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Human History from Quito to Corvus (WIP)
Birth of the Space Economy
-Astrofarming
Humans began to settle away from Earth for two primary economic reasons: the construction of the Quito Space Elevator in 2090, and the creation of reliable fusion generators whose energy output could power agriculture and warm atmospheric retention domes. With these methods, miners began to settle in the Asteroid Belt and on the comets.
They established homesteads nestled in the cracks and valleys of these bodies, protected and even camouflaged by the surrounding rock. They used fusion power to grow crops while using automatic nanomachines to create a system of mining apparatus which they used to extract valuable exotic minerals and sell them back on the major worlds.
The astrofarm in practice is usually a layered apparatus, with numerous levels and partitions for different types of plants. With centuries-worth of electricity at the farmer's disposal, the light conditions in these spaces can be controlled using artificial sun-lamps powered
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