The GS Bon Ki is a disc which rotates around a smaller, thinner disc, or hub – imagine a donut (the edible kind) with a small nut (the metal kind) nestled in its hole. This is the Bon Ki.

Due to the constant spin, the outer edges of the disc experience a simulated gravity, meaning up is always “hub-ward.” The depth of the disc is divided into two levels: the lower living quarters, and the higher storage area. This storage area experiences a much lower gravity than the living area.

Looking at the ship as if it were a clock, turning clockwise, you see the shuttle side. Here there are four shuttles docked equidistance apart. While docked they serve as auxiliary labs and experience the same gravity as the lower section of the Bon Ki.

Looking at the “back” of the ship, you are viewing its gate-side. Here five jump gates are clamped. Connected to the stationary inner hub they do not spin with the main ship. These gates are designed to expand to twice the size of the ship once deployed. The solar arrays of the top-most gate powers the ship until it is deployed.

The Bon Ki is an international achievement, designed by the ILIP (International League of Interstellar Pursuits) as a logical next step after the discovery of Inter-dimensional subspace tunneling, or “jumping,” occasionally called tesseracting by journalists. With the ability to tunnel through spacetime, the ILIP determined this was the best chance for humanity to explore firsthand beyond their own solar system. They have built 7 gates in total – two of which are already deployed in Sol, and five of which they’ve tuned and attached to the Bon Ki. The Bon Ki’s missions then is to make five un-anchored jumps – that is, create a tunnel with an unknown exit point – laying a gate at each location they jump to. Since nothing is known about the distance limitations of jumping, and since these un-anchored jumps might end in the middle of a planet or astroid field, the likelihood of the any humans returning from this mission is considered fairly close to nil.