Falcon

The Falcon was the first spaceship built in the Millennial Kingdom, as part of a collaborative effort of Other Light and Children of the Tribulation teenage workers under the direction of Sergei Korolev and Cendrillon Jospin.

She was named after a "reverse auction" process necessary to find the funds to finish her in the first place.

Her flight envelope was simple: direct ascent to the sky canopy surrounding the Earth, after which she would use shape charges to poke a hole in the outer ice layer of it, thus allowing her single cosmonaut to swim through and be the first human being to see the star in almost a century.

The design was said to resemble a kitbash of early space capsules; balsa wood was used for the interstage fairing and pine wood for the stabilization fins, to save on cost and mass. Elianto did the woodwork.

Despite a plethora of minor problems, the Falcon performed her mission successfully, allowing Cendrillon Jospin to perform basic astronomical observations and leave the first stargazing webcam on the outer surface of the canopy. As a single-use capsule, she was scrapped shortly after, with a few pieces being kept as mementos or memorials.