Vesta - The Early Years
This irregular object is the largest nonspherical body in the Asteroid Belt
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Vesta - The Early YearsThis irregular object is the largest nonspherical body in the Asteroid Belt
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The first permanent colony on Vesta was established in 162 AT, mining water and aluminium/magnesium for fuel, and silicon for photovoltaics; the surface of this potato shaped world was soon covered in black silicon wafer collectors, and a power swarm was being constructed in orbit around the world.
The SkyMining Corporation formulated an agreement that allowed other mining corporations such as ExoDynamics, Dzougatov Mining, and the national Space programmes of China, Russia, Brazil, the ESA and NASA to contribute funds and equipment to build the multinational VestaHaven complex at the centre of Olbers Crater.
Vesta is composed of differentiated minerals in igneous rock; these minerals were in demand in for the creation of rotating habitats with Earth-like environments for agriculture and recreational uses; many rotating habitats were established in wide orbit here, and the growing population led to Vesta becoming a centre of trade and industry, and rival with Ceres for the title of Belt capital.
Several groups of enhanced superior humans brought their technological and philosophical skill; particularly in Chadey Orbital, where superbrights under the leadership of Delta Chan established a wide ranging academic base, including an advanced spacedrive research centre.
By 210 AT the new corporation, Outsystems Launches, was engaged in building interstellar exploration and colonisation ships, using pulsed fusion drive, seeded RAIR ships, and eventually amat catalysed fusion, becoming one of the Solar System's largest antimatter customers. Only large political or commercial groups could afford to build these ships, and few expected to see any return on their money for a thousand years or more; such was the mood of optimism at the time, few foresaw the major disruption of commerce the various Nanoswarms would cause.
Other major Vestan orbitals included Uracil Habitat, a GeneTek base for tweak therapy and research; Bakunin, an anarchosyndicalist mining commune, and Kore habitat, an outpost of the female su-tweak Parthene clade from Astraea asteroid.
On the planetoid itself, as well as the capital VestaHaven, Von Neumann Town was a major concentration point and data exchange for the various corporations who owned and built various types of sentient vec and aioid self replicating device at that stage in history.
Related Pages:
Ceres - The Early Years - Early colonisation and development of Ceres
