Industrialization of Space
Industrialization of Space — Terra Invicta technology. Setting up profitable and sustained space-based production and monetization lines.
About Industrialization of Space
Industrialization of Space is a Terra Invicta technology in SocialScience with a research cost of 15,000.
Setting up profitable and sustained space-based production and monetization lines.
There is almost no prospect of exploring, let alone settling, the further-flung depths of our solar system until we can free ourselves from a dependence upon Earth-based supply lines. We must be able to produce all that we need for ships, colonies, and mining facilities locally - which is to say, in space rather than solely upon a planet's surface. There is an abundance of minerals beyond Earth's orbit, some of which we can currently mine, and some of which we cannot. We now have plans for effective micro- and zero-g factories that can function with a relatively minimal human presence, able to turn the raw materials of asteroids and moons into almost anything we might create on Earth (including more such factories), often at a fraction of the cost, but at many times the scale. Yet this is not only a matter of production, but also of trade and transport - laws and treaties that dictate what is shared with whom, for what cost, and via which approved shipping routes. Space is no longer some cosmic frontier town: it is time that it became a thriving and essential part of our economy.