in case folks missed it, the US / PK ships in Aristillus 1 and 2 * Henri Spaak * Oswaldo Aranha * Jose Arce * Nasrollah Entezam * Luis Padilla Nervo * Lester B. Pearson * Wan Waithayakon ...were all named after Presidents of United Nationshttps://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1484292572038283267 …
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2/ the expat (Aristillus ships) very intentionally had an anarchic scheme / no scheme The rescue ship that freed the captives from the US / PK prison camp was "Deladrier", after the female pilot in Heinlein's Startship Troopers who rescues Johnny Rico's team.
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3/ there actually was one ship in the Aristillus novels named after a Rush album - the CNG (compressed natural gas) ship that had been retrofitted to compress air (my notes say 48,000,000 m^ air compressed to 60,000 m^3 to fit in tanks) & ship it to moonhttps://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1484294045971226626 …
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4/ was named <drumroll plz> Grace Under Pressure. It is a very very small plot point, but it is made clear in the text of Causes of Separation that (a) the ship is in Lai Docks at Aristillus before the PK invasion (b) the PK invasion blows airlocks and wastes HUGE amts of air
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5/ what happens off screen is that the cargo of the Grace Under Pressure is used to repressurize the tunnels of Aristillus after the catastrophic losses.
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6/ yes, I am extremely detail oriented yes, maybe even OCD yes, this is why Aristillus novels take me so long to write
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