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Re:Project Orion by vhodges on Thursday March 16, 2023 @05:19PM (#35188822)
replying to all... The story you're thinking of is King Davids Spaceship by Jerry Pournelle. It IS a co-dominion story (so same universe as The Mote in Gods Eye w/Larry Niven)

A few other uses of Orion in fiction that I am aware of:

The Ship 'Michael' (as in avenging angel) from Footfall (Again by Niven and Pournelle).

And the ship from Orion shall rise by Paul Anderson.

A CBC Miniseries featuring a (faked) Orion derived interstellar ark supposedly launched in the 60's and the people that have been living on it for almost 40 years.

Re:Project Orion by rbanffy on Thursday March 16, 2023 @09:04PM (#35191340)
> A CBC Miniseries featuring a (faked) Orion derived interstellar ark supposedly launched in the 60's and the people that have been living on it for almost 40 years.

I think it was from SyFy. It was so bad it could only be SyFy.

Could be a good murder mystery, if it were not ruined by the whole fake ship idea.

Re:Project Orion by RajT88 on Thursday March 16, 2023 @09:38PM (#35191710)
This one I believe:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_(miniseries)

You have to rate a show like this relatively if you are watching on a network filled with crap. It was not bad for a SyFy show!

> Could be a good murder mystery, if it were not ruined by the whole fake ship idea.

Not quite what you are thinking, but you may enjoy Aniara:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7589524/

Re:Project Orion by vhodges on Thursday March 16, 2023 @09:21PM (#35191507)
Yes, it was on SyFy, but was a CAD co-production so aired on CBC here.