Discussion here on what information is needed about each megastructure.
Different issue and documentation will deal with level design around megastructures. This is purely about the megastructures itself.
Create a megastructures.md master document
Discussion here on what information is needed about each megastructure.
Different issue and documentation will deal with level design around megastructures. This is purely about the megastructures itself.
Please give this document a read, I have tried to create a history of the world up untill the point at which the game begins. It has the list of megastructures and how and why they came into existence, and when too. Humanity is now a space faring species, but still witin the confines of the moon, mostly due to engineering challenges than theoretical ones, not that those dont exist.
Please give this document a read, I have tried to create a history of the world up untill the point at which the game begins. It has the list of megastructures and how and why they came into existence, and when too. Humanity is now a space faring species, but still witin the confines of the moon, mostly due to engineering challenges than theoretical ones, not that those dont exist.
Atlantropa, a hydroelectric dam to be built across the Strait of Gibraltar, and the lowering of the surface of the Mediterranean Sea by as much as 200 metres.
A Skyhook is a very long tether that hangs down from orbit.
Cloud Nine is Buckminster Fuller's proposal for a tensegrity sphere a mile in radius which would be large enough so that it would float in the sky if heated by only one degree above ambient temperature, creating habitats for mini cities of thousands of people in each “Cloud Nine”. Fuller also proposed a marine analog consisting of a hollow terraced floating tetrahedron of reinforced concrete measuring one mile from vertex to vertex supporting a population of one million living in air-deployed residential modules on the exterior with the requisite infrastructure providing utilities (water, power, sewerage, etc.) inside. The modules would have standardized utility ports so as to be completely livable within minutes of arrival, and could be subsequently detached and moved to other such cities.
This structure was made to address the problem of population growth and living spaces. The first cloud nines were built as flying farmlands. Genetic engineering allowed new hybrids of food to be created. Hybrids of agricultural grasses and climbers, which were lightweight and could grow using the atmospheric moisture were perfect to be grown on the first cloud nines. These did not need as many nutrients or as much tending as their temperamental predecessors, and they thrived in the sky. In due time, humanity also created flying forests, cloud nines solely covered by flora, and as time went on, fauna as well.
Cloud Ten is a Cloud Nine which has been redesigned and reequipped to support the propagation and creation of a human settlement on the Cloud Nines.
A Space Elevator is a tether that is fixed to the ground, extending beyond geostationary orbital altitude, such that centripetal force exceeds gravitational force, leaving the structure under slight outward tension.
A Planet Bubble is a bubble enclosing an asteroid or a moon, despite its name. It is made from a special plastic created by the Materials industry, and is very highly bouncy and force resistant. When anything strikes against the bubble, the bubble transfers the energy into angular momentum, thus effectively dispersing it. The bubble is held in place by tiny pods connected to its inner surface, which detach when the bubble’s motion gets too extreme and after realigning, reattach with the sphere. This also allows to create an artificial atmospheric zone within the bubble.
A Dyson Sphere refers to a structure or mass of orbiting objects that completely surrounds a star to make full use of its solar energy.
A Matrioshka Brain is a collection of multiple concentric Dyson Spheres which make use of star's energy for computing.
A Stellar Engine either uses the temperature difference between a star and interstellar space to extract energy or serves as a Shkadov Thruster.
Atlas AI Mainframe(s) is a huge structure created to provide storage space for data, and it also holds the virtual AI world. These are huge structures: the size of football stadiums on a planetary scale, as big as the largest hydroelectric dams on a solar system’s scales, and the size keeps increasing as the scale increases. All these mainframes have a fail-safe button built in, which allows humans to manually cause a blackout, a necessary step if AI ever gets out of hand. As for why they won’t in the story, that’s a discussion in a different thread.
Bacteriophage Farms are small in scale, but consist of millions of bacteriophage working together to not only annihilate bad bacteria but also to reengineer them to suit human needs, such as the creation and supply of hormones, et cetera. These structures are mega in the scope of their number of individual working organisms rather than scale, and exist inside human bodies, does effectively establishing a super immune system through the ways of a symbiotic relationship.
Black Hole Bombs are the space-faring civilization’s equivalent of the nuclear bomb, and just like nuclear power, has the scope for solving any and all problems of energy of such a race, if they were ever to arise.
# Megastructures
***[Atlantropa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa)***, a hydroelectric dam to be built across the Strait of Gibraltar, and the lowering of the surface of the Mediterranean Sea by as much as 200 metres.
