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Originally posted by Aegis:
Well it depends on how a ring or sphere world is built. The only feasible way that I can see is that you build large gravity generators in a grid, and attract matter to them( asteroids, space dust and such). These fill the spaces between the grid lines, and provide most of the material for the worlds. They can then be mined.
Now, even then the idea is farstretched. I love RW's and SW's, but in reality getting the material for them is always going to be problematic. After all they are HUGE. (The present Versions actually allow each inhabitent to have at least a continent size area to themselves, even when they're fully populated. They could easily hold trillions of people. )
However, given that you have built one, however implausible the building process, I see no reason why you can't generate resources there. They are not just a very big ship after all. They are worlds. Massive worlds.
-Aegis
wow. check out the big brain on Aegis, thats something I had not really considered in their construction before. if that were the case, in a limited resource game, could you mine the world out, then just flick on the gravity generator again to replenish the resources? would it crush all your existing facilities if you did so? would something that big have enough gravity by its bad self without even needing generators, and woud it not take advantage of all the stars gravity and the naturally occuring ring of dust / debris in the stars orbital plain? hmmm...
..and if there is artificial gravity (or a spining ring) could the facilities be built on the inside while resources pile up on the outside?