Bob Schroeck Wrote:Oh, please do. I expect that I will be pleasantly surprised and maybe even boggled if/when you succeed.
Oho, the gauntlet has been thrown! Let's see...
* The cabal behind the Grover's Corners started out much as they did in the mainline, launching from West Virginia and giving the US defense establishment a bit of a cardiac problem. Instead of hauling the entire farmstead up though this time it was a bit more prosaic but just as ambitious haul of a couple big hydroponics modules. People have to eat after all, and somebody ought to be the local greengrocer.
* Again much like mainline, the appeal of fresh veggies gives Team GC a lot of trading power in the early years before the corps start taking over. Enough so that they manage to trade in the original town modules for a nice big Cole sphere habitat, something in the 1200m range to keep it close to the mainline's size.
* As you say, the GC works on the super-wow, so let's up the ante a little. Most Cole habitats are spun for gravity, which works nicely but only gives you a narrow strip along the spin equator that's properly gravity'd up. Team GC, once they've got the bubble, decide to go for broke. They invest in or invent (either works really) in darksci environmental technology, with the intent of making not just the interior, but the exterior of the new Grover's Corners habitable. Artificial gravity for both sides, exotic forcefield technology for a nice thick atmosphere surrounding the outside, plus plenty of dirt, water, plants and animals...
* By 20XX the whole asteroidforming project had almost wiped out Grover's Corners available capital. But having a 100% legit Wonder of the System sitting pretty at the Earth-Luna L3 point was totally worth it. Most of the people on "The Corners" live on the outside of the bubble Little Prince-style (the view's nicer) while the actual work of the habitat - the agricultural work - happens on the inside (the climate's easier to manage).
* As for the Schroeck-Avins-Imre-Pinkham-Freiler-Mee-Zane family, as many of them as necessary can still be kicking, having built up enough positive rep and tourist cash to invest in handwavium life-extension and/or rejuve.
...what do you think, sirs?
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