Icy Tears (zone)

The URV Mass Line compound conduction production line assembly of a limited choice of URV types. Unlike the URV BTO Line compound, it does not have an own development and research department. Instead, it mass-produces URVs according to customer selection from a catalogue. Run by AI and not AGI, the URV MA does not require a full staff of engineers for its operation. Only a skeleton crew of skilled workers is required.

Almost as essential for basic cross-species nutrition as the Plankton Tank Farm, the Soy Bean Farm is considerably larger than the PTF. Owing to the fact that soy beans are a rather more demanding to grow than plankton, that it needs more space for growing and hence more facility maintenance, it is not feasible to run a Soy bean Farm completely unattended. It is, however, still possible to run a vast Soy Bean Farm complex using a crew of less than 10 gardeners and engineers. Soy Bean Farms belong amongst the largest man-made space infrastructures in existence.

Solar Energy Arrays are huge fields of highly efficient solar panels. They function by converting more than 98% of all incoming sunlight into energy, then beaming it into a remote receiver station via focused microwave beam. SEAs do not have any material output at all; thus, no moving infrastructure is required, and the converters can be run totally unmanaged, at least theoretically, for prolonged periods of time. Solar Energy Arrays are most commonly placed in polar orbits around suns, but they can be found almost as often orbiting planets with direct beaming of power to planetary receptors.