Crimean Star
Ship owned by Nikolei Drevin which is moored at St Katharine's Dock on the Thames. Huge and white.
Mary Belle
A shipwreck of an old transport ship sunk in the Second World War off Flamingo Bay. It is about one hundred and thirty metres long and covered in algae and coral.
Gabriel 7
An Atlas 2AS rocket. Fifty metres tall, slender and beautiful with four solid rocket boosters.
Soyuz-Fregat
A second rocket, slightly smaller than Gabriel 7. Carrying a capsule of some sort, which will carry Arthur the orang-utan into space. Plan is to send it up immediately after Gabriel 7.
Ark Angel
The world's first fully functioning hotel in space. Has cost one hundred billion pounds to make. Drevin describes it as the "most ambitious building project of the twenty-first century".