Oort Cloud, and is a hard(ish) science fiction drama that follows the structure of a three act play, and is set on a colony in the Cydonia region of Mars.I promise (myself, mostly) to update this blog twice a week, if I don't have any new pictures to share, I will simply post a political rant about whatever happens to be making me mad.
These pictures are of a one of the small biological environmental (biovironmental?) facilities that will be scattered across Cydonia. Normally the dome is considered to be the best shape for this sort of enclosure, but I decided to try out pyramids for aesthetic reasons, in an attempt to give Cydonia its own architectural flavor. Enclosing each pyramid is an advanced glass like material I would love to call Duraglass, except that is apparently the registered trademark of no less than 4 companies worldwide (oh well). So I'll probably call it Obdurate.
Inside of each pyramid a different biomass is produced. Due to the low gravity, most earth plants would have difficulties growing on Mars, but this could readily be overcome by using custom growing facilities, and genetically modifying plants to adapt to the changes. With careful genetic alterations, many varieties of plants could very well flourish on the red sands of Mars.In the world of Oort Cloud, Obdurate was the
first great scientific breakthrough discovered on Mars. It can be readily fabricated by materials common in Martian soil, and is actually much less expensive to produce in low gravity. It filters out the dangerous parts of the light spectrum, and is more than strong enough to stand the wind and seismic forces of Mars. It quickly became not only an architectural staple of the colonies, but also a financial boon, as corporations scrambled for licensing rights to produce it on Earth. Obdurate requires no steel reinforcement, and pyramid shaped structures are easy to fabricate and construct, even if Martian sand is quite often caught in the sharp angles.
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