A ***[Skyhook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqwpQarrDwk&t=1s)*** is a very long tether that hangs down from orbit.
***[Cloud Nine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_(tensegrity_sphere))*** is Buckminster Fuller's proposal for a tensegrity sphere a mile in radius which would be large enough so that it would float in the sky if heated by only one degree above ambient temperature, creating habitats for mini cities of thousands of people in each "Cloud Nine". Fuller also proposed a marine analog consisting of a hollow terraced floating tetrahedron of reinforced concrete measuring one mile from vertex to vertex supporting a population of one million living in air-deployed residential modules on the exterior with the requisite infrastructure providing utilities (water, power, sewerage, etc.) inside. The modules would have standardized utility ports so as to be completely livable within minutes of arrival, and could be subsequently detached and moved to other such cities.
This structure was made to address the problem of population growth and living spaces. The first cloud nines were built as flying farmlands. Genetic engineering allowed new hybrids of food to be created. Hybrids of agricultural grasses and climbers, which were lightweight and could grow using the atmospheric moisture were perfect to be grown on the first cloud nines. These did not need as many nutrients or as much tending as their temperamental predecessors, and they thrived in the sky. In due time, humanity also created flying forests, cloud nines solely covered by flora, and as time went on, fauna as well.
***Cloud Ten*** is a Cloud Nine which has been redesigned and reequipped to support the propagation and creation of a human settlement on the Cloud Nines.
A ***[Space Elevator](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPQQwqGWktE&t=313s)*** is a tether that is fixed to the ground, extending beyond geostationary orbital altitude, such that centripetal force exceeds gravitational force, leaving the structure under slight outward tension.
A ***Planet Bubble*** is a bubble enclosing an asteroid or a moon, despite its name. It is made from a special plastic created by the Materials industry, and is very highly bouncy and force resistant. When anything strikes against the bubble, the bubble transfers the energy into angular momentum, thus effectively dispersing it. The bubble is held in place by tiny pods connected to its inner surface, which detach when the bubble’s motion gets too extreme and after realigning, reattach with the sphere. This also allows to create an artificial atmospheric zone within the bubble.
A ***[Dyson Sphere](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A&t=498s)*** refers to a structure or mass of orbiting objects that completely surrounds a star to make full use of its solar energy.
A ***[Matrioshka Brain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain)*** is a collection of multiple concentric Dyson Spheres which make use of star's energy for computing.
A ***[Stellar Engine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3y8AIEX_dU)*** either uses the temperature difference between a star and interstellar space to extract energy or serves as a ***[Shkadov Thruster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shkadov_thruster)***.
***Atlas AI Mainframe(s)*** is a huge structure created to provide storage space for data, and it also holds the virtual AI world. These are huge structures: the size of football stadiums on a planetary scale, as big as the largest hydroelectric dams on a solar system’s scales, and the size keeps increasing as the scale increases. All these mainframes have a fail-safe button built in, which allows humans to manually cause a blackout, a necessary step if AI ever gets out of hand. As for why they won’t in the story, that’s a discussion in a different thread.
***Bacteriophage Farms*** are small in scale, but consist of millions of [bacteriophage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3tsmFsrOg&t=1s) working together to not only annihilate bad bacteria but also to reengineer them to suit human needs, such as the creation and supply of hormones, et cetera. These structures are mega in the scope of their number of individual working organisms rather than scale, and exist inside human bodies, does effectively establishing a super immune system through the ways of a symbiotic relationship.
***[Black Hole Bombs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCdoCfw-bY)*** are the space-faring civilization’s equivalent of the nuclear bomb, and just like nuclear power, has the scope for solving any and all problems of energy of such a race, if they were ever to arise.
# Human Settlements
***[Moon Base](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtQkz0aRDe8)***
***[Mars Base](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqKGREZs6-w&t=296s)***
Flying Cars Control System(s) is a huge factory as well as warehouse for Flying Cars, fully automated in all its activities with state of the art AI controllers. This system is set up in every planet and large enough moon under human control, and provides economically feasible automated transport in the skies. The cars are available at any time and anywhere, and one needs only tell it the destination. The cars are connected to the mainframe of the control system, and since every vehicle knows another’s location at all times, there is never any accidents. To make sure the traveler knows about how the car is taking these decisions, it has a visual interface on its windows showcasing roads, etc.
*the link is to the manga which this idea is from, the exact chapter to be specific. Please skip to page 10 and continue reading from there for exactly how the interface will look like.
