[Story Idea] The Four-Ringed Orbison and the Neon Night
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rebelsheartOfficially, it's Kaon Station in the Kaon system, but most people just call it the Four-Ringed Orbison - a proto-Dyson Sphere.
Other than the star for which the system is named, it is the only thing in the system.
Picture if you will a sphere defined by four rings, each ten kilometers thick, sharing two foci known as the coreward and rimward poles. At the center of the rings, with it's surface about 1.2 AU from the inner surface of the rings, is the yellow-green star Kaon.
Freely floating and spinning between Kaon and the surface, and far closer to the station than the star, is another hollow sphere comprised of three arcs also sharing coreward and rimward foci. It is the rotation of this inner orbison that gives the inner surface of Kaon Station alternating periods of light and dark in ten hour intervals.
Kaon Station is old. While details have been lost time time, history agrees that it was built by humanity. Having realized they had overtaxed Sol system, their original home system, humankind sent out exploration vessels to identify systems where intelligent life would not develop - ideally no life at all. They found Kaon. Using resources from the Sol system, they built temporary space stations and set about building Kaon station using every tool and technology available, eventually consuming all material from the planets and asteroids in both Sol and Kaon's systems
As the overlapping foci prevent any light from the star from reaching the surface, there are artificial lights on the inner orbison that provide light to the foci areas. The coreward lights malfunctioned roughly two millennia ago and all efforts to restore them have been unsuccessful, as a result Kaon Station's coreward interior surface operates in endless night, but not eternal darkness.
Known as the Neon Night, Kaon Station's interior coreward focus has a reputation for being rougher and more ethically flexible than the rest of the station, and that reputation is not undeserved. That said, different regions of the Night Night have differing levels of flexibility, and what passes muster in one area often doesn't in it's neighbors.
Other than the star for which the system is named, it is the only thing in the system.
Picture if you will a sphere defined by four rings, each ten kilometers thick, sharing two foci known as the coreward and rimward poles. At the center of the rings, with it's surface about 1.2 AU from the inner surface of the rings, is the yellow-green star Kaon.
Freely floating and spinning between Kaon and the surface, and far closer to the station than the star, is another hollow sphere comprised of three arcs also sharing coreward and rimward foci. It is the rotation of this inner orbison that gives the inner surface of Kaon Station alternating periods of light and dark in ten hour intervals.
Kaon Station is old. While details have been lost time time, history agrees that it was built by humanity. Having realized they had overtaxed Sol system, their original home system, humankind sent out exploration vessels to identify systems where intelligent life would not develop - ideally no life at all. They found Kaon. Using resources from the Sol system, they built temporary space stations and set about building Kaon station using every tool and technology available, eventually consuming all material from the planets and asteroids in both Sol and Kaon's systems
As the overlapping foci prevent any light from the star from reaching the surface, there are artificial lights on the inner orbison that provide light to the foci areas. The coreward lights malfunctioned roughly two millennia ago and all efforts to restore them have been unsuccessful, as a result Kaon Station's coreward interior surface operates in endless night, but not eternal darkness.
Known as the Neon Night, Kaon Station's interior coreward focus has a reputation for being rougher and more ethically flexible than the rest of the station, and that reputation is not undeserved. That said, different regions of the Night Night have differing levels of flexibility, and what passes muster in one area often doesn't in it's neighbors.
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