Yeah pretty much.
IIRC @Durin shot the idea down because it's way too vulnerable to hostiles. Not even full invasions, a quick raid could screw over decades of work in an instant.
Yeah thought so.
If we had that we'd have probably been told...research when we can finally do so?
What kind of Industrial improvement?
True, though the plan was more
What he said
If it wasn't clear I meant that I did a search for orbital spires and didn't find anything shooting them down.
I have wondered a bit if it could be more efficient for people to live in orbit instead of constantly fighting for every square foot of space on Avernus. Farming at least would be way easier in orbit considering how much extra effort is involved in keeping the dangerous things out of a farm when you can't just hose it down with flamers every week.
To the elevator thing...eh...it probably would still be vulnerable on Deiphobe.
Probably...we only have a fraction of the production STCs after all.
That was 200 years ago in game time. Our economy is something like 50x higher, and our defenses are probably 100x better.
Space weapons in 40k are inaccurate enough that being that big isn't as big a deal as you might expect, especially since it's such a relatively thin structure. There's also little risk of a raid on Deiphobe anyways with the extreme orbital defenses and minefield.
Cool, that could be a very nice Admin mega-project.
Maybe not, we're upgrading our Avernite orbital defence grid right now. It'll be just as strong as over our shipyards once it's done.
Expotential growth I guess?
We recently started supplying Juve-Nat to our void workers which cut down void construction times significantly.
Avernus has a higher gravity than Deiphobe, which naturally inflates the cost of a space elevator. Plus Avernus wildlife would actually be a danger to the space elevator, and if it ever actually inflicted significant damage collapse would endanger huge areas on the ground around it. There's less stuff that a space elevator collapse could endanger on Deiphobe, and less difficulty securing the start point. On Deiphobe you could base the space elevator in between the hives and get most of the benefit you'd get putting it in one of the hives I think. On Avernus that's not really practical because of wildlife requiring huge fortifications around anything that would be a huge cost if it was placed away from a city.
I was kind of surprised at that since people had discussed it not being practical to defend Avernus' orbitals that heavily before.
