Fiction:Sortep Union/Civil Spaceships

The Sortep Union uses many kinds of spaceships for civil purposes.

Transportation Spaceship
Moving Method: Solar sail. Uses: Transportation of cargo or Sintans. Serves as an airplane between planets. Equipment: Solar panels. Description: This spaceship circles the star system it leaves once or twice to gather speed. The spaceship leaves the star system when it is close enough to the speed of light. The solar sail is folded after leaving the star system to prevent losing energy. Electricity is gained by solar panels at the edge of the solar sail.

Transportation spaceship with its solar sail open (left) and folded (right).



Terraforming Spaceship
Moving Method: Hydrogen and Fission engine. Uses: Terraforming planets. Equipment:
 * Two tubes that trap helium. The tubes transfer heat from one of the tubes to the other one, and heat the helium in one tube to 10,000 celsius and chill the other to -272 celsius.
 * A mini-zoo stores hundreds of animals.
 * A radiation creator.
 * An gas satorage used to shrink and enlarge the atmosphere.
 * A Sortep Union planetary seal, informing every visitor

Description: This spaceship visits planets a year before a colonization spaceship arrives. It terraforms the planet, plants the Sortep Union planetary seal on it and plants cameras on it. The cameras inform the Sortep Union's army if an alien changes the planet. Changing the planet is a declaration of war on the Sortep Union.



Colonizing Spaceship
Moving Method: Hydrogen and Fission engine. Uses: Colonizing planets. Equipment:
 * Factories
 * Building ready to be transformed into farms.
 * Self dissolution devices used to transform the spaceship into a small town.

Description:

This spaceship transports Sintans to new planet in order to colonize them and brings the needed infrastructure to live and colonize the new planet. A normal colonizing spaceship can bring ten thousand people and a small town with it. The colonizing spacehships are the largest spaceships of the Sortep Union.