So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you’ve got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent.Įverything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you’re not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. OK, so put some reactors on the moon.Well, sort of. So I'm like, alright, then we're gonna need some reactors. But smelting minerals takes an enormous amount of power, way more than you could ever hope to get with solar. And then you build the city out of that metal. So I'm like, OK, the first thing you need to do is have a refinery, a smelting facility to turn ore into metal and oxygen. So if I'm gonna do that, well, what materials do I want to make it out of? Some research shows that there's a mineral on the moon called anorthite, which is extremely plentiful and you can just pick it up off the surface - you don't even need to dig for it. So let's start with how do I build a city at all on the moon? Well, I don't want to transport everything there I want to make it out of local materials. There is enough demand for tourism on the moon that it would be viable. And I said: Alright, so I want to build a city on the moon. But really, cities are always formed via economics, and so I started with that. On the world building process for Artemis So, yeah, colonizing Mars before you colonize the moon would be like if the ancient Britons colonized North America before they colonized Wales. So that is the distance scale between them. If you were on a football field and you were standing at one goal line, and if Mars were at the other goal line, the moon would be 4 inches in front of you. And I thought about Mars, I thought about lower Earth orbit, but the Moon is the obvious place to build it. I wanted to write a story that took place in the first city that was not on Earth.
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