This week the world of British science communicators has been buzzing with talk about the adventures of Tim Peake.

From a global perspective, this is not exactly newsworthy. Tim is a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, who is boldly going where—err—some two hundred people have gone before and starting a six month mission on the International Space Station.

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I was feeling very bored and in the mood to experiment, so I fired up Inkscape and vectored Ahriman Station.

The source image is an SVG, so the exported images can be any size. I can zoom way in on these 80-meter Vigilance-class patrol boats and re-export it at any arbitrary DPI.

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