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Since its admission to the Union in 2134, New Virginia has enjoyed an end to the unregulated flow of refugees from Earth coming down the great Praxis Tower to the overcrowded streets of New Richmond.ΒPerfectly situated between the Boreal Ocean and the Margartifer lowlands, and naturally indented with many deep harbors, New Virginia remains the most prosperous state on Mars and its greatest center of trade. Home of the planet's most ambitious private enterprises within the Quantum Economic system, New Richmond may not be the capital of Mars, or the Solar System, but its influence is felt throughout the planet and the greater American protectorate.
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As someone from the Commonwealth of Virginia, I approve this.
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Can we talk about that magnificent pun you did with aram bay...
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...pun? The Aram Chaos is a real location on Mars and with terraforming it would form a body of water with a narrow strait to access the ocean.
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Aram bay
Harambe
i thought it was named for this...
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Petrel-TentCorp Tower, New Halifax, built 2167.
How high would the Praxis tower be?
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Well its counterweight asteroid is in Mars-stationary orbit (MSO) so aboutΒ 17,031km. Its called a "tower" but its really just a cluster of carbon nano-tubeΒ ribbons a few meters wide and one moleculeΒ thick.
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Population of New Halufax/Richmond?
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44 million. Must be a good place to live?
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Its at the base of the first space elevator on Mars, and the Aram Bay is one of the largest natural harbors on the planet. So its an exceptionally wealthy trade port for goods moving all around Mars and up and down the elevators to export and import goods and people around the solar system. No other port on Mars comes close to the advantages of New Virginia, and consequently it is home to the largest metro-area in the solar system.
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How would I be able to move from Alberta to New Virginia? I'm in a state now so I'd be a US citizen by then.
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Get a hypersonic flight to the Quito space elevator, and ride it to orbit. It will take you a couple days, but the cars taking people to orbit are the size of buildings, so you can just chill in your room before you reach Upper Quito. Once you're at the former asteroid made into a city in its own right, you'll want to head towards the docks and get on board one of the passenger taxis heading to catch the next O'Neil ship approaching Earth. You'll be launched along with hundreds if not thousands of other spacecraft filled with passengers and cargo bound for Mars. As the O'Neil ship comes into view you'll see three plumes of twinkling lights leave its bow (mostly cargo and and a handful of passenger ships heading for Earth). You'll dock with the 10 km long spacecraft's bow and disembark with the tends of thousands of other pilgrims bound for Mars. The ship's docks will be filled with the song of the crew, singing shanties old and new as is tradition when swinging round a world. The bow section looks similar to the docks on Upper Quito, but once you exit them you enter a world in a bottle. The artificial biosphere of an O'Neil Ship is maintained by spin gravity and artificial sunlight from a cable of sulfur lights spanning the central axis of the ship. The trip will take a couple months at most, a few weeks at least, so while aboard you can either stay in one of the handful of towns and villages inside the ship, or camp out in the fields and forests with the poor unfortunates who couldn't find enough room (if you're leaving after the late 2090s that's far less likely to happen). You'll be expected to work one of the co-op jobs while aboard, and if you're not a Spacer it will most likely be working in the shops or farms.
Since you're just moving from Earth to Mars, you won't have to worry about pirates, and after the weeks on board you'll disembark for PortΒ Toutatis and its elevator to New Richmond. You would have been given some options for living arrangements and employment before you disembark. After several weeks of travel you can count yourself a New Virginian.
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I'm going to tell my wife Miranda about this deal. We're moving to New Virginia, and naming our daughter Katie after the SW city.
I seriously want to write my experiences in this setting. 2161. Please? Your permission?
This cougar's moving to Mars, mothercluckers.
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Just credit me and the Second Renaissance.
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Renamed cities for Canadian Mars, New Halifaxland
ARAM - NEW ALEPPO
Drake - Fillion
Emporia - Arcadia
Williamsburg - Georgesburgh
New Richmond - New Halifax
Newport - Port-Nouvelle
West Aram - West New Aleppo
Hydra - Ichthyston
Abeton - Macton
Tiu - Tyrshafn
Balboa - Elbierza
Vasis - Bãçiz
Katie - New Douglas
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What are the SW Island archipelago called and whats the culture like?
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Those are the Wallops Islands. They're mostly home to some sleepy fishing villages and small farm towns.
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New Scillies for New Halifaxland.
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there isn't going to be any mars colonization, America is broke due to all the progressive pipe dreams.
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What software are you using? And scale / RF for the map?
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GIMP. And the scale is from this map:Β marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/globalDaβ¦
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Seems to be a rather powerful state. Exactly how much sway does it hold?Β
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Somewhere between California and New York on Earth.
