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16-Psyche[1] is finally conquered.

The first remote factory ships arrive, and not long after the pile collectors go out, the machines start building new rockets.

New starships, constructed from the mineralogical ultra-super-mega-wealth that is this remote asteroid treasure, begin to rise among the golden landscape. These are not Earth-rated rockets, but rather planetary transfer super-structures that can move entire cities worth of materials, slowly and surely, out to somewhere great.

We might find a spot to park some of these cities where the weather is always going to be great. We might find a way to build them into mini Dyson-spheres, parked around a bit of fusion, or so.

I think rockets can take us to great places. Imagine a single-pass 3D printed Starship made out of titanium and other such alloys 16 Psyche might provide ..

Its a pretty big universe. A lot of it is interesting.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_Psyche




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