HONEYCOMB
The Future of the Settlement Designing one settlement is only the first step in the difficult, highly ambitious yet beautiful journey of space exploration and colonization. Just like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first of a long series of people on the moon, the settlement described in this project is merely one component of a larger colony of settlements spread across the entire Solar System. Our long term plan is creating a web of autonomous space stations, just like the ones often depicted in science fiction works. We believe that our minimalistic approach is perfect for creating a real network of space cities. This implies that – as soon as the economic and technological means are available – we should start building additional settlements in the vicinity of Mars, Venus, even the asteroid belt or the gas giants. Our hexagonal lattice design has a virtually unlimited number of slots available for new Accommodation modules to be built. However, creating other groups of cells in different corners of space can prove advantageous, providing valuable insight into the deepest mysteries of the Universe and allowing the human race to spread and evolve like never before.
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