Since there have been concerns of SOD, I have decided to spend a couple of days to create a rough time line, before going on with the rest of the city. (the rest of the days beyond "a couple" were, most emphatically, not spent in a downloading spree of ES: Oblivion mods, and a new romp of ruin exploring and Daedra killing, no matter what my IE history tab claims)
I soon found a "problem": The construction of the early years is absurdly fast. The Supers built a mile long skyscraper and then domed Kandor -with a whole city thrown in gratis- in three or four years. In less than a year, the Senshi moved from the Moon Kingdom Memorial, build Bristol and the shipyards, and raised Crystal Tokyo. Helium is a city full of giant towers. Disney moved an entire asteroid, hollowed it and built an entire park inside. To say nothing of massive space stations like Genaros or Central.
Only a small percentage of fen would have engineering experience, or, perhaps more importantly, actual construction works experience
Of course, that has a couple perfectly logical reasons (like the fact Logic went been crying in a corner as soon as Handwavium appeared, before it began to dress in black and join the Emo sub faction), but the main one is because “and then the nerds of the world move to space, where they spent fifty years trying to build cool things from their cramped space habitats” is a boring plotline.
So I have tentatively decided than building technology in general is on a similar category as life support, relatively easy to handwave and free of dangerous quirks. Probably every faction, minor faction and independent group has a small horde of construction droids and the like to help then. Those droids would be one of the main causes of accidental AI creation, too.
Given the magic of handwavium, it is also reasonable to think than an epic project than grips the imagination of its builders will actually go faster than a normal project, for reasons no one could really explain if asked.
With that in mind, rough timeline, which, as usual , can be changed later for dramatic reasons:
1 January 2008: Basic temporary habitats and gathering of raw materials had already begun, but this was the day chose for the ceremony for the First Stone of The Watchtower. The official date of birth of Kandor city.
Sometime in march 2008: A few months after the Watchtower begin to rise, the supers decide to think big and create a city in Daniell Crater. After long arguments, the city is named Kandor.
3 April 2008: After several months settled in Luna, Oscar and Bernie have patched most of the problems caused by their hasty departure. They earned resources by carving the foundations of the Tower, and then designed several minor droids to work in construction. After the supers decide to build a city, they decide to start a company. Genesis Construction & Development is born, with central offices in the Watchtower, Kandor City, Luna.
(The Watchtower is currently 2.5 meters tall, has no office space available, and Genesis is building their warehouses and droid factory in the newly designated industrial area north of the crater. That does not stop the company to brag, even later when their central offices are in Marduk and the Watchtower office job is basically doing public relations, than they are the First company to have Watchtower office space)
At this early stage (his main vehicle, and the designs based on it, are excavators) Genesis will specialize in basic infrastructure: Foundations, piping, terrain landscaping, gravity generators. As the city construction goes on and the company gets bigger, Genesis will eventually build the landscape of Kandor -the hills, lakes, streams, and related gravity, waste reciling, air and weather circulation structures, while other companies build the city itself.
February 2009: The latest prototype of droid is quirked, and a 4 meter statue of Jean Grey carved in the crater walls ends up skyscraper-sized. To avoid new problems, Oscar looks for a location outside Kandor to test new designs before unleashing then in (potentially) inhabited areas. He chooses Plynius Crater, and the Plynius Design Labs are born.
2009: Construction of the Genesis Ziggurat in Plynius. The centre of Plynius is slowly turning into a museum of monumental architecture, as Genesis' prototype droids build empty palaces and temples.
October 2009: Clark Universal and Garasu Materials design a massive dome to cover Daniell Crater., but no one is sure if the design will stand to the stress of a full dome after the artificial gravity emitters are online. Oscar offers the resources of Plynius Labs to build a scale model; the dome than will eventually be the Sumugan Gate district is built, and it shows than the design is sound, and the new doming spider droids work as advertised. Mostly. The Kandor dome begins; it is being built by Genesis, Clark, Garasu, and several other smaller companies.
Mid-2010: Kandor is domed, and most of the ground work is done, needing only fine-tuning; now than an high percentage of vehicles are not needed any more, Oscar starts contacting other habitats to offer his company's services.
In a sudden blue hair day, he decides to use his idle doming spiders to dome Plynius Crater. He offers a dozen minor belt mining companies to build then better habitats in exchange for a few megatons of raw materials.
October 2012: Marduk is the second domed city in Luna. People start to move in.