Space History Reenactment Group
The Space History Reenactment Group are a small group of people who are not the usual sort of fen, as they are more interested in reenacting the 'glorious past' of manned space flight with their ships. At least sometimes. Most of the time they move around in Fenspace and take in the sights.
The SHR Group started out with the arrival of the Apollo at Stellvia in late 2011, causing some ruckus as people realized that the craft was a near 1 to 1 copy of an Apollo Command and Service Module, with only drive and life support being treated with handwavium. Everything else, including the computer, were mundane technology on 60s level.
Apollo was only the first craft, being joined by the Gemini, a not nearly 1 to 1 copy of a Gemini capsule, the Mercury, a rather close 1 to 1 copy of a Mercury capsule, and lately by Sojus TMA-12, an actual Sojus capsule that never got off the ground.
All these vessels are only waved in their life support and drive systems, with the rest being mundane.
A good number of Fen are on the good side with them and the Apollo is always welcome at most stations throughout Fenspace. Only the population of Island One dislike the SHR Group for their positive outlook and celebration of the 'glorious past' that they feels was denied to them.
Generally the age of the people in the SHR Group is at least fifty years over the age of a normal Fenspace Citizen, with Martin Andrews, the pilot of the Mercury, being 65 years old.
At the moment the SHR Group is looking into acquiring an OV-200 shuttle build to near original specs with only its life support and drive being 'waved.
Their homebase if the SkyLab Complex in Low Earth Orbit, constructed from five SkyLab copies build with the help of Whistler Services, who posses the five remaining Saturn V upper stages in space.
The Space History Reenactment Group are a small group of people who are not the usual sort of fen, as they are more interested in reenacting the 'glorious past' of manned space flight with their ships. At least sometimes. Most of the time they move around in Fenspace and take in the sights.
The SHR Group started out with the arrival of the Apollo at Stellvia in late 2011, causing some ruckus as people realized that the craft was a near 1 to 1 copy of an Apollo Command and Service Module, with only drive and life support being treated with handwavium. Everything else, including the computer, were mundane technology on 60s level.
Apollo was only the first craft, being joined by the Gemini, a not nearly 1 to 1 copy of a Gemini capsule, the Mercury, a rather close 1 to 1 copy of a Mercury capsule, and lately by Sojus TMA-12, an actual Sojus capsule that never got off the ground.
All these vessels are only waved in their life support and drive systems, with the rest being mundane.
A good number of Fen are on the good side with them and the Apollo is always welcome at most stations throughout Fenspace. Only the population of Island One dislike the SHR Group for their positive outlook and celebration of the 'glorious past' that they feels was denied to them.
Generally the age of the people in the SHR Group is at least fifty years over the age of a normal Fenspace Citizen, with Martin Andrews, the pilot of the Mercury, being 65 years old.
At the moment the SHR Group is looking into acquiring an OV-200 shuttle build to near original specs with only its life support and drive being 'waved.
Their homebase if the SkyLab Complex in Low Earth Orbit, constructed from five SkyLab copies build with the help of Whistler Services, who posses the five remaining Saturn V upper stages in space.