>>717817858
We don't have the technology yet to do actually useful thing on it.
But it IS cool.

Forget bullshit about colonizing Mars,
Mars is SHIT, you can't mine it economically, you can't terraform it, the atmosphere is too thin for flight but still enough to bury you in dirt.
Mars is a poor place to colonize.

Where you want to be is on the Moon,
You can mine it, launch anything with magnetic accelerator because there's no atmosphere, a lunar elevator literally reach Lagrange points making it perfect to build space-docks, space debris don't even stick around, the gravity is weak enough to allow incredible buildings, but still strong enough to settle things down.
Even if you have to live in space habitat, you'd be able to make them gigantic at a low cost.

Screencap this, the Moon will be the economic center of the solar system.

>>23420127
As good as UC is, it still suffers a lot from "authors have no sense of scale".
Like how "half of mankind died in the first part of the war" (which would have involved far more than regular colony drop), even counting on starvation from horrible harvest due to extinction level impact (which a single colony drop cannot do).
Plus, with the crazy tech level needed for all the colonies, their emergency logistic would be godlike.

>>23420250
Still cheaper than terraforming a planet.
but...
If you are going to put people into a gigantic tube rotating for gravity, might as well do it in orbit so you do not have to design the cities as if built on a slope (because of the original gravity.)
You can have easy access to the ground with a Lunar elevator that won't even require magical material like a Earth one would.

>>715365347
It's underused but for far more than its empty surface.
The low gravity would allow incredibly high building
The lack of atmosphere allows to use magnetic accelerator to reach orbital velocity
It's the only place where you can honestly build a space elevator and (one) said elevator would constantly point at Earth while also reaching Lagrange point L1.


It be like:
>MARS COLONY n°875561
>so it's a western, except sci-fi
>also bio-dome cause you can't actually breath out there

When it could be:
>MOON COLONY
>economic center because it's not far from Earth and offer both easy launch yet some gravity
>arrive to the elevator, 0G area, rotating colony linked to each other, each a biome
>descend by one of the space rail
>vacuum magrail get you there at incredible speed
>enter giant dome bigger than any Martian building could be
>forest of giant genetically engineered trees
>you can fly with plain electric propeller
>go underground
>giant open space city
>water from asteroid mining used in fake river systems
>the weak gravity allows gigantic waves, in a turn the waters basically flow on the walls
>reach industrial zone
>spaceship can be stored and take-off without needing magical antigrav