General Products Hull

Nearly indestructible outer skin for spaceships; pick your hull size and put what you want inside. (Read the full article)

"We find out in other Known Space stories that the hull was one single molecule with atomic bonds artificially strengthened."
(Dana Cline 4/12/2005 10:50:03 AM )
"Also see one of his Bey Schaeffer stories about their vulnerability to antimatter!"
(John Pfeifer 8/1/2006 9:12:40 AM )

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