Lauryad

The Lauryad (pronounced ) is a fictional spacecraft in Flight: a quantum fiction novel (1995), by American novelist and poet Vanna Bonta.

Disambiguation: It is also the name of a lunar lander that competed in the Northrop Grumman NASA-sponsored X-Prize Cup Lunar Lander Challenge, which was named after the fictional spacecraft (2007-2009).

Mission

The spaceship is a shuttle craft equipped with communication INSTRUMENTS and art libraries of advanced, constructive civilizations that have evolved beyond inner-conflict. The shuttle is a transport vessel that brings art and communication skills to interplanetary and interdimensional populations that were affected by a dark regime that discouraged creativity and freedom.

It is the personal spaceship of interdimensional being Aira Flight.

Name

The meaning of Lauryad is a portmanteau of the word "lori" (bus or transportation vehicle), and "laurels" (symbol of a commander in triumph). "Libiverus Lauryad" (literally translated "Truth-Freedom Transport") is the pilot's travel handle in the Lauryad.

Emblem

The Lauryad emblem insignia: between two flourishing wings, two hands clasped in handshake over a star are encircled by two branches of foliage that burgeon from the star.

Operation

The Lauryad travels via a process that manipulates space fabric. The process of "linking nuclei" is part of a procedure described as "fission Regroup" by which vectors are calibrated in a direction or charted location, then a “trade-off” of electron, positron, and neutrons is transacted around adjacent nuclei, thereby shifting masses from place to place via molecularity, controlled fission and fusion.

The ship is also capable of travel via Newtonian propulsion as a mass through space.

Equipment

• 'Circumference scanner' - The scanner sends out 360-degree spatial search nets along vector paths, and reports findings.
• 'Wavelength accelerator' - A recreational device that speeds sound waves into light formations that billow in the ship's chamber.
• '22-18-A' - music selection twenty-two, eighteen A is a five-party melody of winds with movements of the spheres, various sounds of stars and instruments from various planetary cultures.

Fiction to reality

A lunar lander competing in the Northrop Grumman X-Prize Lunar Lander Challenge was named Lauryad.

See also

• Flight: a quantum fiction novel (Vanna Bonta)
• BonNova