Ring Habs
Ring Habs — Terra Invicta technology. We develop the means to build huge space structures that contain thousands of people.
About Ring Habs
Ring Habs is a Terra Invicta technology in LifeScience with a research cost of 35,000.
We develop the means to build huge space structures that contain thousands of people.
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.