[Discussion] Laying out Luna

[M Fnord]

Cobalt Greywalker wrote:

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The idea was basically at surface level (the same as the ground outside the crater) have long promenades floating a ring around the core sector that could
have tower blocks built onto or hanging from them (or both), all nicely landscaped of course. Kind of like how Port Lowell is depicted in Armitage III. We
could use that level (with supports) as a base for another if we go the bell-jar route on the dome (which I personally like). I was also thinking if the
crater had been deeper of putting in that pyramid arcology I linked in my previous post, floating a ring round the core at about rimtop level (with the
promenades as before) and building Trinity Towers on THAT. The idea was to pack as much living space as possible as dense as possible, to leave as much free
space as possible for greenery (I heartily approve of the terraformaing map).




Remember, Kandor held a convention so even before things like the Towers were built it had to (at least for a week) pretty much support ALL of Fenspace. At
the very least the docks have to be extensive.




Yeah, its overkill I know. But DAMN it'd look COOL.

I dunno, it seems like a lot for a pretty small space, and all that construction would really screw with the amount of light hitting the crater floor, not very
good for any floor-level terraforming.

My thoughts on how to handle the city density project involve more single building or clustered arcologies like Trinity Towers out in the main greenspace
combined with somewhat more traditional high-density apartment buildings & whatnot in the "older" areas of Kandor.

Frex, my image of Question Alley is a shopping street in London and a block or two of flats dug into the rim wall with an opening out to the rest of the
crater, so that the whole thing from a distance looks a bit like an English Mesa Verde. Take a vertical trolley down from the QA station to Atlas Park (on the
shallower slope of Rim Sector) and you get something that looks a little like San Fransisco's hills, all the buildings on the slope. Follow Siegel Creek
down to Confluence Park in Main-9 and you get lots of high-density commercial buildings. Since horizontal space is at a premium everything's vertical,
climbing up towards the dome or digging down into the regolith. At the center of the crater you've got Trinity Towers surrounding Lake Tezuka. And so on.

Bob Schroeck wrote:

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Out of curiosity, are the creeks part of the water reclamation system or a separate, purely aesthetic system? I presume they are fed by pipes leading back
from the lake, like any good landscaped water feature.

The creeks are part of the terraforming maintenance system, which is part and parcel of the city's life support system. It's not *really* part of the
central water reclamation, though it's tied in. The whole point of the creeks is to create at least a theoreticaly self-sustaining water cycle inside the
dome that allows the wildlife to thrive without constant attention. As of 2014 Kandor's terraforming is still in the sagebrush-and-jackrabbits stage, but
so far so good.

(The *really* impressive thing about the Kandor dome's life support system, the subtle mechanisms that give the city a proper 24 hour day/night cycle in
the midst of a four week lunar day, are much like the similar systems operating at the Zeta Cygni Dyson Sphere; a technological miracle, the subject of much
discussion in technical circles, and not up for further elaboration. )
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

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