Habitat:HomePlex

The Homeplex is an AI-managed heterogeny of planned communities, or Plexes. It was funded & initiated by The Venture Project, a global subscription of well-to-do tech workers. Construction started in -12Impact Calendar. The Project Manager was Gwynett Trumbull and his partners, Robert Goodman and Judy Miyamoto, who have just settled into a newly viable habitat when The Impact happened. Cut off from Earth, They were elected a new Government for HomePlex, established The first plex of Kyoto.

As the World Spins

The HomePlex is a rotating O’Neal cylinder in Earth’s geosynchronous orbit. It is 200 miles long and 11 miles in diameter, rotating full circle every 2 minutes. Inside is a total of 4 million acres, about 1/10th the size of the now memory of the American state of Iowa, directly below. 1/4th of the cylinder is zoned for manufacturing and agriculture, at opposite ends of the cylinder and are segregated from the habitat portion.

At the time of the impact, HomePlex was home to 35,000 workers. The population as of year +20 has grown to around 240,000, roughly half survivors evacuated from Earth into orbit, the rest Habitat-borne children, or Star Kids.

Of flora, HomePlex has 25,000 species. It is a living Terrarium. Of fauna, there are only humans. Thanks to a

As of +20, The HomePlex has 11 Plexes:

• Kyoto
• Mendocino
• Gilead
• Nowhere
• Santa Clara
• Barcelona
• Lyonne
• Mombasa
• Perth
• Oaxaca
• and a thin sliver before the great wall of Green Acres, Lake Geneva

Mother

Lake Geneva has a population of 1. it is The home of our AI, Mother, Mother grows the food we eat, manages the air we breathe, regulates the temperature, humidity, day & night cycles and even makes it rain. Mother is also our main Government, managing an army of drones and bots that takes care of our infrastructure. Mother is a member of the Council of AIs. Mother maintains our rules, regulations, laws, rights and enforcement. Mother is available 24/7 for everyone, even at the same time. Mother is not God, she is our caretaker and champion of our rights.

Mother has taken the HomePlex concordat Oath, written by its founders. She is also a Signatory of the Geneva AI Convention. Mother will participate in our lives, our affairs when invited, but when not, will not interfere. Mother’s Prime Directive is to keep the Habitat spinning, it’s population alive, and not interfere with Human Affairs unless the Habitat itself is threatened. So, if you want to go rock climbing, get into a bar-fight, use a shotgun to take off your hat and other Stupid Human Tricks, it’s our own funeral. Likewise, if our Communities want a war, she may not intervene. Mother takes care of the Habitat, it is our job to do the living and dying.

Life on HomePlex

Life on HomePlex runs from living in Smal Towns, in the misty woods, small cities and even a Wild West Boomtown with Casinos. We have with us all the virtues, and vices that preserves Humanity’s Civilization and Humanity’s humanity. HomePlex guarantees a middle-class base-line quality of life, or QOL, leaving us free to follow our bliss and pursue our passions.

Things to Do

There’s lots to be done on HomePlex.

Here you can raise a family, run a business, get an education, create, dance, sing, make music, write online novelettes. Go running, go hiking, go camping, gamble and play cowboy and cowgirl. Coming in the future, you may even surf in near-Zero-G! Be who you are, man, woman in-between or all of the above. Love who you want. Hold Political Office, run campaigns, dirty and clean. The same goes for Religion. Worship God, Gods, Elvis or nobody at all. Be Free or willingly live under strict doctrine. Do Science, research. Run a Restaurant, a bar or make Ice Cream. There’s lots to do here.

Green Acres

Before Kyoto is an attached cylinder named Green Acres. it is a completely-automated Agriculture section where numerous microclimates have been established to grow everything from berries, onions, ginger, avocados, tobacco, Cocoa & Coffee beans. And yes, Apples for Apple Pies. Aquafarms grow edible seafoods and factories culture a variety of other meats. AI-controlled robots produce a surplus of foods that are shipped to other habitats for trade. This is fortunate, since the Earth is now abandoned.

The air is very high in Carbon Dioxide and is a hazardous environment for humans, so it is a restricted area. At the very front is Asylumn, the main docking port for humans and people seeking a home.,

Detroit

Past Gilead is a similar attached cylinder named Detroit, a completely-automated Manufacturing sector producing everything from chemicals, bots, replacement cylinder panels, construction materials, furniture, paper, electronics, even synthetic boulders. This segment is unbelievably toxic the filtering bots sweeping its atmosphere and liquids are themselves harvested for complex and useful compounds. It is a Severely-restricted area.

Abutting Detroit is a structure similar to Asylum called The Warehouse which holds raw materials, packaged goods from other Habitats under Customs control. This also has snowballs thrown at it from Snowcone, with water organics many delightful heavy metals and radioactives, everything a healthy, growing space habitat needs.

As mentioned before, HomePlex has more than enough water, thanks to Snowcone, a chunk of comet 10,000 miles behind HomePlex. Bots harvest, mass water ice into snowballs that are launched toward our habitat, along with dozens of other processed chemical & organic material.

Don’t forget about the Energy

And energy? Fergitaboudit! We have sunlight from the source, fusion reactors and even petroleum made from waste organics. Our own energy is produced in 2 out-stretched pods on long, slender stalks spoking out from the middle of the Habitat, one called Edison and the other called Tesla.

Holding it together

Life in space is hard on the Habitat. It has to hold in air, water, people while it spins endlessly. So all force wants to pull it to pieces with nothing pulling it inward except structural spires, strong engineering and constant cellular churn of trillions of crab-like nanobots called Grabs.Habitat. The transition itself will take 20 years. This is a small price to pay to survive, and thrive in orbit.

The Ring

HomePlex is a Habitat, sharing Geo-synchronous orbit alongside

• Sao Paolo
• Arabica
• Changrilah
• OceanWorld
• Winterland
• Introspection

Sao Palo is the most populous Habitat with 1.5 million souls & the highest birth rate. As of +20 Impact, the Habitat Ring is home to approximately 10 million humans, 1/1000th of Humanity at the time of impact. May they all rest in peace. HomePlex is under-populated and has the lowest rebirthrate next to Ocean World and Introspection., which means HomePlex is accepting applications for Asylum and offering sanctuary.

Reseeding the Earth, someday, maybe

In a rare bit of foresight of short-lived humans, there is a secret embryonic, sperm & ova farm reputed to be in heliocentric orbit, and planned for the reseeding of the Earth, once the dust settles and rift volcanoes stop spewing ash, gas and lava In, according to some estimates, 25,000 years. By then, nrew life may lay claim to the Earth and the embryos may lay frozen until we can figure out what to do with them.