OK, not quite a day then. I've split the Luna write up and the Kandor City write up to make things easier. However, due to Crater Daniell being an elliptical crater I've completely re-jigged some of the layout. And due to the greater size things are feeling quite empty in there now.
Fnord, if the discription isn't clear enough I have a new rough scetch I can send you.
LUNA
Holding the unique distinction of being the only other celestial body Man had personally visited pre wave, Earth's moon Luna (or simply The Moon) is the most populus body in Fenspace.
The largest city in Fenspace is Kandor City, based around The Watchtower and located in Crater Daniell. The city has a population of 350,000, and hosts the Metahuman Power Biomodification Research Institute (Supers faction home base), Kandor City Hospital, and the base for the Soviet Air Force "Central Committee" among others.
The Watchtower is the oldest structure on Luna, and lifts a remarkable 1600m from the surface among its sprawling supports on the south-western lip of the crater. The old part of the city along with the old docks and warehouse district are based around these supports and inside the crater, with the actual living area in glass covers sections between the supports on the craters inner rim.
To the south on Dorsa Smirnov, the Senshi maintain their Moon Kingdom memorial outpost.
Even further south is Port Luna. Here the US Coast Guard has set up shop to prevent the 'vandalisation' of the site of Man's first extra planetary mission. Port Luna helps serve Tranquillity Base National Park, which it surrounds in a ring of pressurised buildings and connecting walkways. The only United States National Park that is not actually on Earth, Tranquillity Base encompasses a 25-square-mile region centred on the Apollo 11 landing site. A transparent lunar-glass wall over ten meters in height fences off the actual landing site from tourists in order to preserve Armstrong and Aldrin's footprints and the equipment they left behind, but the wall is handwavium-enhanced and will provide magnified images. A nearby Visitor's Centre houses a museum, a theatre in which a 20-minute film about the Apollo 11 mission runs on continuous loop, and a scale model of the site which can be explored with interactive camera drones. The land was originally claimed by Fen, who donated it to the US government on the condition they turn it all into a National Park. The other Apollo landing sites are covered as World Heritage Sites and have 3km exclusion zones.
All except the Apollo 14 landing site. While the lander & immediate area are locked off as historical sites, the rest of the surrounding territory has been converted into the Shepard Memorial Golf Course, the first PGA-approved (well, sort of; they slipped the documents in and got the signatures anyway) 18-hole course offworld.
Near the Luna North Pole is Moonbase Alpha. A more hardtech approach to a city, Moonbase Alpha is more an industrial centre than a place to live. It's also near completely self-sufficient and operates an underground hazardous materials storage site on the Luna dark-side.
Also on the dark side of Luna are the Mare Marginis Construction Sites where the Venus Crystal Cities were constructed and the Senshi's main shipbuilding site exists.
At the Luna South Pole in the Shackleton Crater complex. This is run by the Artemis Corporation and the various Luna colonisation societies in co-operation. Shackleton Crater mines the small amount of ice and hydrogen to be found here, as well as mounts the Blind Io Luna Observatory Complex.
Kandor City
The largest city in Fenspace, based around The Watchtower and located in Crater Daniell. The city has a population of 350,000, and hosts the Metahuman Power Biomodification Research Institute (Supers faction home base), Kandor City Hospital, and the base for the Soviet Air Force "Central Committee" among others.
The Watchtower is the oldest structure on Luna, and lifts a remarkable 1600m from the highest point of the south-western lip of the crater. The old part of the city along with the old docks and warehouse district are based around these supports and inside the crater, with the actual living area in glass covered sections between the supports on the craters inner rim. Eventually, the fen got inspired (or bored) and built a full bell-like dome over the entire crater. This dome reaches 5Km over the center of the crater and almost twice the height of the Watchtower. The light shinning off it makes it the only man-made structure to be visible by the naked eye from Earth.
