Preliminary Plans for XLTV
Because we had impulsively arranged for Hatsune and her family to come to New Mars for a concert, we stayed there another two days. During that time, the Ruins Tribe's immigration project also began to settle into place. According to the plan, the landing sites of the twenty-two Transport Ships became twenty-two enormous residential clusters, each accommodating tens of millions of people on average. A population of that size obviously could not be served by a single city, so the Engineering Team built every immigration site into a major city-state in the shortest possible time.
We once again used our signature warship deployment technology, fixing the giant immigrant Transport Ships in place and having them transform and expand into fortress cities on the spot. Then, centered around those fortress cities with their powerful energy supplies and numerous factories, we established city-states composed of one main city and more than a dozen satellite cities. The Engineering Team made extensive use of colonial buildings prefabricated and stored in the public hyperspace resource banks. These structures, preassembled by Mass-Produced Hosts and builders, came with Life Support Systems adjustable to suit most habitable environments and modular Universal Interfaces. With only two or three Autonomous Machines and a few minutes, they could be linked to other Universal Interfaces to form vast, continuous building complexes. Like building blocks, they could expand endlessly at incredible speed. As the number of the Empire's vassal races surged and the demands of external colonization grew ever higher, these things had been manufactured in bulk and stored in every Engineering Team's spatial resource bank. As long as we had the need and enough manpower, we could cover an entire planet in apartment blocks within twenty-four hours.
And they even came with three bedrooms and a living room.