It's just too cool - and detailed - not to incorporate Asten Station into Fenspace somewhere.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009 ... ntest.html]Overview on CBC.ca
http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/Cont ... ults/2009/]Contest page, with link to the 12MB detailed PDF (and a nice long list of other space-station project names we can raid... er, be inspired from)
Noah would have to be two orders of magnitude richer than he is to pull this one off single-handedly, so it's going to have to come from either a consortium or one of the larger factions... and the larger factions each have their own design esthetics that don't match this plan. So...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009 ... ntest.html]Overview on CBC.ca
http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/Cont ... ults/2009/]Contest page, with link to the 12MB detailed PDF (and a nice long list of other space-station project names we can raid... er, be inspired from)
Noah would have to be two orders of magnitude richer than he is to pull this one off single-handedly, so it's going to have to come from either a consortium or one of the larger factions... and the larger factions each have their own design esthetics that don't match this plan. So...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012