Terraformar(s) is the collective name given to a group of megastructures whose objectives are to redesign an inhabitable planet according to human needs, implement these required changes, and also maintain the ecological balance and integrity of existing as well as new habitable planets. These include, the Weather Reprogramming system ‘Olympus Mons’ and the Planetary Reprograming system ‘Fornax’.
Olympus Mons is the amalgamation of two megastructures which together predict, evaluate, implement and maintain all weather conditions of the planet.
• Zeus 2.0 is the name given to the reconnaissance system. It is an unmanned satellite thrice the size of the ISS, which houses drones and probes and etc. These machines are then sent out by the controlling AI to scour the planet’s surface, to calculate and predict upcoming weather scenarios to a very large degree of accuracy. It is also in control of similar holding facilities within the planet’s surface at strategic locations, from which most of the drones are sent out to actual geographical locations as well as places in the atmosphere. The drones on Zeus 2.0 itself are used to measure conditions on the surface from space itself. It then forwards this data to the Keravnós mainframe.
• Keravnós is the collective term given to stations similar to the Zeus 2.0 stations, responsible for the implementations of the Zeus mainframe’s decisions. These stations are usually much bigger than the Zeus stations, and responsible for the manufacture of the Zeus drones as well as its own machinations. These Keravnos drones are built to actually go and implement the changes deemed necessary by the Zeus mainframe. For example, a Zeus drone may decide that it a particular group of clouds can be seeded to provide rain to a human settlement up ahead, and this won’t have any effects on other settlements inland. It is now the Keravnos drones’ job to actually go and seed these clouds to make rain occur.
The Zeus drones and the Keravnos drones are made and controlled separately due to the very basic differences in the goals these separate drones have. The Zeus drone’s objectives are to collect information, and hence this are lightweight, very aerodynamic and comparatively smaller in size. They have few things other than sensors, and since all the information is transferred to the Zeus mainframe, they only have a very small part of their body dedicated to storage of this data, mainly as a backup in case the drone gets destroyed. The Keravnos drones on the other hand are bulkier, they must carry the necessary instruments to needed to complete their tasks and hence also need a larger amount of energy.
Updates:
***Flying Cars Control System(s)*** is a huge factory as well as warehouse for Flying Cars, fully automated in all its activities with state of the art AI controllers. This system is set up in every planet and large enough moon under human control, and provides economically feasible automated transport in the skies. The cars are available at any time and anywhere, and one needs only tell it the destination. The cars are connected to the mainframe of the control system, and since every vehicle knows another’s location at all times, there is never any accidents. To make sure the traveler knows about how the car is taking these decisions, it has a [visual interface](https://mangajar.com/manga/space-brothers/chapter/14-135) on its windows showcasing roads, etc.
*the link is to the manga which this idea is from, the exact chapter to be specific. Please skip to page 10 and continue reading from there for exactly how the interface will look like.
***Terraformar(s)*** is the collective name given to a group of megastructures whose objectives are to redesign an inhabitable planet according to human needs, implement these required changes, and also maintain the ecological balance and integrity of existing as well as new habitable planets. These include, the Weather Reprogramming system ‘Olympus Mons’ and the Planetary Reprograming system ‘Fornax’.
***Olympus Mons*** is the amalgamation of two megastructures which together predict, evaluate, implement and maintain all weather conditions of the planet.
• ***Zeus 2.0*** is the name given to the reconnaissance system. It is an unmanned satellite thrice the size of the ISS, which houses drones and probes and etc. These machines are then sent out by the controlling AI to scour the planet’s surface, to calculate and predict upcoming weather scenarios to a very large degree of accuracy. It is also in control of similar holding facilities within the planet’s surface at strategic locations, from which most of the drones are sent out to actual geographical locations as well as places in the atmosphere. The drones on Zeus 2.0 itself are used to measure conditions on the surface from space itself. It then forwards this data to the Keravnós mainframe.
• ***Keravnós*** is the collective term given to stations similar to the Zeus 2.0 stations, responsible for the implementations of the Zeus mainframe’s decisions. These stations are usually much bigger than the Zeus stations, and responsible for the manufacture of the Zeus drones as well as its own machinations. These Keravnos drones are built to actually go and implement the changes deemed necessary by the Zeus mainframe. For example, a Zeus drone may decide that it a particular group of clouds can be seeded to provide rain to a human settlement up ahead, and this won’t have any effects on other settlements inland. It is now the Keravnos drones’ job to actually go and seed these clouds to make rain occur.
