What Rob said. Some disconnected bits, hopefully on topic this time.
After being mined out by [[Rockhounds] 498 Tokio was converted into a Vivarium style station, there are no large windows in the surface and any open internal spaces are dependent on artificial lighting. In accordance to the wishes of [[Ninja|the future owners], [[Rockhounds] kept the tunnels they bored into the asteroid small, and well hidden in 498 Tokio's surface features. Combined with the extensive use of artificial gravity to avoid the need to spin the rock, 498 Tokio appears largely unchanged from its pre-mining days.
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Much of the interior of 498 Tokio is hollow and, while the [[Ninja] are not a small faction, [[Hidden Asteroid] proper does not take up more than a tithe of the available volume. The rest of the interior of 498 Tokio is given over to pseudo-wilderness and agricultureOr will be once things get growing. Or at least that's what visitors are toldThe actual secretiveness of Ninja is somewhat exaggerated. But, if you're going to tell a joke, you may as well take it too far..
Regarding volume:
Assuming that 498 Tokio is actually a perfect cylinder (unlikely) using the 85kmx60km measurments on the wiki page and that Rockhounds left a 2.5km thick wall on all sides, the interior radius would be (60-5)/2 = 55/2 = 27.5km and an interior height of 85-5 = 80km.
Equations:
SA = 2*pi*r*(r+h)
V = pi*r^2*h
This gives us an interior surface area of about 18,575 km^2 rounding up.
And an interior volume of about 190,066 km^2 and a bit.
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Wow. That is a lot of space to expand into. Even if the asteroid is irregular enough to make my assumptions completely laughable (as opposed to merely silly), you could probably fit all of the Fen (circa 2014) into a hollowed out 498 Tokio.
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Ah the sweet smell of running a component at >10 times it's max-rated
power dissipation. Brings back memories...
-- James Riden
After being mined out by [[Rockhounds] 498 Tokio was converted into a Vivarium style station, there are no large windows in the surface and any open internal spaces are dependent on artificial lighting. In accordance to the wishes of [[Ninja|the future owners], [[Rockhounds] kept the tunnels they bored into the asteroid small, and well hidden in 498 Tokio's surface features. Combined with the extensive use of artificial gravity to avoid the need to spin the rock, 498 Tokio appears largely unchanged from its pre-mining days.
...
Much of the interior of 498 Tokio is hollow and, while the [[Ninja] are not a small faction, [[Hidden Asteroid] proper does not take up more than a tithe of the available volume. The rest of the interior of 498 Tokio is given over to pseudo-wilderness and agricultureOr will be once things get growing. Or at least that's what visitors are toldThe actual secretiveness of Ninja is somewhat exaggerated. But, if you're going to tell a joke, you may as well take it too far..
Regarding volume:
Assuming that 498 Tokio is actually a perfect cylinder (unlikely) using the 85kmx60km measurments on the wiki page and that Rockhounds left a 2.5km thick wall on all sides, the interior radius would be (60-5)/2 = 55/2 = 27.5km and an interior height of 85-5 = 80km.
Equations:
SA = 2*pi*r*(r+h)
V = pi*r^2*h
This gives us an interior surface area of about 18,575 km^2 rounding up.
And an interior volume of about 190,066 km^2 and a bit.
...
Wow. That is a lot of space to expand into. Even if the asteroid is irregular enough to make my assumptions completely laughable (as opposed to merely silly), you could probably fit all of the Fen (circa 2014) into a hollowed out 498 Tokio.
--
Ah the sweet smell of running a component at >10 times it's max-rated
power dissipation. Brings back memories...
-- James Riden