Esgaroth Habitats Asgard Spherical Habitat
Asgard Spherical Habitat with mirror
Asgard Spherical Habitat with mirror
Habitat Diameter: 900 meters
Structure Length[: 45,000 meters
Habitat Capacity: Up to 75,000 humanoids
(depending on interior configuration)
Habitat Mass: 47,000,000 tons
Armament: x16 CIWS guns, x16 defensive missile launchers
Main construction contractors: Yavanna Fleet Systems, Allanean Arms
Price: 450 billion
DPR: 1.5 trillion
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Background: Esgaroth Habitats is a joint Allanean-Menelmacari space venture, which has already successfully supplied habitats and habitat technology to multiple nations. After the success of the Kalpana Orbital Habitat, and the ]Wohnrad orbital habitat, it was inevitable that the company would propose bigger and better things.
Like prior orbitals proposed by the company, the Asgard habitat makes use of deliberately basic technologies - artificial gravity is provided through rotation, radiation shielding is provided using over forty-seven million tons of regolith, and power and sunlight are provided by means of a mirror. There are no gravitics, no beam weapons, no fusion reactors: all of the technologies are reliable, traditional, tried and tested.
Technological description: The named after the Asgard-class habitat is an near-enclosed sphere habitats.. The wheel rotates (normally, at a speed of 1 rpm), providing persons living on the wheel’ (who live, work, and play on the internal surface) with approximately Terran-standard gravity. The sphere is equipped with a ‘crystal palace’ enclosed agricultural system (a series of enclosed toruses mounted axially), solar mirrors which bounce light into the interior of the sphere. Industrial, docking, and command and control facilities are mounted axially and either do not rotate at all or rotate to allow only much lower gravity than the main sphere.
The interior of the sphere is lined with a regolith mix to be used as both shielding and soil for plants and parks.While the rotation of the sphere means only part of the sphere is usable for habitation by humanoids (the equatorial area), other areas can be used for industrial purposes or to house non-humanoid sapients if any exist within your society.
The resulting space provides living area to approximately 75,000 humanoids depending on the amount of greened ‘park’ area that is desirable. Larger numbers of humanoids can be housed if spartan conditions are acceptable, however we at Esgaroth Habitats strongly recommend against such measures. The regolith mix is selected to be usable for planting a range of Terran-like plantlife, but can be adjusted for other planets.
Defenses: While, as designed, the habitat is not a military station, and cannot be expected to be used in direct void combat against primary combatants, it is armed with 8 CIWS turrets and 8 missile launchers located around the circumference of the torus, and an equal number mounted around the hub.k. The missiles are designed to engage light combatants and incoming missiles and cannot be meaningfully used against most primary combatants. The CIWS turrets are effective against light combatants, incoming missiles, and space debris.
Like prior orbitals proposed by the company, the Asgard habitat makes use of deliberately basic technologies - artificial gravity is provided through rotation, radiation shielding is provided using over forty-seven million tons of regolith, and power and sunlight are provided by means of a mirror. There are no gravitics, no beam weapons, no fusion reactors: all of the technologies are reliable, traditional, tried and tested.
Technological description: The named after the Asgard-class habitat is an near-enclosed sphere habitats.. The wheel rotates (normally, at a speed of 1 rpm), providing persons living on the wheel’ (who live, work, and play on the internal surface) with approximately Terran-standard gravity. The sphere is equipped with a ‘crystal palace’ enclosed agricultural system (a series of enclosed toruses mounted axially), solar mirrors which bounce light into the interior of the sphere. Industrial, docking, and command and control facilities are mounted axially and either do not rotate at all or rotate to allow only much lower gravity than the main sphere.
The interior of the sphere is lined with a regolith mix to be used as both shielding and soil for plants and parks.While the rotation of the sphere means only part of the sphere is usable for habitation by humanoids (the equatorial area), other areas can be used for industrial purposes or to house non-humanoid sapients if any exist within your society.
The resulting space provides living area to approximately 75,000 humanoids depending on the amount of greened ‘park’ area that is desirable. Larger numbers of humanoids can be housed if spartan conditions are acceptable, however we at Esgaroth Habitats strongly recommend against such measures. The regolith mix is selected to be usable for planting a range of Terran-like plantlife, but can be adjusted for other planets.
Defenses: While, as designed, the habitat is not a military station, and cannot be expected to be used in direct void combat against primary combatants, it is armed with 8 CIWS turrets and 8 missile launchers located around the circumference of the torus, and an equal number mounted around the hub.k. The missiles are designed to engage light combatants and incoming missiles and cannot be meaningfully used against most primary combatants. The CIWS turrets are effective against light combatants, incoming missiles, and space debris.
Please make all your orders at Allanean Defense Exports
OOC:
So, as a brief summary of the background to this: this ‘design’ is inspired by real-world NASA feasibility studies and according to the engineers who came up with it, is probably feasible within our current knowledge of physics and materials science. The image is a NASA imageThe fanciful bit that makes it, at least, PMT, is the necessity of transporting the vast quantities of materials in orbit. Further, in this context, while the design itself is within our real-world conceptions of physics and technology, the nations that are building it in-universe are quite a bit more ‘fanciful’ ones.