The Zeus drones and the Keravnos drones are made and controlled separately due to the very basic differences in the goals these separate drones have. The Zeus drone’s objectives are to collect information, and hence this are lightweight, very aerodynamic and comparatively smaller in size. They have few things other than sensors, and since all the information is transferred to the Zeus mainframe, they only have a very small part of their body dedicated to storage of this data, mainly as a backup in case the drone gets destroyed. The Keravnos drones on the other hand are bulkier, they must carry the necessary instruments to needed to complete their tasks and hence also need a larger amount of energy.
1.Dyson swarm:
These are hexagonal solar shields made out of Obriydian Carbide, placed all around Ra & Chi to extract all of their energy, absorb and reflect back to the Impossible Inc headquarters.
These shields are processed, compressed and placed inside unmanned aircrafts that shoot up to the stars, break open and expand into a hexagonal shield that orbits around with the stars without colliding with each other. The megastructure that shoots these aircrafts into space is placed on the planet Apex.
2.Cloud City(Impossible Inc):
Impossible Inc's headquarters itself is placed on a Megastructure. It's a cloud city with a unipod rooted to the planet. Refer to Impossible Inc under - World issue for more details.
3.Star Tram:
A star tram is a space, aircraft launching megastructure. It's a long loop, extending up to a mountain, that contains vacuum in it to shoot up unmanned aircraft containing large cargo into space. The aircrafts pass through the loop at extremely high speeds and shoot up into space. The star tram is built on the planet Apex. Since Apex receives Solar radiation from Ra-Chi on only one side, it was an ideal candidate for Impossible Inc to set up a Stram Tram station on it. The station is powered using solar farms that constantly receive radiation and convert into usable energy. The gravitational pull of Apex is very minimal, hence making the escape velocity of the planet very less.
4.Asteroid Mining Station:
To be built in the future. Based on the story.
@sid @rupam Connected with the world issue.
**Megastructures:**
**1.Dyson swarm:**
These are hexagonal solar shields made out of Obriydian Carbide, placed all around Ra & Chi to extract all of their energy, absorb and reflect back to the Impossible Inc headquarters.
These shields are processed, compressed and placed inside unmanned aircrafts that shoot up to the stars, break open and expand into a hexagonal shield that orbits around with the stars without colliding with each other. The megastructure that shoots these aircrafts into space is placed on the planet Apex.
**2.Cloud City(Impossible Inc):**
Impossible Inc's headquarters itself is placed on a Megastructure. It's a cloud city with a unipod rooted to the planet. Refer to Impossible Inc under - World issue for more details.
**3.Star Tram:**
A star tram is a space, aircraft launching megastructure. It's a long loop, extending up to a mountain, that contains vacuum in it to shoot up unmanned aircraft containing large cargo into space. The aircrafts pass through the loop at extremely high speeds and shoot up into space. The star tram is built on the planet Apex. Since Apex receives Solar radiation from Ra-Chi on only one side, it was an ideal candidate for Impossible Inc to set up a Stram Tram station on it. The station is powered using solar farms that constantly receive radiation and convert into usable energy. The gravitational pull of Apex is very minimal, hence making the escape velocity of the planet very less.
**4.Asteroid Mining Station:**
To be built in the future. Based on the story.
@parik specific to the dyson swarm, if the planet has day and night then the headquarter may not always be exposed to the star, in this case there may need to be multiple receiving points ( like a grid) to ensure the rotation of the planet does not interrupt receipt of the energy ray. This grid in itself can be a megastructure ( like the elita grid) where there is an underground setup to manage distribute and store the energy.
Also think about fail over and maintenance
@parik specific to the dyson swarm, if the planet has day and night then the headquarter may not always be exposed to the star, in this case there may need to be multiple receiving points ( like a grid) to ensure the rotation of the planet does not interrupt receipt of the energy ray. This grid in itself can be a megastructure ( like the elita grid) where there is an underground setup to manage distribute and store the energy.
Also think about fail over and maintenance
something like google maps across planets ( can be a software mega structure)
@parik for energy source this video may give you some food for thought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoTVtB-cSps (related to storing of energy )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuFn8sPFdTs ( related to launching rockets)
something like google maps across planets ( can be a software mega structure)
@parik this video is related to the construction of the infrastructure of internet in space
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites.html
may be a good idea for a megastructure.
for each mega structure we need to have details to this level if possible.
https://www.spacex.com/falcon9
@parik @jasfreaq
a good way of reprensenting a megastructure
for each mega structure we need to have details to this level if possible.
