<p>Our first bonus model of the month is also a teaser for tomorrow's featured model. <a href="/builder/thomas-%C3%B6chsner">Thomas Öchsner</a> brings us into another realm... The Universe of Floating Rocks.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/toechsner/3322760139/"><img src="/sites/neoclassicspace/files/u3/gatewayrockmedium.jpg" alt="Gateway Rock" class="mceItem" width="371" height="500"></a></div>
<p><em>A lonely tracking base on the edge of the Federation, only surviving because nobody noticed it to cut its budget, is suddenly thrust into the limelight when its messages suddenly start reflecting back from a mysterious point is space. A hidden signal contains instructions for the construction of an alien machine... <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/toechsner/3183864559">a matter transmitter of some sort</a>. At first, the space agency are reluctant to allow its use, but trials sending inanimate objects showed they were all returned safely. Eventually, one brave spaceman steps up and walks through the transmitter... and finds himself on the gateway rock.</em></p>
<p>More tomorrow!</p>
