Ship Builds & Load Outs TERMINUS THE SECOND BUBBLE

[Captain Rafix]

We as other players most welcome the initiative of giving those that prefer exploring and help others than shoot first and ask question later the opportunity to gather under one objective, start a second bubble or as we spacers like to call it TERMINUS far on the other side of the galaxy well far away from the overpopulated and conflict filled first bubble or TRANTOR, because violence is the last resort of a limited mind...

Sure some fans of ISAAC ASIMOV are on the arquitects team of ELITE if not the very HARI SELDON himself.

I'm making the pilgrimage to JAQUES to help build TERMINUS willingly and happily being sure we will meet others like us cherishing the company of human conversation after weeks on loneliness between stars and having the opportunity to comment our travels, findings and hopes for a new colony...

Sure it will be hard to start over so far away, but we are willing to create a new space and fill it up with new opportunities. At first it will be wise to take advantage of natural formation as Fe-Ni asteroids to build inside new colonies as KIM STANLEY ROBINSON teach us in its novel 2312 a lesson of how our solar system was colonised:

Take an asteroid at least thirty kilometers on its long axis. Any type will do—solid rock, rock and ice, metallic, even ice balls, although each presents different problems.Attach a self-replicating excavator assembly to one end of the asteroid, and with it, hollow out your asteroid along its long axis. Leave the wall at least two kilometers thick at all points except for your entry hole. Assure the interior integrity of the wall by coating it with a dura of suitable strength.
As your assembly hollows the interior, be aware that ejection of the excavated material (best aimed toward a Lagrange salvage point, to collect the salvage fee) will represent your best chance to reposition your terrarium, if you want it in a different orbit. Store excess ejecta on the surface for later use.
When the interior is hollowed out, leaving an empty cylinder at least five kilometers in diameter and ten kilometers long (but bigger is better!), your excavator assembly will return to the access hole and there reconfigure itself into your terrarium’s propulsion unit. Depending on the mass of your new world, you may want to install a mass driver, an antimatter “lightning push” engine, or an Orion pusher plate.
Beyond the forward end of the cylinder, on the bow of your new terrarium, attach a forward unit at the point of the long axis. Eventually your terrarium will be spinning at a rotational rate calculated to create the effect of gravity on the inner surface of the interior cylinder so that when you are inside, you will be pulled to the floor as if in a gravity field. This is the g equivalent, or gequivalent. The forward unit will then be connected to the bow of the terrarium by a geared axle, to allow the forward unit not to spin but instead to stay fixed. It will be nearly weightless in this bowsprit chamber, but many functions of the terrarium will go better without the spinning, including docking, viewing, navigating, etc.It is possible to build an interior cylinder that spins freely inside an asteroid that does not spin—the so-called prayer wheel configuration—and this does give you both an interior with g effect and a non-spinning exterior, but it is expensive and finicky. Not recommended, though we have seen some good ones.
When stern and bow are properly installed and configured, and the asteroid is set spinning, the interior is ready to be terraformed.

Spacers of Elite let's start building our TERMINUS!


After expending 1.5 months at TERMINUS (JAQUES) I decided to hed to the core of the Galaxy and start a Black Hole hunt before returning to our new created comunity:

For 10 days I visted some amazing places, now I'm around the core probably to get back after some days, I want to try Guardians up-date sure it will be a great addition. Who knows may be even will be and MP3 in buit player in the beluga, to amuse our guests...[yesnod]


Once I figure out what is happening with my photos (they cannot be load into) I share with you...:S