Esilmúr (Imperial Core)
Those of you who are old enough to recall the original publicity campaign surrounding Extropa Energy's pet project - or who have dug it out of the archives in the years since - might remember the first renders of the Esilmúr Sphere: a diaphanous veil cast over hot
dynamic structure
The difficult part of constructing extremely tall buildings and other large structures is not, despite initial appearances, the use of dynamic compressive members, electromagnetic coupling, paragravitation, and other such tricks to make the entire structure hang together. That part is child’s play. The difficult part is arranging that, should
Thalíär
The second of the Precursor megastructures held by the Empire, Thalíär is a peculiar world by any standards. It is a three-layered shellworld – which is to say, it has three planetary crusts, separated not by simple caverns, but by skyvaults which can exceed a mile in height. Unlike some shellworlds
stellar husbandry framework
All was in readiness. The magnetic traps and screens were staged hot, and standing by. The mass-driver injectors and their stocks of catalytic reactant slugs awaited his command. Energy pulsed in the star-wrapping coils of the gravomagnetic stirrers. The gluonic strings tethering the megastructure together were nominal and stable. Data