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Built upon the summit of Olympus Mons, the Martian Institute for the Preservation of History is the single largest historical archive and educational center in the Terran Alliance. Within it's towers and placed throughout it's many courtyards are exhibits from all over the cosmos. Everything from natural history to the largest private collection of starships ever amassed. Many notable space and aircraft are preserved here.

Placed across the main entrance are the Terran Starship Starsurfer. Earth's first FTL space craft, and a 1 : 1 scale replica of a SpaceX Starship and Superheavy booster that sir facing one another. At the main entrance, A display of starfighters greets visitors with interactive displays and holographic tours.

Just beyond the front gate, a replica of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket sits on a granite slab in the center of a grass courtyard with a small food court. Beyond that, the museum diverges into it's many sections which start at ground level and extend deep into the hollowed out remains of the mountain. The facility is so large that it's said even the curator hasn't seen every exhibit.

The MIPH is not limited to it's ground based locations either. In orbit directly above the main facility sits the starship exhibit. Where vessels to large to be brought to the surface are kept and preserved. Many species bring their historic craft to Mars because of the high degree of care and attention to detail they put into preserving these pieces of history.

Aside from being the largest institution of it's sort within the Terran Alliance, the MIPH also is the largest civilian space exploration organization within the cosmos. Fielding over 20,000 vessels for the purpose of exploration and scientific advance and is also an intergalactic education facility and very popular tourist location.

People from all over the cosmos, not just within the Alliance come to see the unrivaled collection of exhibits and knowledge. It's also home to it's own luxury hotel and resort, in the form of the twin spiral towers. "Starhelix" One and Two are twin, helical starscrapers measuring in at 20kms in height each. They include hotels, restaurants, housing, and office space as well as recreation facilities and medical centers.

The top of each tower is connected to a space elevator which serve as a means of travel to the orbital exhibit above. Each elevator "car" has a capacity of 100 average humanoids and each elevator has 4 tethers with one car each. Because of the shear volume of visitors on a daily basis, T-70 heavy shuttles have to be used during peak hours.

Entrance to the museum itself is always free of charge and the museum is self-funded through it's resort, renting space in the towers to other companies, tuition fees, and commodities such as drinks, snacks, and souvenirs. They also offer a wide range of pay-to-play experiences such as fighter plane and historical starship simulations with real, period ships. They also hold many public events such as concerts, sporting events, conventions, and even diplomatic affairs.

The MIPH Grand Prix is one example of a major event used to both fund the institute, and draw larger crowds. Another event that draws large crows flight of Starsufer, which is kept in flight-ready condition and taken out once a year for a quick trip to orbit and back. It's not uncommon for 10 million people from all over the cosmos to show up on that day even more if the original crew members show up to take it out.

Starsufer had 4 captains and over 100 original crew members throughout her life. Those of whom that are still alive in the 43rd century, which surprisingly is most of them often make the trip. Her first commander, former owner and designer of her engines, CJ Kincaid tries his best but rarely makes it. When he does, the crowds can grow as big as 50 million.

CJ donated Starsurfer to the MIPH shortly after it was founded as both a tax write-off and to save it from becoming scarp metal, which he didn't want to see happen. After a short but extensive restoration, it became the museums first permanent, functional exhibit.

As a massive testament to the skill and dedication of the MIPH team as well as the solid, reliable construction of Terran starships; The old ship still fires up and flies every year without fail despite being over 2,000 years old. TSS-X6 Copernicus. Another Starsurfer-class transport is also preserved at the museum in what they call "near flight-ready" condition. Or as CJ put it "That means it doesn't fly"
but it is kept open for visitors to walk through.

The MIPH doesn't just have starships and space craft either. It's collections also include boats, cars, trains, planes, Everything and anything. And that's just the technical stuff; Not even mentioning it's vast exhibits on everything from archology to the history of music.

The USS Constitution (Old Iron Sides) is kept here, so is the Space Shuttle Atlantis and one of Dale Earnhardts race cars. They have everything, pretty much literally. The low gravity of Mars helps to preserve some of the oldest and most fragile exhibits.

Though in the 2800s, Mars was outfit with orbital warp field generators to give it 1g on the surface. MIPH, and indeed all of Olympus Mons sits in a gravitational dead zone, purposefully shielded from the effects of the artificial gravity network.

This makes for some very interesting effects with the atmosphere and oceans on Mars. For one, the low pressure zone created by the lower gravity causes high winds to rush in and rise up with the mountain making the side regions of the mountain a popular destination for glider enthusiasts. It also effects the oceans drastically in the region of the shield.