Create a megastructures.md master document
Discussion here on what information is needed about each megastructure.
Different issue and documentation will deal with level design around megastructures. This is purely about the megastructures itself.
Please give this document a read, I have tried to create a history of the world up untill the point at which the game begins. It has the list of megastructures and how and why they came into existence, and when too. Humanity is now a space faring species, but still witin the confines of the moon, mostly due to engineering challenges than theoretical ones, not that those dont exist.
I have uploaded it on Zulip as docx cant be uploaded here.
Megastructures
Atlantropa, a hydroelectric dam to be built across the Strait of Gibraltar, and the lowering of the surface of the Mediterranean Sea by as much as 200 metres.
A Skyhook is a very long tether that hangs down from orbit.
Cloud Nine is Buckminster Fuller's proposal for a tensegrity sphere a mile in radius which would be large enough so that it would float in the sky if heated by only one degree above ambient temperature, creating habitats for mini cities of thousands of people in each “Cloud Nine”. Fuller also proposed a marine analog consisting of a hollow terraced floating tetrahedron of reinforced concrete measuring one mile from vertex to vertex supporting a population of one million living in air-deployed residential modules on the exterior with the requisite infrastructure providing utilities (water, power, sewerage, etc.) inside. The modules would have standardized utility ports so as to be completely livable within minutes of arrival, and could be subsequently detached and moved to other such cities. This structure was made to address the problem of population growth and living spaces. The first cloud nines were built as flying farmlands. Genetic engineering allowed new hybrids of food to be created. Hybrids of agricultural grasses and climbers, which were lightweight and could grow using the atmospheric moisture were perfect to be grown on the first cloud nines. These did not need as many nutrients or as much tending as their temperamental predecessors, and they thrived in the sky. In due time, humanity also created flying forests, cloud nines solely covered by flora, and as time went on, fauna as well.
Cloud Ten is a Cloud Nine which has been redesigned and reequipped to support the propagation and creation of a human settlement on the Cloud Nines.
A Space Elevator is a tether that is fixed to the ground, extending beyond geostationary orbital altitude, such that centripetal force exceeds gravitational force, leaving the structure under slight outward tension.
A Planet Bubble is a bubble enclosing an asteroid or a moon, despite its name. It is made from a special plastic created by the Materials industry, and is very highly bouncy and force resistant. When anything strikes against the bubble, the bubble transfers the energy into angular momentum, thus effectively dispersing it. The bubble is held in place by tiny pods connected to its inner surface, which detach when the bubble’s motion gets too extreme and after realigning, reattach with the sphere. This also allows to create an artificial atmospheric zone within the bubble.
A Dyson Sphere refers to a structure or mass of orbiting objects that completely surrounds a star to make full use of its solar energy.
A Matrioshka Brain is a collection of multiple concentric Dyson Spheres which make use of star's energy for computing.
A Stellar Engine either uses the temperature difference between a star and interstellar space to extract energy or serves as a Shkadov Thruster.
Atlas AI Mainframe(s) is a huge structure created to provide storage space for data, and it also holds the virtual AI world. These are huge structures: the size of football stadiums on a planetary scale, as big as the largest hydroelectric dams on a solar system’s scales, and the size keeps increasing as the scale increases. All these mainframes have a fail-safe button built in, which allows humans to manually cause a blackout, a necessary step if AI ever gets out of hand. As for why they won’t in the story, that’s a discussion in a different thread.
Bacteriophage Farms are small in scale, but consist of millions of bacteriophage working together to not only annihilate bad bacteria but also to reengineer them to suit human needs, such as the creation and supply of hormones, et cetera. These structures are mega in the scope of their number of individual working organisms rather than scale, and exist inside human bodies, does effectively establishing a super immune system through the ways of a symbiotic relationship.
Black Hole Bombs are the space-faring civilization’s equivalent of the nuclear bomb, and just like nuclear power, has the scope for solving any and all problems of energy of such a race, if they were ever to arise.
Human Settlements
Moon Base
Mars Base
I have also uploaded the same on Zulip.
Updates:
Flying Cars Control System(s) is a huge factory as well as warehouse for Flying Cars, fully automated in all its activities with state of the art AI controllers. This system is set up in every planet and large enough moon under human control, and provides economically feasible automated transport in the skies. The cars are available at any time and anywhere, and one needs only tell it the destination. The cars are connected to the mainframe of the control system, and since every vehicle knows another’s location at all times, there is never any accidents. To make sure the traveler knows about how the car is taking these decisions, it has a visual interface on its windows showcasing roads, etc. *the link is to the manga which this idea is from, the exact chapter to be specific. Please skip to page 10 and continue reading from there for exactly how the interface will look like.
