Setting Jam: Hyperbolic Trajectory

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Originally Posted by PTTG

What's an important group in the game?

The Trailing Far Orbit Economic Board. (TFOEB). TFOEB runs a stock exchange, banking system, and its own currency. It was established because of the high latency between the Earth-Sun L4 point and Earth (8 minute delay). This created many financial inconveniences, and the TFOEB was founded as a remedy. It has only grown in power and reach since.


Question: What's another important group in the game, and what's their relationship with TFOEB? (make an important group is such a fantastic question)
Question2*: What are the major energy sources used? Is nuclear fission dead, or finally widespread? Is fusion even possible? What about truly epic solar panels?



*because I feel like adding a question instead of just parroting the one I answered.

Originally Posted by PTTG

Slings. While space elevators turned out to be impractical, high-tensile materials enabled orbital tethers hundreds of kilometers long to dive deep into the atmosphere. High-speed aircraft can then rendezvous with the relatively slow and accessible tether tip, before being swung up into orbit. Meanwhile, electrodynamic thrusters re-boost the tethers to gain altitude.

There is a project to build an orbital ring, which allows space-elevator-like performance without the need for supermaterials, but it's been floundering for decades after early lunar prototypes proved successful.

Does that mean the moon has an orbital ring, but earth does not? That actually sounds really interesting. And space launch costs are still sort of high, at least for earth.