Okay, who's building this, and where?

[M Fnord]

(necroing this, but fuggit, still on the first page right?)

Noah would have to be two orders of magnitude richer than he is to pull this one off single-handedly,

Well, to build the whole thing at *once*, maybe. But built incrementally...

I'm going to throw this out for debate: Retcon Stellvia from the shuttle-tank ring design to a modified ASTEN. It doesn't have to be the huge mile long cylinder, just one hab ring (half the radius - with artifical gravity it doesn't need the extra width for spingrav) and a truncated core section would suffice. It's easier for building onto for future renovations, and most importantly of all - it actually provides *room* for all the shit we say is *in* Stellvia.

I hate bringing it up since we've all already written stuff about Stellvia, but my on-again, off-again attempts at modeling the bloody thing keep running into the "not enough room at the inn" wall. So I propose this retcon as a stopgap. Thoughts? Scream at me for being an asshole?
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