M Fnord Wrote:It probably would be better to use many smaller, dedicated engiges rather then the place where you are living...Quote:Someone said there wasn't a tether anchoring the city to the surface, but the wiki says there is. If the tether is there, are there any facilities at the base of it?The whole bit about the tether stems from the most improbable part of the terraforming of Venus, the Big Spin. I can't remember if it's in the VTP article on the wiki, but the idea was that, eventually, the cities would anchor to the planet and then use their gravity engines to increase Venus's rotation until it hit a proper 24 hour day, instead of the 200-something day rotation it has OTL.
Mmm. Here is a thought: What seemed a good idea when the Proyect starts, suddenly does not look that intelligent once one of the cities collapsed to the ground. It may be than the Crystal cities were tethered, but as part of the frantic secutiry redesigns all cities underwent after the fall of Crystal Osaka the tether were loosenes, and now a swarm of small asteroids is slowly being moved from the Belt for anchor the new tethers.