MoonHunter
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30) The Cube (1090)
Things started happening to the world. I don't have to go on and on about that. Outside became dangerous for a variety of reasons. There was not enough space for everyone, so they began The Cube. It is a 15 KM cubed arcology, built to the south of what was The Old New York Metro Zone. (note it is only 12 KMs high, with 3 KMs submerged from the new level.) Salvaged resources and new science made it possible. The Cube could weather exotic conditions and repel most assaults. Once fully built out, The Cube or Cube One (and sometimes on older files, New New York), will house 5 billion souls. They will live, work, love, and play inside this massive space. Their genetics (and many plants and animals) will be preserved from the forces of The Outside. There are other Cubes in Process, several to be completed in the next two decades. (Most have inhabitants in completed sections.)
Inside a dedicated force serves to protect citizens from The Outside: through careful monitoring of The Cube, repairing anything amiss, and repelling the unwanted. The Nova Ants especially. They also monitor citizens (for their own good) on the look out for elements in society that want to dominate others, prove their superiority, or bring down the unnatural Cube.
Ideally, the chronicle is just a police chronicle in a new setting. There will still be crime of various sorts. There may be other things, like hunting intruders or non-citizens in the Cube, the occasional ant war, or disasters inside the cube. You could be DECkers dealing with emergencies. You could be on outrider or science teams resourcing or studying The Outside. (There are still people and people like things Outside.) There are aquatic outsiders and science teams. Space exploration is possible. There could be plans to make a small cube on Mars.
Note: It is not a Utopia, but it will be a notch or two better than the more functional society found in most of the previous centuries. it could be a more idealized 21st Century life.
Note: It could have science beyond that: ala Don't Bite the Sun, and its sequel Drinking Sapphire Wine.
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Things started happening to the world. I don't have to go on and on about that. Outside became dangerous for a variety of reasons. There was not enough space for everyone, so they began The Cube. It is a 15 KM cubed arcology, built to the south of what was The Old New York Metro Zone. (note it is only 12 KMs high, with 3 KMs submerged from the new level.) Salvaged resources and new science made it possible. The Cube could weather exotic conditions and repel most assaults. Once fully built out, The Cube or Cube One (and sometimes on older files, New New York), will house 5 billion souls. They will live, work, love, and play inside this massive space. Their genetics (and many plants and animals) will be preserved from the forces of The Outside. There are other Cubes in Process, several to be completed in the next two decades. (Most have inhabitants in completed sections.)
Inside a dedicated force serves to protect citizens from The Outside: through careful monitoring of The Cube, repairing anything amiss, and repelling the unwanted. The Nova Ants especially. They also monitor citizens (for their own good) on the look out for elements in society that want to dominate others, prove their superiority, or bring down the unnatural Cube.
Ideally, the chronicle is just a police chronicle in a new setting. There will still be crime of various sorts. There may be other things, like hunting intruders or non-citizens in the Cube, the occasional ant war, or disasters inside the cube. You could be DECkers dealing with emergencies. You could be on outrider or science teams resourcing or studying The Outside. (There are still people and people like things Outside.) There are aquatic outsiders and science teams. Space exploration is possible. There could be plans to make a small cube on Mars.
Note: It is not a Utopia, but it will be a notch or two better than the more functional society found in most of the previous centuries. it could be a more idealized 21st Century life.
Note: It could have science beyond that: ala Don't Bite the Sun, and its sequel Drinking Sapphire Wine.
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