Ludicrous48
Created page with "CRIST Sol Orbiters (Cargo and Resources In-System Transports) are hollow, potato-shaped interplanetary spacecraft powered by solar sails and used to ferry supplies between Earth and Mars. They orbit around the sun and are loaded up by a tether swinging the materials into orbit behind the CRIST and a reel pulling it in. Offloading was accomplished by "a powerful ion beam which would pound the offloading material with a steady stream of ion particles." Presumably, this mea..."