[OOC][PLOT] Planning for Arc 1 - Arrivals

[robkelk]

Hmmm....

Question: Can anyone think of someone in fiction who'd actually and earnestly want to create some unreal estate?  Because the idea of major cities that have towers built for The Word Fair (ie: The Tower of Americas in San Antonio and The Space Needle in Seattle) and being used like orbital traffic control centers just won't leave me alone.

I don't know about anybody in fiction, but I'm pretty sure that the military would be interested, for reasons that we've discussed over in Fenspace with Grover's Corners.

As for how: Everything is showing up in the Metacontinuity; this would include James Blish's Cities in Flight. Because of some events left off-screen, the USAF gets their hands on a spindizzy. They discover "[t]his device grows more efficient with the amount of mass being lifted" the hard way while trying to launch something at Joint Base San Antonio - they overcharge the spindizzy and launch the entire city a few hundred feet into the air (really panicking the folks at Westwood and letting Washuu-chan get some good readings of a spindizzy in operation). Then somebody in authority who has an overinflated sense of theatrics and no understanding of logistics or diplomacy (yes, I am thinking of the current CinC) decides "as long as we've got a flying base, let's roof it over, make sure its Air Force bases are fully stocked, put it in orbit for a week, and really scare the bad guys." Then follows some of our buildings' residents shipping food (and fresh air!) to San Antonio because a city's combined civilian grocery stores typically have only 2-3 days of food in stock at any given time... You know, the plot just writes itself here.