Yay, more city guides. I love the idea, and this half-way perpective is wonderful.
They wiki claims the cities are tethered, but it also claims they move over Venus to float where they are more needed; since they are terraformation bases, I say we go for the second (and they would be the only fliing Unreal State in fenspace than needs a tether anyway; they actually moved form Luna to Venus in the first place, so they can move)
Once I finish Marduk, one of my following proyects was to touch on a couple of the unknown Crystal cities, were Venice would be full of channels and pools, and dedicated to fishing and seaweed farms (Crystal Rio was to be, in a shameless show of stereotyping and research laziness, Venus' party town) ; we can pick the European Cluster as the food producers: Venice for the water products, Moscow for farming, the docks in Paris to coordinate hauling the food to the other cities.
We probably should increase slightly the population: 5,000 people may be too small for a planetary capital, center of a mayor faction, and the node of the Venus Terraformation Proyect. Even if we discount Kandor's hordes, Port Luna has 35,000 people, and a space station like Genaros 22,000. 5,000 may have been the population when Crystal Tokyo lifted, but by the end of the war when you write the guide many more people -not all of then Senshi- would have moved.
It is a capital city, and designed to be a capital city, by a faction of optimistic dreamers -from the "magical Girl" fandom, no less. This means a monumental city centre, with avenues, parks, monuments, and crystal palaces (which will remain mostly empty for the next few years until Tokyo upgrades from "town" to "capital city"). A palace for the queen, museums and a univesity, gazebos, towers and crenellatiosn were the girls can hand out and be wooed by their knights. Form (to be exact, "magical fairy realm form") always, always, trumps function in the visible areas.
Those buildimg may not be used right now, but they will have either been built, or be already designed (perharps with an holographic emmiter to show the future monument as it will be?)
They wiki claims the cities are tethered, but it also claims they move over Venus to float where they are more needed; since they are terraformation bases, I say we go for the second (and they would be the only fliing Unreal State in fenspace than needs a tether anyway; they actually moved form Luna to Venus in the first place, so they can move)
Once I finish Marduk, one of my following proyects was to touch on a couple of the unknown Crystal cities, were Venice would be full of channels and pools, and dedicated to fishing and seaweed farms (Crystal Rio was to be, in a shameless show of stereotyping and research laziness, Venus' party town) ; we can pick the European Cluster as the food producers: Venice for the water products, Moscow for farming, the docks in Paris to coordinate hauling the food to the other cities.
We probably should increase slightly the population: 5,000 people may be too small for a planetary capital, center of a mayor faction, and the node of the Venus Terraformation Proyect. Even if we discount Kandor's hordes, Port Luna has 35,000 people, and a space station like Genaros 22,000. 5,000 may have been the population when Crystal Tokyo lifted, but by the end of the war when you write the guide many more people -not all of then Senshi- would have moved.
It is a capital city, and designed to be a capital city, by a faction of optimistic dreamers -from the "magical Girl" fandom, no less. This means a monumental city centre, with avenues, parks, monuments, and crystal palaces (which will remain mostly empty for the next few years until Tokyo upgrades from "town" to "capital city"). A palace for the queen, museums and a univesity, gazebos, towers and crenellatiosn were the girls can hand out and be wooed by their knights. Form (to be exact, "magical fairy realm form") always, always, trumps function in the visible areas.
Those buildimg may not be used right now, but they will have either been built, or be already designed (perharps with an holographic emmiter to show the future monument as it will be?)