Some really bare-bones preliminary CAD sketches of the Message Bearer, a digit ship and the Archangel Michael. There are two “Michaels,” one made the size as described, one 1/8 that size, based on the assumption that the same character mis-spoke *twice*. Not an assumption that makes me terribly happy, but looking at the full-size vehicle, more than a mile long, it’s just silly. The Michael was built under a dome; so this would have meant building a greenhouse dome well over a mile tall. Beyond the unreasonableness of a mile-long spaceship being built under wartime conditions, a mile-tall (and probably several mile-wide) greenhouse would be just a little obvious.
Comments and suggestions welcome. When I’m more or less satisfied with the overall geometries and details, I’ll proceed to 3D modelling.
