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It has a veneer of realism and not much else, doesn't even have radiators, why would such an advanced ship not use rotohabs instead of four sets of stacked can habs? Why does it have what appear to be solar panels when any kind of space drive is still going to need some form of reactor to generate it's energy? Why is the primary antenna pointing forward where the ship is going and not backward to stay in communication with Earth? Why is this ship which is obviously designed exclusively for spaceflight using a command module that looks more like the nose of a shuttle or airplane? Why is it so compact when generally speaking you want to hold your reactor and it's fuel (whether it's a fission, fusion, antimatter, or whatever over reactor you can think of) away from the crewed modules?