[META] [RFC] Militarization around the 2022 period

[KJ]

I'm upset on a meta level. You're talking about something with about 1.8 million cubic meters of volume... if it's as hollow inside as you give stats for, that's 120 thousand cubic meters of outer shell made of solid engineered metamaterials whose manufacture is unique to Brains. If it's only about as dense as aluminum, that's about 300 thousand tons of solid (presumably waved) metamaterial just for the outer shell; steel would be about a million tons. Not a hollowed out asteroid with the minimum done to be habitable, a built from scratch construction with just the outer shell massing more than 3 to 10 times as much as the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier, with more layered defenses than anything, ever. With any reasonable amount of internal structure for rooms, drives, etc, you have easily just reset the record for the most massive mobile structure built by humanity; not by fen, by any part of humanity. Now add to it effectors capable of just shutting off drives or powerplants for the vast majority of things in the setting, plus tractors and pressor beams and so on and so forth.