04-24-2007, 07:10 PM
Achillies is the primary manufacturing city on Mars. It is home to more than four-million people and is the site of one of the great wonders of human engineering in the Sol system. The entire city is built around a single central shaft that is dug down more than eight-thousand feet into the surface of the planet. This shaft is capped off with a large dome to allow as much sunlight as possible into the city, but by the time it filters down to the bottom of the shaft there not much left of it.
Around the central shaft are two tracks that each support a high-speed mass-transit vehicle that quickly and efficiently moves people up and down the spiralling plaform the rings the shaft.
The top level is where most of the housing is located, sprawling out around the central shaft on three sides like a mostly verticle suburbia. The fourth side of the shaft is where the spaceport is located.
As one gets deeper into the shaft, the light becomes much harsher, and more artificial, by the time one reaches the bottom, the sunlight is nothing more than a spot and all usable light is issued from artificial sources. The bottom of the shaft is also littered with tons of garbage and discarded refuse from all of the higher levels of the city.
Around the central shaft are two tracks that each support a high-speed mass-transit vehicle that quickly and efficiently moves people up and down the spiralling plaform the rings the shaft.
The top level is where most of the housing is located, sprawling out around the central shaft on three sides like a mostly verticle suburbia. The fourth side of the shaft is where the spaceport is located.
As one gets deeper into the shaft, the light becomes much harsher, and more artificial, by the time one reaches the bottom, the sunlight is nothing more than a spot and all usable light is issued from artificial sources. The bottom of the shaft is also littered with tons of garbage and discarded refuse from all of the higher levels of the city.