Since the Olympian Sea comes right up to the base of the now island-mountain, the low gravity and high winds create massive, slow moving waves that crash into the warm, sub-tropical mountainside which creates a natural misty, steam-like fog around the complex somewhat comparable to that of a rain-forest climate.

On the rare occasion that a visiting being is somehow damaged by liquid water, this can be deadly if proper protective gear isn't worn. Because of the warm, wet climate. the vast majority of the museum is actually buried deep inside the mountain, and only a small portion is actually visible on the surface. As well as the museum and facilities.

The summit of Olympus Mons is also home to a small city, Olympia, a low-g city where most of the faculty, and about 2.5 million other people live and work. Some structures within the city have their own gravity systems as well.

In most Terran cities, Olympia, Mars not excluded. The site of large, glass, pyramid like structures are ubiquitous. These structures are essentially gigantic, communications transmitter/receivers for FTL communication, primarily, internet. A city with 2-5 million people might need one or two of these structures to eliminate waiting time totally.

Olympia, for example is a bit over engineered and has 4; As such it's population can contact anyone within range of any of these transmitters, about 10 million light years instantaneously. Anything beyond that and the transmission must be relayed which takes time. If that transmission is put into a queue, it takes even longer and so on.

Even so, the MIPH has it's own, dedicated relay pyramid built right into the entrance for two reasons. One, it absorbs huge amounts of data from it's fleet of exploration vessels among countless other sources so it needs the extra bandwidth, and it's the only one you'll ever find built to be walked through, or under rather while in operation as an exhibit itself.

Most of them, all of them on every other city, on every other world, in every other galaxy are locked up tight and made from 10-cm thick aluminum oxynitride and a gravity-hardened steel frame. And they're locked up tight for good reason, and not to hide secrets as some believe.

The amount of power flowing through one every minute is enough to power the city it sits in for a month. It will kill you dead in a heartbeat. There's a reason they don't enter one for maintenance until it's been totally disconnected from the power grid and sat idol for at least 168 hours, or one standard Earth week of continuous discharge protocol.

The MIPH pyramid is built with shields and an aluminum oxynitride floor, all propped up on large supports. When walking underneath you can see the inner workings of the machine and the almost life-like motion of the plasma arcs, which you can't see normally. There's also lots of interactive and static displays that explain what you're seeing.

On top of all of the things to see and do, it's also a simply beautiful city with some truly amazing structures and well balanced mix of structure and nature. It's a place anyone can go and find something interesting to do, even if that's just sitting out under some trees and relaxing.

There are a few things to note before traveling to Olympus Mons. One is that your first time, you will almost certainly get sick. The varying gravity from the planets natural gravity, to the artificial gravity system in orbit and artificial gravity systems set at different arbitrary levels in each structure throughout the city can and will make people very ill, especially when traveling between the zones rapidly.

Those who spend a lot of time in space are usually quite use to varying gravity habitats and starship decks, so adapting to the same system on a much larger scale isn't an issue. It's those who've never experienced or have much less experience with adapting to variable gravity fields that get sick the easiest. The best way to avoid getting sick is lying down for an hour or two before starting off to explore the museum and surrounding city. Over night if possible to let your body adjust.

If you do get sick; Don't worry, it's actually very normal and it likely wont happen again. The MIPH is a very strange and unnatural place. The very fabric of the universe is so warped and distorted around it that it's a wonder it hasn't folded in on itself.

Alcohol should be consumed with extreme caution while inside the low gravity region, as it's effects are altered and unpredictable in the strange, artificial environment. Artificial beings like androids and cyborgs should take extra precaution as they've been known to be black-out drunk after two drinks and be either unwilling or unable to execute emergency overrides that would release the behavioral and cognitive filters responsible for android intoxication.

It all depends on the operating system and hardware, as well as the firmware versions being used for each of the behavioral and sensation filters applied during intoxication. Those using outdated or poorly modified programs may suffer an error and become a full order of magnitude more intoxicated than they should be.



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Credits:
Trees:
www.artstation.com/michalpytli…

Some/most materials and HDRI from:
www.poliigon.com/

Some materials applied in Substance Painter:
www.substance3d.com/

One of the materials from this pack is on the building to the far left, it's why it has lights:
www.artstation.com/marketplace…

Modeling done in Blender 2.79
Rendered in Blender 2.91 (Cycles)
www.blender.org/

Cars/trucks from:
blendermarket.com/products/tra…

Crowd:
sketchfab.com/3d-models/mediev…

Not sure where the building materials came from. I know there were included in something I downloaded a few years ago. Don't remember what.

