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Spaceship shapes

>From: Lesley Grant <lgrant>
>Subject: cherryhlist
>Date: Wed, 2 Dec 92 9:48:58 GMT

> >From: Jo Jaquinta <jaymin>
> >Subject: cherryhlist: What does The Pride of Chanur look like?

> 	Has anyone tried to draw The Pride of Chanur? I have a good
> mental image of the ship (sort of like a finned, cigar shaped ship
> out of "golden-age" SF) but I can't rationalise this with the internal
> descriptions given.
> 	The ECS Norway, on the other hand, does have a outline given.

	Shouldn't the _Pride_ (and most other Compact ships) resemble the
_Norway_ in most respects? After all, if Cherryh's ships are mainly big
cans with jump vanes attached, there are only so many variants of the shape.
The picture on the _Company War_ box could do well as a 'standard' ship
design. And, yes, it's not pretty. None of the ships with vanes are. Do
people think the Knnn ships are built on the same pattern? Nothing is ever
said to indicate they're not, but they do seem to act outside the limitations
of other Compact ships.

				Lesley