Yes, those are indeed hoses running from the intakes to the engines - it required building around the engines from start to finish, which probably added an hour to the build time. I attempted to make the ship as conceivably real as possible.

Atan sent me this video, following a discussion at Planet Descent.com.

A remake of my original... Thought the shield orb would work better in the center and changed the color scheme to coincide with the original box art. Also, the text is smaller, has a drop shadow, and is textured up a bit. Hope you like it.  

Title: Hive Mind

Correlated Song: Rusty

Correlated Levels: Kanroku Ore Mine, Living Water Catacombs

Project: Solarian

Description: This is a song from the point of view of the transmode virus itself!  Yes, the virus is sentient... in fact, all it is is sentience.  It needs hosts in order to have any power.

"Industrial Accident" by Allister Brimble
GAME07 Playstation Redbook Version

Used in: Levels 7, 14, 17, 22, & 27

Notes: This particular track was used for a whopping 5 levels. Music in the Playstation version of Descent were not repeated in track order, but rather randomly (or strategically) assigned to various levels later in the game. I always wondered why "Industrial Accident" appeared so many times in the game, and when I extracted the music files from the Playstation disc, I found out that "Industrial Accident" had been on there as 3 separate files, yet it was the same song. I speculate that perhaps they were going to include more tracks from the Descent 2 Redbook list, but that they decided to pull a couple of songs at the last minute, leaving the Level 7 theme to repeat itself throughout the game four more times.

Those are some mean afterburners.