Axis Nova
28-09-2007, 10:57
A satellite hovers in space, it's camera (and other sensors) slowly sleeping across the endless curtain of black velvet that covers the sky. One rotation brings it's camera across the Earth, hanging in the sky like a gigantic, beautiful blue marble, seeming to cover half the sky with reflected radiance. Another revolution shows what's on the other side: the Moon, also hanging in the sky, a quarter full, like a big yellow-white wedge of cheese. However, there's something else as well-- or, rather, several something elses, and a closer look would show... structures. Fantastically large ones, space colonies-- of almost every concievable design. The majority are O'Niel types, immense cylinders rotating in space, but spheres, PLANT-types, and ring-shaped stations can also be seen, along with a few very large asteroids.
This has not been an unusual sight for the past few decades, as these colonies have slowly, one by one, come into existence, with people being shifted up the Axis Novan orbital elevator Jacob's Ladder to inhabit them as they are completed, supplying an increasing workforce to work on the rest, thus allowing even more people to come up from the Earth below... and so on, and so forth. Now 98% of the 7.8 billion man population that had once been crammed into an area barely larger than 500 square kilometers lives in these massive rotating structures, the largest man-made objects ever created in space...
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Announcement to the World
The project that we all have worked on and struggled so hard for so long to accomplish is now complete. Axis Nova's excess population has been moved into space, forever freeing us from the problems of population pressure-- no longer shall billions of people be crammed into hundreds of massive arcologies, with barely room for one man to swing a fist.
You're probably wondering what the point of this announcement is. Most or all of you probably have telescopes and can see the space colonies we've constructed at the L1 Lagrange Point with your own eyes.
Well, it's fairly simple. More or less, we wanted to toot our own horn. We've had no outside assistance and the project went way over budget. Thousands of people have died during the construction of both the orbital elevator Jacob's Ladder and the colonies themselves.
However, look at what we've accomplished. Without the aid of any other nation, Axis Nova has created the largest structures ever constructed in space, and furthermore, moved billions of people into them, where they live even now. Many said it could not be done, but yet, we have.
Others have claimed this project will never turn a profit. That was never the point. It was always about survival-- we lack the desire to pursue an aggressive, expansionist policy. Wars lead to more wars. Eventually, nuclear weapons involved, and billions die in flame. To avoid this end, for many years, we practiced a mostly isolationist foreign policy, in combination with the world's most extensive SDI system, and given the limited area of land we worked with, it was well enough. Still, with the threats of larger and larger nations and groups of nations, combined with ever-increasing population pressure, led to the need for a solution that would solve both problems in a single swoop.
These problems have, largely, been solved. The vast majority of our populace will not need to worry about invasion or nuclear weapons falling from the sky ever again.
This leads to the final part of this announcement, and one that was made previously, on a smaller scale: with our orbital elevator no longer in use for moving population, it is open for commercial use. Naturally some of the capacity will be tied up by our concerns, but there is plenty of excess for those who wish to launch cargo and payloads into space for a pittance of the normal cost.
That will be all for now.
*transmission ends*
This has not been an unusual sight for the past few decades, as these colonies have slowly, one by one, come into existence, with people being shifted up the Axis Novan orbital elevator Jacob's Ladder to inhabit them as they are completed, supplying an increasing workforce to work on the rest, thus allowing even more people to come up from the Earth below... and so on, and so forth. Now 98% of the 7.8 billion man population that had once been crammed into an area barely larger than 500 square kilometers lives in these massive rotating structures, the largest man-made objects ever created in space...
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c140/berrik/ANLogoLarge.jpg
Announcement to the World
The project that we all have worked on and struggled so hard for so long to accomplish is now complete. Axis Nova's excess population has been moved into space, forever freeing us from the problems of population pressure-- no longer shall billions of people be crammed into hundreds of massive arcologies, with barely room for one man to swing a fist.
You're probably wondering what the point of this announcement is. Most or all of you probably have telescopes and can see the space colonies we've constructed at the L1 Lagrange Point with your own eyes.
Well, it's fairly simple. More or less, we wanted to toot our own horn. We've had no outside assistance and the project went way over budget. Thousands of people have died during the construction of both the orbital elevator Jacob's Ladder and the colonies themselves.
However, look at what we've accomplished. Without the aid of any other nation, Axis Nova has created the largest structures ever constructed in space, and furthermore, moved billions of people into them, where they live even now. Many said it could not be done, but yet, we have.
Others have claimed this project will never turn a profit. That was never the point. It was always about survival-- we lack the desire to pursue an aggressive, expansionist policy. Wars lead to more wars. Eventually, nuclear weapons involved, and billions die in flame. To avoid this end, for many years, we practiced a mostly isolationist foreign policy, in combination with the world's most extensive SDI system, and given the limited area of land we worked with, it was well enough. Still, with the threats of larger and larger nations and groups of nations, combined with ever-increasing population pressure, led to the need for a solution that would solve both problems in a single swoop.
These problems have, largely, been solved. The vast majority of our populace will not need to worry about invasion or nuclear weapons falling from the sky ever again.
This leads to the final part of this announcement, and one that was made previously, on a smaller scale: with our orbital elevator no longer in use for moving population, it is open for commercial use. Naturally some of the capacity will be tied up by our concerns, but there is plenty of excess for those who wish to launch cargo and payloads into space for a pittance of the normal cost.
That will be all for now.
*transmission ends*