Inside the dome, the Supers who built it took advantage of the free space to lay out a clean, tidy, and surprisingly green city. Whilst the old town is crowded, the new city takes the best features of the various cities in fiction and combines them. Due to Crater Daniell being a ellipse, the fen came up with an arrangement of 3 octagonal zones (stretched to fit the long axis of the ellipse) placed inside one another with their borders 4Km apart. From the center of the crater these are named the Core, Main, and Rim zones. These were then split into 8 wedges, corresponding to the major compass points creating the sectors of the city. Each of the sectors is linked by the Kandor City Maglev train system and the Heavy Cargo Transport system on the crater rim. Unofficially there is an Outer zone which deals with those facilities outside the crater rim, and while it has not yet happened further zones may be unofficially designated.
The Watchtower sits on the rim at the Southwest position and the old docks take up the 'Southwest Outer' area, with the Old Town (including such things as Question Alley, the Paragon City Saloon, and Dr J's hardware store) taking up the Southwest Rim sector.
To the north of the Watchtower in the West Rim sector are the Metahuman Biomodification Research Centre (a.k.a. Star Labs) and the dedicated emergency docks of Kandor City Hospital. Ironically enough, the West sector is also where Korolev Air Force Base (home base of the Soviet Air Force or VVS) is located.
Further round in the North Rim sector is the Kirby Memorial Spaceport (extending into the unofficial 'North Outer' area outside the crater rim) and the docklands/warehouse district. Also here are the lots of the Silvery Moon Films studios (located towards the border of the North and Northeast Rim sectors). The heavy industries line the rim of the crater to the west of this area in the Northwest Rim sector and extend outside the rim for those industries requiring vacuum. (a.k.a Northwest Outer).
To the south of the Watchtower in the South Rim sector, surrounded by the unique Kandor Bell species of Dandy (taken as the symbol of the place) is the Nekomi Institute of Technology. The Supers running it are gradually getting their courses accredited by 'Daneside authorities, with the first full Degrees due to finish in May 2014. Already N.I.T. is becoming known for its wide variety of clubs, especially its Motor Club which currently holds the record for the fastest ground level circumnavigation of Luna at the equator. Also in this area are the various sports facilities of the city, including a full ski slope.
The new business and shopping district is in the Southwest Main sector. This contains the high-rise office buildings of the various companies in the City, with the new shops taking up the floors near street level. On the border between this sector and the Southwest Core sector is the entertainment district.
The current residential district takes up the Southeast Rim section. This area is filled with multi-storey mansions owned by various factions and high-rise apartment buildings. What most people don't realise is that Kandor builds underground, allowing an awful lot of space that normally wouldn't be available.
Under construction on the border of the South and Southeast Core zones near the centre of the dome is the Trinity Towers arcology. This is a modified version of the Sky City concept from Takenaka Corporation. Being built to the Japanese building code in respect of the country the design came from, the three 2km tall 'cities in a building' will dominate the surrounding landscape. When finished in late 2014, each will provide housing for 75,000 people, and workspace for another 100,000. The three towers would be linked by an upper core housing the cities internal airport and main embassies. The Japanese government is officially watching the project, which may gain Clark Universal Construction an Earth-side contract.
One of Kandor City's nicknames is the Green City, and it isn't due to the fact that it's named after a Kryptonian City. Kandor City is a wonder of recycling and reclamation, and it has terraformed most of the area under the dome. The most impressive part of this is the creek-fed Lake Tezuka in the exact center of the dome. The creeks are part of the terraforming maintenance system, which is part and parcel of the city's life support system. Despite some worries it's not *really* part of the central water reclamation system, though it's tied in. The whole point of the creeks is to create at least a theoretically self-sustaining water cycle inside the dome that allows the wildlife to thrive without constant attention. As of 2014 Kandor City's terraforming is still in the sagebrush-and-jackrabbits stage, but so far so good. Current plans for the rest involve subsequent local terraforming to make arable land and induce a permanent 1G area for cattle. The Mars and Venus Terraforming Projects are watching carefully.
