Stewart Creations

I feel like I have to organize this fiction. Due to the nature of the blog, my entries are ‘newest first’ which is only right, for a blog. A story, though, should run ‘newest last’, so to speak, so these entries will be exactly backwards until I paste them together (if I ever do). so we will just have to read them backwards.
The pods that I mentioned below, the living quarters, are only as safe as the mechanics of it. If the equipment is in disrepair, you’ll get air leaks, water leaks, loose latches, rattles, loose electrical hook-ups, all the way from benign to dangerous.
When a pod unhooks, the space station automatically seals the opening, so if your coupling fails, you’re out in space with a temporary light plastic wall, assuming your fail-safe plastic wall is in working order. Rescue is pretty fast, but if your wall fails, it’s not fast enough.
Each pod has a sealed emergency booth that will sustain one or two people for an hour or so, if you have time to get there, usually a closet with urgent markings on the door. Lots of folks decorate it (even though you could get a fine, but the markings really are garish) but everyone knows pretty much where to expect an emergency booth in a pod or a hallway.
The station supplies some gravity, but expect your pod to have lots of handholds anyway.
Here is a model for a modest pod, the far side will hook to the station with or without additional living space. Choose from a wide variety of outer walls.

space pod

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I want to describe living conditions in space after it becomes routine. The family unit will be housed in a core section or room on the ship itself, and the separate bedroom suites will be detachable pods. Like travel trailers. The ship will be a city and the pods around the outside will be the suburbs.
The pods dock to the skin of the ship, there would be regulations about hook-ups, different priced locations, the right side of the tracks or sunny side of the street. Probably due to what is immediately inside or outside the ship at any given locale, but the outside view would pretty much be all the same, and the ship revolves.
You’d have outside scooters with minimal life support that you had to suit up to use, and fully equipped taxis and buses with standardized coupling to dock at your address or neighborhood. There were outside tubes maintained by the city for parks and bike paths.
Not much different than living in a big city, except it was expensive to leave, and a long trip to get anywhere.

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