As the Lunar Orbital Construction Committee was making intensive preparations to push the construction site from Lunar Orbit down to the lunar surface, a month had already passed since the Rosy Glow had left Mars's orbit and begun its journey home.
With its final orbital adjustment complete, the Rosy Glow, with little propellant remaining, had shut down its electric propulsion system and continued toward the Earth-Moon System on inertia.
After a month together, Taiwei had more or less adapted to life here.
There were clean sheets, plenty of oxygen, and warm, delicious food.
For someone who had spent more than a month cooped up in the cramped, enclosed, and utterly private-space-free colonial testing area aboard New Virginia, everything here was practically heaven.
The Hua Nation people were especially much better at bathing than NASA. The entire bathroom was a cylindrical chamber roughly one person tall and two steps wide, using the centrifugal acceleration generated by high-speed rotation around a fixed axis to simulate Earth's gravity.
It would probably be difficult to describe the entire structure and its principles in detail without referring to blueprints. But simply put, once the device was activated, lying inside felt like lying in the bathtub at home. The droplets that should have floated everywhere instead obediently "stuck" to the walls and did not fly all over the place.
With no external reference point, after washing up in the completely sealed bathroom, powerful air from vents outside the chamber would suck every last drop of water from the cylinder. Only after the humidity inside had fallen to normal levels would the cylinder slow down and stop.
Looking at it that way, the thing was basically an oversized centrifuge.
Such a luxurious way of bathing was unimaginable aboard a BFS spacecraft.
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