Edit: Matched Watchtower sizes
Fnord, if the discription isn't clear enough I have a new rough scetch I can send you.
LUNA
Holding the unique distinction of being the only other celestial body Man had personally visited pre wave, Earth's moon Luna (or simply The Moon) is the most populus body in Fenspace.
The largest city in Fenspace is Kandor City, based around The Watchtower and located in Crater Daniell. The city has a population of 350,000, and hosts the Metahuman Power Biomodification Research Institute (Supers faction home base), Kandor City Hospital, and the base for the Soviet Air Force "Central Committee" among others.
The Watchtower is the oldest structure on Luna, and lifts a remarkable 1600m from the surface among its sprawling supports on the south-western lip of the crater. The old part of the city along with the old docks and warehouse district are based around these supports and inside the crater, with the actual living area in glass covers sections between the supports on the craters inner rim.
To the south on Dorsa Smirnov, the Senshi maintain their Moon Kingdom memorial outpost.
Even further south is Port Luna. Here the US Coast Guard has set up shop to prevent the 'vandalisation' of the site of Man's first extra planetary mission. Port Luna helps serve Tranquillity Base National Park, which it surrounds in a ring of pressurised buildings and connecting walkways. The only United States National Park that is not actually on Earth, Tranquillity Base encompasses a 25-square-mile region centred on the Apollo 11 landing site. A transparent lunar-glass wall over ten meters in height fences off the actual landing site from tourists in order to preserve Armstrong and Aldrin's footprints and the equipment they left behind, but the wall is handwavium-enhanced and will provide magnified images. A nearby Visitor's Centre houses a museum, a theatre in which a 20-minute film about the Apollo 11 mission runs on continuous loop, and a scale model of the site which can be explored with interactive camera drones. The land was originally claimed by Fen, who donated it to the US government on the condition they turn it all into a National Park. The other Apollo landing sites are covered as World Heritage Sites and have 3km exclusion zones.
All except the Apollo 14 landing site. While the lander & immediate area are locked off as historical sites, the rest of the surrounding territory has been converted into the Shepard Memorial Golf Course, the first PGA-approved (well, sort of; they slipped the documents in and got the signatures anyway) 18-hole course offworld.
Near the Luna North Pole is Moonbase Alpha. A more hardtech approach to a city, Moonbase Alpha is more an industrial centre than a place to live. It's also near completely self-sufficient and operates an underground hazardous materials storage site on the Luna dark-side.
Also on the dark side of Luna are the Mare Marginis Construction Sites where the Venus Crystal Cities were constructed and the Senshi's main shipbuilding site exists.
At the Luna South Pole in the Shackleton Crater complex. This is run by the Artemis Corporation and the various Luna colonisation societies in co-operation. Shackleton Crater mines the small amount of ice and hydrogen to be found here, as well as mounts the Blind Io Luna Observatory Complex.
Kandor City
The largest city in Fenspace, based around The Watchtower and located in Crater Daniell. The city has a population of 350,000, and hosts the Metahuman Power Biomodification Research Institute (Supers faction home base), Kandor City Hospital, and the base for the Soviet Air Force "Central Committee" among others.
The Watchtower is the oldest structure on Luna, and lifts a remarkable 1600m from the highest point of the south-western lip of the crater. The old part of the city along with the old docks and warehouse district are based around these supports and inside the crater, with the actual living area in glass covered sections between the supports on the craters inner rim. Eventually, the fen got inspired (or bored) and built a full bell-like dome over the entire crater. This dome reaches 5Km over the center of the crater and almost twice the height of the Watchtower. The light shinning off it makes it the only man-made structure to be visible by the naked eye from Earth.
