Ring Habs

Ring Habs
Research Cost: 35000
Summary
We develop the means to build huge space structures that contain thousands of people.
Description
Now that we can not only build colonies in space, but also have the technology and medicines to make long-term habitation relatively safe for those who live within them, the time has come to consider humanity's space future on a far grander scale. We now have designs for habitats that can support not just hundreds, but thousands of souls; entire societies who will never know what it is to feel real land beneath their feet. These will consist of not only military and scientific personnel, but also families, children - new generations who will lead humanity even further into the stars. As such, comfort and quality of life - leisure, exercise, education - is paramount. To achieve that, we will need far more space and, to address the many health complications and inconveniences of zero-g, a semblance of gravity. The clustered, micro-gravity modules of yore cannot provide this, and so our engineers have devised a radically different design - the ring habitat. Nick-named 'donuts' for their bloated appearance, these rings both resemble and behave like vast wheels, their outer rims forever rotating upon great spokes - a process which creates gravity within those outer rims. The spokes themselves, and the hub they join to, remain in zero-gravity, and thus house the likes of spaceports, reactors, and storage. Life on board a Ring is not life on Earth, but it does at least approximate it - and, crucially, these vast cosmic donuts will enable us to truly found a human civilization in space.
Full List of Prerequisites. Name Type Cost Augmented Reality 1500 Arrival Psychology 5000 Mission to the Moon 1000 Arrival Law 5000 Outpost Habs 1000 Mass Drivers 1000 Space Mining and Refining 2500 Photonic Computing 1500 Deep Space Propulsion Concepts 1000 Space Agriculture 2500 We Are Not Alone 500 Directed Space Research 5000 Militarization of Space 5000 Advanced Neural Networks 5000 Industrialization of Space 15000 Space Commerce 20000 Arrival Economics 2500 Quantum Computing 15000 Space Medicine 2500 Principles of Space Warfare 1000 In Situ Resource Utilization 5000 Arrival Domestic Politics 2000 Space Research 2500 Orbitals 5000 Biotechnology 1500 Advanced Atomic Manipulation 10000 Extended Space Survival 10000 Advanced Heat Management Concepts 2500 Ad Astra 5000 Advanced Electromagnetism 1000 Advanced Carbon Manipulation 1000 Orbital Shipbuilding 1000 Mission To Space 250 Space Navies 10000 Our Space Future 30000 Nuclear Fission In Space 2500
Total Research Cost (including itself)
	2000		23000
	62500		12000
	16000		87500
	14750	Total	217750
Direct Prerequisite For
Techs		Projects
Interplanetary Polities		(100%)Ring Core
Quote
"The world forever turns. That, we cannot change. What we can do is ensure we turn towards each other, and never away - that we embrace all our tomorrows united and unafraid." Superior Judith Howell, The Servants From the blurb to her book "Unity: 8 Simple Rules For A Better Humanity"
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