Editing Space (section)

==Higher Orbits==

===The Moon===
[[Sphere]] sidestepped many typical power restrictions by manufacturing<ref>“Powers don’t work in space,” I told him.  “We’re tethered to the agents and if you move far enough away the power doesn’t feed in.  You wouldn’t get any tinker inspiration.  When Sphere was trying to build the moon base, he had to build on Earth and send stuff up.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/25 Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.12]]</ref> his construction drones<ref name="R4">'''kagedtiger'''<br/>This is all good information (thanks for that, I'm a Mannequin fan), but I guess my bigger question is this: how do Architect tinkers build these large-scale constructions by themselves? Sphere was just an easy example. In an effort to avoid scaring you away, I would add that I really only require the broad strokes.<br/><br/>'''Wildbow'''<br/>Time, efficient use of resources.<br/>Sphere might have created something like a glass spinner, which would work around a plotted path and gradually form a structure made out of one of his altered, ultrahard, selective electricity conduction glass materials. Workstations that convert supplied sand into raw material, workstations that harvest sand, and have his 'workshop' sprawled out across a beach, which he consumes to produce his dome on the water's surface.<br/>They're not really drones or AIs, though. He manages and pilots and fine tunes a lot of it. But he can work from terminals while keeping an eye on the actual goings-on. - [https://redd.it/5isiez reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref> on [[Earth Bet]] before rocketing them to the moon to construct a base out of [[Wikipedia:Regolith|Regolith]]. However, he went mad after his family was killed in a [[Simurgh]] attack.<ref name="11d eMannequinStory">"Mannequin.  Original name Alan Gramme.  Tinker, originally went by the name Sphere.  Specialty is in biomes, terraforming and ecosystems… or it was."<br><br>Colin nodded slowly.  He knew this, but it was reassuring to get a recap.<br><br>"He became newsworthy when he took on a project to build self sustaining biospheres on the moon.  He had ideas on solving world hunger, and building aquatic cities near cities plagued by overcrowding.  And he was putting it all into effect.  Until-"<br><br>"The Simurgh," Colin finished.<br><br>"His wife and children were killed in the attack, years of work ruined.  Everything fell apart.  He went mad.  He cut himself off from the rest of the world.  Literally sealed himself away." - [[Interlude 11d]]</ref> Sphere never completed this project: the half-built and abandoned base remained on the moon.<ref>"Nine-eleven didn't happen here.  Endbringers did.  They have one dollar coins in this America, not bills, and they phased pennies out.  Um.  There's an installation on the moon, half-built and abandoned.  I don't know.  Stuff is different." - [[Migration 17.6]]</ref> Note that this project was doomed to fail from the start regardless of the Simurgh's interference; unless events there proved "interesting" for his [[agent]], he would likely find himself running out of inspiration and struggling with maintenance.<ref name="R1"/> His agent is explicitly dissatisfied with him,<ref>Keep in mind, also, that the shards aren't inclined to let people sit around and spend months of time working on side projects without getting any dose of conflict. What happens is you get Spheres and Professor Haywires and Leets. - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://spacebattles.com/posts/34159831 --> and Sphere's other major projects would still make him a vulnerable target to the [[Endbringers]].<ref name="15.5 c3">And I should stress that weak points aren’t necessarily just areas which are geographically vulnerable. There’s places where there’s ongoing conflict (like we might point to the middle east over the past decade), places where it takes little effort on the part of the Endbringer to deal maximum devastation (ie. a nuclear power plant, military bases) and spots where a great many resources are invested (be they great minds collected in one place or major projects like Dr. Gramme’s major projects in trying to save the world). Did anyone else catch the mention of the water crisis? Leviathan isn’t always attacking cities, and the world has only so much accessible freshwater. - Comment by Wildbow on [[Colony 15.5]]</ref><!-- https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/colony-15-5/#comment-5639 --><ref name="11d eMannequinStory" /> 

Before her arrest, [[String Theory]] threatened to knock the Moon out of orbit using her "Firmament-driver" device. This was kept secret from the public, and she was successfully arrested.<ref>"Upgrade of the F-driver."<br/>"The Firmament Driver," Defiant explained, over the earbuds.  "At the time of her arrest, String Theory was threatening to use her Firmament Driver to knock our moon out of orbit."<br/>"And we didn't hear about this because-"<br/>"Morale," Defiant replied, as if that was explanation enough. - [[Extinction 27.4]]</ref> Had her plan come close to fruition, [[Scion]] would have intervened.<ref>Part of Scion's motivation in doing so was to prevent a scenario where the shards couldn't find hosts (for much the same reason, he would have gone out of his way to stop, say, String Theory). - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15198095 Spacebattles]</ref>

[[The Simurgh]] first appeared from behind the Moon, flying down to [[Lausanne]].<ref>The Simurgh had approached from the far side of the moon and descended to hover just above the tallest building in Lausanne. - [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref>