The stadium is an european style athletics field: the track on the outer ring, and a green field in the middle, than usually doubles as a soccer (football! its name is football, you colonial savages!) field, but can be adapted for the usual athletics circus -javelin throwing, pole vault, and the like-
In fact, it is used mainly as an athletism stadium, because Marduk is ludicrously overbuilt -but don't tell then that, they will immediately point to Trinity Towers, than will be able to house all of the current Kandor once they are built.. and they are goths, who knows how they will get even.
Marduk city itself has about 30,000 people, one or two thousand more in the smaller villages in the crater; but it has housing for at least three times this population (it also has tourists, up to 10-15,000 at the height of the season, but they usually stay in a hotel rather than renting a house). Oscar -and Bernie, who is the architect and seldom takes "no" for an answer when designing houses- did not see reason for moderation.
The city is covered by stone buildings, statues, townhouses and palaces, many empty. It can get a bit creepy when the two weeks of lunar night come (again, this is a goth city. They like creepy things anyway); though the empty buildings were very useful when there was need to house thousands of belter refugees at the height of the Boskonian War. Most have since returned home, but Ningal district still has a distinct belter identity.
But the city is still way too big (for now, Mardukians always point). Both stadiums have more seating than the entire city population; the Great Library is a magnificent building, with amazing computerized records. And only a few thousand physical books. The opera season is only two months long. The Cortes could double as a parliament house for many nation-states. It has two monumental cathedrals, catholic and fenspace church, of exactly the same area (a few square meters smaller than St Leibowitz in Mars) and several churches and temples (also, a "cathedral" is not a cathedral unless the Vatican creates a diocese and ordains a bishop, but who cares for those details when printing travel guides? besides, Oscar is sure than the Vatican will eventually have to create sees outside earth), despite it not being that religious. And there are two highly decorative, and empty, abbeys (catholic and buddist) in the countryside -a third, a shinto temple, was settled in the summer of 2013 by a group of Senshi mikos.
The crater has five villages, though three have less than one hundred people. It also is dotted by a dozen or so empty keeps and villas, and shrines, carved stelles and random decoration all over it. It looks very green, but, except for the city parks and the three areas with different color, the greenery is just shrubs, grasses and a few hardy trees like holly; the soil outside those zones is still too poor for forest or agriculture.
It is too big. They know. And they do not care.
Edit:
Clark Construction is not the only builder company; Oscar and Bernie do not have those loads of money, but they are the owners of Genesis Construction & Development, another construction company.
This is Marduk at the end of season two. The first building of Marduk is #4, the Genesis Ziggurat, wich was a normal(ish), closed habitat. This will eventually be told when I finish the timeline, and I plan to write one or two fics of this, but they origianlly settled in Kandor when the city construction started, began the company building parts of Kandor, and they did not start the Marduk dome until the Kandor dome was finished. In fact, Kandor's dome was build, o fnot paid, by a partnership of Genesis, Clark Universal, and one or two companies more (fenspace is BIG, and there was a lot of counstruction going on. Just like Rockhounds is the biggest, but there are thousands of belter miners)
They will build the machines, to build the machines, before they even think of doming Marduk, because they need then for their company. Even before they start the dome, quite a few city buildings will be mostly done in-originally, they use the crater to calibrate and repair bugs with their droid prototipes, so they ketp building houses and palaces. By the time the dome construction starts, they won't be a lone fen and his AI buddie, they will have and entire company's worth of construction droids and many employees.
In fact, it is used mainly as an athletism stadium, because Marduk is ludicrously overbuilt -but don't tell then that, they will immediately point to Trinity Towers, than will be able to house all of the current Kandor once they are built.. and they are goths, who knows how they will get even.
Marduk city itself has about 30,000 people, one or two thousand more in the smaller villages in the crater; but it has housing for at least three times this population (it also has tourists, up to 10-15,000 at the height of the season, but they usually stay in a hotel rather than renting a house). Oscar -and Bernie, who is the architect and seldom takes "no" for an answer when designing houses- did not see reason for moderation.
The city is covered by stone buildings, statues, townhouses and palaces, many empty. It can get a bit creepy when the two weeks of lunar night come (again, this is a goth city. They like creepy things anyway); though the empty buildings were very useful when there was need to house thousands of belter refugees at the height of the Boskonian War. Most have since returned home, but Ningal district still has a distinct belter identity.
But the city is still way too big (for now, Mardukians always point). Both stadiums have more seating than the entire city population; the Great Library is a magnificent building, with amazing computerized records. And only a few thousand physical books. The opera season is only two months long. The Cortes could double as a parliament house for many nation-states. It has two monumental cathedrals, catholic and fenspace church, of exactly the same area (a few square meters smaller than St Leibowitz in Mars) and several churches and temples (also, a "cathedral" is not a cathedral unless the Vatican creates a diocese and ordains a bishop, but who cares for those details when printing travel guides? besides, Oscar is sure than the Vatican will eventually have to create sees outside earth), despite it not being that religious. And there are two highly decorative, and empty, abbeys (catholic and buddist) in the countryside -a third, a shinto temple, was settled in the summer of 2013 by a group of Senshi mikos.
The crater has five villages, though three have less than one hundred people. It also is dotted by a dozen or so empty keeps and villas, and shrines, carved stelles and random decoration all over it. It looks very green, but, except for the city parks and the three areas with different color, the greenery is just shrubs, grasses and a few hardy trees like holly; the soil outside those zones is still too poor for forest or agriculture.
It is too big. They know. And they do not care.
Edit:
Quote:Sorry, but I have a major SOD failure for the concept of Marduk City. Namely, how the HELL did it get domed?
Kandor City a.k.a Crater Daniell required the resources of an entire FACTION to dome. Crater Plinius is larger so I very much doubt a single Fen has the resources (outside Noah Scott or Criss Marsden, who have F***-loads of money, and even THEN I'd be sceptical) to do so without a fairly good history (to build the machines that built the machines, etc...) OR being the owner of Clark Universal Construction (and by it's name, it's a Supers company).
Clark Construction is not the only builder company; Oscar and Bernie do not have those loads of money, but they are the owners of Genesis Construction & Development, another construction company.
This is Marduk at the end of season two. The first building of Marduk is #4, the Genesis Ziggurat, wich was a normal(ish), closed habitat. This will eventually be told when I finish the timeline, and I plan to write one or two fics of this, but they origianlly settled in Kandor when the city construction started, began the company building parts of Kandor, and they did not start the Marduk dome until the Kandor dome was finished. In fact, Kandor's dome was build, o fnot paid, by a partnership of Genesis, Clark Universal, and one or two companies more (fenspace is BIG, and there was a lot of counstruction going on. Just like Rockhounds is the biggest, but there are thousands of belter miners)
They will build the machines, to build the machines, before they even think of doming Marduk, because they need then for their company. Even before they start the dome, quite a few city buildings will be mostly done in-originally, they use the crater to calibrate and repair bugs with their droid prototipes, so they ketp building houses and palaces. By the time the dome construction starts, they won't be a lone fen and his AI buddie, they will have and entire company's worth of construction droids and many employees.