Arthur C Clarke - Rama

[Walter]

I've read them many times, the interier of the stations always put me in mind of rama.

You may remember that Rama was at least 10x bigger than our stations: 'Its body was was a cylinder so symmetrically perfect that it might have been turned on a lathe - one with centres 50 kilometres apart. The two ends were quite flat, apart from some small structures at the centre of one face, and were twenty kilometers across . . . '

Edit: But imagine finding such an object in the Elite universe.

[deathblossom]

I've read them many times, the interier of the stations always put me in mind of rama.

I totally agree. Just recently finished reading them and thought that the spikes at the end of the stations remind me of the spikes which send out the colourful auras when Rama is ready to make a maneuver.

When first playing ED I was amazed at the size of the stations interior. Now I am over that I want to see a really massive station. Maybe on the scale of a Dyson Sphere from an old Star Trek Next Generation episode which had Scotty in it.

[Myrm]

Yes, the spike made me think of Rama too

[Jeffers2112]

Co-incidentally I was reading about an interview with the actor Morgan Freeman, who said that one of his ambitions is to see Rama made into a film. Now that I would go to see!