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Pretty relaxed overall. Lots of smaller farmland, fishing communities, and the like. Small towns are more like European or Asian villages than North American suburbs or small towns.
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Primary form of transportation throughout New Virginia?
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Next generation hyperloops. Basically a maglev track in a vacuum tunnel, so no fan on the front. Biggest difference is that you can drive into it. All cars by this era have magnetic levitation pads and can tuck their wheels up into their wells and move at supersonic speeds in the vacuum lines.
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How catastrophic is it when a hyperloop fails?
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Not at all. The tracks are room temperature super conductors so anything flying over them is held in quantum superposition and can't fall unless their own magnetic field fails, and if they do the automated collision avoidance software in all the other cars just moves around them. If the vacuum line ruptures everyone just coasts to lower speeds due to air resistance and its an inconvenience.
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Better off a hashtag than a gorestain smeared across a metal beam, I'd always say.
What are the 10 tallest buildings in New Richmond, and when were they built respectively, and what are they each used for and what importance do they have to New Richmond, New Virginia in their own ways?
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You planning on drawing a picture of the city? The tallest buildings on Mars were all built in the 2060s and 70s before terraforming was completed as part of laying the groundwork for a society. They are all arcologies of sorts, with the four largest being over 4 km tall and surrounding the elevator as part of the loading docs. The rest are between 1 and 3 km tall and are spaced at greater distances from the elevator, serving as nodes for each part of the "old" city (the part build before colonization).Β
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Quite the impressive feats of American engineering on Mars. How is the construction of these gargantuan monuments to mankind's progress achieved? I presume it must be done by a combination of human, robot, and AI labour, so as to ensure fail-free construction, as no mistakes can be offered to be committed on Mars before it can be fully terraformed...?
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Most of the work is done by robots. The bulk of the structure is build using an advanced form of 3D printing. The outer walls of the building are mostly rock interlaced with carbon nanotube reinforcing structures. Most of the electrical, septic, water, and communications lines are printed right into the structure, and the rest is installed by smaller robots.Β
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I have to admire that efficiency with robotics and 3D printing incorporated into construction. It's a good explanation for colossal megastructures, which done correctly can be both scenic and a monument to man's technological and scientific ingenuity.
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What happened to Mars' geography?Β Β Β Just curious.
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Terraforming didn't do much to intentionally change the planetary geography beyond crafting new river systems. Some of the shallower craters that filled in with rain water have already turned to either peat marshes or grasslands, while the ocean floor is softening up beyond the relatively flat terrain of what used to the the northern plains.
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Well, that explains some things, but where's Elysium?
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It's a large island North of the Hellenic basin.
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Oh!Β Now I get it!Β Β
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Do some sites of the old rovers and probes still exist relatively unchanged? Are any major tourist attractions on mars?
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Of course. All of the Rovers are preserved in museums with the natural martian landscape sealed in small domes surrounding the rovers. And the original landing sites are often the town squares for cities that bear their name. Favorite tourists destinations are of course the Mariner Valley, the great mountains of the Martian Olympics, the Porpids (think giant dolphins) of the Sea of Hellas, and manmade structures like the great waterfalls of New Babylon, and Gate of Freedom (a huge archway bestriding that little channel connecting the Aram Bay to the rest of Mars.
Most people come to Mars for tourism are there for most reasons people go to unfamiliar lands, to see famous monuments of nature and man, but also to see animals and plants not like on Earth. And Mars has no shortage of those:Β second-renaissance.wikia.com/wβ¦
Short summary: Mars has Dragons.
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What's New Richmond like? You said it was the biggest city in the Union
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The metro area in 2160 has a population of 39 million people and covers all of Aram Bay, with areas extending across the Ares Channel and into the heartland of New Virginia in the South and West. The heart of the city in New Richmond proper is built around the oldest and largest Space Elevator complex in the system. Like every city on Mars it was built from the ground up to accommodate an initial population and custodian AIs zoned and laid out the rest of it. Its remarkably easy to get around thanks to street cars, and the local hyperloop network, but also thanks to the city's layout placing virtually everything a person needs to live no more than 250 meters away from them at any given point. The heart of the city in New Richmond Proper features supertall buildings in Martian Biomimicry architectural, and in many ways are cities unto themselves. The largest of these structures (extending two kilometers below ground) are the space elevator docks.Β
The New Richmond Canal runs from Newport to the Aram Bay, allowing goods and indeed people to cheaply travel anywhere on the planet by ship. During the early 22nd Century, the city was home to a sizable amount of slums and refugee camps from people fleeing Earth aboard the poorly regulated space elevator network and coming to Mars as undocumented refugees. Even with custodian AIs and robotic social service systems, there was no way to adequately house all of these people until after the war when Venus opened to colonization. Before that, the city's population was upwards of 44 million people.
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