Arcology Housing
From Acw
An Arcology Housing is a massive undertaking, and involves the construction of a massive shperical shell that completely encompasses an entire lunar body. This shell becomes an airtight housing that allows the introduction of an atmoshpere onto bodies too small to hold one with their own gravity, and thus unsuitable for terraforming. Pioneered by the British, they were a short-lived fad due to the fact that even with a shell of this size, the moons could not be made self-sustaining, and ultimately the impossible task of armouring such a massive structure makes the moon below more vulnerable to orbital attack, in the same way a pressurised spacecraft is more vulnerable than a de-pressurised one.
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Phobos
"Housing, Lunar, Arcology, Mark I (Phobos)"
Diemos
"Housing, Lunar, Arcology, Mark II (Diemos)"
Luna
Other Applications
Other structures similar to Arcology Housings have been attempted in various other places around the galaxy since Luna, despite the structures beign proven weakm inefficient and prohibitivley expensive.
Arminius
Almost accidental project designed by the chief engineer of the Seevogel.
Tolstoy
The short-run Kursk-class factory ships deployed by Russia to Chimera were originally designed to be used to construct Arcology Housings on New Ukraine's two moons. Halfway through the program, the Tolstoy ship was re-tasked to instead mass-produce smaller-scale habitats similar to those originaly built on Luna. The concept was thought to promote a much cheaper solution, and one that was both disposable and less vulnerable to attack.
Tolstoy's base was expected to be a mining operation, while Dostoyevsky's a base for terraforming engineers. When Tolstoy was discovered to have less material wealth than first suspected, the Dostoyevsky ship was shelved, and eventually sold to the Dostoyevsky#Dostoyevsky Committee.
