Kalindy XII : Leaving Inskerelleryon

About a central axis a little over ten kilometres long, a cylinder of fire bright metal span just fast enough to simulate a luxurious 0.2g against the inner surface. Two massive gyro batteries to forward of the centre of mass stored sufficient angular momentum to preserve the effect against casual interstellar degradation even on the longest conceivable high density Trans Nebular run with unfavourable cross winds. They were decoupled now and service engineers were spin boosting the trailing wheel. To aft, the dormant black bulk of the fuser slept far beyond the edge of the facility. The arms that fed its maw with fuel were withdrawn now but the Booker could imagine the windmill magnets spinning with the cylinder and a full two kilometres beyond its thousand meter diameter, to draw in ions through the nuclear engine.
That was only one, if the most obvious, of the Kalindy's methods of movement. Chemical propellants ran through capacious tanks down interior tubes to fire a multiplicity of little rockets angled for close planet manoeuvring. It was only by using these subtle mechanisms that the Liner was able to dock with the planetary superstructures where it must Replenish. Last but not least there was the Strip Engine. It might be literally infinitesimal and locked away at the centre of mass but for a ship this size it was surely the most impressive feature. The Strip Engine controlled strip/intermesh phasing with Einstein-Lorentz space, and made practical travel possible at faster than light speeds. However, the larger the ship, the more difficult it was to tune the dimensionless powerhouse, and the Booker, who had seen enough of the problems associated with the simple adjustment of a small faulty Strip Engine to realise his ignorance couldn't even conceive how difficult and expensive it must have been to initiate Kalindy's Strip Engine.