I don't know your purpose. What are you trying to achieve?
What are you trying to achieve?
A reasonable realistic set of worldbuilding and background details and constraints, within which to build a story according to the principles of "hard SF". While I could get away with simply not getting into specific details about what locations on Io are industrialized, the more details I have to work with, the more I interesting plot points I can build based on those details. Put another way, I find it less important to know what a technology or character can do than to know what they can't do.
In the story, a s...
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