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Description
Built upon the summit of Olympus Mons, the Martian Institute for the Preservation of History is the single largest historical archive and educational center in the Terran Alliance. Within it's towers and placed throughout it's many courtyards are exhibits from all over the cosmos. Everything from natural history to the largest private collection of starships ever amassed. Many notable space and aircraft are preserved here.

Placed across the main entrance are the Terran Starship Starsurfer. Earth's first FTL space craft, and a 1 : 1 scale replica of a SpaceX Starship and Superheavy booster that sir facing one another. At the main entrance, A display of starfighters greets visitors with interactive displays and holographic tours.

Just beyond the front gate, a replica of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket sits on a granite slab in the center of a grass courtyard with a small food court. Beyond that, the museum diverges into it's many sections which start at ground level and extend deep into the hollowed out remains of the mountain. The facility is so large that it's said even the curator hasn't seen every exhibit.

The MIPH is not limited to it's ground based locations either. In orbit directly above the main facility sits the starship exhibit. Where vessels to large to be brought to the surface are kept and preserved. Many species bring their historic craft to Mars because of the high degree of care and attention to detail they put into preserving these pieces of history.

Aside from being the largest institution of it's sort within the Terran Alliance, the MIPH also is the largest civilian space exploration organization within the cosmos. Fielding over 20,000 vessels for the purpose of exploration and scientific advance and is also an intergalactic education facility and very popular tourist location.

People from all over the cosmos, not just within the Alliance come to see the unrivaled collection of exhibits and knowledge. It's also home to it's own luxury hotel and resort, in the form of the twin spiral towers. "Starhelix" One and Two are twin, helical starscrapers measuring in at 20kms in height each. They include hotels, restaurants, housing, and office space as well as recreation facilities and medical centers.

The top of each tower is connected to a space elevator which serve as a means of travel to the orbital exhibit above. Each elevator "car" has a capacity of 100 average humanoids and each elevator has 4 tethers with one car each. Because of the shear volume of visitors on a daily basis, T-70 heavy shuttles have to be used during peak hours.

Entrance to the museum itself is always free of charge and the museum is self-funded through it's resort, renting space in the towers to other companies, tuition fees, and commodities such as drinks, snacks, and souvenirs. They also offer a wide range of pay-to-play experiences such as fighter plane and historical starship simulations with real, period ships. They also hold many public events such as concerts, sporting events, conventions, and even diplomatic affairs.

The MIPH Grand Prix is one example of a major event used to both fund the institute, and draw larger crowds. Another event that draws large crows flight of Starsufer, which is kept in flight-ready condition and taken out once a year for a quick trip to orbit and back. It's not uncommon for 10 million people from all over the cosmos to show up on that day even more if the original crew members show up to take it out.

Starsufer had 4 captains and over 100 original crew members throughout her life. Those of whom that are still alive in the 43rd century, which surprisingly is most of them often make the trip. Her first commander, former owner and designer of her engines, CJ Kincaid tries his best but rarely makes it. When he does, the crowds can grow as big as 50 million.

CJ donated Starsurfer to the MIPH shortly after it was founded as both a tax write-off and to save it from becoming scarp metal, which he didn't want to see happen. After a short but extensive restoration, it became the museums first permanent, functional exhibit.

As a massive testament to the skill and dedication of the MIPH team as well as the solid, reliable construction of Terran starships; The old ship still fires up and flies every year without fail despite being over 2,000 years old. TSS-X6 Copernicus. Another Starsurfer-class transport is also preserved at the museum in what they call "near flight-ready" condition. Or as CJ put it "That means it doesn't fly"
but it is kept open for visitors to walk through.

The MIPH doesn't just have starships and space craft either. It's collections also include boats, cars, trains, planes, Everything and anything. And that's just the technical stuff; Not even mentioning it's vast exhibits on everything from archology to the history of music.

The USS Constitution (Old Iron Sides) is kept here, so is the Space Shuttle Atlantis and one of Dale Earnhardts race cars. They have everything, pretty much literally. The low gravity of Mars helps to preserve some of the oldest and most fragile exhibits.

Though in the 2800s, Mars was outfit with orbital warp field generators to give it 1g on the surface. MIPH, and indeed all of Olympus Mons sits in a gravitational dead zone, purposefully shielded from the effects of the artificial gravity network.

This makes for some very interesting effects with the atmosphere and oceans on Mars. For one, the low pressure zone created by the lower gravity causes high winds to rush in and rise up with the mountain making the side regions of the mountain a popular destination for glider enthusiasts. It also effects the oceans drastically in the region of the shield.