Terraformar(s) is the collective name given to a group of megastructures whose objectives are to redesign an inhabitable planet according to human needs, implement these required changes, and also maintain the ecological balance and integrity of existing as well as new habitable planets. These include, the Weather Reprogramming system ‘Olympus Mons’ and the Planetary Reprograming system ‘Fornax’.
Olympus Mons is the amalgamation of two megastructures which together predict, evaluate, implement and maintain all weather conditions of the planet.
• Zeus 2.0 is the name given to the reconnaissance system. It is an unmanned satellite thrice the size of the ISS, which houses drones and probes and etc. These machines are then sent out by the controlling AI to scour the planet’s surface, to calculate and predict upcoming weather scenarios to a very large degree of accuracy. It is also in control of similar holding facilities within the planet’s surface at strategic locations, from which most of the drones are sent out to actual geographical locations as well as places in the atmosphere. The drones on Zeus 2.0 itself are used to measure conditions on the surface from space itself. It then forwards this data to the Keravnós mainframe.
• Keravnós is the collective term given to stations similar to the Zeus 2.0 stations, responsible for the implementations of the Zeus mainframe’s decisions. These stations are usually much bigger than the Zeus stations, and responsible for the manufacture of the Zeus drones as well as its own machinations. These Keravnos drones are built to actually go and implement the changes deemed necessary by the Zeus mainframe. For example, a Zeus drone may decide that it a particular group of clouds can be seeded to provide rain to a human settlement up ahead, and this won’t have any effects on other settlements inland. It is now the Keravnos drones’ job to actually go and seed these clouds to make rain occur.
The Zeus drones and the Keravnos drones are made and controlled separately due to the very basic differences in the goals these separate drones have. The Zeus drone’s objectives are to collect information, and hence this are lightweight, very aerodynamic and comparatively smaller in size. They have few things other than sensors, and since all the information is transferred to the Zeus mainframe, they only have a very small part of their body dedicated to storage of this data, mainly as a backup in case the drone gets destroyed. The Keravnos drones on the other hand are bulkier, they must carry the necessary instruments to needed to complete their tasks and hence also need a larger amount of energy.
@sid @rupam Connected with the world issue.
Megastructures:
1.Dyson swarm: These are hexagonal solar shields made out of Obriydian Carbide, placed all around Ra & Chi to extract all of their energy, absorb and reflect back to the Impossible Inc headquarters. These shields are processed, compressed and placed inside unmanned aircrafts that shoot up to the stars, break open and expand into a hexagonal shield that orbits around with the stars without colliding with each other. The megastructure that shoots these aircrafts into space is placed on the planet Apex.
2.Cloud City(Impossible Inc): Impossible Inc's headquarters itself is placed on a Megastructure. It's a cloud city with a unipod rooted to the planet. Refer to Impossible Inc under - World issue for more details.
3.Star Tram: A star tram is a space, aircraft launching megastructure. It's a long loop, extending up to a mountain, that contains vacuum in it to shoot up unmanned aircraft containing large cargo into space. The aircrafts pass through the loop at extremely high speeds and shoot up into space. The star tram is built on the planet Apex. Since Apex receives Solar radiation from Ra-Chi on only one side, it was an ideal candidate for Impossible Inc to set up a Stram Tram station on it. The station is powered using solar farms that constantly receive radiation and convert into usable energy. The gravitational pull of Apex is very minimal, hence making the escape velocity of the planet very less.
4.Asteroid Mining Station: To be built in the future. Based on the story.
@parik specific to the dyson swarm, if the planet has day and night then the headquarter may not always be exposed to the star, in this case there may need to be multiple receiving points ( like a grid) to ensure the rotation of the planet does not interrupt receipt of the energy ray. This grid in itself can be a megastructure ( like the elita grid) where there is an underground setup to manage distribute and store the energy. Also think about fail over and maintenance
@parik for energy source this video may give you some food for thought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoTVtB-cSps (related to storing of energy )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuFn8sPFdTs ( related to launching rockets)
something like google maps across planets ( can be a software mega structure)
@parik this video is related to the construction of the infrastructure of internet in space
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites.html
may be a good idea for a megastructure.
https://www.spacex.com/falcon9 @parik @jasfreaq
a good way of reprensenting a megastructure
for each mega structure we need to have details to this level if possible.