Inside the dome, the Supers who built it took advantage of the free space to lay out a clean, tidy, and surprisingly green city. Whilst the old town is crowded, the new city takes the best features of the various cities in fiction and combines them. Due to Crater Daniell being a ellipse, the fen came up with an arrangement of 3 octagonal zones (stretched to fit the long axis of the ellipse) placed inside one another with their borders 4Km apart. From the center of the crater these are named the Core, Main, and Rim zones. These were then split into 8 wedges, corresponding to the major compass points creating the sectors of the city. Each of the sectors is linked by the Kandor City Maglev train system and the Heavy Cargo Transport system on the crater rim. Unofficially there is an Outer zone which deals with those facilities outside the crater rim, and while it has not yet happened further zones may be unofficially designated.
The Watchtower sits on the rim at the Southwest position and the old docks take up the 'Southwest Outer' area, with the Old Town (including such things as Question Alley, the Paragon City Saloon, and Dr J's hardware store) taking up the Southwest Rim sector.
To the north of the Watchtower in the West Rim sector are the Metahuman Biomodification Research Centre (a.k.a. Star Labs) and the dedicated emergency docks of Kandor City Hospital. Ironically enough, the West sector is also where Korolev Air Force Base (home base of the Soviet Air Force or VVS) is located.
Further round in the North Rim sector is the Kirby Memorial Spaceport (extending into the unofficial 'North Outer' area outside the crater rim) and the docklands/warehouse district. Also here are the lots of the Silvery Moon Films studios (located towards the border of the North and Northeast Rim sectors). The heavy industries line the rim of the crater to the west of this area in the Northwest Rim sector and extend outside the rim for those industries requiring vacuum. (a.k.a Northwest Outer).
To the south of the Watchtower in the South Rim sector, surrounded by the unique Kandor Bell species of Dandy (taken as the symbol of the place) is the Nekomi Institute of Technology. The Supers running it are gradually getting their courses accredited by 'Daneside authorities, with the first full Degrees due to finish in May 2014. Already N.I.T. is becoming known for its wide variety of clubs, especially its Motor Club which currently holds the record for the fastest ground level circumnavigation of Luna at the equator. Also in this area are the various sports facilities of the city, including a full ski slope.
The new business and shopping district is in the Southwest Main sector. This contains the high-rise office buildings of the various companies in the City, with the new shops taking up the floors near street level. On the border between this sector and the Southwest Core sector is the entertainment district.
The current residential district takes up the Southeast Rim section. This area is filled with multi-storey mansions owned by various factions and high-rise apartment buildings. What most people don't realise is that Kandor builds underground, allowing an awful lot of space that normally wouldn't be available.
Under construction on the border of the South and Southeast Core zones near the centre of the dome is the Trinity Towers arcology. This is a modified version of the Sky City concept from Takenaka Corporation. Being built to the Japanese building code in respect of the country the design came from, the three 2km tall 'cities in a building' will dominate the surrounding landscape. When finished in late 2014, each will provide housing for 75,000 people, and workspace for another 100,000. The three towers would be linked by an upper core housing the cities internal airport and main embassies. The Japanese government is officially watching the project, which may gain Clark Universal Construction an Earth-side contract.
One of Kandor City's nicknames is the Green City, and it isn't due to the fact that it's named after a Kryptonian City. Kandor City is a wonder of recycling and reclamation, and it has terraformed most of the area under the dome. The most impressive part of this is the creek-fed Lake Tezuka in the exact center of the dome. The creeks are part of the terraforming maintenance system, which is part and parcel of the city's life support system. Despite some worries it's not *really* part of the central water reclamation system, though it's tied in. The whole point of the creeks is to create at least a theoretically self-sustaining water cycle inside the dome that allows the wildlife to thrive without constant attention. As of 2014 Kandor City's terraforming is still in the sagebrush-and-jackrabbits stage, but so far so good. Current plans for the rest involve subsequent local terraforming to make arable land and induce a permanent 1G area for cattle. The Mars and Venus Terraforming Projects are watching carefully.
Edit: Matched Watchtower sizes