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Working on a near future hard sci fi story. What are plausible economic reasons to have a fair number of space stations? (generally earth orbit but can be further out)
Space stations? As in, stations with humans in them? Pretty much none. Your best bet is to postulate some sort of alternate history in which electronics and computers never took off. Or you can go in the other direction, and postulate tiny space stations which house computing hardware running uploaded humans.
Please, no. The world already has a sickening amount of steampunk.
Does it now? Care to recommend some?
I don't think that's meant to refer to a world without electricity, just keeping computers at 1950s-60s sizes and efficiencies. The linked page describes "rocketpunk" further up, and it's quite different from steampunk.
Can confirm. I meant a rocketpunk setting in which combustion engines and simple vacuum tube electronics work, but human operators are still required to run space stations capable of monitoring the weather, handling international communications, or spying on enemy countries.