facebook asked me to create a 100 ton starship (with Traveller stats) with more cargo space than a Type S, Scout and with most of its features. Because I used my Manta hull design, included is a 1 ton, submersible turbo-caterpillar drive allowing for underwater travel (fast and silent), as well as flying through middle layers of gas giants and heavy atmosphere worlds, where standard maneuver drives fail - for evasion and escape purposes. The air/raft is a miniature of the ship which sits above the Skate starship (ladder accesses air/raft hatch).

The manta shape is 3D model created using Nendo 1.0, a subdivisional surface modeler, and rendered in Raydream Studio 5.5 (old software but works for my needs). The rest of the deck plan, including the 3D extruded walls were entirely created using Xara Designer Pro x11, a vector drawing application using photo texture fills.

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