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New Taiie is a large ring-shaped artificial habitat being built by the Yamatai Star Empire in the Kotori Star System.

The design of New Taiie is essentially an enlarged Bishop ring similar to the Orbitals in Ian Banks' The Culture books.

Its purpose is to eliminate the Taiie Nebula and create more useful habitat for Yamatai. The recreation of Taiie is also a symbolic gesture to show the recovery from the First Mishhuvurthyar War and Second Mishhuvurthyar War. It is planned to primarily use land for farming.

New Taiie has a radius of 2,500 kilometers (1553.43 miles) and a width of 500 kilometers (310.686 miles) giving it an approximate surface area of 9.8 million square kilometers, about equal to the real-world United States of America (about 9.6 million sq km) or Canada (about 9.98 million sq km). The ring was built as over 157,000 25-by-25 kilometer square chunks of interlocking Zesuaium framing filled in with a thick layer of carbon nanotubes and then, once joined to the ring, coated in a layer of molten rock and finally surface dirt. The manageable size of the chunks allows them to be built using some of the Star Army of Yamatai's shipyards.

Due to the the size of New Taiie, the atmosphere is held in by the ring's rotation. There is no “roof” required and spacecraft can fly onto the surface freely. A transparent “wall” on each edge of the land keeps air from escaping from the side.

In YE 36, the Empress asked the Star Army of Yamatai to build a new mega-structure. After reviewing the various locations throughout known space, the Star Army chose Taiie for its symbolism and as a clean-up project. Immediately the Star Army purchased a half-million worker robots¹⁾ as additional labor for the project.

Actual construction of the ring began in YE 36 using the Taiie Nebula, which consisted of the remains of the planet Taiie after it was destroyed in YE 29.

• Taiie Memorial: A complex where the names of those lost in the destruction of planet Taiie are engraved.
• The Farmlands
• Fort Taiie

This page was originally created on 2014/05/27 08:29 by Wes.