The Orbital Cylinder
Around Daxio’s barycenter, hundreds of orbital vivariums host the perfect environment for a perfect life, even on the coldest reaches of the system. Thanks to superior manufacturing techniques, engineering, and logistics, cubic kilometers of complex machinery and computing power maintain the delicate ecological balance of the habitat, measuring the environment every microsecond and regulating its climate.
Also known as a popular tourist attraction, an very complex natural reserve, and as a giant space syringe and a bubble in the middle of the hostile vacuum, this marvel of engineering brings otherwise impossible landscapes and experiences to people’s daily lives, making campfires, rainy days, and wooden cabins in the age of nuclear fusion and metamaterials possible.
Large research projects are conducted in these habitats, and every ecological engineering endeavor provides valuable knowledge and helps to develop new technologies for hosting ever more complex biospheres. Landscapists are praised for their detailed scenery, artists admired for their spectacular holographic projections, and engineers revered for hiding absurd amounts of complexity hidden under grass fields and lakes.
Despite the complexity of machines required to maintain the delicate ecology of a forest in space, fire is still required to wake up the pyriscent cones of the redwood trees.
Daxio takes pride in having the system’s largest collection of greenhouses. Habitats large enough to fit airships hovering above the tallest trees.
Standard habitat dimensions
- Outer diameter: 5 km
- Inner diameter: 4.774 km
- Length: 15 km
- Surface area: 225km²
To replicate Laucian gravity (~0.88 g) the cylinder rotates once every 148 seconds (0.405 RPM)