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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*In the real world, [[Wikipedia:Project Orion|Project Orion]] was a spacecraft program was the first engineering design study of spacecraft powered by nuclear pulse propulsion. Its supporters felt that it had great potential for space travel, but it lost political approval because of concerns with fallout from its propulsion. The Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 is generally acknowledged to have ended the project. | *In the real world, [[Wikipedia:Project Orion|Project Orion]] was a spacecraft program was the first engineering design study of spacecraft powered by nuclear pulse propulsion. Its supporters felt that it had great potential for space travel, but it lost political approval because of concerns with fallout from its propulsion. The Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 is generally acknowledged to have ended the project. | ||
*It is possible, though unlikely, that Sergeant John Forge was also involved with the Orion Project before the Harvest Campaign. | |||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||