Colony Habs
Colony Habs — Terra Invicta technology. Scientists explore methods of building and managing surface bases that will house significant populations.
About Colony Habs
Colony Habs is a Terra Invicta technology in LifeScience with a research cost of 35,000.
Scientists explore methods of building and managing surface bases that will house significant populations.
Now that we are able to safely settle significant numbers of personnel on other worlds, the push towards full colonization can begin. In time, our neighboring planets can become true homes to humanity, rather than mere outposts. As terraforming remains an impossible dream, we cannot hope to bestow a breathable atmosphere upon other worlds - as such, our colonies remain restricted to pressurized domes and underground tunnels. It is the latter that will house the population, in order to protect them from the radiation of cosmic rays and solar proton storms. The limitation until now has been providing sufficient openness to support a growing population, as well as the need for massive shipments of construction materials from Earth. Thanks to developments in space mining and orbital construction, we are at last able to build, transport, and install enormous, modular subterranean chambers that - unlike the cramped corridors of yore - provide both individuals and families with sufficient space and privacy. Meanwhile, heated surface domes grow crops, and vast man-made ice fields provide water at scale. This is an undertaking like never before, and all who choose to join these colonies must learn to live without many of the comforts of humanity's homeworld, but our engineers and architects all agree: large-scale, multi-generational planetary colonies are finally possible. From these, we can eventually expand to the outer planets - and beyond.