Could this be how an advanced civilization powers itself?

3D concept artwork by M Taha Khalid. More of my sci-fi and futuristic designs on Instagram.

If technology can preserve our bodies, memories, and consciousness, does that mean we have conquered death, or simply created another form of imprisonment?

A brief visual history of the station construction, from 2051 to 2089.

Sundance is positioned at Lagrange point L1 of the Sun-Earth system, meaning at the exact point where the gravitational forces of the Sun and Earth are somewhat equal. It’s a rather sunny place, and a strategic one in the heliopolitics game of 2099.

Height: 1826m 

Diameter: 910m 

Mass: 20000 tons. Half of it is the wanderer

System: Sundance, an integral Wanderer class system of the second Sapiente generation.  

Crew: humans 50 up to 100 (300 max), 30 synth.

following this previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/SuperStructures/comments/1xigalz/the_vault_sundance_l1_station_by_s_garnier/

I'm one of the creators of Solar Express (Out of the Cradle EP03, on YouTube as "How to Travel Across the Solar System"), and I'd like some outside eyes on its skyhook sequence.

In the film, a rotating tether built around Phobos catches arriving spacecraft, carries them upward, and releases them onto interplanetary routes. Passengers call it the Mars Ferris Wheel. It runs on momentum exchange: every ship it throws takes something out of the system, and descending ships help put energy back.

That last part is what I'd like to see pressure-tested. The film's transit network, figures, and timelines are speculative, not demonstrated engineering. So what happens when outbound traffic outweighs inbound for months at a time? Do you reboost the tether, limit departures, or schedule traffic around the balance?

The skyhook section starts at 10:53 and runs about four minutes, through the Ferris Wheel chapter to the end of the film:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDQIx7vuCZ8

Where would you poke holes first?

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Created in Blender.

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