[LEFT] In the sci-fi horror story, In the Dying Light, the McKay was transporting an untanked corporate yacht (name undefined) on her forward axial (nose) dock; which I refer to as The Boat. Basically, she is comprised of scaled down and resized Tycho parts, matted to bits of the Cygnus HVL. [MIDDLE] The biggest technical challenge was opening the model's deployable cargo bay and extending the manipulator arm with a bright red capture net on the end. [RIGHT] In addition, the McKay (as does all Horizon II CMs) has had its lateral docking ports refitted with six-man, emergency reentry vehicles (space capsules), nicknamed "cans," as in "spam in a can," from the early days of the Mercury space program.
 

[LEFT/MIDDLE] Here we see The Boat w/tanks, rendered against a NASA image (catalog number unknown) taken from the space shuttle. [RIGHT] A test rendering of the Obelisk, which was the item being captured by the ship's manipulator arm in the opening scene. Yes the runes are Klingon, the font was available and, in the final scale, almost unrecognizable.
 

Ships of the Horizon (II) / Stellarclipper class: Baines ND-22, Boston* ND-23, Sovereign ND-25, Monarch ND-26, Republic ND-27.

*The East Boston ND-23, and the unnamed ND-24, was (re)commissioned to the new Commerce class Fast-Transport freighter.
 

By Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Novella, Unpublished
Science Fiction, Horror