The important thing is that you made it. I would hate to have you wandering about the Habitats, getting your days and nights mixed up, running into the shifting wall and doors of the Lower Levels, and the occasional mad zombie. You could wander forever ‘neath the Streets of the Flying Castle while someone handed you a sandwich periodically.
Bob will ‘splain the Habitats to you, I’m sure. I keep getting mixed up on those...
I’m happy to live near the laundry room.
Good job with the song reference, ‘Face. I was actually thinking of that this morning when Sally made a joke in a Boston accent.
Sure, I'll explain about the Habitats. Plus an editorial comment about the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Ostensibly, we are occupying a four-year orbit in the middle of the Asteroid Belt. We came out here, stopping at Mars for a period of time, just to be a safe and sufficient distance from Earth and its potential for mayhem.
Technically, I have a contract with NASA to develop a weather control system for Earth and Mars, but they have been woefully deficient in providing the needed materials for the project, and it is in a state of hiatus.
In the meantime, we are harvesting material from the asteroid "Plymouth" which we surrounded and began hollowing out. It's a good source of raw materials, with the exception of volatile gases.
For those, we send out our shuttles to the gas giants, and collect what we need to replace gas lost as reaction mass and from leakage of our Habitats.
We set it up with three Habitats rotating about a common center. That gives us artificial gravity, and our connections allow us to travel back and forth through a spherical elevator car system and tubes to contain it.
These tubes also snake into the asteroid Plymouth, but you'd better be properly equipped for the work area!
Speaking of this structure reminds me to mention that while we have nuclear power generators, the Habitats are quite dependent on solar energy, even at this distance. We use it mainly for daylight in the Habs, and for growing plants for our shipboard ecology, (an entire subject all its own).
For that reason, I don't currently entertain the notion of moving the Habitats out beyond the orbit of Neptune. It would simply be too dark! At that range, the sun is more like an exceptionally bright star.
Should anyone wish to colonize a distant minor planet for whatever reason, we may be able to arrange some kind of wheeling and dealing about some spare nuclear capacity, just to get you set up with your own production efforts. I'd suggest that your little worldlet fiefdom should have a sufficient amount of uranium to take over when you're ready, unless you've cracked that nasty little conundrum called fusion for us.