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Chapter 2: The Ringed World

Saturn fills the forward view, and every place the settlers live is somewhere in it.

What it shows. The scale of Saturn and its rings; where everything is.

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The engineering behind it

• System

  Getting around the Saturn system

  Every leg of the Saturn network is flown by the engine whose exhaust speed matches the speed change the leg needs.

• System

  Saturn's rings

  On the reference date the Sun stands 13.35 degrees above the ring plane, and the rings show their lit north face.