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[[File:Space Elevator-min-min.jpg|thumb|500x500px|'''''A | [[File:Space Elevator-min-min.jpg|thumb|500x500px|'''''A Dynamically Supported Tower Elevator dedicated to a particularly large Cargo Stream on an expanding colony in the Middle Quadrants.''''']] | ||
Space Elevators are the main structures used for the atmospheric transfer of maintenance ships and cargo streams in the [[Celestial Empire Of Galactya (A1-0)|'''Galactyan Empire''']]. Usually, they are radially arranged around a Spaceport, with another belt of them covering the rest of the equator between other Spaceports. Space Elevators can either be '''dynamically supported structures''' rising from the surface, or they can be cables hanging from a '''geosynchronous anchorweight''', that acts as a smaller center for cargo during elevator-to-ship transfer. | Space Elevators are the main structures used for the atmospheric transfer of maintenance ships and cargo streams in the [[Celestial Empire Of Galactya (A1-0)|'''Galactyan Empire''']]. Usually, they are radially arranged around a Spaceport, with another belt of them covering the rest of the equator between other Spaceports. Space Elevators can either be '''dynamically supported structures''' rising from the surface, or they can be cables hanging from a '''geosynchronous anchorweight''', that acts as a smaller center for cargo during elevator-to-ship transfer. | ||
== '''Dynamically Supported Tower Elevators''' == | |||
[[File:Beanstalk.jpg|thumb|889x889px|'''''A Geosynchronous Cable Elevator outiftted with a series of large maintenance probe holding pods and individual tracking bays.''''']] | |||
== '''Geosynchronous Cable Elevators''' == | |||
A '''Geosynchronous Cable Elevator''', also known as a '''Beanstalk''', is a strong cable, usually made of Polybuckminsterfullerene or semi-elastic Diamondoid with a standard length of approximately '''35,786 kilometers''', lowered from a Geosynchronous moved natural or artificial satellite and anchored to the ground. Beanstalks have a counterweight at the outer end to provide some extra tension and stability, called an '''Anchorweight'''. Anchorweights are developed and used as habitat or docking nodes, or enclosed in a technic membrane and terraformed into habitable biomes. | |||
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Space Elevators are the main structures used for the atmospheric transfer of maintenance ships and cargo streams in the Galactyan Empire. Usually, they are radially arranged around a Spaceport, with another belt of them covering the rest of the equator between other Spaceports. Space Elevators can either be dynamically supported structures rising from the surface, or they can be cables hanging from a geosynchronous anchorweight, that acts as a smaller center for cargo during elevator-to-ship transfer.
Dynamically Supported Tower Elevators
Geosynchronous Cable Elevators
A Geosynchronous Cable Elevator, also known as a Beanstalk, is a strong cable, usually made of Polybuckminsterfullerene or semi-elastic Diamondoid with a standard length of approximately 35,786 kilometers, lowered from a Geosynchronous moved natural or artificial satellite and anchored to the ground. Beanstalks have a counterweight at the outer end to provide some extra tension and stability, called an Anchorweight. Anchorweights are developed and used as habitat or docking nodes, or enclosed in a technic membrane and terraformed into habitable biomes.