The Ruby

The Ruby is a ship designed to be a command center for drone reforestation. It has one reconnaissance drone and four reforestation drones, full living arrangements for two people,including a kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and storage room, six silos to store seeds to fill the reforestation drones, massive solar panels on both sides of the ship and a control room with screens instead of windows. The idea is to deploy this ship when a hard to reach area needs reforestation and it isn't possible to send a team by truck.

I decided to make this for the contest because deforestation is a huge problem, especially in Africa, where forests are being cut down at four times the world's deforestation average, so I think it's fitting to create something to help save the forests.

The ship gets its name from civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, who, in 1960 at the age of 6, was the first african-american student to join a white-only school, paving the way for the desegregation of the education system.