Dome Habitats (A1-0)

Two large Galactyan Dome Habitats on an asteroid orbiting in a star system's interior asteroid belt.

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Dome Habitats are enclosed, pressurized habitats often used to colonize the surface of asteroids, comets, and other normally uninhabitable celestial bodies.

Structure

Dome Habitats consist of a dome-shaped shell, often supported by a net of carbon nanotubes and diamondoid, that can either be made of:

• Transparent Elastic Diamondoid Fiber Composites (commonly known as Pandifico), held up by the interior air pressure.
• Airwall foglets of various strength, going from an easily traversable membrane to a thick sheet with the same resistance as thick wood.
• Organic Space Canopy plants that grow a network of strong, elastic biofibers within the outer surface to retain air without rupturing, that can also generate oxygen.

Depending on where the habitats are constructed, the shells can either be directly attached to the surface or to a wall structure (this happens especially in deep valleys and canyons, where the landscape is used to the habitat's advantage), or they can be attached to a structural base, that also contains the habitat's power generators and life support systems. The structural bases also act as a floor over which the internal environment is created, and host a series of Gravity Plates that can emulate standard Galactyan surface gravity parameters. The gravity plates however are optional, as many habitats choose to be zero gravity environments, their citizens adapting as well.

While in larger dome habitats the internal atmosphere may offer some level of protection against radiation, both small and large domes are outfitted with magnetic and electrostatic shielding to completely block out all harmful stellar and interstellar radiation that may compromise the health of inhabitants not outfitted with radiation resistance augmentations.

Energy Production

Dome Habitats can sustain their power generation systems in different ways. Considering how the utmost majority of Dome Habitats are outfitted with Monopole-Enhanced Fusion Reactors, the hydrogen or helium battery cells are either provided by other worlds in the star system, or gathered directly through an FTL ship outfitted with a Magnetic Ramscoop. A single scoop of interstellar gases can provide enough fuel for years.