I realize I've been a little lax in "naming" my characters with what I call their "fighting names", but for the cover it seemed appropriate. Some of my characters don't use fighting names, they just use their own names, like Zona and even Nick's fighting name is, technically, just his middle name, Ajax. He's named for his grandfather, a grounder hero on Atlas awhile back. But, these are super-heroes, and fighting names are part of the mythology, so the characters will adopt them as they move into the role.

I was playing around with Sketchup again, recently and decided to do something really, really old-school. I based this on a model I saw on the Fantastic Plastic web site, which is, itself a slightly inaccurate version of the filming model of the DY-100 Botany Bay from the original series Star Trek episode "Space Seed". This is Khan's sleeper ship. I just eyeballed it from photos on the site, so any faults are my own. I may do a re-imagined version of this thing in the future, just for fun. I always liked the submarine profile, but the octagonal cross-section is just too "wood shop" for me. I wonder if the original model didn't begin it's life as a table leg or somesuch.