[Dead Corpse]

Energizing a large portion of the superstructure allows you to reach some rather substantial energy potentials though. Focused properly, we can act as a huge magnet, either attractive or repulsive (no entendre meant, double or otherwise), or we can dump columbs of raw -e into a locus for our very own trailer-park version of a "superlaser". Not really a "laser" per se, more like a particle beam weapon like that one they recently tested against a test missile at Los Alamos.

I was thinking we could use it for mineral extraction of some of the smaller asteroids. Save the spider bots some work time...

[Monkey Face]

Spider bots have too much free time as it is. I've seen them lounging around in the library, thinking they are hidden.

They can't hide the metallic sounds of their movements, so I know they are in there. Probably checking out the cheese and wine.

[NicknamedBob]

I think if we want to consider doing that we might have to beef up our structural rigidity. Maybe put an outer ring in the rotation path of the Habitats, and use the inner Ring and the outer ring together for a large magnetic field similar to a fusion ramscoop field, or Bussard Ramscoop.

While we don't currently have the technology to develop a fusion torch in this manner, we may be able to use magnetic fields acting upon the dust and ions of the inner solar system for reactionless propulsion. (It could also be a useful stratagem for shielding us from intense solar radiation during solar flares by trapping ions in the magnetic field.)

Positioning the inner and outer rings at different axial inclinations could give us steering, and the Habitats would be free to gimbal with the forces applied.