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I really like the bumpmap on this one; it looks like smoke, but makes some convincing relief patterns within Celestia.

Even if they are subject to perturbations, there is plenty of available energy for stationkeeping. And to protect against comets.

The Black Acropolis, a 'Snailshell' configuration Dyson swarm in Orion's Arm http://www.orionsarm.com/im_store/med_Black_Acropolis.jpg Each cylinder contains a separate environment, many times larger than a planet; they are linked into rings, each ring orbiting as a slightly different inclination. h...

Incidentally the Orion's Arm addons at the Celestia Motherlode have been superceded by the ones on these pages; http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-page&page=gen_OACelestia1 there are four pages of these. I've made at least thirty other addons for OA which I haven't released, since they mostl...

Thank you for all your hard work, Selden! The wormhole nexus in Orion's Arm has grown up rather piecemeal, since only a small fraction of it has been described in any detail. In this fictional universe there are supposed to be around ten million wormholes, connecting the most important stars in a re...

You can add vague shadows under objects by making a surface texture that fits under the model, with a darkened patch on it. Not ideal, but doable.