Starborne - Adrift in a Sea of Stars: Into the Light
The space elevator module: it will allow the phoenixto remain in a geostationary orbit above gaia, and to shuttle colonists and equipment between the ship and the planet.
It sets my mind to wander...
At first that just meant those prestige projects -- the three gorges dam, the base on the moon, the space elevator they started constructing. but that can only employ so many people, and they looked elsewhere.
Kaleidoscope XII - Death and All Her Friends
A large column of steam and smoke stood up to orbit like a gaseous space elevator, one that tethered to the ground atop a bed of molten rock and earth. "they're glassing the planet. spirits, they're trying to punch into the core."
Walls: Reboot 4 - The Creeping Shadow
That said, one would wish that maxwell had built a second space elevator." i nodded, "i'll get the rations out of the way, you'll fetch the beans?"
Exile - Chapter 16: An Unusual Week
A decades old building, it was a conversion of the remains from an old space elevator from the re-modernization era.
Poenas Dare
But they had been through a lot trying to survive, first in a band of drones planetside, and then as young pirate recruits after they had made the long journey to a city with a space elevator.
World Building- Sentillios
The poles will generally house the space elevators and orbital processing plants will package, prepare, or preserve the food for transport and market. export focused, extremely low population density.
Starborne: New Beginnings - Swan Song
Yetagain, you were prepared - kyra and you orchestrated our countermove,defending mission control and the space elevator against the onslaught. i... ilaunched while the fighting was still ongoing, but... we won in the end.
The Sparks of an Ancient Light
Two months ago, Marigold's street was a circus of news reporters and investigators. The eight year old equine girl had seen animals camped on her family's front lawn that she'd never knew existed until these tumultuous times. The media frenzy was the...
A White Mare
I peered at the laptop, and there were her suggested fixes to the buckytube production issues, and talks with a "space elevator" company.
Horseman, Raven, and Sentinel
\>the ride to the space elevator is awe inspiring. \>you find yourself gazing out onto the planet's almost organic mixture of industry, wildlife, and agriculture from orbit.