Since the Olympian Sea comes right up to the base of the now island-mountain, the low gravity and high winds create massive, slow moving waves that crash into the warm, sub-tropical mountainside which creates a natural misty, steam-like fog around the complex somewhat comparable to that of a rain-forest climate.

On the rare occasion that a visiting being is somehow damaged by liquid water, this can be deadly if proper protective gear isn't worn. Because of the warm, wet climate. the vast majority of the museum is actually buried deep inside the mountain, and only a small portion is actually visible on the surface. As well as the museum and facilities.

The summit of Olympus Mons is also home to a small city, Olympia, a low-g city where most of the faculty, and about 2.5 million other people live and work. Some structures within the city have their own gravity systems as well.

In most Terran cities, Olympia, Mars not excluded. The site of large, glass, pyramid like structures are ubiquitous. These structures are essentially gigantic, communications transmitter/receivers for FTL communication, primarily, internet. A city with 2-5 million people might need one or two of these structures to eliminate waiting time totally.

Olympia, for example is a bit over engineered and has 4; As such it's population can contact anyone within range of any of these transmitters, about 10 million light years instantaneously. Anything beyond that and the transmission must be relayed which takes time. If that transmission is put into a queue, it takes even longer and so on.

Even so, the MIPH has it's own, dedicated relay pyramid built right into the entrance for two reasons. One, it absorbs huge amounts of data from it's fleet of exploration vessels among countless other sources so it needs the extra bandwidth, and it's the only one you'll ever find built to be walked through, or under rather while in operation as an exhibit itself.

Most of them, all of them on every other city, on every other world, in every other galaxy are locked up tight and made from 10-cm thick aluminum oxynitride and a gravity-hardened steel frame. And they're locked up tight for good reason, and not to hide secrets as some believe.

The amount of power flowing through one every minute is enough to power the city it sits in for a month. It will kill you dead in a heartbeat. There's a reason they don't enter one for maintenance until it's been totally disconnected from the power grid and sat idol for at least 168 hours, or one standard Earth week of continuous discharge protocol.

The MIPH pyramid is built with shields and an aluminum oxynitride floor, all propped up on large supports. When walking underneath you can see the inner workings of the machine and the almost life-like motion of the plasma arcs, which you can't see normally. There's also lots of interactive and static displays that explain what you're seeing.

On top of all of the things to see and do, it's also a simply beautiful city with some truly amazing structures and well balanced mix of structure and nature. It's a place anyone can go and find something interesting to do, even if that's just sitting out under some trees and relaxing.

There are a few things to note before traveling to Olympus Mons. One is that your first time, you will almost certainly get sick. The varying gravity from the planets natural gravity, to the artificial gravity system in orbit and artificial gravity systems set at different arbitrary levels in each structure throughout the city can and will make people very ill, especially when traveling between the zones rapidly.

Those who spend a lot of time in space are usually quite use to varying gravity habitats and starship decks, so adapting to the same system on a much larger scale isn't an issue. It's those who've never experienced or have much less experience with adapting to variable gravity fields that get sick the easiest. The best way to avoid getting sick is lying down for an hour or two before starting off to explore the museum and surrounding city. Over night if possible to let your body adjust.

If you do get sick; Don't worry, it's actually very normal and it likely wont happen again. The MIPH is a very strange and unnatural place. The very fabric of the universe is so warped and distorted around it that it's a wonder it hasn't folded in on itself.

Alcohol should be consumed with extreme caution while inside the low gravity region, as it's effects are altered and unpredictable in the strange, artificial environment. Artificial beings like androids and cyborgs should take extra precaution as they've been known to be black-out drunk after two drinks and be either unwilling or unable to execute emergency overrides that would release the behavioral and cognitive filters responsible for android intoxication.

It all depends on the operating system and hardware, as well as the firmware versions being used for each of the behavioral and sensation filters applied during intoxication. Those using outdated or poorly modified programs may suffer an error and become a full order of magnitude more intoxicated than they should be.



#2

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Credits:
Trees:
www.artstation.com/michalpytli…

Some/most materials and HDRI from:
www.poliigon.com/

Some materials applied in Substance Painter:
www.substance3d.com/

One of the materials from this pack is on the building to the far left, it's why it has lights:
www.artstation.com/marketplace…

Modeling done in Blender 2.79
Rendered in Blender 2.91 (Cycles)
www.blender.org/

Cars/trucks from:
blendermarket.com/products/tra…

Crowd:
sketchfab.com/3d-models/mediev…

Not sure where the building materials came from. I know there were included in something I downloaded a few years ago. Don't remember what.

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